Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-05-27

that the amendment in the House will be concurred
in by the Senate and the bill become law. Thus
has the great principle of the right of the people to
declare for themselves, whether they will have slave
ry or not, triumphed in the common Congress; and
this right has been established in all the territories
of the United States without reference to the
called Missouri line. That arbitrary, geographical
distinction has at last been swept away. 1t has
fallen before the progress just sentiments and free
principles and the noble privilege of efecting this
triumph was reserved for Democratic Admins
tration, sustained by Democratic Senate and House.
We give below, from the Washington Union, the
vote upon the passage of the BILL together with the
remarks Of that journal on the OCCASION
PASSAGE OF THE NEBRASKA BILL HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES. A most protracted and excit-
ing struggle was last night monday at II o'clock
brought to triumphant close by the passage of the
bill organizing the Territories of Nebraska and Kan
in the House of Representatives by vote of 113
to 100. We hail this result with sincere pleasure,
and congratulate the country upon the removal from
the halls of Congress- for all time to come of those
embarrassing and irritating controversies which have
grown out of the agitation of the slave question.
The abolition demagogues, by the emphatic action
of the majority of the peoples representatives have
been deprived of even the preteXt for excitement
against the South and, after a few paroxysms of
denuncation and falsehood, they will find them
selves as utterly incapable of mischief the crazy
fanatics who preach in the streets of the northern
cities, and rave against the imaginary evils which
they believe they have been commissioned to correct
Henceforward the people of the Territories will
manage their own affairs in their own way accord
ing to the spirit of the federal constitution. In
few months, even those who have been deceived by
the cutlery against the Nebraska and Kansas bill will
be surprised and mortified to see how they have
been msled and thus another evidence will be ad-
ded to the number that they have repeatedly demon
straed the folly and the falsehood of the anti
ny crusade. Strange that the Vaccinations and de-
signs of the malignant and phrenzed leaders of the
crusade should at the same time be SO constantly
proved to be fruitful of bad results alone and yet
that American citizens will not be admonished "a
gainst reposing confidence in those whose success
however impossible and remote, contemplates moth
ing less than the overthrow of our free institutions
Let hope that the last lesson so full of instruc-
ton and significance, will not be without its good
effects upon the public mind in time to come
This proud occasion has been rendered signaly
gratifying by the department of the friends of the
bill from the beginning of the contest in the face of
the disorganizing and revolutionary course of the
leaders of the CITY, persisted in down to the
suspicious final vote. Patiently, and almost unmur-
murngly, they submitted to a series of unprece-
denied attempts to defeat the ascertaned will of the
MISUNDERSTANDING record of which the majority
may feel proud, and from which the factous leaders
of the minority will never be able to in the
estimation of the people. The victory would have
been deprived of half its value had not the MAORI
y been capable of those high examples of sefdenal
and forbearance which showed their high sense of
the justice of their cause, and their mistaken faith
the country.
The bill as it passed the House is the same that
previously passed the Senate, with the exception of
the Clayton amendment, preventing unnatnraliZed
citizens from the right to vote in the Territories
that amendment having been stricken out in accor-
dance with the example furnished in the bill erect
the Territories of Washington, Utah. and New Mex
ico The speedy passage of the bill in the Senate,
it has been amended IN the House, is confidently
anticipated
The following is the vote on the passage of the
bill:
YEAs-Messrs Abercrombie James c. Allen, Will
lis Allen, Ashe David j. Bailey Thomas H. Bayly,
Barksdae, Barry Bell, Bocock, Boyce Breckenridge,
Bridges Brooks, Caskie, Chastian Chrisman Church
well, Clark, Clingman, Cobb Colquitt, Cox ,Craige,
Cumming, Cutting, John G. Davis, Dawson, Disney,
Dowdel, Dunbar, Durham, Eddy, Edmundson, John
NJ. Elliott, English, Faulkner, Florence, Goode,
Greenwood, Gray, Hamilton, Sampson w Harris
Hendricks Henn Hibbard, Hi Hinyer, House on,
Ingersol, Geo. w. Jones, j. Clancy Jones' Roland
Jones, Kerr, Kidwel, Kurtz, Lamb, Lane, Latham,
Letcher, Lilly Lindey, Macdonald, McDougall, Nc
Nair, Maxwell, May John G. Miller Smith Miller,
Odds, Mordecai Oliver, Orr, Packer, John Perkins,
Phelps, Phillips Powell Preston, Ready, Reese,
Richardson, Riddle, Robbins, Rowe Ruffin Shannon,
Shaw, Shower, Singleton, Samuel A. Smith, William
Smith, VIM r. Smith, Geo w. Smyth, Snodgrass,
Frederick P. Stanton, r. H. Stanton, Alex. H. Ste
phens, Straub, David Stuart, John J. Taylor Tweed,
Vail, Vansant Walbridge, Walker, Walsh, Warren,
Westbrool Witte, Daniel B: Wright, Hendrick B.
Wright, and Zollicoffer-113
NAYs-Messrs. Ball, Banks, Belcher, Bennett,
Benson, Benton, Bngg, Campbell, Carpenter, Chand-
Ter, Crocker, Cullom Curtis, Thomas Davis Dean,
De Witt, Dick, Dickinson, Drum, Eastman, Edger-
ton, Edmands Thomas ID. Elliott Ellison, Etheridge,
Everhart, Farley, Fenton, Fogler, Fuller, Gamble,
Glddngs Goodrich, Grow, Aaron Harlan, Andrew
j. Harlan, HARRISON Hastings, Haven, Hester, Howe,
Hughes Hunt, Johnson Daniel L. Jones, Kittredge,
knox, Lindsey, Lyon, McCulloch, Mace, Matteson,
Mayall, Meacham, Middleswarth, Millson, Morgan,
Morrison, Murray, Nichols, Noble, Norton, Andrew
Oliver, Parker, Peck Peckham, Pennington, Bishop
Perkins, Pratt, Pringle, Puryear, David Richie,
Thomas Rtchey, Rogers Russell, Sabin, Sage, Sapp,
Seymour Simmons, Shelton, Gerrit Smith, Hestor
L. Stephens, Stratton, Andrew Stuart John L. Tay-
lor, Nathaniel G. Taylor Thurston, Tracy Trout,
Upham, Wade, Valley, E. B. Washburne, Israel
Washburn, Wells, John Wentworth, Tappan, Went
warth, Wheeler and Yates-I0O.
Messrs Ashe, Clingman, Craige Kerr Rufin and
Shaw, of this State, voted for the BILL and Messrs.
Puryear and Rogers against it. We heard, at first,
that Mr. Rogers not present when the vote was
taken; but it seems he was, and VOTED AGAINST
THE BILL! He voted in company, as the yeas
and nays will show with such as Giddings, Ger
rift Smith, Grow and Sapp, and against the united
delegation from his State, with exception, and
that patty so intensely bitter as to be
able to nothing acceptable in any thing advocat-
ed by political opponent. How will Mr.. Rogers
account for such conduct? Can he show that Messrs.
Badger and Kerr wrong in this matter, and that
he is right? What excuse will he offer for voting