The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-06-29
WASHINGTON, ID. C.
I or Inc y dIlOu4I LId-
THE NEBRASKA BILL-Eo. 5.
WILL SLAVERY, IF PERMITTED, co INTO Ne
BRAsKAt

ators Of Massachusetts, to push aside the oues-
ton Of right. and 90 blunt the sensbility with
which we ought to see principle aud compact
PROSTATE and r2mpled On. As an argument
Tor the bill, all that has been said on this
point even il We admit the false premises
amounts 70 this, aud no more that there was
no gait or harm in Arnold's treason, since the
country was not thereby enslaved
In answer to this question have observe, in
tie fret :iacc that 50 deep and universal an
interest would not 90 feit in the South con-
corning tie organization of Territories in the
North, II they aid not expect that the opening
Of them TO the iaflux of slavery would siren 9Th
en- the slave pOwer,p enlarge the slave mar
ket, give new impetus to the domestic slave
trade, and enhance more or less tho price Of
slave-, and Of course the value Of slave proper
t. throughout that country The advocates Of
the bill, and particularly the Southern, say
thas they do not expect slavery to 90 into Ne
bTasks; that they do not seek to introduce II,
but simply TO assert the principle of tho Com
promise Of 1850. They go for principle, not
Tor profit The effroDtery Of this rretence, con-
fidering the high Intelligence of our people, is
one Of the most striking circumstances of the
ea5c. u indicates confidence in the omnipo-
tenco Of +" the slave pOwer,o and in the eff .acy
Of i'm Fudont and transparent inn 0stuIe which
coniGses the seIss aud moIneatarily stupefes
tho faculties, ike the quaking Of the earth un-
der cur feet Il the object was merely to gen.
eTalize the theory Of the Compromise of $780,
why was there no attempt to apply it to the
Washington Territory That would have
been comparatively easy, as no compact stood
IN tie way. It would have been repeal of
al ordinary law That Territory was organ
ICED nearly three years after the Compromise
Of 1850, and the Oregon anti slavery reStric-
ton, extended over It ia LAS, remained IN
questioned. Ia fact the new Territory came
into bang 50 silently that the country was
scarcely aware e Is oxis ,snce until the APP
rointmeut u its Governor was announced.
Either il had not been discovered at that time
that tie Compromise of 1850 had any suoh
bearing Is 10 now pretended or it was thought
thai 81 .ye-bIeeders world stand little chance of
finding Inaca OF = market in the remote north
sgeys c5Tu5r. Either fact Is fatal 70 the pres
eat p-ctence.
They DO expect slavery to go into Nebraska,
and there, if permitted it will 60 as surely as
night viii follow day. Cut the ievee, and cof
f5s Of slaves viii turn into this fac Territory,
Just az certainly as the waters of the Mississip-
pi would torn upon the city Of New Orleans
Missouri Is q slave State; al know that
and by what promises ADD pledges she became
80. She hzs nov from 90 600 20 100 600 slaves
Nebraska to q vast extent lies within the same
parallels of latitude, and consists Of wide and
nearly level prairies, quite well adapted to
slave labor as Missouri. Viewing the matter in
the light Of experience, how can any one doubt
thst slavery Will t)w Immediately into the con-
tigu0as Territory, if the levee is demolished
VIII not the inhabitants move 1CeStWGyd with
the ID )yemeut Of the tide And viii not slaves
ss well az masters Fiat on its currents? Ten
years ago, MiesourisE* informed me that be
and scores 0f his neighbJIs had removed 70 far
distant o egon and Northern California agiih
utetT il0es though, "a is veil known, il was
very doUbstul ii they would be permitted ulJi-
ma:ely u Eulj them there. lt Is stated that
large numbers IN Missouri are now awaiting
the signal % rush into Nebraska. Doubtless the
same, to a certain extent is true of Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, and Mary
land Three-fiths Of the territory Of these States
lies IN the same lasi,udes as Missouri and Ne
braska VIZ: all Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky,
and portion Of North Carolina and Tennessee
as large as Connecticut At this moment there
are million Of slaves on American soil situa-
ed in the same latitude as Nebraska, and IN
ferioF to both in extent and fertility. Aud
Jet not one Of the masters Of this million Will
carry or send slaves to Nebraska
fdr;her, tie States which occupy this sec
ton CT the South have bred most Of the slaves
which supply al the rest 1t is too notorious,
that Slavery may be sustained indefinitely in
Turning States, by the business of breeding
slaves tor the planting States. There is an
enormous, but it is SAID, a wise and economical
expenditure OF human life on Southern plants-
tons. This, together with the opening of new
estates creates y great and steady demand,
which thc farming States supply. "The UigfI-
tIGt + crGp, Tor interstate slave trade and eX
portaton, Jsses the place Of corn and swine
IL Il estimated that a slave before he Is twenty
years Oh, can earn, even On soil compare
lively exhausted, suif ;ient To pay his raising;
aud when he Is fis Tor market ne can transport
himself, and Is sJleable at his masters door.
The raising and iatjening Of other animals is
dead expense, from the first moment UP to
the delivery ID TO market The difference
between the human and the brute animal as
mere marketable commodity, is as striking
~ any O;ler dItteTencC between them; and it
Is re.Aer surprising that this obvious reflection
has rot long ago d,sabused every human fesh
J5h5or Of re Wild notion Of their identity.
fha result as, that the price Of a s!GUe is clear
profit!
According 70 data furnished by the last
census, the annual amount of income received
by the farmers OF Maryland, Virginia, and Ken
tucsy, from iG,s business, Is $4,000 600. In
tbs calculation, add nothing for the stimulus
70 multiplication, which is generally applied IN
tae breeding States, and, it is said, with power
iGl eE-cs. | 60 nOb refer specifically TO North
auo South Carolina, and Georgia, because they
Lee Tor the most part further south than Ne
brasGa; but every one who has examined and
compared tho ceu9uses OF the United States,
knows that al the original slave States are,
and have been from tSouty to fifty years, slave
bleeding, exporting States Should Cuba and
the valleys q the AmEzon and It's tributaries
be opened to the American slave trade there
VIII b. demand for the vgiDtial" produc5,
quite beyond cur present capacity to supply.
AZ az events, there viii be room for the most
active mDcd0- n.
Some, who look neither backward nor for
ward and conc, who are wiifully blind, may
deny tha- thee vast schemes are 10 be realiZso
o. In&r they axe thought O. To such viii
simply say, that 81! tAs ingenuity energy, au-
d2eicy, an4 corruption Of the slave power
isre cuHCcn rated - this moment on these very
l5oe5-s. The President Of the United States,
ineaaclng With sword in MS right hand, and
s5docng ~i,h bags OF gold in his left may do
Inuca with 4. generate and needy Spaniards and
Portuguese. llstead Of d" Give me your money,
az viii take your .fe, !" lie robbers formula,
- established by the authority of this Govern
nent Is, : lake ny money, and give me your
land, o. l il take bcth your land and your hfe."
The world has had so experience of this method
until our tine; and it is impossible TO caleu-
late where is viii end Oae thino. however il
pretty ceTtsin: If the Nebraska yillanv snc-
Deeds, it viii be settled at least for ffsy yesrs
that the slave power Is not to be arrested. or
at least essentially checked, In its career. nv
any force numerical or moral, within these
states calling themselves free Ii was IRE.
dicted, twenty years ago, thas if it ggt Texas.
il would not stop till it reached Brazil; AID il
- rdvv doulsfaf e IL Vould sion there