The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-31


name Of religion and humanity against the two-fold
crime. The people everywhere in meetings, with
out regard to party and under the lead OF
BILE and trusted vent to their feelings in whose
revefberatng thunder might have shaken the capitol.
storm The popular sovereignty was deied. The peo-
PIES protest was UNDECIDED their resolves unread their
senators on presenting them insulted and their
! solemn warnings were laughed 10 scorn.
The slavery extensionists knew we'll the stake for
which they layed-they knew well that II the cul-
minating point Of series of triumphs the free
States accomplished during fifty years and that its
Iremney in the Territories, from which it had been
making America great slave empire and verifying the
threat uttered BY Wise of Virginia, that slavery would
pour itself out without restraint, and find limit but
The Nebraska bill passed the Senate At midnight amid
oshs and drunken insoence that august
chamber and later passed In the House by viola
tcn of its rules auacious that In ordinary II
would Of itself have alarmed the country But connect
little attention. contempt for the laws of the body
Mat natural adjunct to great outrage the laws Of
tic icr ctIation Of national fraud upon the betraya
o. their countrys faith and their honor, should
SIP o the outward OF gentle
mn and extend the perjury Of the act to the very
M II its consumniation.
With The passage Of the bin sAst removed the land
iaik Of freedom and opened Yie Western terrific
les to the Of slavery It was supposed by some
thr the popular storm would be lulled and that the
North would former occasions of lesser moment,
grumbngy but surely acquiesce AAk
They judged Of The resm'sn Of the North by IT, serve
representatives, st Washington and naturally enough
SUPPOSED that The individuals whom by tusns on the
the CnpitoI they buled and bribed usuItei and
csoled were sent tAher by constituency equally des-
ti,ute of conscience and Of backbone.
They ie!catei with scorn the declaration once
reproachiully made Ny the New England statesman
"Thcy threaten us,n said the Charleston Mercury
with great Northern party. II they were nos
that every offers himself instead Of other
modify for SALE should surmse they might do what
They win buser and utter world of sefgloriacaton
and end by Knocking themselves under to the highest
bidder"
II WAS mistaken reading of the times The North Is
not the that the South believed The spirit of
fathers is not extinct-ther resistance to tyranny
is not forgotten-their contempt for meanness and
great indignty may deveope to their fullest extent
that long have slumbercd. 1t is recorded of
Fgles Samian wrestler, who born dumb, that
unlawful measures pursued in contest that would
deprive him of his prize he had justly earned his indig
nation gave him a sudden the power of utterance
which had been denied him from his birth, and he ever
aft M spoke with t ease The parallel y hold good
forth with quiet confidence, will declare its principles
and pronounce its will Its resentment slow to kin
die and it will be slower to abate
The fall elections recording its sober second
thought From Maine to Iowa, despite the struggling
resistance Of desperate administration the Nebraska
perfdy is repudated by an indignant people.
This result vindcates not only the manly spirit but
the intelligence of fellow citizens who refuse to be
deuded for by the empty sophistries regard
10 the principle Of the b with which their understand
nes were insulted at the moment their liberties be-
tIayed
They have learned from the fathers Of the republic
their rights territories purchased by
their treasures and subject to their control They have
been taught by the trainers Of the ordinance Of e7 the
responsibility resting upon them in the protection and
gusrdanshp III their infant and dependent territories
until tey organized into independent and sovereign
States They will not consent to such violation Of this
sacred trust bounden duty as the rcnausmcnt Of
that guardian nhp the rights, desnies and happi
ness of untold mii"ns until is resigned to the people
The citizens Of the free states have in times past acted
in many things weakly and creduously-hey have fool
isy given crrdence to the threat ~ disunion repeated
1 nv sas ftpu bahi have
trusted--and for this none should tame them-to the
good faith Of the South: But their weakness aud crcdu
y ut end and least of a at this time will they
forget the lessons OF Washington, Jefferson, and Madison
t. gather instruction in regard to popular instruction
in regard to popular sovereignty from Douglas from
Pierce
We need not dwell longer upon the character Of the
Nebraska bill. Its unexamped bad fatl-the falsehood
1t contains that the Missouri compromise defeated
by the compromise act of 1850 while the Texan bill
pressly rearmed and reappled the principle Of the pro-
hibon Of slavery north Of 50 so-the shallow pretenee
that recognized the sovereignty OF the people Of the
, While vested the appointment 81 their 3 GOV t"
President and Senate and refused to recognise the
validity of any law passed by their Legislature unless
first approved by Congress- and various other qubbes
equally contemplate have been thoroughly exploded
that their repetition Of late BY exrspectable states
men, exctes feeling chiefly Of pitiful commseraton.
The obnoxious clause of the BILL far
from being entitled to respect as law in violation Of
saturated with fraud and bears the impress Of untruth
The true issue is before you-economicay the policy
Of the slave power to deprecate the value Of labor
by multiplying laborers to whom wages to be
paid while your policy is to heighten the value Of
labor by allowing in your Territories, no laborers
fair days work. Politically, the slave power aims to
rule the country by saveholdng oligarchy-to extend
their property representation through western
panse-to sway with despoc rule the general govern
ment and devote its energies and TO the con-
version Of the western continent into slave empire
Already efforts being made by Virginia to the
decision Of superior court in the Lennon case
that slaves may be brought into the free states-and
New York be made port Of departure for the slave
kets Of the Southland southern States seeking
reopen the African slave trade to supply wreched la
borers the cultivation only of Texas New Mcxi
co and South California but also they hope Kansas
in place Of the free hands and stout hearts, whom God
helping u.s. x never permit m ahas so coms.craea IT,. 20
| abiect submission Of slave.
Morally the aim Of the slave power tends to the
vaion the extnguishment Of true liberty to the degra
dation Of and the dethronement Of God; and
if it were possible their end should succeed,
western star Of freedom which the hopes of the
world resting, would set in a midnight Of despair.
Touching the manner in which, at the approaching
the present state Of things it clear that both branches
Of the old democratic party have deserted their ancient
faith and joined themselves to the sectional coalition
which aims at the triumph of slavery over the costitu
and the practice Of their great leader Jefferson the one
swears by Pierce, and the other by Douglas
OF the whig party such, nothing Is to be expected.
Although their present State candidates have to some
extent acquired public confidence by their recognition of
again to be renstated for mutual confidence between
its sections !, gone forever In fact for years their
WIDER despite compromise Platforms and all the cheate-
ry Of resolutions Intended to mean anything or moth
ing II Is clear that the free democracy Of the NORTH
the who intend to repel the aggressons OF the slave
power and restore the national to its org
nal position the side of freedom have nothing to hope
from the whig party from any party that seeks to
concate and fraternze with the slavery extensonts
and regulators OF the South. Henccforth, there will
be- in fact but two great national parties-he party Of
faith and freedom, and the party Of reputation and
slavery The latter Is fully organized and the Southern
wings with one or two noble exceptions, have cordially
joined II.
The former is now rapidly organising at the North.
OF the Saratoga and Auburn conventions, which 1t
fondy hoped would unite the people Of this State under
the broad banner Of faith and Freedom only
speak with regret. We trusted that generous enthus
ssm in this common cause would supersede all desire
for the personal political advancement Of any Of
men. And while there was very much to commend in
the spirit and resolves of those conventions
strained to declare that highest hopes gnaly
disappointed In the omission to nominate State ticket