The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-01-31
Correspondence Of the Baltimore Sun.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24th, l

The Committee on Territories or the Senate
and House of Representatives, have jointly
agreed on the following section of the new
Nebraska Bill:
"Seclion ii. That the constitution and laws
of the United States, which are not locally
inappiicahle, shall have the same force and cl.
feet within the said Territory as elsewhere
within the United States, except the Slh sec.
tinn Of the act preparatory to the admission
of Missouri into the Union, approved March
6, 1890, which was suspended by the princi.
pies of the legislature of 1850 commonly call.
ed the compromise measures, and is hereby de-
yclared incorporative.
And they have also agreed to oppose every
amendment to this section, and every artifce
by which the true meaning of the same may
be obscurcd or renderdered less explicit.
can further state that Judge Douglas, of
the Senate, has consulted the"leading North.
ern and Southern Senators on the subject, and
they will support the above amendment When
the committee had agreed to it, the case was
submitted to General CasS, who gave it his
cordial approval; and can further state that
notwithstanding all that newspapers have said
about the veteran statesman, he was prepared
him elf TO offer a similar amendment and SUP.
port it by a speech, (Which he will still make
us have stated, weeks ago, in my letters to
ti'e Sun, from what deem the most authentic
authority. Governor Bright has also been
consulted, and has given the amendment his
manly, cordial approval.
In the House. Gen. Richardson, of Illinois,
has pursued similar course to the patriotic
and Statesmanlike course Of Judge Douglas
Influential members of the North and South
have also been consulted, and they promise
their support to the amendment. Finally the
administration paper, the Union to-day endorse,
the amendment, and makes it the touch. stone
of true orthodox democracy. You will see,
then, that | was right in my statements and
the views expressed on this important sub
ject. They are precisely the same views which
| had the privilege to submit to the readers Of
the Baltimore Sun in lS49 and 1850, and
ackno wlcdge frankly that am vain enough to
take pride in my consistency.
| have not the slightest fear that the sla
very agitation will commence de novo, rrovi
ded this Congress will act with promptness
and decision. Let the power Of meddng with
tiC VpLIeStiC iISlitutiolS VI lIIc StilcS anu ler
ries be taken away from Congress, and fanatics
will cease to send men to Congress for the sole
purpose Of modting this dangerous question.
The above l4th section of the Nebraska bill
strikes at the root of this evil, and the country
is indebted to the committee on Territories,
and their able chairman, for having presented
it.
Senator Dixon's amendment, when carefully
read, (n circumstance was not aware of Till
yesterday may be so construed as positively
to legislate on slavery; and though the legs.
ation in this instance may be right. yet the
fact itself may be so construed as 20 give to,
or to infer the power of Congress to lvgislatc
for slavery in an adverse manner. x.