Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-15

the term of six years from the 4th Of March,
1855, when his present term Of service will ex-
pire. The vote was--for Mr.. Pearoe, So; Mr..
Constable (Dem,) IS; and scattering, 2.
MASSACHUSETTS ON THE NEBRASKA BILL ~
The House Of Representatives of this State yes.
terday passed the resolves in opposition to the
Nebraska bill, by vote Of GAG yeas to 10 nays,
eleven Democrats and two Wings voting in the
negative. So the spirit Of justice and Of Free
dom have not yet been crushed outn Of the
freemen Of this noble old Commonwealth
MR. BURLINGAME's SPEECH ON THE MIssIs-
| sIPPI VALLEY.
The following are the closing words of Mr..
Burlingamo's lecture upon the Valley Of the
MississippJ which were received with such "a
yor last Wednesday evening at the Mercantile,
in Boston:
| AT the time of the adoption of the Constitu-
tion, there was not one State in the Valley Of
the Mississippi; now, more than one third of
the States OF the Confsderacy are there, con-
tanning nearly one half Of the people Of the
Republic. Six Of them are dedicated to Free.
dom; six are lost to Slavery. Missouri, Ken
lucky, and Tennessee, on the confines of Free
dom, may yet cast out the evil Arkansas,
Mississippi, and Louisiana, have dreary pros
pect before them. No settler will set his feet
in them. Civilization fees their borders, and
imagination has filled them with monster LIE.
grees. The slave States though first settled
linger in the race They have had political
power-they have supplied three Presidents
they have been the adopted homes of the
statesmen who have added to the renown Of the
Republic. They are even now behind in pop
ulation and of the thousands Of miles of rail
way built in that Valley, not one fifth of them
are within their borders
They have expended for these purposes, in
round numbers, 100000 hgainst the sum of
$l23, O00, 900 by the free States. They hold the
key points Of the Valley, the mouths Of the great
rivers, and yet the annual product of the free
State of Ohio, four years ago, was within few
| millions of the annual product of these six
States. | would not make invidious compari-
SONS, but would lot the trumpet Of Freedom
| speak in the revelations of the census tables
| The free States, young, crowded into the up
per part Of the Valley, 10 all those things which
| give people abiding strength are their supc-
riors These are now the granaries for all
lands-they control the mighty commerce of
four hundred millions belonging to the West;
they supply the twenty thousand men who nav
igate it, they rejoice in labor, and their valleys
glitter with free schools.
The settlers Of the Mississippi Valley chief.
" supplied from the Atlantic States, have gen.
orally followed the parallels Of latitude upon
which they were born. There is the Carolini.
an, ready TO fight for his peculiar institution,
and, in the language Of his Congressman, to
@march up to the line Of 36 deg 80 min. with
his cof6n on his backu There is the naughty
vireinian, yet eloquent of the fading glories Of
the Old Dominion-there is the true son Of
New England still proud of the land Of his
birth This great Northern hive of New Eng
land has swarmed again and again, and from
its own, aud through the energetic veins of
Western New York, has given it's sons and its
faith to the upper valley Of the Mississippi
The States Of the Northwest are bone Of her
bone and flesh Of her flesh. New England
man-John Adams-at the treaty Of Paris, by
his irmncss saved that region to the country:
when it was proposed to yield it, he with his
Puritan plnck, said No! Rather than do So
he would 70 home and fight for it as long as
he could keep soldier in the field Ii was
New England man who procured the reduction
Of the price of the public lands, and for this
the poor man should bless him; il was New
England policy which dedicated every 10th
section Of land to school purposes; and above
all, New England man-Nathan Dane, Of
Beverly, Massachusetts - drew up the Ordi.
nance Of 1887, excluding Slavery forever from
that Territory.
New England men, assembling in this city
TO mature their plans, sent forth from the
county Of Essex, in this State, in the dreary
&c no~ Ct
settled what is now the great State Of Ohio,
A New England man was the first Secretary
Of the Northwest Territory. New England
men were its first Judges. They were the con-
trolling element in the Legislature, which,
when virginianspetitioned theright to taketh
slaves into the Territory, unanimously rejected
their petition. And now there is q land larger
than the Northwest Territory--larger than
the free States, excluding California--lying
under the ATTITUDES Of Liberty, blest with the
best rains Of Heaven, drained by the finest
rivers in the world, waiting the advent of one
hundred millions OF freemen, dedicated to lib
erty by the plighted faith Of patriots from the
North and the South and New England
man, Graded in Vermont matured in the
Northwest under the smiles Of Freedom for.
getting the mother that bore him, ungrateful
to the land Of bis adoption, in the senate of the
United States, IN the face OF the world, with
hot haste, when no man prayed for il by petit
ton, seeks to abrogate the language by which
1t has been given to freedom, the language Of
the glorious old Ordinance Of 1887, originally
from the mind Of the author of the Declaration
Of Independence, and to doom it to the woes
and agonies Of Slavery.
In the name Of the poor man, whose heri-
tage It Is, protest; in the name Of humanity,
protest. Let the declaration 20 forth from
old Faneuil Hall; let it rise from every section
Of the Republic; from the land Of Henry to the
land Of Adams; from the tomb Of Jefferson TO
the tomb Of Jay; from the grave Of Calhoun, in
the sweet shade of the magnola's blossoms !;
from the generous soil Of old Kentucky, which
wraps the manly form Of Henry Clay from
those shores by the sounding sea, where the
! great New England Statesman is laid down to
rest; let the declaration 20 forth let il ring
from side to side; by every gushing river by
every wind beaten hill by every shining