The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-06-08
For the National Era.
Tds NEBRASKA BILL-Eo. 3.

aa. DOUGLASS LITTER TO Mr.. BURKE HIS
DENIAL THAT He PROPOSES TO REVIVE AND
atE-TaBLGSu SLAvERY-INDIAN WRONGS
i,r. Douglas, the Ostensible author cf the
.It igt, il an rightly informed, the Ostensi-
ne oniJ-tla scheme having, in fact, had
tsh;Ee; Cr5ir-has likewise written a letter.
."'re daI,Es and at the same time moro dis
ee.t ilan MS compser, he eschews argument,
+-l aHas only in bold assertion and angry de-
H1-c'4,oa.
Ne alarms that il is a malicious falsehood
1'a' re proposes 10 carry slavery into the Ter
f..'s- th4!, - Ear from that the bill declares,
.l- indeed i IS . part of the record that is
e,'' no' toaca davery at all legislatcs it nei-
--"' ID Hoc 1Gt: but proposes simply to estab
i- "a he Territories " the great fundamental
it.cF.a q Democracy and free institutions,
'-'' LES At the basis of our creed" aud
3l'-S Csc IcJpls with the great, sacred, fun
49,. s'',i right Of prescribing their OWL insti-
'-'2s lie even ay0ws thGt to establish sla-
's'g Youid be {: violation Of the Constitution,
"''1 q rs oath and fix the brand of infamyo
'i1n ms brow. He dcnounces, as a falsifer
" ."e "5o'd" and "a Calumuiator," an old
4 :, distinguished Democratic leader in New
ai'!Nhrc. ior saying-aud declares that every
Sa ought to be branded with those names,
~, @,'' Shah Care to say-thet the effect of the
'Ht NIL he p revive and re-cstablish slavery: -
la be applies in this letter as he did 10 the
en4'e to all such statements, the epithets,
'.~'l ialseho0d," wicked and unpardon-
ABLE SANDER
Ae ieoPle Of the United States, from an
',a.7!y period, have had laws to protect the To-
'.'S against unlicensed traders. intrusions
'.'a heir land7, and the innumerable frauds
'-D INJURIES to which they would be constantly
.A'"sed if The intercourse Of whites with them
"'ie not limited and regulated by law. Sup
t 49, mar an act organizing Territory should
-! these humane and salutary restraints,
N"l.'a not a flock of caitiffs gather, with the
,"'''Hct OF yultures, and pounce upon these
l'2f and abused pooplea
- Is TACT, too notorious, that there exists,
'''1 Always has existed, in this wide country, a
numerous class Of persons, the reproach of one
''y5 and the scourge of the other, who have
,"@te Tue Aborigines their prey, wherever they
,iu gam access to them = cheating, rob
81. Ing oenoraSzing, and destroying them with
-. pay These have been the representatives,
80 VnjLequeRtiy cl0thed an official robes by
a. roai CHRISTIAN civilization has approached
- supple and unsuspecting children Of nature,
s.c Oeee proud, happy, and, for their own
10y TOO Negotiable proprietors of this CONT
.ien' These are the men who consummste
~, tie WORK OF fraud by summoning to their aid
, ne arm Of force, and completing by war the
under and ruin which they commence in
4, l Lelieve it to be a weil-authenticated fact
Ia When other means of provoking confiic
Lsse laied, they have disguised themselves q
lIuiahS and murdered whole families of whit
tiers; and then, having washed the pain
On Their faces and the blood from thei
l n.udS' have FASTENED to arouse the neares
0'''ieiheht and the nearest garrison to ven