Eastern times., 1854-09-14
The Nebraska Bill---lt works gloriously
and triumphantlY for Freedom.

of Louisiana to the present, have been sub
jected to the fiery ordeal Of misrepresentation
and condemnation from an excited and revenge
ful opposition. But in every instance time
has wrought out deliveraRce, and opposeri
themselves have been obliged to bow before
the sober, second thought of the people as
they have witnessed the bene6cent result o
those measures. 1t was not only so with the
Louisiana purchase, but with the u. 5. Bank
the Sub Treasury, the annexation of Texas
our acquisitions on the Pacific coast, and the
steady policy Of the democratic party to re.
duce the revenue TO point to meet the wants
of the government. That such will be the re-
suit in relation to the abrogation of the Mis-
souri, Compromise by the admission Of Cali
fornia, and the territorial organizations of New
I Mexico, Utah, Nebraska and Kansas, we have
not doubt. Already the steady march OF
truth is dissipating the excitement growing
out Of the latter measure, and converts to the
idea Of popular sovereignty as promulgated in
the Nebraska bill are increasing by thousands
every day. The people are beginning to un-
derstand that instead of the abolition Of an an
bitrary line between slavery and freedom be-
ing an extension Of slavery, it really is the re-
moval of barrier to the progress of freedom.
Instead, then, Of joining in the hypocritical
wall and shedding the crocodile tears of abo-
lition fanatics, the country ought to rejoice,
o.I o.Oio IL IL
tanned over prejudice and fanaticism by the
passage of the Nebraska bill The following
remarks on this subject, which we copy from
the N. HI. Patriot, are true to the letter -
" We have hal the beginning of the new
abolition agitation; we have passed the mid
die, and now clearly see the end. Like simi-
lar agitations which at different intervals have
preceded it, it has been violent, and like them
is destined to end speedily and in snoke-nor
in smoke only, but in the 6ldckneSS of darkness
TO those willy intriguers and venal dema-
gogues who expected to make their political
fortunes by it. The Nebraska bill simply
grants TO the inhabitants of the new terrific
ries the liberty to form their own institutions
as they judge best and wisest, provided moth
ing is repugnant to the Constitution of the
United States. This liberty was enioyed by
all the old States when they formed their do
mestic institutions and adopted their respec-
tive constitutions. The rest of the States did
not interfere, nor did Congress make any pro-
hibitions. The citizens acted freely in the
exercise Of their own consciences and iudg-
ments, denounced by none and interfered with
by none. The result uniformly evinced the
wisdom of Congress and the nation in their
common nOn-interference.
The same course was adopted in regard to
Utah and New Mexico in 1850, and was ad-
vocated by such men as Daniel Webster,
Henry Clay, and their ablest whig associates,
with wisdom which four years have put be-
yond question. Utah already contains pop
ulation of $4,000, aCittOm a slaUe TO set foot
upon the soil, unless the Mormon Elders are
excepted, who are obliged to support each his
twenty or forty wives. Utah will soon seek
admission from Congress as an independent
State and it will ask to be admitted as free
State, as every one knows and confesses.-
New Mexico is less populous, its soil and po-
stlOn being less inviting but no slavery IS
there, or eUer UiH be there; and when New
Mexico is added to the States of the Union,
1t will seek admission as free State, and as
such 1t will be admitted, as no one questions.
Nothing but free labor can subdue it; nothing
but free soil productions can be wrung out of
It. Such were the views and expectations of
Webster, no declared that legislation was
worse than useless, since the innauta6ie ld,cS
Of nature had already decided the matter
God had decreed that Slavery should not enter
there, why could not man be contentl
The same principle is working out its glo-
rious and benefcent results in Nebraska and
No
or false hearted, pretends there is the least
prospect of the immense territory of Nebraska
ever being trod by the foot Of slave. Even
the most violent anti-slavery and anti-Nebras-
ka papers openly admit all is safe here and
what triumph. The territory of Nebraska
is equal to thirty times the territory of Mas
sachusetts or New Hampshire, and may here
after make dozen States-dnd all free! Is
there no glory in this-no cause for exuta-
tiOn in this, if all are simply intent on the
freedom Of the soil I
AS little doubt is there of the destiny of
Kansas. A friend of ours recently received
letter from gentleman in Kansas, who had
gone out from New Hampshire to explore and
see with his own eyes. He writes back that
not one southern man is found to ninetg-nine
northern and western and German emigrants,
and that not doubt exists among the emf
grants, or the neighboring slave States, as to
the future character of Kansas. When ad-
mltted as State, its manifest and glorious
destiny is FREEDOM
Such is the testimony of every honest paper
of whatever party, and such the confession OF
every intelligent individual. however violently
he had denounced the Nebraska iniquity.'
1t is calculated by the best informed men now
on the ground, and others on adjoining States,
that the population will be sufficient, from the
unprecedented rush of emigration, to anthor-
lze the people to knock at the doors of the
neat Congress for admission as State All
the valuable land open to settlement is already
'staked out and 'claimed, and eternal DEGREES
could not make freedom more sure
Nor is this the beginning and end OF the
chapter, though this might be thought enough
by any reasonable man. 1t is now proclaimed
by antl-Nebraska papers, that such is the rush
of emigration in this direction that like the
too abundant rains which swell the rivers, it
will overflow its natural banks, and passing on
TO the immense territory OF Texas, make two
or three new FREE States out of soil which had
been devoted to slavery! German emgrants
are universally anti-slavery men, both from
principle and from taste, being unable to en-
dure contact with the cOlOred race and al
ready occupying the western part of Texas,
they will unite with the emigrants from the
north and west in organizing free States on
the soil OF slavery
Nor is this all, great and good as it is. 1t
is stated that Missouri is awakening to