Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-10
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.

The passage of the Nebraska bill is not triumph Of
the slave power is it regarded at the South tits
yet probematcal whether the South shall reap any prac
teal benefits from it. 1t is simply successful effort
resist Entertainments upon rights in the
rores of the Unon and to establish the just principle
OF non-intervenon upon the subject of slavery This
is the view which has been entertained of the bill by the
people Of the South generally, and it for the
calmness and seeming indifference with which they have
watched its progress.-Macon (Ga.) Messenger.
The Nebraska bill passed the House Of Representatives
it from the Senate with the exception that the
Clayton provso stricken out This proviso restricted
the right of suffrage to American naturazed citizens
Without it foreigners privileged to vote by the sim
pie declaration of to become citizens. We
regret that the bill has been shorn Of this prudential pro-
vision. II foreigners thus permitted to control the
baotbox, there is little expectation that Southern ns
tuons will get foothold in that territory
All the South will have gained therefore, by the passage
Of this bill will be the abrogation Of the Missouri
promise and the establishment of the great constitutional
doctrine Of Gag Recorder.
The Advertiser is greatly of its reckoning when
attributes to approval Of the rejection of the Clay
ton amendment per In the extract which it cites from
columns only giving the which in
duced the majority to reject the amendment and not
sanction of those We have often and
pressed our approval of the principle Of the Clayton
amendment. We did this very fully and explicitly when
It was adopted by the Senate TO minds it is clear
that only native naturalized citizens of the United
States should be permitted exercise the right of
frage to hold Office in any of the Territories This
think, is required by the very spirit and form Of
Government by prudent regard for the purity of
republican institutions and by just consideration for
the rights of those who hold by birth have acquired
by law the inestimable privileges Of citizenship For
these reasons We approved of the principle Of the Clayton
amendment and should have preferred its retention in
the Kansas and Nebraska bill Still cannot but con-
fess that there is force in the view that the amend
men was altogether unnecessary it not to be
posed that any one except citizen, either native
uralized could be regarded entitled hold
office in the Territories The Constitution of the United
States which by the bill in question is extended the
Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska very clearly
templates that other persons shall enjoy these priv
eges This being the principle of the amendment is
still retained in the BILL although the particular words
Of Mr.. Clayton have been omitted.-Ko6le Register
TIE AGONY is OvER-The Senate of the United States
following the example Of the House of Representatives
have it will be seen passed the Nebraska bill by large
majority and thus talking about it in Congress- tce-
graphing every hour in the day. making it the staple
of every Washington correspondents twadde, is, we
trust, at end. IL measure ukch practically tcill
scarcely benefit the South but as our opponents appear
regard it Of such Importance and the avowed
and objects of the bill being render justice the South
and to settle in measure all future territorial acqus
ions touching slavery we are content to see become
law. 1t Is triumph, too, abotonism, which is
something in itself-Souh Carenian (Colubia May go
The long agony being over, we presume that some
attention will be paid in Congress to the business
the country 1t is well that such are not more
frequently enacted the theatre Of deibe-
ration For the reputation of the country it might be
wished that the record should be boted out Of this
ton of legislative history Most assuredy there is
more occasion for drawing black lines around these pro-
ceedngs of the House than there in doing the
thing at period with regard certain resolution Of
the Senate. many such conflicts are to take place in
future know not how the Confederacy is to be pre-
served amidst such frequent shocks 1t H less than four
years that the capital shaken on like controversy
by the tumult Of debate Charleston Mercury.
FROM THE ORLEANS CRESCENT
We copy the following from the Shreveport South West
and in doing fully endorse its correctness as
observation has extended. We migloindeed re-
mark with safety that nnetenths OF least Of COL Husrs
constituents in the sentiments advanced by him in
his speech the Nebraska bill We are all in favor Of
maintaining Southern rights but believe the same time
that they may be sustained without covert still less
fragrant, breach Of plighted national faith.
sour usually correct contemporary Of the Marshall
Republican is mistaken in supposng that RANDALL HUNT
is Wing representative to Congress- He has been
member Of that body His brother, COL THEODORE G.
HUNT represents the first district and instead Of having
betrayed his constituents must, although differing
from him in many Of the positions taken, state that
are confident his sentiments entertained by fully
thirds Of the citizens Of his district in fact they al
utmost unanimously reechoed by the planters Of the par
ishes on the Mississippi"