The true Democrat., 1854-06-27
The Nebraska Rili.

The Arkansas Whig recites with great exul- tatlon, the efforts the abolitionsts are making to introduce free soil population into the territo- res Of Nebraska and Kansas, and these it at- tributes to the repeal of the Missouri com pro- mSe It seems to forget entirely that the Mis- sour compromise was restriction upon slavery and that, while it remained upon our statute book, slavery never could exist in those terri tories: Its repeal gives the South, at least, a chance while with the compromise in force, it had none.
 It says that thus by its repeal spirit has been raised in the N orth that will abolitionize both these territories, but never seems to think moment or if it does, never acknowledges. that without its repeal, they were ohemly abo- litionized.
 It says the result of the passage of the Ne braska bill will be a renewal of the slavery agi- tation and the repeal of the fugitive slave law. We should like the Whig to answer when has this agitation ever been quelled. It has now ragged for years, disturbing the peace and har-
 
 sections, one from another It has been the burden of almost every speech in Congress and the chief subject of disquisition of almost every paper in the North. How can matters be made worse unless open rebellion is resorted to.
 The tendency of the Nebraska bill is to quiet agitation, by expelling the subject of slavery forever from the halls of Congress-the great arena where 1t receives its impulse and gathers its strength For years past, the halls of Con- gress have been the field of battle and every question that has come up in relation to our territories has been made the means of exciting the fell spirit of abolitionism at the North.- The Nebraska bill, by transferring this subject from the halls of Congress to the people, has achieved a triumph for this Union that should immortaise every man who voted for it.
 The Whlg delights to quote from Northern abolition journals to show the deep feeling of hostility that the passage of this measure has at the North, and at the same time to argue to the South that it has lost all and the North gained every thing. Strange doctrine thss, and worthy only of such reckless sheet as the Whig-that while the South loses all if should remain quiet, and the North gaining every thing should be provoked to outrages of lll-temper for which the past furnishes no par allel..
 The W Ing seems to watch the freesoil papers with the greatest anxiety, and appears fearful that the passage of the Nebraska bill will not lead to that desperate excitement which t has so often predicted. As yet the prediction has proved failure. Public sentiment. so much excited during the last few years, is gradually settling down into that quiet which the repeal of the Missouri compromise is so well calcula ted to produce. The great battle has been fought and won, and the vital principle of local self government, guaranteed by the spirit of the constitution and laws. has been recognized and established as the future policy of the na- honal government. The triumph was olo- rious one, and even the Whig will vet be made to acknowledge is beniicence lv the peaceful and harmonious influence it will shed over the country.