The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-17
WASHINGTON, Jan. %, 1854.
THE NEBRASKA BILL THE ADMINISTRATIONS
"EXTRA BILLY's" sPEEcH--THE HARDs
AND SoFTS.

THE NEBRASKA BILL THE ADMINISTRATION
"EXTRA BILLY's" sPEEcH--THE HARDs
AND soFTs.
Neither before nor since those days, when
it was sud that "Unon was in danger,' has
Congress and this locality been SO intensely
excited as at the present time. FRANKLIN
PIERCE having been elected by the coalition
and cooperation of antagonstical political
factions of every variety of stripe-the
Barnburners of New York, and the Free
Soil Democracy everywhere; and the distribu-
tion of the Spoils among the viclors having
/ been made without enQuiring into their
political untecedents; it was joyousy an-
tlcipaled that political milleinum had arriv-
ed, and which the liberal and judicious dis
tribution of the spoils would perpetuate, at
! least for u thousand years.
! Southern politicians and Northern dena.
gogues, seeking to avail themselves OF the
apparent good fellowship, and relying upon
the continued cohesive attractions of the
public plunder, made the bold attempt to
abrogate all previous ave-prohibting enact
ments. Accordingly, u Nebraska bill was
framed, not expressly repeating, but Indirectly
and Intentionally repeating, the guaranty in
( the compromise act of 1920. This bill did
not satisfy the South-believing the coalition
strong enough to warrant it, they insisted
upon positive and unequivocal repeal, in
stead OF the deceptive, cowardly and doubt.
fui one. The President and Cabinet, and
certain Congressional sympathilers, meet &
consult upon Sunday, and new Nebraska
bill is agreed upon, and reported to the SEN
ute as substitute for the previous one. This
bill expressly declares the previous slave-ex,
! cluding enactment Of 1920 as "superceded''
and "inoperative"-and it is officially an.
.nounccd to be The Administration measure.
| But there are indications OF mutiny in the
camp-there is quarrel and IA fight about
the division OF tho spoils of otRce-and more
alarming than all this, the Soft members CT
! New York and the Democratic members OF
| Ohio bold caucuses over this, new Nebraska
bill, and resolve, quite unanimously, that
they cannot support its slavery extension,
declarations and opinions. This incoherent
presumpt uous meetig was reported to the
President and this Cabinet and Cabinet
caucus, including few outsiders, was i'm
mediately held whereat it Was determined
that a"proper case was presented" for. ex-
ecutivc interPositon, and II was resolved by
secret acclamation, that prompt and effective
threats and intimidations should be resorted
to for the suppression Of the premonitory
symptoms of characterization" and Ex-Gov-
ernor SAITH, Of Virginia--better known as
Extra Billy" was commissioned for this
Cabinet duty.
Accordingly, when the House resolved
itself into mass meeting, on Thursday, the
Cabinets chivalric champion from the sold
Dominion" galantly entered the ring; and
after Surveying for time the muiinous sub
jects around him, he faced the New York
udrds, and made pass at MIKE WALSH
rebukng him for daring to spurn southern
sympathy. MIKE, being one of the bhoys,
Strengthened himself and said--"I didn't say
that spurned that southern sympathy,
which was secretly whispered in my ear, and
then Jaistfed by every word and act on this
floor. This was hard hit, aud the Cabinet
champion staggered under it.
Taking breath, and assuming the imperious
tone and manner of his high calling, Extra
Billy" then proclaimed that bill would soon
be reported to the House whch would allay
all insurrectonary projects, unite all who
call themselves Democrats, and restore
harmony aud resistess efficiency to the Ad-
ministration--and that this was the Nebraska