Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-25

to them the privilege Of removing westward
because they hold certain species Of property
Il this equality Of rights as proclaimed 10 TINS
Government Can this be the condition Of
things to which the people OF Missouri desire
they shall be reduced"
The Charleston Courier of the 18th ult has
no doubt that the tobacco planters, the sestric
tions being removed, will soon find their way
into the Territory.
1Do the exceptants to Senator Buffers
course ever ask themselves what they would
have gained, il the Nebraska and Kansas bill
had passed without the removal or abolition
Of the Missouri line, to which those regions
have been expressly subjected by the iegisla
ton and Compromise Of 1920! The result
would undoubtedly have been the surrender 81
those Territories to the Free-SOilers. Although
aDe hold it clear that the Missouri restriction
is unconstitutional there are large number
who think otherwise and nothing short OF it,
abolition or removal will have the effect Of
opening those Territories to shareholders.
ave have reason to believe, from reliable
authority, that, without this measure, non
slaveholding population would at once occupy
those Territories, and the shareholders now
there would have to rccede--nay, to give way
to an emigrant horde Of Red Republicans, in
principle, il not in national origin, full of the
deadliest hostility to Slavery. But, remove the
Missouri line and restrictions, and Kansas we
are well assured, will be settled by tobacco
planters, for the production Of which staple
the soil and climate are said to be well adapt
ed and Nebraska will almost necessarily take
its social character, and political complexion,
and local institutions, from Missouri, on which
it borders.
If Senator Butler had deserted his South
ern associates, he may have contributed to
defeat the bill; but he would have assumed
the responsibility Of dividing the now united
South, and would have achieved, for his con-
stituents and the South, IAN lrishman's gain
he would have gained a loss
"The bill, reduced to its true character, and
freed from all sophistical confusion and espe
cially from the CLOSES Of men OF extreme
views, on either side, is nothing more than all
Territorial bills, under the Constitution Of the
United States, except that it removes doubt by
declaratory Legislation, by implicitly, if not en-
pressiy, asserting the supremacy OF the Consti-
tuition over the unconstitutional Missouri Com
promise and restriction of 1920"
In ls45, the number Of shareholders in Ken
lucky was thirty one thousand and fraction !;
the number Of slaves one hundred and ninety
thousand. showing an average Of about six
slaves to each STAKEHOLDER. Taking this as a
fair ratio for Missouri, whose slave population
is now ninety thousand, more or less, there are
not quite sixteen thousand shareholders in that
State, the entire white population Of which is
about seven hundred thousand. The great
majority Of this population may be considered
adverse to Slavery. It's interests are unfavor-
ably affectt by lit would rejoice to see the
State freed from the curse. And yet sixteen
thousand slavehode 8 dictate public sentiment
and control the destinies Of the State. Even
Delaware, with white population Of seventy
five thousand, land containing but two thousand
slaves, is 30 far the vassa Of the Slave Interest
that it cannot relieve itself from the burden,
and rise to the dignity of free State.
What is the lesson from these facts Throw
open Nebraska to- Slavery and let but one or
two thousand tobacco-planters and hemp
growers, with their slaves, gain foothold in the
Territory, and it will require more effort than
observation-disclosures have been in the habit Of ma
king in such cases, to prevent them from SUBJ
jugatpg it to slaveholding institutions
LouIsANA-So it turns out that the Ne
braska resolutions, introduced into the House
of Representatives of the State of Louisiana,
deprecating the agitation upon the Slavery
question, and declaring The Compromise
fnality have been unanimously passed by
that body. There has been a wide mistake
made somewhere by the getters-up Of this
scheme. 1t il now indicated that the Presi-
dents interest is contingent upon its success
But this il mistake The sagacious Douglas,
we are confidently assumed, holds the Pfesi-
dents assumption. of responsibility in black
and white! Before the nominating Conven
ton, the Senator learned wisdom in this PAR.
ticular, and no seems to have profted by it
in the Nebraska scheme!
~ The lecture of Mrs. Ernestine l.. Rosc
last evening was well attended, and proved
eminently successful. She is lady OF great
ability and eloquence. The reputation that
preceded her has been more than sustained
She is to lecture on Tuesday night next, on
Human Rights
O. A kind OF paper, made from gotta
pcrcha, has been invented, which Is said to be
superior 10 all other kinds Cor Autographs and
engraving; but VIC do not believe it. The
bands made Of that article, to encirole packa-
ges Of papers, we find to rot and break TO pieces
in a year or two.
THURSDAYS DEBATE -" Ion, the wary SEN
tinel Of Southern interests, says, under Fridays
date
Yesterdays debate on Nebraska did not
help the bill However clever Mr.. Brock.
inridgc's speech may have been, considered
by ITSELF il did not reconcile the New