Daily national era., 1854-03-08
ts we shall mot believe i, TIL the votes are

itf We shall not believe it till the votes are
recorded.
Meantime, desperate exertions are made 70
influence the deliberations OF members o. Con-
gress. aThe organ" AS we have seen, pro-
claims special protection and favor from the
President to every Representative who may IN
cur the displeasure Of his constituents by sup
porting the Bill Three Daily papers here
studionsly misrepresent public opinion al tho
North, and disparage all Northern demonstra-
tions against the Bill Demagogues from the
free States, living on the patronage OF the Ad-
ministraton, are prowIing in the parl'eas ot
the Capital, and hesieging members IN their
rooms, filing their ears with lying reports OF
the condition Of public sentiment at homo,
Wo know busybody from Ohio oncc tre-
mendous Free. Soiler, now a mail agent, who
lately volunteered or was commissioned TO act
az a medium Of communication between the
President and certain members OF the Ohio
delegation
Throughout the country every ofhce-holder
or ofice-seeker is expected 70 do duty. Coun-
ter meetings and counter m'niiostoes must be
got up. 1t would bo strange indeed, wore pat
ronage unable 10 manufacture little Pnbiic
Sentiment. AT Columbus, Ohio, for example,
Col. MEDARy, whose letter endorsing the Blliior
the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise de-
stroyed his prospects as candidate ior tne
United States Senate, together with other IN
terested supporters Of the Bill, got mp meet
ing in its favor. 1t was called, not ~ q Con-
yention Of the Democracy, but ~ a meeting OF
the friends of the Bill, and yet tho papers here,
following the course Of tho Ohio statesman, rep
resented il, as Gan enthusiastic outpouring Of
the Democracy
aOur accounts,p says the National lnteii'-
gencer, afrom Columbus put quite dinerent
face on this affair. The assemblage referred
to was not called rs meeting Of the Dc,
mocracy,' but such OF them as were 'iricnds,
Of the bill were alone invited. it seems now
ever, that there were in attendance 10 large
number opposed to the bill, as not only to
create considerable confusion, but to render it
doubtful which party had the majority. Even
N selecting a committee Of five persons to re-
mort resolutions, one Of those selected refused
to serve. and another could not be found. The
meeting was uproarions from beginning TO end
and is represented to have been decided
failure The Columbus State Journal thus
concludes its account of it:
Several gentlemen tried to get the floor to
sneak and to offer amendments to the resolu-
tious, but they failed in the noise to be heard
When confusion was general, and oil sorts OF
calls were being made, the chairman refnsed
to recognise any gentleman, and put the ques-
ton on the passage Of the resolutions as re-
ported by the committee. The response was
loud When he said, those opposed will say
no. the hall rang with dissent in thunder tones !;
but the chair pronounced the resolutions car
ried. and the meeting adjourned.
at is our deliberate Judgment that the reso-
lutions were NOT adopted, and such is the opln-
ion Of many Democrats who were present.
$50 Ear Is 0 demonstration in favor Of the
Douglas bill is concegned, it was decided fail
ure, and is 10 regarded by oil.
Even the resolutions which the Statesman
says were passed, put a false face upon the bill.
They assert the doctrine Of Squatter Sovereign
~ in the most unqualified manner, and endorse
the bill, on the ground that it fully carries out
this doctrine-an assumption which every
member Of Congress knows to be false Let
not tho People Of the North suffer themselves
to be misrepresented. II meetings be called
10 express public opinion on the Nebraska
bill, let them attend Themselves, and not per-
init any set Of intriguing demagogues, or Office
holders, to misrepresent them. Let them chow
that the People, after all, are stronger than
the President and his parasites.