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than to Liberty the benefit of doubt. In the
case OF Or. Esls citizen of Illinois, arraigned
and convicted under State Law on the SUBJ
ject Of Fugitiyes from Service or Labor the
Court held the Law to be valid although in
the famous Prgg case it expressly declared
that all State laws on the subject in aid or in
derogation Of the owners right Of reclamation,
were null and void We say, plainly, then,
that this Nebraska bill, il passed, will open, by
its insidious and doubtful provisions, 80 wide q
Held for judicial construction, that we should
expect to see any Question of Personal Liberty
arising under il, decided against Freedom by
the Supreme Court
We appeal to the Representatives Of non
slaye-holding constituencies in Congress. The
great question is submitted to you--a greater
you will probably never be called upon to de-
cde--will you permit your constituents by a
species Of legislative legcrdemain, to DO swim.
died out Of the single boon gained from the
Missouri Compromise
The Pro- Slavery part Of the bargain y has
been fulfilled to the letter. Under it, Slave
States have been organized; but now when
the Anti-Slavery part Of the contract is to be
carried out the Slave Power resists, and an
Administrations under its domination insdiously
suggests plan by which. through Northern
votes, it may rob the North Of the magnificent
heritage, secured for an entire generation, to
Freedom. IN violation Of law, in utter con-
tempt Of what the youth of our country have
been taught to consider solemn covenant, the
vast Territory above SO deg. 80 min, and be-
yond Iowa, is to be thrown open to Slavery, 80
that Gordon of slaveholdng States may be
drawn round the Free West. The poor emf
grant from the Slave States, tho landless Yam
kee, the impoverished foreigner, fleeing for ref
uge to our shores, have hitherto rejoiced that
they might find home in the Free, rich, and
unoccupiod territory Of the Union. where, safe
from Want, exempt from degrading competi-
ton with Slave Labor, away from the rich mans
scorn, and the grinding Of oppression, they
could rear their children in republican simplici-
ty, and build up new States, exemplifying Dem.
ocratic institutions in all their purity But
the Slavery propagandsts, in their mad pas
sion for Negro Slavery, and the political power
they manufacture out Of it, would shut them
out from oil this broad domain, and cover it,
as they have covered the fertile plains of the
South, with plantations Of overgrown landlords,
and hordes Of squalid slaves.
Kill that nefarious Bill, or it will give the
Slave Power an ascendency in this country,
the terrible results Of which no mind can
fathom. Let the House Of Representatives
rally away with oil contemplate chickering's
about Hards" and "Sofss;n let us have no
more fummery about Baltimore platforms, and
the wonderful virtues of the Compromise Of
1850 in allaying sectional stlife; let US cease
to wrange about tho claims of demagogues to
the Presidential Succession. Give us o simple
Bill for the organization Of . Territorial Gov
ernment over Nebraska, emitting any imper-
tinent reference to The issues Of 1850, or any
premature declarations respecting States to be
organized out Of it; but if there must be
reference to Slavery, let it be made in the lam
guage of the Proviso of the Missouri Act of
1920, which has always shielded it against
Slavery, and the efficacy of which has never
before been drawn in question