The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-25

The Dover N H. Gazette Of Saturday contains lengthy
article in which the principles of the Nebraska ol ana
selfgoyernrhenF ably discussed and maintained we
make room for the following extracts.
The edvoeas of the Nebraska bill say that the peopls
living IN tbs Territories shall determine the question IN theT
way the oPPos Of the bill insist that the people h'ng
Of the Territories shall decide and shall compel the lnhaD
tant Of Nebraska and Kansas adopt such domestic lnsa
tions they shall in their wisdom mercy prescribe
II is TO us incredible that this doctrine of local self gov
ernmenhs right Of the people of every State and TERRI
tory become under the constitution, the masters OF Their
own futureth doctrine had thought selfevdent 70
Americans vital TO the Of republican system 50
indispensable to the perpetuy Of that American unonwheh
all love- and pray may be cernalshoud encounter ser
opposition from any quarter Why popular sovereignty
the keystone of republcanism IL the soul OF
liberty.
here it has existed freedom has had home. Where
has overborne crushed the liberties Of the people
have fallen away by one, till at last the noble bird OF
freedom has been compelled in self defence to take her Hight
History is full of the exemphcaons OF the TACT Take the
that nation recently commended to sym
pathes by her eloquent and gifted whose genus we can
not pause to characterize but which all appreciated
how much large majority Of our people regretted the
which he had been goaded by ppre
sion of his after reaching shores what the
of Hungary before the entertainments of her central
powers and before the interference of Austria and Russia
with her domestic concens She had constituted part OF
conederaed empire for several hundred she had her
State independence and sovereignty and all these
persisted under the exercise Of powers not dele
gated to the general governments government created
originally like ownunder express limitations The tenor
Of speeches of Louis Kosuth while in land was the
vindicaton of State and territorial rights against consoida
ton and Capitalization"
elf then this principle of self government is SO wise 80
lust so soundf the principle of Washington il
the basis upon which reposes free great and
happy countrywhy shall it not be applied in the organza-
Nebraska and Kansas? Why shall they not be ena-
bled according the provisions Of Judge Douglass BILL to
decide for themselves whether not they will have slavery
among hem2 Will any of the opponents of the Nebraska
bill tell us? Perhaps you abhor and condemn slavery Elk
acy And Austria and Russia and England and France
abhor and condemn repubcanism. But shall they be allow
interfere and extnguish the ground and for
reasons that you would interfere and dictate to the
people of Nebraska what local institutions they shall have
Certainly Neither must interfere in the municipal
affairs of Nebraska and Kansas We must leave all these
questions where the spirit of liberty left hemwhere the
American constitution has left themwhere all true who
love Union of these States wish them to be ewhere the
bill pending leaves themunder the sole and exclusive
control of the people of each State and Territory.