New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-14
BRONSON ON NEBRASKA.

III i>iS-~', NHtH y. IhO-'1N- ""N
BEAEDsLEY were younger less polite, and certainly
not less honest than they now are, they took leading
parts in meeting of the citizens OF Oneida County 70
oppose the admission Of the sovereign State OF Mis-
souri, into the Union with her slave Constitution vi
this meeting held at Rome, Dec. a. 1919, Mr. Sam
vel BeaTdsley was promoter, and Mr. Greene {.
Bronson Secretary; and by it the following resolves
were unanimously adopted
Pesorr,d That in the opinion OF this meeting Congress
o..,,es ne Cieoy and mule OnaEe Dcvcy b, C0asfu-
fon of he Lu,le2 Stqfes Ia pr0tiJit ne odrwo Of
Sr D into opg state Territory TO be formed
and admitted into the Union
Reoirc6, That in the opinion Of is meeting the admls-
sion of Slavery into any such State Territory would DO
contrary the spirit of free and excellent CoDstitu-
IL n and Injurious TO the highest interests of the nation
Reolrcd That the Senators and Representatives IN IN
Congress Of the United States from this State be respect
fully and earnestly requested 10 their most Jealous en-
deavOrs to prevent the further extension OF slavery IN he
United States And that the Chairman and Secretary be
requested transmit these resolutions to the said Senators
aid Representatives -
hcsofrcd, Thet Erasius CLARK. Samuel Chandler and
Greene {. Bronson, be Committee 10 take such iuIhI
measures, relation to the subject IL question as they
msy deem expodient. Sc -
esoEr,d Tha the proceedings Of this meeting signed
bv The Chairman and Secretary be published III al lhe
public papers printed IN tfs S99n' MILLER Chairman
GREENE c. Bsossos Secretary
-TLirty.fye years have nearly passed, and these
gentlemen again appear before the public-Beardsey
as President of Democratic (lIard) Convention, and
Bronson as its candidate for Governor OF our STATE.
1t is by that Convention
"Eesoired That the doctrine of non-inerveniion Dy
Coppless the right Of the people of the Territories To
make their own local regulations and temporary laws
subject only to the power renqushed by the States to the
General Government, including al regulations reanS 10
domestic seIviiude have long been permanent ana lead
ing features in the creed OF the National Democracy
&c. &c.
So, we see that ga change has been going oil" IN
other minds than Gen. Casss Of late years. Beardsey
and Bronson in 1919, with no office in view so'emnly
resolved that Congress possesses clear and 1sputa
be power to prohibit the admission of Slavery into
.any State or Territory and ought to do it, but the
same Beardsey and Bronson in Ia54, in laying down
platform for party struggle assert the exact con-
trary of the foregoing Theyclaimedto he Democrats
in 1919 and were in full communion with the party
desienatsd now they say that the opposite doctrine
has iong been a cardinal and permanent feature of
National Democracy! How long
But let rs hear Judge Bronson the practical
eject Of this Non-Intervention Here is the position
taken in hi; letter to the Convention
"Thc Convention will trust stand firmly by the old
lan6noks of the party, and feart'sy declare s deter
II uaon uphold the Constitution and the Union at all
b. zaTds. Without saying anything 10 wound the feelings
of the political friends who have been unable to give
then assent TO all the proceedings of the Nebraska bill
the purpose should be distinctly declared OF maintaining
the great principle asserted by the of bnnishng
the Slavery question from Congress- by referring it,
DO other questions of domestic policy to the influence OF the
uon and the decision of the people OF the several
States and Territories. As the right to import slaves has
long since ceased ii is evident that allowing those we have
TO be dispoed wider extent OF csenr canno. add
their number, and doubt that II would tend
to improve rather than are their condition. There Is
asonablc ground believe that the people of either Ne
raskR or Kansas will declare in favor of having slaves
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of humanity and will be injured unless it be them
selves Ii is heir matter and let them deal with 1t
as they please.
Here are several distinct assertions as of fact;
we are willing to let the doctrines thereby justified
stand or fall with Them 1t is evident, Mr. Bron-
says, that allowing the slaves have to be dis
"persed over wider extent of country, cannot add
' to their number" Can Judge Bronson really be-
H,re this We say he cannot; because it stands in
direct antagonsm TO oil that statesmen economists,
have ever held and taught as unques-
tionable truth. If any body should tell Judge b. that
ait is evident that there would be just as many
sheep in this country if none were tolerated any
where else than in the State OF Delaware as Ii their
breeding and keeping unrestricted, he would at
once resent the proposition gross insult 70 his
outrage on common sense and he
knows Just as well that more slaves will be reared
and kept on Two Million square miles of area than
there were would be on Half Million, he knows
that there sheep in the Union than there
would have been had none been tolerated outside OF
the State of Delaware He does not deceive
himself by his impudent sophsm and he will not sue
ceed in deceving the People. Every one knows that
the opening Of territory to Slavery enhances the
price of slaves in old slave States by creating de-
A. T. Il. ,o.1
the current prices of slaves in Virginia fifteen
per cent. "Tte relation of supply to demand gov
erns prices as all men do know who know any thing
on the subject; and every of virgin soil thrown
open Slavery the demand for slaves ncreas
ing the inducemen to breed them and throwing OBJ
stacles in the way of ftheiremancipaton. Many man
who feels that he ought to emancipae, at least his
death.bed, is prevented by the consideration that
he will thus dyest his children of the more valuable
and sasble portion of their inheritance. John Ran
doph used to predict that the day at hand when
the masters would be obliged to away from their
slaves it has not simply because new territory
opened to Slavery faster than the old is exhausted
But Bronson proceeds to say of this dispersion OF
slaves over awider extent of territory, that "None
"can doubt that it would tend to improve rather than
"inure their condition. But Mr. Bronson, every
slave in the world does doubt t-nay, he positively
denies it, 1t is the perpetual terror of the slaves OF
the old Slave States that they shall be sold down
1.-the river to Louisiana, Texas or any of the new
Slave States. Their most paintive songs their con-
veratOns, their apprehensons by night and by day,
all refer to this terrible destiny Of being torn from the
scenes of their childhood and ali they hold dear and
exed to the swamps and cane brakes Of the far South
West. We feel sure that the agonies endured BY