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NEBRASKA TERRITORY.
Nebraska liesnorth Of 36 degrees 30 minutes
and being part Of the Louisiana purchase, il
has been considered as guarded by the black
line against the introduction OF Slavery into its
limits But Mr.. Douglass bill il considered as
subversips Of the Missouri Compromise as Civ
ing the sanction OF Congress to the introduction
OF Slavery into Nebraska; and as putting q
prohibition upon efforts that may be made to
stay the spread of the slave institution over the
western section of the continent We have not
been accustomed to hold the Missouri Compro-
mise in such high estimation as have many,
from he fact that when State il once in the
Union, II It chooses to establish Slavery in its
territory we have never yet discovered tho pro-
cess by which the National Government can
resist its action, or contravene its determine
ton. But inasmuch as that Compromise was
dgnified with the appellation Of " a settlement
of the yexed question Of Slavery there seemed
to be q manifest proprety that the black line
should be preserved inyiolate like any other
bargain or compact. Missouri, lying north of
that line was admitted Ms State with Slavery;
that was one end of the bargain and the other
was, that all the land lying west Of Missouri
and north Of the black line, should never be
scourged with Slavery through any action Of
Congress. The North has kept its faith upon
the subject; and now it may well be asked
why the South should not hold true to its part of
the bargain.
The pretext for n0n-0bscrvanco Of the OBJ
legations Of the law of 1920 is, that the Com
promise Measures Of 1850 readjusted the whole
matter Of Slavery upon new basis and set
aside the Compromise Of 1920, AZ no longer to
be Of any avail This is certainly nm ingenious
construction to put upon the law Of 1850; for
while that bill was justly characterized az an
omnibus" no one pretended at the time that it
would over ride the Compromise Of 1920; or
in any manner impair its binding obligations,
whatever they might be. The discussions Of
1850 We're confined to the matters of California,
Utah, New Mexico, the Texan indemnity, and
the fugitive slave law. 1t was not then claimed
that the black line was touched by the meas
ures of 1850 and it certainly has singular
aspect, that those who were the originators of
the Compromise of 1850, and the most rigid in
forcing upon the country recognition Of its
supremacy, are now among the foremost to tear
open again the whole subject, renew the agita-
tion and preach that the Compromise of 1850
rendered the Compromise of 1920 nullity,
without any recuperative force. 1t il q lesson
upon Compromises which will be very likely to
be remembered.
While we maintain that the Compromise of
1920 ought to be respected so far as relates to
whatever Of the Louisiana purchase lies north
Of the black line of 36 degrees and 80 minutes,
we admit that the proposition to permit new
States to form such Constitutions as they
please, COMFORTS with the views we have long
entertained in relation to State rights. But
common honesty seems to us to demand that
the proposition shall apply as it did in the case
ofCalifornia, to States erected upon territory
that has been acquired by the Union since the
adjustment Of the Louisiana purchase by the
Missouri Compromise