The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-13
NEBRASKA RATIFICATION MEETING.

NEBRASKA RATIFICATION MEETING.
meeting of the friends OF the Nebraska bill was held
at Hopes Hail. In Alton Illinois the 3oth May, pursu-
ant to notice.
On motion Of Mr. W. W. Cary, Judge Martin was APP
pointed chairman, and I. s Fitch secretary.
The chairman explained the object Of the meetings where
upon Dr. Hope presented the following preamble and
lutions:
Whereas the Nebraska Kansas bill is the law the
land all good citizens will obey the laws Democrats
des expediency bat principles founded
on the federal constitution never As to the espedency
the Nebraska bly, many good democrats doubted honestly
but the battle and the victory let the great
democratic family upon the platform Of the Baltimore
Convention 1850 and prepare Tor the national contest
Rs,ope That congratulate the country upon the pas
sage of the Nebraska BILL and the recognition OF the OLD reso
BILE Of se and y anasnS her domestic affairs
with as much and perhaps more skill 'han our apohuo
esopsd That the principle Of non-ntervention by CON
greonal demagogues abolition ree-soers and tnelr aes'
joined by the ede constitution is the doctrine Of democracy
and if honestly observed will endow the democratic party
with perpetuy and the day of it's abandonment VIII be ne
Of God, let the people rule"
Rosed, That the battle is fought, and the victory won;
and now yicors grant general amnesty to all our
democratic friends who honestly differed with TO the
home the father Of old did his prodigal SON
Resored That the three thousand New England preach
e and their twenty Alton allies be again permitted when
another Nebraska bill is before Congress- flash IN the pan,
their ancestors did in the Of 1872 and as they have
done in the Nebraska Of 1854
Resoycd, That thanks are due to the solitary New
England preacher who the memorable day Of the treason
preachmens preached solitary and alone Christ and him
crucied.
Resorsd That senators and representatives in Con,
gres who supported tho present Nebraska bill are entitled
and do receive most cordial appreciation and we VIII
them against all abolition factions IN and out Of the
party that freely and cordially endorse the
administration Of Franklin Pierce who stands rmy upon
the platform Of the federal constitution mmoyabe by the
assaults Of faction, IF The democratic party.
r a1,t;n,a
He congratulated the lovers Of law and order on the pas
sage of the Nebraska bill This was no party measure
In all matters Of patriotic devotion to the Union the wings
of the country laid aside the tappings OF party and al
though democrats and wings often differed to the man
Of conducting the affairs of the government theneyer
differed to the great end to be obtained by good
menthe freedom and happiness of the people The Ne
brask bill assumed the revolutionary principle that the peo
Pile capable of managing their domestic concerns
without the intervention Of the central government This
doctrine to the democracy AS an assistant
eecor this district in l848 he had opened the Cass and
Butler campaign in this comfy and avowed that the de-
mocacy Of the country adopted the Nicholson letternon
intervention with slavery in and out of the Territories
He showed the unconsutionalty of all the compromises
from 1887 to 1850 The Territories belonged to the States
and The people, and Congress had power to divide that
which belonged the people, and which had been declared
by the constitution reserved to the States the people
He proposed to pay his respects to the 5000 New
England preachers and their twenty Alton allies He adj
mnsered scathing rebukc to those worthless who stole
the livery Of Heaven to the devil in He denounced
their bsphemous and petition to Congress as
wholly inconsistent with the mission of peace they had
sumed to be theirs.
He drew contrast between them and the solitary New
England clergyman who the day set apart by ianat
csm preach the Union, TO God and the Ne
braska bill ayowed his determination to depart from the
worldness Of his contemporaries, and preach Chyr ere
ned
The conduct of the Catholic clergy of the country is
shining commentary the peaceful and quiet mission of
Christ and ebukes with all the solny Of silence and
onerptio with politics the 1900 hatchers and
federal preachers of New England The Catholic clergy
content preach the Gospel they understand it
counseng peace and good will to all mankind and de-
nouncng civil dscord Boston riots and murder of
the civil officers of the country in the discharge OF their
duties.
Dr. Hope concluded With strong appeal to all good
men, in the church and out Of the church. all republicans
all lovers of order and civil and religious Liberty TO
buke, and sgnay all attempts OF clergymen 70 preach
from the pulpit political sermons having tendency to
create in the church. ch dscord dsunion and bitter
Of feeling 10 another of opposite political scn
mens thus departing from the preceps of the religion of
the Bible which teaches brotherly love and flowing kind
ness only to each other but TO all mankind and out
Of the church. tending to create bad feeling arraying
neghbo against neghbor friend against friend part
OF society against another the North against the South
and ending in the euson Of human blood, civil discord
riots and murder ruin, desoauon, and destruction OF the
Union.
Judge Martin followed in speech in favor Of the rcsou-
tons which unanswerable The Judge took up the
subject compromises from 1881 10 1850 and asked
any one seriously believed that as laws of the United
States they any more binding on the people, they
constitutional than any law which Congress might
pass and afterwards repeal if they desired so to do lie
showed the laws Of Louisiana sanconing slavery
in force when the Territory purchased OF Spain
by Jefferson and therefore the Missouri Compromise
unconstitutional because the general government had
power under the constitution TO nterpose authority 10
abrogate the local laws of the country II the King of
Spain had granted and which often the case tract
Of land individual prior TO selling the country TO
the United States the of sale the transfer OF sovereign
ty did nyadae the title of the individual diyest
him of the fee in the land The courts of Louisiana and
Missouri had repeatedly decided this question and the SUI
preme Court Of the United States had uniformly affirmed
their decisions Again the Territories of the Union be-
State nf hp StafTS xtffba
acquired by the yaor the treasure OF people whh-
err purchased from Spain Mexico by the exngush-
ment of the Indian title; they did not belong TO
the North the South, the East the West but
the common property OF our common country,
open TO settlement and free 10 the adopted well
AZ 20 the native inhabitant Who has a better right
log cabin of the wilderness and the little piece Of
ground around it, than he who builds the and breaks
up and fences the other for home for him and his wife
and children IL there western man here whose heart
does warm and his blood run hot through his veins st
the mention Of the OF pioneer The who but few
years scs.d the Allegheny mountains launched his
bark the broad waters Of the Ohio, and sought
for himself and his little in the gloomy forests and
racess prares of the West not home for himself alone
but home for the millions who hnve since followed him
whom he drove back the savage tribes who roamed
large in the wilderness and cased the forests 10 dsap
pear give place 10 the habitation OF civilized
Would you could you say 10 this man, this old pioneer
that he had no right Nebraska if he unfortunate
10 few slaves who probably too old 10 cast
loose upon the cold charities Of abolition syppethz~rs
Has Congress any power deny him rights his chill
dren rights that that body would concedc to the New Eng
land cock-peder the abolitions of the North Does
the constitution Of the United States know any sectional
line No srf 1t recognises North. South, no East
Nest-noiing but the Union, and indivsble- Let