Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-02-04

ed The enhanced cost Of construction and the dimn-
shed expectation Of profitable returns viii present al
most insuperabe obstacles to building the road at all
while, made the difficulty and expense of keeping
up, in country from which the energetic and nteli
gent will be virtually excluded will greatly inn
pair its usefulness and value
From the rich lands of this large Territory also patri
otto statesmen have anticipated that Free industrious,
and enlightened population will extract abundant
sures of individual and public wealth. There il has
been expected freedom-loving emgrants from Europe
and energetic and intelligent aborers from land
will find homes of comfort and fields Of useful enterprise
If this bill shall become law all such expectation will
turn to grievous disappointment The blight Of slavery
will the land. The homestead law should Congress
enact one will be worthless there Freemen, unless
pressed by hard and cruel necessity will not and should
not work beside slaves Labor cannot be respected
where any class OF aborers is held in abect bondage
We earnestly request the enlightened conductors Of
newspapers printed in the German and other foreign Ian
guages TO direct the attention Of their readers this i'm
portant matter. .a
1t is of immense consequence also to scrutinize the
geographical character of this project We beg you fell
to observe thait will the East from the
West of the United States by wide aveholdng belt of
country, extending from the Gulf Of Mexico to British
North America IL IL bold scheme against American
liberty, worthy of an accomplished architect of ruin.
Texas is already sayeholdng and occupies the Gulf
gon from the Sabine to the Rio Grande aud from the
Gulf of Mexico to the Red River, North of the Red
River and extending between Texas and Arkansas
parallel Of 36' 30, lies the Indian territory about equal
in extent to the latter State in which slavery
prohibited by the act 1920 From $50 30 to the boun
dairy line between country and the British
possessions stretching from west to east through
than eleven degrees Of longitude, and from south
to north through more than twelve degrees of lati-
tude extends the great Territory the fate Of which is
now to be determined by the American Congress.
Thus you see, fellow-citizens that the first opera
ton of the proposed permission of slavery in Nebras
ka will be to stay the progress Of the free States west
ward, and to cut off the free States Of the Pacific
from the free States of the Atlantic. 1t is hoped doubt
less by compelling the whole commerce and the whole
travel between the East and West pass for hundreds Of
miles through slavehodng region, in the heart OF the
continent, and by the influence of Federal Government
controlled by the slave power to extngush freedom and
establish slavery in the States and Territories of the Pa
cfc and thus permanently subjugate the whole coun-
try to the yoke Of o slaveholding despotism Shall
plot against humanity and democracy monstrous and
dangerous to the interests of liberty throughout the
world be permitted to succeed?
We appeal to the people We you that the dearest
interests of freedom and the Union in imminent peril
Demagogues may tell you that the Union be maintained
only by submitting the demands Of slavery We tell you
that the safety of the Union only be insured by the
full recognition of the just claims Of freedom and man.
Union formed to establish justice and secure the
blessings of liberty When it fails to accomplish these
ends it will be worthless and when becomes worthless
! 1t cannot long endure.
We entreat you to be mindful of that fundamental
maxim of Democracy-EQuAL RIGHTS AND EXACT JUSTICE
FOR Do not submit to become agents in ex-
tending egalized oppression and systemazed injustice
vast territory yet exempt from these terrible evils
eimplore Christians and Christian ministers to inter-
pose. Their divine religion requires them to behold in
every brother and labor for the advancement and
regeneration of the human race.
Whatever apologies may be offered for the liberation OF
slavery the States be urged for its extension
into Territories where it does exist and where that
extension involves the repeal of ancient law and the vio
lation of solemn compact Let all protest. earnestly and
emphaticaly by correspondence through the press by
memorials by resolutions of public meetings and egsla-
tive bodies and in whatever other mode may seem ex-
pedient, against this enormous crime.
Enr 1rca1u aI.lr Nv md
with oil the abilities which God has given US. Even if
overcome in the impending struggle, shall not submit
We shall go home TO our constituents, erect anew the
standard of freedom and call the people to come to the
Of the country from the domination of slavery We
will not despair for the cause Of human freedom IS the
cause Of God.
s. P. CHASE. Senator from Ohio.
| CHARLES SUMNER, Senator from Mass
S + EspD WISE Representatives from Ohio
| GERRIT SMITH, Representative from N. York
ALEX. DEWITT, Representative from Mass
NorE.-The amended Nebraska BILL introduced by Mr..
DOUGLAS was promptly printed at length in the Washington
Southern gentlemen, and it discovered that
perant decaratory section egslang into the bill the rn-
pes OF the compromise had been omitted by clerical
Even after this remarkable clerical Ind been rected
the bill unsatisfactory and Mr. Douglas proposes
more amendmentsto divide the Territory into two to
charge the Treasury with the expense of two Territorial Gov
strike the clerical section and insert
elsewhere in the bill clause excepting from the laws of the
United States extended the Territory the Missouri pro-
hibiton. Tho last proposed amendment will read thus:
THAT the Constitution and all laws of the United States
which locally nappicabe shall have the same force
and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska elsewhere
within the United States erep The eighth section of the act
preparatory the admission Of Missouri into the Union op
rorcd March g. 1920 sicA eas arseed By tie principles
Of the legislation Of 1850, commonly called the compromise
cures, aud Is hereby declared inoperatire"
This amendment is n manifest Justification of the truth of
history shown body of the foregoing address
Not in Congress of Congress in 1850 pretended
that the compromise would repeal she Missouri
hbiton Mr.. Douglas himself advanced such pro-
until this session. His Nebraska bill of last session
rejected it, 1t sheer aterthough To declare the pro-
hbition imperative may indeed have effect in law
peal is discredtable way reaching the object
VIII the people permit their dearest interests be thus made
the hazards of Presidential game, and destroyed by
false facts and false differences?
FROM OREGON