Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-03-15
NEBRASKA BILL.


and merited pli1n emf to Judge Doug
las; Who administered most soathing castigation to
Seward Ghas & Co. We think the Editor Of the
Register have if be had been pres
ent to witness the excoriation inflicted on his COM
peers in abuse of Judge Dougas 49,
~ The C1osING ScESE AND sTRIUsPHANr YorE on
THE NEBRAszA BILL IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE
If the whole american people could have witnessed
the grand scene which took place in the American
Senate on thelast Friday night and Saturday morn
ing, during the final debate on the Nebraska and
Kansas bill, the result would have been profitable
in all respects Not alone would the national sentl
ment have been enlightened and settled upon the
measure then discussed and decided, but the patrl-
otto and intelligent verdict of the country would have
been enthusiastically pronounced in favor of the bold
and able men who represent upon the floor of the
Senate the opinions of our American Masses And
not only this the exposure of the duplcity the ef-
Tontery, the treachery the Inconsistency, the de-
ceit and the amazing absence of all high and homo
rable purpose the part of the abolition leaders,
was so conclusive and complete, that thousands
would have thanked God they had never followed
the counsels of such agitators would have prompt
ly cut themselves loose from the pestiential assoca-
ton. F.--4s,z
The debate commenced about one o'clock on FIJI
day afternoon and terminated at vesoclock ON Sat.
urday morning-the senators in favor OF the pln
having resolved to exhaust the question and to take
the vote before they adjourned. Able and powerful
speeches made on both sides; but for the even
ing, or rather morning session, was reserved the
scene of chief and absorbing interest. We cannot
notice at length all that was sad-that we leave to
the full and authentic reports of the faithful congress
sional journal. Senator Norris made speech OF
GRANITE and in this he nobly and fifty followed the
example of the stern and rock-seated democracy OF
New Hampshire and our own firm and true-hearted
President He spoke about two hours and aston
shed his bearers by the boldness, the sagacty the
originality of his views. Hes of those northern
men who frequently remind the people of the free
States that Mason and Dixons line is not the boun-
Diary between friends and foes &natical dema-
gogues would have the nation believe. And he Will
be sustained by his people. Mark the prophecy
The speech of Senator Toucey, Of Connecticut, IN
favor of the bill, worthy of that calm, accom-
plished, and intrepid statesman. There was no
mincing blinking of the issueno cold or hesltat-
ing support-but a searching and well-considered
review of the whole question, and manly and Dig
nified avowal of sentiments that elected applause
from all quarters How healthy his fearless and
fraternal argument contrasts with the violent and
imbittQred attack of his colleague, Senator Smith,
upon the bll-an attack based, too upon the avowed
conviction that the idea of popular sovereignty IN
the Territories farce!
William Pitt Fessenden, the senator from
Maine, followed MI Toucey in rank abolition
speech. Mr.. Fessenden is one of the illegitimate
fruits of democratic dicison-one of the results of
the Maine iquor-law paroxysm; and we heartily
wished, during his long and virulent assault upon
the territorial BILL that the democrats who had con-
trbuted to his election could have been present TO
hear him. 1t would have been a good remedy a
ganst future dssensions among our brethren OF
Maine. We cannot say that the new Senator from
that State is equal to the proud name to which his
has been added, in order to remind postsrty OF
England's great statesman; and would advise
him that the William Pitt of old among the first
eectriy the world in favor of that very doctrine
of popular soveregnty-or rather of representation
and electromagnetic which his namcsake now rails
his most feeble voice. Colonel Weller, the gal
liant gentleman from California, in speech of rare
eloquence and force, took occasion to remind the
Senate of the absurdty of the position of the senator
from Maine and with such effect that the galleries
and the grave senators Joined in rapturouS burst
of applause. While yindcating the right of the peo-
pie to conduct and control their affairs and the
necessity of fair and equal treatment of the States
of the South he made allusion to California sin
gularly opposite and thrilling. She was the off
spring of popular sovereignty. Like fair diadem
ing the noble and sublime column of the older
States she shines star to all the nations, and vim
dictates, in her brilliant emnence before mankind,
the glorious principle from which our Union rose,
and upon which, upon enduring life, that Union
is based Thanks to the brave Senator for mis-
ly and wcll-merited rebukc of bad doctrines.
Senator Douglas followed in the greatest speech of
his life. He spoke for more than three hours in re-
ply to the adversaries of his bill. No slept
while he spoke. He took his opponents up one by
one, answering every objection with skill and an
effect before which they could make no head. Even
those who had observed and appreciated the intellect
of the senator from Illinois on other occasions were
surprised at his exhibition of logic and genius on
Saturday morning. We nave Valniy enueaVoreu to
recall the numerous striking points Of speech so
useful in its facts and in its figures and inspiring
in its vigorous and surprising eioquence. One of
his retorts upon the abotonists will long be remem
bercd. Abiding to their poor special plea that the
Missouri Compromise compact, he said it was
no compact He defended the North against the al
legation which, if true, would deeply dishenor her.
III were a compact she had violated it-nuihed 1t
-rampled it in the dust and to say that, to in
suit and degrade her. especially if now she could be
seduced into demanding others to respect what she
had never regarded herself Turning to Mr.. Sc
ward, he said what did the State of New York, in
treating of this so-called and falsely socalled COM
pact, which now, by her wing Legislature, (another
result ofdemocratic divsions) she appeals to us to
guard and to save? For years yes, for more than
thirty years-she has sent men here to disregard it.
1t was no compact; for when the Missouri Compro-
mise of 1920 became a law, it provided that when
Missouri was admitted into the Union she should be
admitted as q slave State; and eleven months after
that-chie3y because she had slavery IN her constr
tution-New York refused to vote for her admission
and disregarded the law, OF the bargain or what
was then a sort of compact! Mr.. Seward attempted
to answer this powerful point; but he took his scat
abashed and confused Turning next to the trio OF
abolition senator's, he spoke to them, and OF their
unholy plots and their appeals to violence, and the
demonstrations against himself, with defiant and
scorchine eloauence that cannot be reported. They
quailed before his and whitening rebukes. 70
Senator Sumner he sad alluding to the infamous at
tempt re Gently made to insult him in that city, That
Boston. which closed Faneuil Hall to the immortal
Webster for daring defy her preudices against the
South and turned him into the streets to vndcate him.
self and convince her-had also outragedhim-not
through her masses, but through the Vaccinations
of men sent here by corrupt and dishonorable COM
bipations: men who affect the airs and graces of
aspire to literary charlottesville
thew coolly plot their countrys ruin. am honored
by the persecution and violence of such men, His
illusions to another abolition leader almost lead us
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