The true Democrat., 1854-06-13
ItaF The Arkansas Whig, occupying an unte-

rejection of Clayton's amendment, which re- stricted the rights of suffrage to naturalized ci- tzens its chief argument was directed against that clause which repeals the Missouri compro- mise But now since the Clayton amendment has been stricken out, the repealof the Missou- ri compromise is almost forgotten, and altman ner of harsh sayings are heaped upon the bill in consequence of this feature.
 In placing its opposition to the Nebraska bill upon this ground, the Whig says we dare not attempt it's refutation. In this, as usual, it is sadly mistaken. We have shown the fallacv of its arguments in every phase of its opposition and expect to continue to do so, with equal success, through all of its future gyrations up- on the subject
 It says that, by the rejection of the Clayton amendment, the bill "leaves the question of the admission or exclusion of slavery to the first occupants not ercepting Jugitive szaves and free negroes. 1hls stdtenent is acholly untrue. It is almost impossible for the Whig to treat an an- tagonst in any controversy with courtesy, and the want of veracity is very common charge for it to prefer. In this discussion, bafaed, and as usual, out of temper, it is prolific in such charges, though we do not think there is pa- per in the State, that has ever been guilty of so wide departure from the truth, as the Whig has been in its statement about the Nebraska bill.
 We have not the bill and cannot therefore quote from it, but we give below the statements of two papers now lying before us. The St. Louis IntelGgencer in giving synopsis of the Nebraska and Kansas bill, says:
 A Legislative council of thirteen, and Leeisla- tive assembly of twenty six members shall be cho- senthe former for two years the latter for year by tine free aCbte male inhabitants of said tcrrito- ", who either citizens of the United States shall have declared their intention of becoming such and sworn allegiance to the constitution of the United States'
 And the Baltimore Sun says:
 It conters the right of suffrage and eligibility to of
 fee at the first election and the formation of the 70 VeTnment, upon every free achtte male inhabitant above the age of twenty one years who shall De an actual resident of said territory.
 Thus stands the Wings statement thNt the question of the admission or exclusion ~ sla- very is left to the first occupants, not cece,s,ag itgatiue slaues and .tree negroes It-wiIl be seen how fallacous are its assertions The question of slavery to be passed upon in the territories ! IS left to the FREE WHITE MALE INHABITANTS who alone are allowed the right to vote.
 In regard to the assertion of the Whig that ''though we may absofb the whole of Mexico still shareholders will be excluded thcrefrom,' , 1t is no argument against the Nebraska bl.- We emphatically deny that in leaving the ques- ton of slavery to the first occupants of terri tory, the South surrenders her right to parti- cipation in all future acquisitions. Unless it is left to the people of the territory to settle that question, 1t is impossible to procure the adfniS- sion of another slave State into this Union. If slavery is admitted into a territory, and that slave territory changed into slave State, it must be done either by the people or by Con- gress. If it is left to Congress, the question is already decided against the slaye States. If it is left to the people, it may by chance be de- cided for slavery. Congress is largely ytreesmz, and, therefore, in the establishment of slavery, we have nothing to hope from it.
 ! Independent then of the constitutional ob- jection to the interference of Congress ill the domestic affairs of the people, it is the true po- Ncy of the South to withdraw the subject of slavery from the halls of Congress- Every time the matter has been legislated upon there, the South has been largely the loser The Ne braska bill forever takes the question of slave " from under the jurisdiction of Congress and gives 1t to the people. From them we may ex- pect something-from Congress we can expect nothing
 l Thus vanishes another objection of the Who to the Nebraska bill-the objection of leaving the question ofsavery to be settled blythe people who are personally interested in the matter Ifthev desire slavery they have the right to authorize [ it. If they do not wish it, no power known to the constitution of the Union, with or without the Nebraska bill can force it upon them. In nregard to the Missouri compromise in which the Whig has of late found so many virtues, it wholly excludes southerners from the large ter ritories known as the Nebraska and Kansas By its repeal, this restriction is removed. and southeners have the right to go there and live Thus there IS now chance for making slave State, while under the operation of that con- promise there was no earthly prospect How then can southerner oppose its repeal, cspe- cially too, after saying that it is unjust'' to the South and "wrong in principle" Such. .opposi- ton may find its reward among abolitionists who would not sickle to heap any degraton upon slave holders, but it will never be appre- cated in the South. The Whig paper of this city, among the thousands of newspapers in the South, both whig and democratic stands almost alone in its opposition to the Nebraska bill and the repeal of the Missouri compromise.
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