The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-20


Missouri 70 the Rocky Aoustain.. which hss issslV
ttsp cksred and settled 70 such an extsns Is .
esttlsts p be Recognized sPan Integral part OF che
n Use Lire. il teicpes ipduh biy TO the reSioa e
Zee dom, ard accordingly The absiltionisss demand
ed that Il should he formed Into free soil State
But the ecutbern delegates made desperate al
irpt nous onset-slls ging that In the case Of Cali
krnia the compromise was virtually abolished. aud
an ststes wh<tbtr north or south Of the ine. lefs
fee TO choose their own constitution The frue soil.
ers deny that such wasthe case. and moreover emrm
that the proposal to allow Nebraska 70 chssse
its own constitution only presents an ~
pearshce of liberty Ct choice while In reality y
. ccercivr neasu.e. The bill, IL seems virtually
places the form OF government 1t tho dlspooal a
Cor gees BY giving 70 tho President (who Is sroag
prt-savery many the power OF appointing the AIss
governor and judges Of the Now STATE, and By -
limiting the right d suffrage as 70 place al who ere
not DstuIalixed on level with flaves as to politoa
rights. Ard thus, it Is alleg looking st tho cha
rscter Of the territory the election Of tho represea
fafjyts OF Nebgasks win isu into tho nsnds a. The
plsnten-the emgrants not being naturalized-ana
consequently. having no righxto exercise the frsa-
cbiae. That some such result 10 contemplated mag
be inferred nom the eageruess Of the savchoidiA6
marty to carry the measure. In the House OF Repro
eentstves 1t gave rise 70 tho most voseuf steecar
tons and 70 great was the opposition Of the minc-
perhaps excuasble step Of bringing the debate -
compulsory close. To give an IDEA OF the dcCco
e1imosity of the proceedings, we may quose ne
following -
In sitting which lasted from noon on Thursday. MAv
H. 10 twenty minutes twelve fridvy night saeA
violent cpate that bat for the interfeoenoe q -
sergeant It fight would instantly have essssds
ton correspondent the Tribune states that sevee
%, mters now arms In the House In the sitting
Of NE 18th quarrel aross between MI Hu9t ssd e:
CIaee and expected that hostile meeting wsuA
tshe place but when the packet left they had not beea
able to settle who was the person arstissused Aceor
or the speaker cannot retain the cAs
curing thirty six hours' sitting has begun 70 iins
;exsct from them promise to mako NO motion Tor a.
jou, nment consideration for his gviug them tho
Ao,r" On the 18th resolution agreed 70, b. Ia
sgsinst &c. that the debate be closed the following
Saturday at noon.
A conviction that in gaining this point they
gain not only additional strength. but precedent
for future measures OF the same kind. induced the
whole strength; and they have succeeded-the No
braska bill, now only awaiting the assent of the
President (Which will be readily given) to becone
the law of the land.
The Northern States are naturally much sxasps-
rated at the passing of this bill 1t is IN afront -
their Institute s-an open violation of the act u
compronise-and fresh opportunity Tor slavsey
to extend its baneful dominion. The temper az
the people is far from quiescent and Fugitive Slave
Law riots have broken out with increased bitter.
ness and determination. The most remarkable q
these were those which took place at Syracuse ard
Boston on the 26th May. At the former Of those
would rass through the town in custody Of United
States marshal, the bells were tolled. and Q crowd
Of some thousand persons asse mbled at the railway
station to effect rescue The slave, however, had es
capped from his jailcrs into Can4da, and the crowd
retired, +" evidently disappointed" At Boston Il
was much more serious business, blood having
been shed, cannons planted in the streets, and tho
whole scene being one more suited TO the worst
governed countries of the Old World than to Anglo
Saxon America. A local authority thus narrates
the affair - 4tss8
The abotionists, hearing that slave, named Burns,
had been arrested, called meeting at Fsneu Hail. q
which resolution adopted to attend ct the court
when the examipa ion took place. While this waa
going in Fsneui Hail. large crowd Of negroes col
despatched to the white mems meeting, informing them
that the building In which the slave vas combined ~.
about being storned Inc mob 81 this time had reaches
ing the purpose Of bsttering ram In demolishing
and pistol shots fred but just thu stcrning party
we're the point Of forcing entrance into tbs court
dozen Of the NEST active ringleadsr and finally sue-
ceeded In Dispensing the mob and restoring order During
the riot Of the special officers Of the United Sase
marshal was shot dead Al midnight two military osm-
the City Han and At the court house large force wes
entire regimen. Of he Masssehasse. ns ~SisS IA
een called out for duty On the 18th the exctemsut
% Az u n
vsnipe where several highly in6ammatory spsschsa
mated that not less than 10000 people aed the
court house The military remained on duty Theodore
Parker preached discourse on Sunday in which he de
ced the commissioner. handbill in circula-
ton In Boston, stating that the demanded for tho
purchase Of Bnrns the fugitive had been raised BY sub
scrpton but that Colonel Sutte refused to sell the
In spike Of tie proved aI5 the victim snrrendsr-
ed The square via cleared by the military and
s mot the q T.:
sounded tho drge of the liberties Of Massachusetts.
Placed within hollow square Of armed police and guard
whose win live in history. removed to the
Dor, escorted BY twenty thousand citisens Perssos
to sse nsG VII s
have been the innocent occasion Of the greatest events
that have befallen the Union since its formation He
steamer Immediately departed for vrginis The stand
ards OF the troops were hissed and the American deg
ry per shows that the exoitement l. spreadine
and that the free States vgianty their guard
against kidnappers.
The correspondent Of the Morning Chronicle thua
shows the connection Of these formidable riots with
the recent policy Of the slaveholding party
This Sudden powerful hostility against the Fustiys
Slave law has been called into action by the psssaas
through Congress- Of Senator Douglass very imprudst
slavery BY vote Of the people, in Nebraska and Kaaaas
but II absolutely and forever annuls the Missouri
In any new territory north Of latitude thirty six degrees
thirty minu.es How true and unanswerahle II the ~
mark of anslavsry statesmen, who contend that ~
Missouri compromise could be thus easily broken they
should claim revocation and abrogston OF the latsr
compromise which contains the obnoxious Fugitive Slave
law Besoes the North feels that It has mace humias-
ing concessions the South almost every point and
that s time for Northern policy to be recognized ana
respected The feeling between the two sections Of The
South push their claims much further II win -
found that the Boston Fugitive Slave riot Is but the -
ginning Of the end
II is not to be wondered at that the anti slavery
party should feel thus alarmed and indignant at The
progress of their opponents They not only see tbs
slave party at present In the ascendant, aud re-
solved to push their to the utmost but they
know, too, In regard to Texas, that q clause waa
caused to be inherited in the treaty Of annexation by
MIR. Calhoun, pledgng the government of the United
States to create three four States out of Texas
as as the territory should be sufficiently popu-
lated; and, although no one supposed at the TINA
that the South would ever be strong enough 10
exact the fulflment Of trat stipulation. tina FREQ
soiers begin to look with alarm at tse prospect
Of this great ADDITION TO the strength Of THAR