Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-07

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who can admire the simplicity Of genuine
Christian devotion, the spirit Of charity, and
the philosophy Of . faithful adherence TO truth,
to virtue, and to religion, for the sake Of the
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CONGRESS
Our Senate proceedings show that there 10
much eagerness in that body to act approving
" upon the Homestead Bill, synopsis Of which
we elsewhere publish. 1t will be perceived,
also, that the great enigma has been solved, as
to which side Of the Nebraska bill the distin-
guished Senator from Delaware must be under
stood as having advocated, and upon which
side he would have voted.
10 the House, nothing Of significance was to-
day contaminated. Territorial business of
comparatively minor importance was alone
considered. A speech Of great beauty and elo-
quence was, however, delivered by the Hon.
Gerrit Smith. The Nebraska bill was re-
ceived from the Senate, but no action was
taken upon it.
NATIVE AMRRIcANIsM AND THE so-CALLED
DEMOCRACY
Some of the self-styled Democratic prints
are sneering at the late Convention Of Native
Americans, held in Pennsylvania. 1t is true
enough that the Convention was q work of SUI
pererogation. The occupation Of the Party
represented by it is gone Native Americaniam
has at last found refuge in the Party which
delights in calling itself Democratic. The
vote last Friday night in the Senate, by which
Douglas, Cass, and the Administration Senator'S
carried through measure, which, while de-
frauding Freedom and Free Labor of noble
patrimony secured to them for the last thirty
three years, also disfranchises the hard-work-
ing foreign immigrant seeking home in that
Territory, shows that the Party hitherto known
by the name, Democratic, has taken to its em-
brace, the twin monsters, Slavery and Native
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Ameyicdnism.
The People of Territory have no voice in
the election Of q President of the United States,
but they ought on every principle Of justice to
have q voice in the election of the Legislature
that is to pass laws regulating their property
and other relations. The immigrant from
abroad, banished or selfexiled, purchases his
quarter of section Of land in Nebraska, builds
his log cabin, settles his wife and children, and
becomes cultivator of the soil. Some two or
three thousand immigrants follow his example,
and their thrift and labor convert the wilder
ness into the abode Of a wealth producing civil
ization
They have given all the evidence in their
power Of their intention to become citizens
sundered every tie that bound them to the old
world; built themselves houses in the new !;
vested all their capital among us; purchased
land; devoted themselves to its cultivation !;
all their worldly interests are associated with
their new habitation why deny them the
right Of selfgovernmentg Why forbid them
to hold Office, or to vote for those who are to
make laws for their government? Why tax
their property, and exact from them all the
duties Of citizenship, and debsr them from its
rights; above all, from the right Of representa-
ton The two or three hundred shareholders
who may carry their slaves into the Territory,
are to have everything their own way, vote and
be eligible to cfice, make and administer the
laws, while the two, or three, or Eve thousand
6reign settlers, small cultivators, earning their
bread by the sweat Of their brow, are to have
no voice in the matter, until they have labored
for FIVE years; but at the end Of that time,
they may find the system Of slave labor fast
ened upon them.
| Now, let them bear in mind that this gross
injustice, this Acknowledgement this policy Of
Native Americanism, is to be inflicted by the
Nebraska Bill, which passed the Senate by the
votes Of the Shareholders, and of the following
| Northern Democrats, 80 called:
| Brodhead Of Penn, Cass Of Mich, Douglas
Of ILL.,, Gwin of Cal, Jones Of Iowa. Norris Of
N. H, Petit Of Ind, Shields Of ILL.,, Stuart Of
| Mich, Thomson Of NJ. j., Toucey of Conn,
Weller Of Cal, Williams Of N. H.-i4.
True, some Of these gentlemen voted against
the insertion Of the Observation-Disclosures
clause but, il having been incorporated in the
Bill by their Southern leaders, they all voted
for the Bill containing it, Mr., ArcHrsos, one
of those leaders, and who at an early period
took occasion in Missouri to announce his pur'
pose to vote for no Government for Nebraska
which would not allow the owners of slaves 10
carry them into the Territory, declared in the
Senate, that could he have his way, no would
allow no person to vote or hold Office in the
Territory, NOT a native-born citissn Of the Uni
ted States This rank Native Americanism il
doubtless felt by moro Of the supporters Of the
Bill than dare avow it. The Slave Power has
no affection for foreigners II knows that their