Daily national era., 1854-06-07
COMM UNICATIO MS.
For the National Era
THE NEBRASKA BILL-N0. 5.
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HAu th0 principles oil Justice ana Drothcr-
hcod land one would think that gratitude also
might have some place, seeing that the fi'-
grims werc preserved through their first winter
only by Indian hospitality Influenced our con
duct, even as much they have that oil the
Spanish race, we should long ago have had In
dian Territories organized, Indian States ad
mitted and should now SEQ their representa-
tive men in both Houses Of Congress. Their
good faith, their honesty their native dignity
and habitual regard to decornm, would be in
valuable elements in body of men who have
thcit ten million corruption funds, their
"Texas scrip in their pockets, their hand-
employed in tearing treaties and contracts and
often in tearing each others eyes
Where great, cultivated, and powerful
community treats n weaker race with cruelty,
contempt, or even neglect, it marks that race
al the prey Of the unprincipled and inhuman.
There are vast numbers who have at best only
conventional Q, nsciences, and are ever ready
for any deed Of darkness, which il tolerated or
neglected, much moro il it is applauded and
rewarded by such community The worst
crimes in such state Of society, sit pretty
lightly ON that description Of confcienccs This
IL the groundwork OF the wrongs and woes in
ficted by this nation and under the shadow OF
its power, upon the Indians The nation is
therefore responsible for them; and il there be
q just God, bis justice cannot sleep
10 preserve them from class oi men whom
have endeavorcd to describe, but to whom
language strives in vain to do Justice laws
have been passed by the United States, and
Likewise ut an early period by the Colonies
and separate States But il Nebraska and
Kansas should be organized by an not repeal
ing, or, in frcsher and daintier phrasc, asrper-
ading" those laws and great rush of
rogues and ruffans should oyerwhelmn the ex-
posed natives, or rather denizcns, whom our own
choice and convenience, with new and solemn
guarantees protection, 80 lately planted there,
tho author Of the bill would very coo)ly cay, :" |
did not legislatc any rognes and rufiians into
the territory. I sand nothing about them. /
left it TO tho people, upon the great funda-
mental, Democratic principle of snlfgovern-
ment,' to decide whether il would have them
or not and he is q calnmniator,' and "a falsi-
fer Of the record who says that let them
in and established them theren
Or suppose that the law against stealing
should be omitted, or, having been already en-
acted, should be repeated in the Territorial
law; presume it will not bo disputed, at least
by any Southern man. that there would be a
fast immigration Of hor so thieves to that land Of
promise. But Dorglas would say, q | did not
legislate them into it;n and Cass would re-
peat, in his gravest manner, 81 am stroagiy
impressed ruth the opinion, that great change
has been going on in the public mind and an
my 0pno ssand that doubts are resolving
Themselves into eonyictions,o that there is no
power to legislate over thieves, or horses, or
ssses, or anything else within the Territories
except some sections of land.
might pursne the illustration through the
catalogue of crimes Upon, the prncipc which
Douglas adopts in his bill, and maintains in
No a. IL. I.k&~ Al. ~.
hideous crew might bc allowed to take sane.
tuary and set mp business in Nebraska, and
orders for cutting throats he " executed with
neatness and DESPATCH and nobody be 20
blame or responsible for it.
Thou carist not say did il mover shake
Thy CORY locks at me"
In the very fact Of letting in Slavery, Mr.
Douglas does indeed lot in the whole family OF
felonies. Slavery originated in war; and is a
continuation of the state OF war. IL tcmyts
and justifies the commfsion Of most of the out
rages and crimes Of war. IL must therefore
be maintained by warlikc instruments,
And the rough soldier, ranging for plundsr
With copscionce wide as hell"
The patrol system Of the slave States EN-.
ploys standing army, OF which the North
knows nothing Ii authorizes the killing or
manning of any negro, colored person, or slave,
found abroad in the night, If hc rcsisis or at
tempts to evade an arrest IL authorizes break
ing into the habitations Of slaves at any hour
of the night, 10 search the same, and to arre-t
and fog an unlawful number, Of slaves
fund together. 1t IL almost superfluous 20
say, that any triflc Of property, which slave
may have got by presents. or any comfortable
thing which the shave has manufactured. by
the sacrifice of needfal rest. and laid by for
future use Of wife, husband, or littlo ones, IL
sure 10 bo seized, in these searches, by tho low
whites who compose tho patrols. woman
venerable and beloved mother slave nearly
ninety years old, has carefully saved little
sam Tor her funeral" the patrollersn capture
IL, and nobody questions that il is lawful prize.
When indiscfiminate midnight irruptions
upon million of mothers and daughters are
authorized by law, and the same law makes IL
death ~ Iift hand in their defence, il Is not
60 be snpposed that tho acts &C tho burglars
will bc confined TO the purposes which the law
prescribes There is no vile and degrading
outrage ON tn pefson Of the slave II it works
no injury 10 the rights or service Of tho mas
ter, which this arruy may not commit all over
the South, with entire impnnity. But, in truth,
the authority and mastery Of all whites, wheth-
or owners or not over slaves, IL very little l,ss
than that Of the patrols, provided il he not
used ~ the defrirnent Of the interest or in der
ogation of the rights of tho owner
There are laws in All tho slave States against
the killing of slaves except in some ca-cs,
where "they die Of moderate correction or
where tho accused "cxcnIpstes himself by bis
own oath But tie great legal disability i'm
posed upon all savcs, Of testifying against any
white perHn, rcpdcrs these laws, such as they
ara, and would render sny laws, however just
and w'se, for their protection, very nearly
dead lettcr. Two eases OF killing, related to
me BY cred,ble persons, residing or sojourning
- tho South, will serve to show what eau 10
done
A master in the State Of Georgia took his
slave down cellar, and there. with the aid Of
the family physician, naycd him alive The
dHence was, that he did 10 a ,riife person
nth the cl.us scx.f and do.,l.ila.a - -.