The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-02-23
From the New York Evening Post.
THE VOICE OF THE FREE STATES ON THE NE.
BRASKA QUESTION

| With the exception of what appears in the
| Albany Argus and few other prints of the
| Law and Croswell faction, not a word in favor
| of the Nebraska fraud appears in the presses
| of the free States, which is not dictated from
| Washington and published to order. The faint
and timorous assent to that fraud expressed in
the resolutions of the Democratic General
Committee of this city was of that description.
The Boston Post, the New Hampshire Patriot,
the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian, speak as they
are bid
GAS the promptcr breathes, the puppet squeaks"
The free expression of the North among all
parties-whether enemies of the Administra-
ton or friends, whether Democrats or Wings
is openly, earnestly, uncompromisngly against
the measure.
The other day We gave some examples of
the disappIoval with which the most conserva-
tive part of the religious community regard
the Reputation of the Missouri Compromise
and of the universal hostility which the Ger
man part of our population bear TO it, To
this We must add, that the Address of the Mem
bers of Congress who first took ground in op-
position to the measure is now extensively cir
culated in the German language. The New
York Demokrat, now lying before U.S. contains
the entire Address in German
Meantime, every day brings us new and
on this question. We give few examples from
journals just received, and now before us.
PUBLIC OPINION AT THE EAST.
We could hardly ask more significant in
dication of the universal feeling in the Eastern
States on the question of repudiating the Mis-
souri, bargain Of 1920, than the one which we
are about to lay before our readers. Among
the journals at the East, which have most
warmly supported the Compromise of 1920,
and most earnestly deprecated any further dis
cussion of questions connected with Slavery is
the Hartford Times, daily paper published at
the seat of Government in Connecticut, very
widely circulated, and possessing, perhaps, more
influence with the Democratic party than any
other journal in the State. 1t took part early
in cOunselling assent to the Compromise of
1850, supported MIR. Cass in the election of
1S4S, and has ever since been almost ferocious
in its opposition to the Free Soil heresy. 1t has,
moreover, distinguished itself as jealous friend
of the present Administration.
We have now before us the Hartford Times
of yesterday, in which the leading article is
vehement attack upon Mr.. Douglass bill, Co.
cupying two columns of the paper After
statement of the question, and some historical
facts connected with it, the Hartford print says
of Douglass bill
"This uncalled-for movement-this out-of-
the-way, over. the fence dash of the Senator
from llinois-astonshed the country The fact
that such q measure was seriously proposed
could not readily be comprehended. No South
srn member of Congress could be found to pro-
pose it. The bill was thrust into their faces,
and they were told that we, of the free States,
who are in this movement, will make some
more slave territory for you, from the lands
which you of the South have agreed shall be
free forever, an arrangement which you have
adhered to in good faith as true men and hon.
orable legislators. We will make this free ter
ritory into slave territory without your asking,
though you have taken all that was conceded
to Slavery, and made slave territory of it. \ \
But what is the reason given by Senator
Douglas for his uncalled- for measure? Why.
freemen of the North and South surprising
enough, it is simply this, and nothing more
He says that the Compromise measures of 1850
repealed the Compromise act of l82O-that the
Compromise of 1850 established principle,
VIZ that Territories may come into this Union
with Or without Slavery, as the people within
their limits shall determine. If so, why the
necessity of the present bill But Senator
Douglas has not the audacity to say that tho
Missouri Compromise was alluded to in either
Of the laws comprising the Compromise of
| 1S5O-he Is forced to reach far over, and drag
in the idea, that as New Mexico was organized
IS a Territory, with the privilege of coming in
as State with or without Slavery, as her peo-
pie may elect. Nebraska shall come under the
same head, though law already exists rela-
tive to Slavery over the Territory of Nebraska
winch never extended to New Mexico. 1t is
an absurd doctrine. As we'll might the argu-
nent be set up, that the State of California was
admitted by the Compromise of 1850, with Q
clause in her Constitution positively prohibit
ing Slavery; and that it follows that every
other State, whether formed from the present
limits Of Texas or any other portion Of our ter