Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-03
ADDRESS
Of a part Of he Democratic Delegation IN Con-
gress from the State Of NeW York.

We have been furnished by the gentlemen whose
names are signed to it with copy of the following
Address for publication:
To Our CONSTITUENTS Called by your SURFACES to per-
FORM for limited period the duties Of your Representa-
tives in the Congress Of the United States and holding
ourselves responsible to you for the proper discharge
those duties ask your attention. for brief space
the consideration of bill lately crowded through the
House in which have the honor to occupy seats
ganze separate Governments orhe Territories Of Kansas
and Nebraskaa measure of momentous interest to the
people of the whole country and involving
of transcendant Importance in the future.
This bill, originally reported to the Senate, varied
greatly from the bill it finally passed that body, and
differed in many essential particulars from the bill re-
ported by the Territorial Committee of House When
the Senate bill taken up in the House thought it
required careful examination TO ascertain the effect of its
complex and ambiguous provisions and therefore voted
refer il the Committee of the Whole the state of
the Union Circumstances of peculiar and extraordi-
nary character marked the progress the bill its way
the commttee and every subsequent step in its transit
through the committee and the final vote upon it in the
House all exhibit tyrannous exercise of power the
part of the majority and wanon violation of the rules
Of the House alike unprecedented in our National Le-
gislature.
1t is not our purpose to comment these things the
precedents recorded the Journal and future Con-
crosses will know how to apply them. Our business is
with the bill ITSELF and examination Of it will be linz
tied to observations its general scope and object
with especial and particular reference the annument
Of the 9th section of the act of March e. 1920 commonly
known as the Missouri compromise, and to the yindica
ton of the vote felt it duty to cast against its final
passage And in doing this not called upon to
cite do wish to arouse, any other feeling IN re-
gard to this than calm, candid and intel
tlgent consideration of it will necessarily create.
The Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska comprise all
that portion of the uhorganized territory acquired from
France under the of louisiana lying to the north
of the 37th parallel of latitude and embracing extent
OF country nine times larger than the State of New York
Kansas is the southery and of much less extent
than Nebraska. According to the report of the Commits
soner Of Indian Affairs presented to Congress with the
Presidents message, (Message and accompanying docu-
ments, VOL p 275 there were on the 18th Of Octo-
ber 1853 but three white persons besides those in Gov
employ in all this region There does not
be any great necessity for the organization OF
Territorial Government this time for these three
sons any others who have gone there since Mr. Many
pennys report made We have already hve organic
ed Territories of immense extent and every variety OF
climate, and millions of acres OF public lands within the
limits Of the States all open TO sale aud settlement ana
inviting the emgran whether Of native foreign birth,
and subdue their fertile soil to the and do
mnion of civilized men. Our public lands in quantities
too great for this generation exhaust be found
where slavery prevails and where it is prohibited and
in regions where the people have not settled 1t definitely
in either way The absence Of any necessity for the
ganzaton of Territories is objection to this bill
of great weight and moment
Another u.s. that the greater part of these extensive
countries is still owned, far their wandering and
vagant way of life be associated with ownership by
the red men, who have dwet there from all antiquity,
who have removed there from the of the Mississippi
under express guarantees from the Federal Government
that they should enjoy these lands in perpetuy and
disturbed But these lands it is said, cannot be taken
from the Indians without extingushng their title, and
that the bill contains ample provisions in this respect for
their protection. The bill does contain some provisions
seemingly OF such character, and will not argue
their effect. To exngush the Indian title is to extin
guish the Indian tribe and do feel ourselves called
upon to set in motion the machinery that is designed
eradicate them. On this ground, and the ground of
unnecessary expense, informed Messrs Bocock
Caski lam and her 0f rpinio lOpaa If
Tennessee Orr of South Carolina, Chastan of Georgia.
and Abercrombie, Cobb, Harris and Houston, of Ala
bama all OF whom voted for the bill on its passage through
this Congress voted against at the last Session Of Com
Senate.
Great expenses incurred by the Government the
organization of Territories and their future support
These expenses we consider sufficient drain the
sury at this time, without swelling their amount by the
large additions certain be made to them by the twin
Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska.
considerable amount Of patronage is created by this
bill for the benefit Of the President and his vorites and
observation of the mode which the President has
misused his power in this respect renders unwilling
to increase Executive patronage Besides Terrific
ries are demanded when is all that ought to be
proposed, and this objection to the bill thus acquires
double force
But these objections, potent believe them to be-
sink into nsignfcance when compared with the fatal
effects that may from the reopenng Of the slavery
agitation occasoned by the annument of the 9Th section
of the act of March g. 1920 prohibiting slavery or nvo-
funtary servude north of So 30 that is say in this
very identical country of Kansas and Nebraska Elected
as we upon the principles announced by the repre-
senatyes Of the Democratic party in convention
bed at Baltimore in June 1852 have endeavored to
make them the rule and the guide Of action Chief
in Importance among them the approval Of the great
measures Of pacifcaton adopted by Congress in 1885,
now universally recognised the compromise measures
which healed the deep wounds that had endangered the
safety and existence Of the Union The convention did
not limit itself to bare approval of the measures Of
1885, but in view Of the imminent crisis from which the
country had just emerged and amonished by the peris
from which had escaped it solemny announced that
the Democratic party would for the future resist all at
empts at renewing, in Congress of IT, the agta-
ton of the slavery question: under whatever shape
color the attempt might be made. The Democratic party
thus planted ITSELF firmly and for oil time the exist
ing legislation of the country the subject Of slavery
book written full and sealed up be reopened
and pledged itself against any renewal in Congress
out Of it, of the disturbing questions connected with that
possible be misunderstood. These important de-
Carnations were welcomed by the people with exraordi-
nary unanimy, and were ratified and approved at the
ensuing genera! election almost by reclamation TWAS
peneSed that peace and contentment were restored
throughout the land and the people, weared and
out with the excitement Of agitation hailed the inaugural
address OF the President elect with the highest admira
ton and delight.
Whilst the country in the enjoyment Of profound
quiet and peace and when the bonds Of fraterna regard
were drawn more closely between the different States and
sections OF the Union than had before been known
the President and his advisers in open disregard of the
obligations imposed him by this resolution Of the con-
yenton at which he nominated and of the promises
contained in his Inaugural Address and his first annual
Message suddenly threw alarm and apprehension into
the public mind by the announcement that the annul