The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1854-05-12
The pr Obable passage of the Nebraska
Bill.

It is quite apparent from tho proceedings
of the House of Representatives ut Wash
ington, on Monday and Tuesday, that there
is great danger that the gigantic Nebraska
swindle will succeed. The friends of this
most monstrous wrong ever Matched in the
prolific brains Of presidential aspirants, and
slavery mongers, seem to have been success
full in the preliminary stages Of legislative
action, by majoritics sufficiently large to show
the probability Of the passage of the bill, ut
an early period. We have from the com
menccment, been apprchcnsive that the bill
would be passed; and tho solemn compact
of 1920 be abrogated. We have seen the
official organs of the administration prom
sing, in the name Of the powers that be-
official protection 70 those who should dare
TO brave the known will Of their constitucn.
cy. Administration appliance aud admins
tration coercions have been busy since the
vcrdicts passed by the people ofNcw Hamp'
shire, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and
we may say our State, and the conspirators
have rallied from the effects Of those stag
ceriug blows. We are told that enough
members have changed sides to pass the
bill. and it is probably true. A short.
lived triumph apparently awaits the con-
spiraiors against the peace of the nation
and the eternal principles Of liberty but it
will DO shortlived, il gained; victory
gained at the expense of the nations faith,
and by the breaking down of the barriers
which guard the portals of freedom, will
turn to dust and ashes. The bill passed, re.
pealing the Missouri Compromise, which
has prevented the northward march Of slay.
cry for thirty years, and the rcpulsivo cur.
rem. of slavery and freedom will meet with
force Of opposition never before known
There will be no further talk Of compromis.
es-no listening to seductive appeals, to al
lay agitation, for the purpose of national
harmony and brotherhood. The spirit oil
slavery, in its eagerness to grasp oil, has
forgotten compacts, and hereafter there will
be no mercy shown it when the principles Of
freedom triumph, as they ultimately must.
Agitation has not come from the free North
-Abolitionis,s have not sprung this meas.
urc upon the people-slavcry discussion has
not been asked into the Halls Of Congress
by northern constiiuency,-but it comes
from tho shareholders themselves, when The
country was quiet, when agitation was hush
ed, and the people were lulled into security,
aud reposing with perfect confidence in the
thought that the slave questions wero set.
tied, then the slave propagandists camo in
with their bills to give the slave power addi-
tional power and strength-and to rob Tree
men Of portion Of their long respected
rights.
The passage OF the Nebraska bill, will be
but the commencement Of an agitation, such
as has never before taken place in this coun.
try. The cry Of repeal will DO laised-and
will not DO hushed when the particular evil
which called it forth is rightcd. The South
having invaded the sauctity Of compacts,
the provisions of tho laws which have guard.
ed their chattcl property. will DO swept
away and slavery being left. as it will be,.to
the poor protection of tho laws Of the States
in which it exists, will s,agger and 60 down
under the recoil Of the blow which 1t now
essays to give for strengthening and perpet-
uatiug it.