Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-02-18
noITTICs IN THE PULPIT.

roh 1s,-Rey. E. n Kirk, in his sermon
BOsIWT onnt Vernon Church this morning, pointed,
At the Monod the Nebraska bill. The christian
condg ~ sad should not close hereyes to the reck-
church, zion of trading legislators nor cease to pray
less amois diversion to honest and enlightened prin-
for their cor Mr. kirk had given in his adhesion to
dpes ~ of 1850, though hardly with clear
the for the sake of the permanent peace and
cOnsciete,C.S e whole country. The passage of the
unity Of u. hill would, in his opinion, constitute rev
Nebraska He regretted that the author of the bill
Oiuto1n;, .re been born in New England In conclu-
should nav oIed the prayers of the church for our
son. ne ~ washington, and especially for Sena-
kgS Np'aIas and Franklin Pierce
tor Do1Ssa theodore Parker also made the Nebras-
The Nc c,biect of his morning discourse, denounc
IA ell l its author with eloquence and sarcasm.
ing az Lave to add to the foregoing Abolition
"e: :st;ons of the Nebraska bill, of the admins
dena-'' g Con. Pierce, and of Judge Douglas, the
ta"Oa from the Raleigh Register, Southern Wing
paper: .,,o sl;obtest faith in the motives
we ~ of the movement-we believe that he
Of the au ot,ated by that low demagogueism for
bas Geen ;S 50 VIGOROUSLY distinguished; but since
when ~ has been or must be joined we see no other
10 nsu left than to carry the measure through.
asiD 49,. EXPRESSLY provided in the " compromise
If 1880 that New Mexico, the greater por-
neSu.'- h;.b lies south of the Missouri line and
uOu of wbich lies north of the line, should come
V~D H. Union as States with or without slavery as
n'' ao,lo thereof should determine; Judge Doug
u' chairman of the Committee on Territories,
- "a these provisions as to these Territories,
Hr ~. chairman of the same Committee he could
.'h,ra avoided if he would, the same question as
.,red in the organization of Nebraska and Kansas
I-,,lo lies northeast of Utah. and Kansas east of
~. same Territory, and both are north of the Mis-
1.-Two The bill under consideration opens both
%.. Territories to slavery; it may go there and ex-
y. The people so will it; it may not go there, if
~ neople 50 determine The bill, in other words,
~. aries ont the compromise" of 1850 as ap-
'rLtoT Utah and New Mexico-that compromise "
fI;,h tbe Raleigh Register and other Southern
Who's once insisted sacred and final, overrid-
mr. III other compromises and restrictions and which
", Fillmore approved as "fnal settlement, both in
,-ene and substance, of the question of slavery"
Nav We find this same Register joining the Adolf
6oDiss 50 far as it dare do in opposition to the
u,Omnromise,n denouncing the motives of Senator
Nuras the champion of the measure, and acqui-
.Dc in the measure itself with evident hesitation
md reluctance measure, be it remembered, which
msas to repeal the unconstitutional restriction of
1920 and at the same time carries the ugitireslare
hr in its letter and spirit, into the Territories Of
Nebraska and Kansas
The stalwart Douglas leads the column, now as
,trehme in defence of the Constitutional rights of
ae States This is gall and NORWOOD to the Rail
dgh Register; it would drag him down from his high
POSITION and brand him as demagogue, because, as
be true to the rights of the States and to the Con-
atufon, which is the bond of union upon all and
over ALL the people cluster about and cling to him
shey did to Mr.. Clay anterior to 1924, and as they
dEays did to Jefferson, and Jackson and Polk.
More upon this subject hereafter.