Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-02-17
Nebraska.

v Douglass bill is demo unced. ON .cco,n,
OF the clause repeating the Missouri Com.
promise, with something like the severity
50 base an act deserves, by every paper.
save one, in Illinois. Democrats and Wh;os
alike condemn the movement. The s.. I.on;.
lnfelsgeneer, the St. Louis Democrat, and the
Lexington, Mo-, Express, (whig,) and tho
Louisville Journal, have spoken out freely
and strongly against the repeal of tho Mis-.
souri, Compromise. The New York Exnress
one OF the warmest supporters of the Com
promise of 1850, is bitter in its denuncia.
tions OF this breach of faith. To show tn.
current OF Opinion, we here collate para.
graphs upon the subject from variou,
| sources
We have already taken the ground that the prinoi.
pie Of leaving the question Of slavery to be determn
ed BY the people most directly Interested. when
forming State Constitution preparatory To adn;ssor
into the Union, is fair and equitable to both ,ectons
and we think highly desirable that the North and
South should settle down upon that principle ia refer
enos to all territory not already provided for. But vs
hold that in regard to the territory embraced bv
the Missouri Compromise and the Territories
in the Compromise of $780, the question between tho
-lAveholding and nonssveholdng sections II AFRAID
settled by valid ensctm sns, and We are simplv S:r
abiding by that settlement-St. Louis Itehirenoer.
!, WHO are "the People," of the Territore, on whom
is thus devoved the decision f,r their future Millions
of Inhabitants Of the tremendous issue Of Slavery or
Freedom Arc they the first ten squatters within
their boundaries respectively or tho first twenty
ffty, one Aundred2 sr how many?
" No man can nationally doubt that the passage of
nOln lnpnr nj Rs-opn
migration OF shareholders to the new territory for
the express purpose of fastening it for ever TO tie car
of Bondage They may take their chattles along at
once, or leave them behind for season. As thoy NAV
teem expedient or safe; but they will 70 q slave
holders to subssrve the interests of Slavery and do
| vote to politics and electoneering the time which
other settlers must give to their clearings and their
crops 80 that one STAKEHOLDER will hsvs more inf uen
in organizing tbs Territory than half dozen settlers
who live BY their own labor. But In truth no on.
doubts that Nebraska will te a Slave State II M.
Douglass bill passes, unless defeated BY populsr
arounng which shall compel virtual or sctusi re.
peal OF the regulating clause Every thine turns On
the laws which shall prevail in TIE Territory nrior TO
any legal action Of the settlers therein and ia Who
talks Of thos, settlers making their own laws and
forming their own Institutions, yet keeps dark with,
| regard TO the law' which shall prevail prior to any
leg alton by the settlers, is dssemb,er who vaIks
in craftiness AMI lies in wait 10 deceive lie doas
not mem to BE- honest and straightforward: he in
usingsw orss to conceal hu purpose, and darkenino
cosussl by jugslery aad fraud.-N. Y. Tribune.
Why insert th. Sllv,ry c,suse at all7 If Congress,
has power to lsgislate upoa the subject. the clause
will be dead letter. 1t will give no rights TO the
Soatbernsr who cnagrates to Nebraska with hjs
slaves. There will be no law in force there which "a
coguis.s his right to hold them in bsAdage Ths law
from whence he emigratea dscs not fellow him 10 his
new home. Whom the State of Nebraska applies for
admission into the zion. the Missouri scene will he
rsenacte1 in our Congressional halls, because the
d,1sn akt ia n hanI ,,en a.
want Of power to Iegisste upon tho subject What
cool, then, can grew out Of Douglas. proposition
Old opened, and will b, az ain when ths an a.
ton of admission is proposed.
N-Besides all this the passage Of this BILL estabhc,
the principle, that CvMPRoMIsE LEeIsLArIoN carrie,
with it moral Obligations to adhere to it, If the
M ssJur Compromise can be disrcgardsd by the rros-
eat Congress the Texas Conpramiss of IsI5 and the
series of Compromise acts passed in 1850 nav bo
treated nu iitiss 10 all subsequent legislation on
slavery topic.. Wh,n new States formed ont of IN,
old Texas territory south of Sc 80 apply for admis
the North may inss. that the States shall be
Chicago Journal.
" If II was the part of wisdom and patriotism on the
part OF Mr.. Douglass. In 1885, to advocate the extsn
SION Of the Missouri Compromise line through Texas
and IN iSlS to advocate its extension to the Pacific
BY what rule OF logic or Of political necessity can it
be said to be the part of wisdom or patriotism, in
1854, to advocate the abrogatioa of the line as osi
nslly prescribed'-Chicago Dem. Press.
~
This Senator Douglas, it will be recolIectsd. re
supported candidate for the Democratic Presiacn-
tial nomination in 1852. Gu. check tinples With
shame at the northumberland (Wis) TImes
Corespondence Of tbs Baltimore Sun. $50
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2, 1854.
Connection Of the Netr 1sks and Poetic Railroad
BMs-Efoyt TO carry The Benton Route through
Kansas, and E1ct1dc &dcUy-COnpbnafion 10
kM the Gadsden Iieaty-A Complication Of Great
.Queaions-Dougias' BMto Pass.
" The Nebraska and Kansas bill is intimately connec-
ted with the subject Of the Pacific Railroad. dsp,
tion exists in gu rtsrs to make az ssue on ths
question whether the Pacific Railroad shall be made
10 slave holding nor. lave gterritorv rhe
Central Pacific R, lrosd will pass thorugh tho pro.
posed territory OF Kaasas, and this 10 more likely to
bs slavs-holding territory, under Mr. Douglas bill
than Nebraska. / am now convicted that seriou,
and combined effort ID TO be adc t. carry COL Beuons
for his Central Rairosd route, and TO excIude
slavery from the territory in which that route will lie
To. Benton Railroad Prejoct and the organ .atisn
restriction Of 1850 to b, combined together and
win unite an immt mss force In the country and in
Congress.
The s.us v. forests above named will also be
comb ned to kill the Gadsden treaty. for the reason
that it affords attractive railroad route at che South
and will add two slave holdSg States to the Union,
Thus the great questions Of the day are somewhat
complicated With each other. On ono hand ws have
raj road route; WHILE the other hand, We ha
the proposition for twelve non-siavsholdine Etates
each Is large as Ohio, and one if not two rsironds
to tho Pacific p ,ss;ng through them.
Congress begins to see. what everybody else Sees
that, wherever the Psc, Railroad goes there viii 10
the political lower and the commercial interest Of
| this continent
Mr. Douglas bill win pass the Senate very soon, By
considerable mrjority II is not the policy OF that
dy TO dstsin It long, nsr to make 1t the subject Of
| general dscussioa.
The Cabinet 1t is said, bad under confederation YES.
to no conclusion upon it. They will further consult
on the subject to-day.
After al the eoroessions which fave been made for
the rake Of peace-after tn, example tbs North has
Get of and acquescencs In measures which
many have regarded IS surrender OF thor rights,
this last stempt to force tbem from ground fairl,
theirs, made over 70 them for oonsidsrsticn, which
the South has received, cannot bus awaken general
| indignation = coming a. It does from 4 Sanskov
whs prstecds 10 represents free State !-AItos (Wo
! Telegraph.
How blind, or how mad, the men are Who SEEK n
bring this impending storm down upon our heafs. =
very few weeks viii show As for Stephen A. ID ,ug-
las, be must b. President Of ths Unitei Stat or the
Union must b. rent asunder To this 10 after hovov-
or, he has taken On animal by the b rns which viii
gore him to death The South has not asksl tor this
! thing the Souta-W st will show no sympathy With
l.; Kentucky and Tenn sssc will b. found giving il
no cVuRtenshcs.
Let the Mi souri, Compr misc alons-Iet the Com
promise of 1850 alone. They bth, az good ,per
sna true parios bslisvsd pcicei necessities when
male. They ara not less % icsi neec sites now
Le' then s'"n- = L'usrt ne (Kg) Coy'1er. =
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!. Th~nonsts degrees below ssso this morning.