The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-09-22

'i the whole Democratic party were with
hem. The following article we find in the
Ohio State Democrat OF March 7th, lS54.--
What the sentiments of the Democracy are
now may be seen by referring to their county |
md District platforms. Ed. Ctronicle.l
rhc Nebraska Dili--'ySquntter Sovereign
Running through thes whcreascs the re.
solves and the speeqss Of hose friendly to
Judge DoueLAs' Nebraska Bill" is the game
dea that It was brought forth to assert the |
great principle that the people Of Nebraska
aud Kansas had the right to exclude slavery
ihererom. This is not only an unfair state
ment, predicated upon an error, but it is lit
orally begging the question.
The Southern politicians who support the !
bill, place their support OF it on other grounds.
s pme Of them-und they amongst the ablcst
-advocate it on the ground, that in the event
OF its passage, the people have no right to OK
clude slavery while it remains Territory,
und our nclghbor Of the Journal, OF this city, !
takes the same ground, by scouting the idea
Of Gen Cass, SO ably maintained in his Mich
olson letter, that they have that right, and
that sheet laughs to very scorn the idea oE
"squatter SoUereigniy'
We hold 20 the doctrines Of the Nicholson
letter, and maintain that the people Of Ter
ritory, through their representatives, in the
Territorial Legislature, as well ~ the people
OF State, have this right and that they are
not beholdcn to Judge DouGLAs for its as
sertion. Its an mnuioble right-onc netcs-
sarly attendant on the enunciation Of the
great prime pie Of man'S right to govern him
self and cannot be taken away. Mr.. Jeiler-
son, in his celebrated Resolves Cor the gov
ernment of Territories and the admission of
States, reported to Congress and passed srv-
enty years ago, advocated, and Gen. CAss
reiterated the doctrine in his letter to Mr.
NICHOLSON.
What we complain of n the Nebraska and
Kansas bills, s,that the assertion OF this right
is crippled so as to "hold the word Of promise
to the ear, while it breaks it to the hope"
Without the aid of positive law, if the Ne
bruska bill is defeated in Congress, slavery
cannot exist in that portion OF the Territory
north of the parallel Of 36 degrees aud 80
minutes north Latitude. 1t is chccLually ex-
clud,d by the terms of the Missouri Compro-
mise, which the Nebraska bill repeals. That
law says
ain all the territory ceded by France to the
United States. under the name of Louisiana,
which lies north Of 3G degrees and 80 min
utes of north Ii titude now included within the
limits of the Stale contemplated by this act.
slavery and iaUOLuntary Serritudc, otherwise
than as The punishment Of crimes Of ,chich The
Farty ShdH haze been duly connected, shall be
JOreucr prohibited"
Its terms are explicit. Slaves taken into
territory north Of that line, unless the Terri
torial Legislature declare by law or other
wise, ~o uld be free, as are slaves brought by
their masters into Ohio. South Of that line
the question OF slavery is an open one, and
slaves. until excluded by law, can ther be
taken, aud there worked, until the formation
OF Il Constitution prohibiting slavery drives
them out.
The dill thus opcns up the territory north
Of the line OF the Missouri Compromise, by
repeaiing that law. 1t allows slavery to go
where it is now, by law OF Congress, cXclu-
ded, and whe.c it could not go, until the Ter
rItoral Legislature, by law, should throw it
open. Such being the fact, is it fair urgu-
mrnt to assert lhIt the object oI tic bill is
to give the people the right 10 exclude slave
ry thcrelrom! Ii 10 already excluded from
Nebraska and from the greater and the best
part OF Kansas-the bill of Judge Douglas
does away with this exclusion, and legislutes
slavery .nto he Territory until it is forbidden
by express Territorial law.
Was such the intention OF Judge Douglas
and the SuutherpsWhig Senators who, to Il
man, supported his bill! We think can be
shown that il was-uud shown, too, that if
the Nebraska bill passes, it is the open, the
avowed intention OF the extreme Southern
men 10 hold 0at strong inducements to the
masters to take their slaves there. We make
this charge in part upon the proof that we
will submit.
Pending the passage Of the Nebraska bill
In the Senate, proposition was made to
strike from it all that part which related to
the Indians, in order to prevent the bill,when
it went to the House, from being committed
to the committee of the whole,ln which event
It's passage, ii doomed to pass at all, must
have been seriously delayed. It's author as
sented to the proposition to strike out, because
tie House committee on Indian Affairs had
prepared u bill to meet the case. The bill
has since been reported by Mr. ORR, of
South Carolina, the chairman OF that COM
mttee. 1t is entitled, "a bill defining the
terms on which treaties shall hereafter be
made with certain tribes OF Indians, and for
other.purposes," under which specious title it
contains the following proviso:
provided, that euch family of every tribe
OF nation may locate homestead ON the iol-
low ing terms:
Each single person over twenty.one years
old is entitled 10 so acres; each family OF two
persons 40 acres; eacl family OF three, and
not over four, $40 acres; each family of six,
and not exceeding ten, $40 acres; and each
family over ten, 100 acres ior every five mem
bers; and to families WHO OWN SLAVES, IN Ap-
DlTloNTo THE FOREGOING, there shall be al.
lowed, II less than ten SlaueS, one-haF section
j ten, "nd not exceeding fifteen, ONE SECTION;
aud for every ten above that number one. e.Aall
seition."
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