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No efficacy Mr.. Douglas, in Congressional
prohibition What Missouri is now, Illinois
would have become, had it not been for that
noble Ordinance Of 1857.
In the light of these facts, the question re-
speeding the repeal Of the prohibition against
Slavery in Nebraska assumes great practical
Importance. For thirty -three years, that pro-
hibition has been not only upon the Statute
Book, but in force. Lying right on the border
Of Missouri with it's eighty-seven thousand
slaves, it would ere this have been settled to
some extent by shareholders, had it not been
for the Proyiso of the Missouri Compromise,
which the people Of the State Of Missouri
especially regarded as solemnly binding. A
large portion Of the Territory lies west Of that
State in the same latitude, and is susceptible
of the Same kind Of culture. Hemp and To-
baoco may be grown there as in Missouri. And
now when it is proposed to abrogate the Com
promise, to repeal in express terms the prohi-
bition against Slavery, we are to be told that
the question is without practical Importance
it may be safely left to the emigrants who
shall 20 to the new Territory-Slavery will
never find place there! The facts and figures
we have presented give the lie to the assertion.
Repeal the Missouri Compromise, and Sla-
very will find its way into Nebraska, Just as
readily as il did into Missouri, and grow just
as rapidly A hundred Shareholders once set
tied in tho Territory, concentrating as they
would capital and intelligence, and acting as
unit, would control the Territory and deter
mine it's institutions The policy which gave
birth 10 the free States Of Michigan, Ohio, In.
diana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, cannot be un.
wise or anti Democratic those States are grand
monuments Of the power and bencfcence Of
positive enactment by Congress against Terri
torial Slavery. What was necessary to create
those Eve free States, what so completely FRO
tected free labor and free inhabitants in them
is necessary TO secure to Freedom the numer-
GUS States yet to be formed in Nebraska
Abandon this policy--and this is dono if the
Missouri Compromise be repealed, "a proposed
by tho Bill Of Mr.. DougIas--adopt towards
them the policy Of Non-Intervention, as it is
called, the same policy pursued in relation to
Missouri, and what can You expectl Non. In
tervention, Is il is styled, has always given MS
Slavery--why should II give us Freedom in
Nebraska? Can the same fountain send forth
sweet water and bitter?
The advocates Of repeal pretend to be very
Democratic They know the value attached
by the American People to the principle Of
selEgowrnmsnf What, they excIaim, are you
not willing to trust the People to govern them
selves Undoubtedly who are q the Peo-
pleaD The People Of Ohio, Of Pennsylvania,
Of Kentucky, 80 know They constitute or
ganizcd communities selfgoverning, independ-
emit sovereign, except as TO powers which
they have delegated to the Union. But arc
struggling pioneers who chance to settle in a
wilderness without government, without laws,
without organization, ia People in the con-
temptation of the Consultation Of the United
States? The declaimors about sclfgovern-
ment do not themselves recognise the principle
in it's application 10 any Territory Of the United
States. Do they admit that one or two hun
drcd settlers in Nebraska have q right to or
ganize Government for the new Territory
called by that name, and 10 determine for all
future time its institutions
What is this Bill of MIR. Douglas but denial
Of the absolute right Of the People Of a Terri
tory 10 govern themselvesq Docs IL not pro-
pose to give them form Of Governmental
ordain, without consulting them that IL shall
be divided into three departments--provide for
the appointments Of judicial and Executive off,
GERS Of tho Territory, by the President without
any reference TO their wiil--apply to them all
the laws Of the United States applicable to
their condition, slthcugh they may have had
no part in framing them, and secure TO Congress