Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-21

existence depended upon every word; ana VINO
spontaneously said, when the speaker WAS
through, 'it was n speech worth gong thou-
sand miles to hear ! cannot but penese tno
| North is TO be aroused as il has never been on
4 the aggressions of Slavery
! Indiana is beginning to be pervaded by tho
same spirit Of resistance to Slavery aggression
which il kindhng in her sister States cor
respondent writes M an account of a meeting
in Steuben county, Of from 1000 to 5000 per-
sons, to denounce the Fugitive Law. He
adds--'Our community was never aroused to
the same degree as now Tomorrow we hold
a meeting, in which, for the first time, many
Of our citizens will hear Of the attempt now on
foot to open Nebraska to Slavery. They will
all be with us, except some half dozen or So"
A citizen Of Western Virginia, writing to the
New York Evsaing Post, says that down in
g the wilderness Of Slavery, large proportion
Of the laboring WHITES live in abject poverty
and hopeless ignorance" They have not suf-
fcient intelligence to understand their own
interests. But in the border counties Of Della
ware Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Mis-
souri,, the non-slaveholders are very different
set of men.
Strong in numbers, prosperous IN circum-
stances, we'll il not highly educated, they
appreciate the dignity Of free and honest labor,
and are as much interested in the protection of
Nebraska from the blight of Slavery as their
brethren on the other side Of that mysterious
parallel Of latitude. Reared where they could
see at the same time the benefits Of Liberty and
the evils Of Slavery, they desire that when they
remove westward in search Of broader and
more fertile possessions, that the slaves Of no
neighboring proprietor may degrade that labor
by which they hope that themselves and their
children may live and thrive"
He adds 4, itfs
at is the most ridiculous nonsense, TO pretend
that GEN Pierce was elected in consequence Of
his devotion to Slavery. voted for him, as
voted for Mr. Van Bnren in 1910, for Mr.. Polk
in 1874, and for Gen. Cass in l848, because in
30 voting was voting against the Bank Of the
United States, against protective tariff, and
other measures Of the Wing party, being all
the time, as now. o radical H
JEFFERsoNIAN DEMOCRAT
The Defiance (O) Democra', an Administra-
ton paper, denounces the bill, let who will
sanction it. 1t remarks
MANY of our Democratic contemporaries
deem, it their duty to defend the BILL to apollo
gize for it's Objectionable features, and to ex-
plain it 80 that it may not seem 30 hideous-
simply because it is asserted that it is an Ad-
mnistration measure, and that President Pierce
lends it. countenance We don't believe the
President has had anything to do with this af
fair, neither one way or the other; but that it
is simply q bid by Mr.. Douglas for the support
of the South at the next Presidential election
And indeed, if the Administration were lend
ing it aid, and implicated in its conception. this
would not render it the less odious, nor palliate
in the least its enormities The insroduction of
Slavery into Kansas and Nebraska is no part
of any Democratic platform as adopted, or that
ever will be-. A party test Of this kiud will
never be made, and if it is, never will be SUBJ
mitted to-"
The Frsnton (O.) Spirit Of the Times an
other Administration print, is uncompromisng
in its opposition, and willing that parties should
be broken to pieces, rather than the bill should
pass. It says
aThe Washington Union which processes to
the Douglas bill, which abolishes the Missouri
Compromise line and says the Democratic
party is entirely pledged to this policy, and
that the Democratic Administration is pledged
to carry it out that fidelity to it will be regard.
ed by the Administration as o test of Demo
cratic orthodoxy, Surely this is q novel test
Of Democracy It is with the deepest NORTH
cation and sorrow that we make the above ex-
L.. kaI &c h. Il.
istration. We exerted all the energies of our
head or the Republic, on the full assurance
that he was man Of AePsopls.' The moment
this bill becomes law, all our land reform
ritory, become worthless for Slavery degrades
labor, and freemen who live by their work
will not, except by the direst necessity, permit
themselves to be yoked together with negro
slaves in the Same pursuits.
-
"The present project is in violation Of COM
pact made in good faith and before the masses
will permit Nebraska to be transferred to the
domination Of the Slave Power, there will be
q fierce and mighty struggle in the land--s
struggle that will rend into fragments the
present political organizations and reconstruct
pbfties aneW hmonB OUT Exchanges We no
tice extracts from more than thirty leading
Democratic papers, denouncing in terms Of
terrible severity this perfdious scheme Of ini-
guilty, which the Washington Union says is
the test Of Democratic orthodoxy Verify
there will be other tests Of Democracy moor
porated into the Democratic creed, by which
public men will be tried The old cry Of dan
ger to the Union can no longer be held up as
a spectre with which to frghten men from the
paths Of Justice
The question is entering into the political
concerns in Missouri General Thomas l..
Price, the Benton candidate for Congress from
the fifth district, authorizes the jefferson In
quirsr to state, that he is in favor of the inn.
mediate organization Of Nebraska, opposed to
the repeal Of The Missouri Compronie, and in
favor Of the admission Of Nebraska into the
Union as State, with or without Slavery, as
the People may determine, when they come to
form State Constitution.
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