, 1854-10-21
NEBR ASKA BILL.
An Expression Of the Northern Sentiment.
From The POttsvllle (Pa.) Register.

From the POttsville (Pa.) Register.
Nothing is more certain than that the
questions involved in the organization Of
Nebraska cannot be overlooked or over
slaughed. Year after year the matter will
come before Congress, and in a more pres
sing shape each time. Nebraska will knock
for admission with more pertinacity after
every refusal and however we may post
pone the answer to her prayer, there must
come q day when that answer can no long
er be delayed.
Nor Is it less clearly written in the book
Of fate that that answer, to be fnal must
be in exact accordance with the sa-
cred principles Of the constitution. When
the mists Of prejudice have been cleared
away, and the first impulse of angry pas
sions Gained, all parties will see that the
question involved is not one Of slavery or
Rnti-slaVery. The moral iniquity charged
upon the one, and the superior virtue
claimed for the other, are both as foreign
to the question as the crime Of stealing or
the excellence Of honesty. 1t is probable
that the geographical position, the physi-
cal character, and the climate Of Nebraska
viii, in point exclude slave labor from its
soil but this has nothing to do with the
point in dispute. That point involves one
Of the most important principles Of our CON
stitution-one Of the chief corner stones on
which this Union rests-the question wheth-
er citizens Of the United States, in new
Territory or State, have, under the cousti-
tuition, the same right to determine and
regulate their own social institutions as the
people Of New York or any other State,
North or South
From the Lowell (Afass.) Daily Advertiser.
We are aware that the opponents of
this bill pretend to make distinction be-
tween Utah and New Mexico and Nebras-
ka and Kansas, upon the ground that the
former Territories were acquired from Mis-
souri,, while the latter are a part of the
Louisiana purchase to which the Missouri
Compromise line applied. But this distinc-
don Is wholly unaVailing--a mere subter-
fuge-for Utah includes within its bounda-
ries part Of the same Louisiana purchase
But then they say Utah contains only
few thousand acres Of it Well, grant it,
what theni By what principle can you
justify supporting or "aeqiescing i'm q
measure that takes few thousand acres of
the Louisiana purchase which does not
equally justify your supporting or 'acquies-
cling in a measure taking few more thou
sand acresl If it is wrong to organize
Nebraska upon the principle of the rule of
the people, because it embraces part of
the territory TO which the Missouri Com
promise is applicable, it must have been
equally wrong to have organized Utah up
on that principle, for that also embraced q
part Of the same old Louisiana purchase to
which the same Missouri Compromise ap-
piled -L s .ss. -r
q And now, in conclusion, would say to
our iWhig friends, and to our democratic
friends also, il you are determined to oppose
the Nebraska bill, just say candidly and
honestly that you have changed, repented ;
that you no longer believe in, nor will sup
port, nor, "acquiesce in," the Compromise
Of 80; or else, that you never did support,
nor "aequiesee in" it; and that you were
playing the hypocrite when you gave pub
ic pledges that you would do so.