Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-01-10
The Territory of Nebraska


8 Senate. TO organize a territorial government in
Nebraska II is very misunderstanding fif-
~ pages of manuscript. Its principal provis-
IONS as reported in the proceedings OF the snate'
are the following
When the said Territory shall be admitted as
State or States, the said Territory or any por-
ton of the same shall be received into the Union,
with or without slavery, as their constitution may
prescribe at the time of their admissions prosld-
ed that nothing in this act contained shall be 50
construed as 10 inhibt the Government OF the L
nited States from dividing said territory INTO two
or more Territories, in such manner and mt such
time as Congress shall deem convenient and pro-
per- or from attaching any portion OF SAID ierri-
tory 10 another State or Territory of the United
States; and provided. further, that nothing IN that
act contained shall be construed to impair the
rights of persons or property, now pertaining to
the Indians, &c.
Sections two to nine relate to details of Off
GERS. &c Section nine allows appeals to the sn-
preme Court of the United States, in cases in
volving the title to slaves without regard TO the
value of the matter in controversy. Nrits OF err
ror and appeals are allowed to the Supreme Court
of the United States from any decision of the
Territorial Courts, upon habeas corpus, involv-
ing questions of personal freedom.
Section 10 is as follows: That the provisions
of the act, entitled an act respecting the fugi-
tives from justice and persons escaping from the
service of their masters. approved February L.
1893. and the provisions of the act TO amend aud
supplementary to the aforesaid net, approved
September ~ 1850, be, and the same are hereby
IN bp i'm II
the limits of said territory of Nebraska.
Section ID. Provides the location, Temporal
rily, of the seat of government at Fort Lcayen-
worth.
These provisions are based upon the princ-
pies Of the compromise of 1850, to which we gave
our approval, and, therefore, command in the alb
stract our full concurrence How they will be
regarded by that section of the democratic party
in the South, which denounced the adjustment of
1850 rs degrading, fraudulent and insulting, and
how they will be looked upon by that other sec
ton of the democratic party, in the North, which
opposed the compromise the triumph Of slave
ry, we shall know when the bill comes up for nc
ton.
The Washington Union has article warmly
seconding the movement of Judge Douglas
from WHICH upprofhi III tl' ADMINISTRATION II
inferred With party accustomed to look to
its official head for guidance, and TO regard the
Executive the licensed prepayment Of all legisla
ton, this circumstance will have great influence.
Nevertheless, the bill will encounter the open or
insdous hostility of all the enemies OF the South,
and we expect nothing less than what IA member
of the cabinet has predicted, as the result of lis
introduction-''the tallest sort of storm" II
tiils shall has. the effect of winn owing AVA, all
the freesoh cookie and ehati that have fallen
TO the government garner, 1t certainly will have
achieved one excellent obie t.
Apart from this, we are not able TO discern any
necessity for,or advantage in,the Legislation pro
posed by Judge d. uglas. We do not conceive
that new and specific enactments IRE required to
make the principles of the compromise APP ~ to
Nebraska, or any other territory belonging to the
United States. II is but the re-ailirnation of n
settled arrangement, which was designed to coy
er this and all similar cases Judge d. might just
ly have assumed, without special reiteraon, the
application of the principles of that arrangement
to the territory in question. In presenting the
subject as he has done, there seems an admission
that additional legislation is needed;-that the
question is open to debate, and the proposition
legtimately liable to opposition. We do not SO
regardit 1t. The people of that territory will have
a full and perfect right, when they Come to form
state government, to admit or interdct slavery
without authority from Congress and the Fugi-
tive Slave law will apply with full force and vir-
tue to that territory, without statute in terms
so providing. But as the bill of Judge Douglas
will probably have the effect of exposing the by
pocrisy of the free soil adherents of the admins.
tration, we shall not grudge him the little favor
he may win in the South by its presentation, and
which we suspect is the chief motive of the move
inent