Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-07-20
Repeal.

The opposition having mounted the hobby of
repeal of the Nebraska bill, every exertion is
made TO keep up the excitement on the qnes-
ton. The bill cannot be repealed, and they
know it. It passed the Senate by vote Of IS
to l3 votes, and if erery northern senator to be
elected in three gears, should be in favor of re-
peal, then there would not be majority against
it in that body. BY tina, time THE PEOPLE of
Nebraska and Kansas will have settled the
question of slavery in those territories.
But there is another object in this cry of
repeal They use il to divide and conquer
the democratic party and rise TO power OIL lis
ruins. That is the game, and democrats hon
estly opposed to the Nebraska bill are beginning
10 understand it. The N. H. Patriot, in an
able article on this subject, states the following
facts which every democrat should read and
ponder;
This CRY Of repeal is therefore senseless,
and the scheme is mpracticable and visionary,
so far as the pretended object is concerned.
But this only makes it the more apparent that
the pretended object is not The real one. The
real object is to keep up the slavery agitation
to prevent the acqniescence of the honest OPP
ponen,s of The measure and To induce them to
| oin the whiy and abolition agitators in their
efforts to use this question for the overthrow of
the Democratic party. This is so plain that
none can mistake it or be deceived by it. And
| il is no new game. This senseless cry of re-
| peal has often been raised by the opposition
when important measures which they opposed
have passed especially where the slavery
question could be used in connection with II.
| When Texas was annexed, this imp0ent cry
Of repeal was started by the wings and abo-
| misunderstanding then, as now, IN Boston.
| The wings of Massachusetts had resolved III
convention that If Icrds came into the Union,
Massachusetts ,0ould go ont. But when Texas
did come in, they did not deem it advisable to
attempt To carry their reasonable design into
execution. Instead of SO doing, those blatant
towards, who are ever brave 10 words but
ven in deeds, conteped themselves with raising
this useless cry of repeal THE Atlas de-
claring that this cry should reyerberate through
the North unit, Texas was driven from the
| Union. The cry ,caS raised by many factiOus
presses and agiia,ors, but At met no response
from the people, and n tcds soon heard OF no
more
| So again in 1850, these same uneasy dema-
gogues raised the cry Of repeal upon The
passage of the Compromise Measures, and
even raised mobs in Boston, as they have now,
to prevent the execution of the fugitive slave
law. But their reasonable advice met with
liue favor; their cry Of repeal was not
responded to by the people their invocatiOns
to violence and bloodshed in resistance to law
were unheeeded or sernly rebuked, and the
proposition to repeal that law receiued but four
rotes an the u. S. Senate.
And SO it will be now. The country will
turn deaf ear to the appeals Of faciionists who
counsel the continued agitation Of the slavery
question for their own personal and partisan
purposes. This talk about the repeal of the
Nebraska law is The talk of uneasy factionisis,
of reckless parisans and schemlng demagOgues,
designed solely to advance the interests of the
factions opposed TO the Democracy; aud no
man who has any desire for the continued sue
cess of the Democratic party will give it the
least cOuntenance, as no man of intelligence can
be deceived or misIed by it. The Nebraska
bill is now the law of the land, and its repeal
or modification in the feature referred to, can
not be effected or aided by any course that may
be pursued by the people Of this state and all
those who desire the peace and harmony of the
country will cheerfully acquiesce in the law
and give cOuntenance to the attempt of the
whig and abolition factions to keep up the agi-
ta,ion Of the subject in the hope of thereby over
throwing the Democratic party.