Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-06-27
THE NEBRASKA FRAUD.

The article in the Times of yesterday morning,
copied from the N. Y. Eve. Post, exposing, what
that paper terms, fraud in the Nebraska Bill, is
thought by some to be incorrect. 1t is somewhat
singular that q leading Democratic paper, with
the reputation for correctness which the Post sus
tains, should have fallen into the error which
many attribute to it. And it is equally singular
that such men as Campbell, Benton and Mace,
should be deceived in the premises. We are not
yet fully prepared to condemn the article in the
Post, but content ourself to day with copying the
remarks of the Minnesotian, and communication
which appeared in that paper from VIM. R. Mar
shall, Esq. There are several queer things
in the Organic Act Of the territories of Ne
braska and Kansas, which, according to- our con-
struction, are not exactly constitutional, but we
shall speak more fully of this and other matters
contained in the Bill, in our issue of Monday
The Minnesotian says:--
THE "FRAUD ExPosED.'-It is the misfortune
of some of the most noted and capable men Of our
country to become over-zealous when engaged in
a great and good work, and through this means
to fritter away considerable proportion of their
strength. Our correspondent below, who is a
staunch supporter of the Missouri Compromise, it
will be seen has discovered several fatal in
the New York Evening POSTS article exposing
''fraud," which we published yesterday -
MEssRs. EDIToRs:- SIN your issue of to-day you
copy from the N. Y. Evening Post an article un-
der the caption of 6 A Fraud Exposed" The in
ferences Of the Post are certainly not warranted
by the language, on any fair construction Of the
section quoted.
If the 18th section of the Nebraska Act is COM
pared with the 5th section of our organic act it
| will be found that they identical in meaning,
- Nh
ka Act that by act only those who were res
idents at the time of the passage of the act could
vote at the first election, while the Nebraska act
extends the franchise to all ''who shall be actual
residents of said Territory" and not in the
Mime sofa act, who s'shal have been at the time
of the passage of the act" &c. So that all who
go to Nebraska-thc man who gets there on the
day of election as we'll he who was there at the
date of the passage Of the Act, possessing the
other qualifications, can vote.
The oath to support the Constitution of the U.
S. which the Post thinks can only be taken after
a fye' years. residence in the country, can
be taken-as was properly done at the first
laration of intention to become citizen is made.
So that an European in six days-if he can
get from New York to Nebraska in that time-af-
ter he lands in this country exercise the elective
franchise under the act question.
Is not this sufficiently liberal for the Post?
The Minnesota act required an oath to support
its provisions, just as the Nebraska act does-nOt
by American citizens certainly, but the other
class, those s'who shall have declared on oath
their intention to become such, "-of course for
eigncrs.
The Nebraska act is bad enough-bad by rea-
son of its removal of the Slavery restriction and
were not the POSTS differences so wide of the
truth-indcel so directly opposite-the writer
woald not be found volunteering in it's Defence
Yours, &c. w. r. NJ.
st. Paul, June %.
NOTE-The Nebraska ac forgot say, prohibits SOL
diers, marnes,'' &C., voting.