The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-03-14
The Boston Post and the Nebraska BIN.

The article which publish to-day in another column.
from the Boston Post, will repay careful perusa II is
OF series of weil-consdered and carefully written
articles which have appeared in that journal within the
last few days Each OF ihsm has brought out much his
torcal information pertinent TO the Compromise OF $780,
as il called, which has not recently appeared in any
other quarter and all of which speaks trumpet ongued
in defence Of the Nebraska bill now pending before
Congress. We wish our limits would allow US 10 re-
publish an earlier article in that paper, entitled The
principle OF the Nebraska bill in harmony with the prn-
cpe claimed by the American colonss and Of the State
sovereignty and equality which the basis OF their
frat OF country" Ii shows conclasively TO
our apprehension that the bill for the organization OF
Nebraska and Kansas is based the fundamental prn-
cipe--practcay applied in America for the FIRST time by
falher-of the right Of people to establish such
forms of they consider best calculated
promote their general welfare; that the principle carried
out in the Dill, laying the foundation OF American
States, is precisely that yhich The emigran,s TO these
shores carried out when they laid The foundations Of the
old colonies tia, ii is in harmony with the fundamental
principle fathers fought for vouiion tina, tie
the nghhst Of community TO establish lis local
poli,ywhicb the old colonies stipulated to retain in
their first covenant OF country. .
Tits profitable swsys to recur TO these original prnc
pies which lie al the foundation not merely Of the pres
ent federal constitution. Of its predecessor. the old
federation but Of that earlier compact Of union and Of
country, the DECLARATION INDEPENDENCE 1t is well
to remember that the stipulation under which the old
thirteen colonies united and became nation that
each eotong sdts should retain me sole end exclusive rig
efiocai government Thus the fundamental principle OF
the Nebraska br-ihai of leaving the people OF the
Territories perfectly free regulate their internal pol
Ity--is in accordance with the principles claimed
from The hfsi by The American colonisis; with the
rights for which the fathers Of the revolution con-
tended, and which they provided for in the earliest
covenant OF country The Boston Poet well says, that
iii OF The remarkable features Of the times OF
seventysx that when the ctiss Of falling back the
right OF revolution arrived, every important step taken by
the agents OF the people formally auihorized-tbat
is !, taken b. virtue Of the authority Of majority.
people after every kind OF government under the crown
bad been suppressed
q" was in this the people Of The thirteen colo
mics acted IN relation to the momsn,ous questions of
union and Independence in 177s. Public opinion in
March and April was loud in calling for declaration;
but Congress did NOT make il until the people, acting
separate States or colonies, clothed their delegates with
authority 10 make it. This power conveyed In spe-
eia instructions, given by the local legislature Of each
colony TO lis delegation But, previously 10 these
being given, The people Of the colonies acted in
primary meetings. in Virginia for instance the people Of
several ofthe counties instructed tho delegates they sent
10 lheir convention authorize the delegates in Con.
gress to make the declarations and in Massachusetts in