The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-17
TIE NEBRASKA BILL.

THE NEBRASKA BILL. 7
We give place to-day the to spirited address
of some of the Northern members of Con- =
gress,against the pending bill to organize the
territory of Nebraska. We publish this I'D
dress because we deem it a question of the
most vital importance--a question in which
is involved that dearest of all questions--Na.
tional Honor. ,..- ..
In 1920 when Missouri made application
to the Federal Legislature for admission into
the Confederacy some of the provisions of her
Organic law were thought incompatible with
the Constitution of United States. Upon the
question of her admission with those obnox-
ious clauses in her Constitution, there arose
a stormy debate, and the contagion OF ex-
citement spread from Congress halls to the |
remotest parts of the country. The Union
was really in danger When this excitement
was at its height Congress adjourned, and the
question was still unsettled. Before the
next session, the country was all on fire
with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS meetings were
the order of the day, and at the next session
of Congress, the resolutions from these meet
ings came in thick and fast. Imbued with
sense of the great danger to our Republic, a
Compromise was settled on, known as the
'Mssour; Compromises; one ofthe provisions of
, which was that Slavery should be forever ex-
rulpd fr0m that of ha l,o
as the Louisiana purchase, lying North of
, 36 deg. 80 min. north latitude. Senator
Douglass Bill seeks to violate that Compro-
mise. Its validity has been recognized for
the last thirty years, and more, and yet the
South, headed by "lttle giant" seeks to
prove that this Compromise was unconstit u
d tional and wishes to set it aside ,and bring in
If this vast tract of land as slave Territory.
Mr. Douglass, it will be remembered, was
J J a candidate before the Democratic nominal.
ing Convention of 1852. No doubt he still
considers that the interests of this great Re.
1t public demand that he should offer himself as
u a candidate for the Presidency in 1856. De-
votion to the South, and the protection o
;. the interests of Slavery s GEMS to be tht
d road he has chosen to Presid etal honors, ant
four years residence in the White House
He will find, we venture to predict, that the
y course he has selected ais a hard road t,
travel"
I. The Democratic Convention of 1859 re
II cognized the Compromise measures Of 1885,
J. as a afaality--these Compromise measures re
cognize the ccnsttu,ionality, and perfec
: validity of the "Missour Compromise" ye
e with their VOW of allegiance to the platform
there adopted, yet warm upon their lips, thest
~ Senators endeavor to trample upon its pro
:, visions. There is point beyond which "for
bearance ceases to be virtue"--let thes
- persons who are heaping contumely, and in
" suit upon the heads of Northern men an
u measures pause ere they pass that point.
:. is not the SO called Abolitonists alone, VIII
le will resist this aggression. Southern mel
are wont to cry AboLifioniSl, to any one VIII
. dares say ausht against them. We can in
D. form them that this Nebraska g. Kansas bi
will be opposed not only by the Abolition
W party "of the North, but by all good and tru
a republicans who are jealous of least departur
Is from any act of faith or national honor
Besides the Liberty party in the north ther
,s is class of men-intelligent men-wh
# will resist to- the last extremity any dispos
tion on the part of our Federal Legislature
:, or the Executive of the nation, to disregar
=. contracts, or violate Compromises. In speak
= ing Of the North and her institutions, lie
l., them make this proper discrimination, els
'e they may find out when too late,. that tn
e North is not willing to submit to everythin!
'' from Slaveocracy.
:, E-"lSFERNAL AGITATION" quoth tn,