Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-03

Duncan Stewart, and Peter Fleher, Esq6, tine
two latter influential and unyielding Demo
Gratis, were selected as Vice Presidents; d. Be-
thune Dufield, u. NJ Wilcox, and c, A. Trow-
bridge, Esq, were chosen Secretaries"
NOT TRUE. A
aThc question is, shall the people Of Ne
braska and Kansas decide for themselves the
character Of the institutions under which they
are to live, or shall it be done by Congress e.
Cincinnati Enquirer
I'VE repeat the only question involved IN
the Nebraska measure is--are the people Of
the Territories capable of self-government IL
is maintained by Messrs Douglas, Cass, and
other Democratic statesmen, that they are, and
should have the privilege, while Chase, Seward,
Sumner, and the Wings and Abolitionists gen.
orally, dare not trust the people in the matter,
and favor Congressional legislation. II Is the
old issue between Federalism and Democracy
again revived in practical formn-Ib.
Repeat the statement az often as you please,
a is NOT true. Mr.. King your late Vice Presi-
dent, Mr.. Davis, your present Secretary Of
War, and the whole body Of your Southern
confederates, are swift witnesses against you.
The question, according to them--and they are
your masters lis, shall Congress or the Terri
torial Legislature prohibit Slavery, or act
against it. aThey shall not is their reply
the Consultation Of the United States secures
to the stakeholder the right to carry his slaves
with him into any Territory Of the United
States and there is no power that can prevent
him, or interfere with him. The People Of .
Territory have no right to regulate their insti-
buttons, except what they derive from Congress,
and Congress cannot give what il does not
possess, power to regulate the institution Of
Slavery
This is the position Of the South, Mr.. En-
qusrer, and you know it: and in attempting 70
conceal it, by proclaiming groundless issue
you are imposing fraud upon the People.
THE ISSUE AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE RULING
CLASS
Let us turn away from the peddling, wooden
nutmeg politicians Of the North, and hear what
the naughty and outspoken South has to say
Of the real issue presented by the Nebraska
Bill. The Richmond (va.l Enquirer, paper
which may be regarded az an authoritative ex-
ponent Of the views and policy Of the Ruling
Class--the Slaveholdmg Autocracy- disdain-
ing the low trickery of the Northern Services,
spurning all dastardly evasion, boldly declares
that the passage Of the Nebraska Bill will in
fuse into Slavery the vitality Of an expansive
and progressive institution" and leave athe
question Of its expansion to be determined by
its own energies and volition mot by that
Elusive abstraction, the right Of the People Of
q Territory to govern themselves. Will the
People Of the North ponder well the following
extract from leading editorial in that journal
of the I'd March:
aThere has never been dispute between
the South and Its enemies 10 the North, which
has excited 80 intense and universal an inter-
est among the people Of the South, az exists
now in regard to the Nebraska controversy.
Heretofore the struggle has been about expe-
dents and measures Of partial and temporary
character; aoU the issue is one Of vital princi-
pie. In behalf Of this principle of non inter-
uention. as illustrated and established IN The Ne
braska BID, the entire proslavsry sentiment of
the South is enlisted acith all its ardor and ener-
gy Epery previous conflict pas nothing more
than a skirmisk in comparison nth this mo-
mentosls struggle bet0een Slavery and Aboli-
tionism. Heretofore, slight advantages have
been lost and won, but the Issue Of this oontro-
versy will determine the question 90 essential
to the interests Of the South-whether Slavery
10 to possess the vitality Of an expansive and
progressive institution, or be surrounded and
crushed by the weight Of an irresistible oppo-
stion. We are not 30 simple as TO suppose,
with some, that the passage Of the Nebraska
bill will settle the matter in dispute between
the North and the South But il will do this
it will shift the theatre Of the war-it viii de-
tach the Federal Government from its alliance
with Abolitionism, and it will relieve the South
Of an odious ond ubiquitous restriction.
II viii place the South precisely in the
position which it should occupy in contempla-
iion of the Constitution, and wiH kape the
question: of the expansion Of Slavery 10 be de-
fernsined by its oscn energies and voiition IL
is in this light that the people Of the South re-
gard the repeal of the Missouri restriction, and
il is because Of its effect in yindicating the
rights and enlargng the basis Of Slavery, that
they support the measure with such zeal and
unanimity.
at is absurd to say that the South feels no
concern about the issue Of the Nebraska con-
troversy, in face Of the fact that the Southern
people are unanimous in support Of the meas
ure. On no former occasion of sectional con-
troversy was this the case. II has been the
misfortune Of the South, that its own people
have been divided 10 every crisis Of peril to its
institutions, but now, for the first time, they
are thoroughly and cordially united. This fact
sufficiently sttests the anxiety with which the
Southern people anticipate the issue Of the
struggle, and their conviction Of the impor-
lance Of the interests and the principles in
volved in tho fate Of the BILL"
In the face Of these declarations, tricksters
at the North tell us that the question Of Slave
ry is to be left to the disposal Of the squatters
in any Territory Quietists at the North sd-
monish us against unnecessary excitement /;