The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-06-17

NEBRASKA IN MArNE.-That our readers may
see how the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
is received by the democracy of Maine, we
give the following extracts from the Augusta
Age, the official paper Of the State. 1t
also publishes the laws of the United States "by
authority" The Age is replying to recent ar
ticles in the Washington Union, in which all
democrats opposed to the Douglas bill. are de,
nounced and read out of the party as having
forfeited all claims to democratic principles
In commenting upon the 'insolence of tteWash-
ington Union, the Age says:
Since the passage of the Nebraska bill, the
Washington Union has assumed tone toward
that portion of the democratic party opposed to
the measure, which is insufferabiy arrogant,
pictorial and insolent. That paper of the 24th
contains ukase, making the support of the
Nebraska scheme a test of political orthodoxy,
and reading every democrat out of the party
who does not unconditionly and at once give
in his adhesion to the new article thus presumpt-
uously injected into the democratic creed"
To the assertion of the Union that "no dem
ocrat can oppose the Nebraska bill without be =
tised by the democracy for fifty years." the Age
remarks:
'.The Nebraska bill reverses the policy pur-
sued by the democracy for the last fifty years
1t breaks down. \ barrier which has withstood
the assaults OF lanaticism for thirty-four years
"A barrier respected by Congress and the
country down to the assembling of the present
Congress in December last. 1t repudates a
settlement made by the nation in 1s2O-'2l ;
and held sacred by every successive admins
tration of the government from that day until
this. 1t overturncs territorial policy which
was democratic enough for Jackson, for Van
Buren,, and for Polk and establishes in its
stead in t,ro of the seren territories of the In
ion, sort of mongrel policy, in respect to the
character Of which no two persons are agreed,
and which it would puzzle a Philadelphia law
yer to explain by the language of the bill it.
self"
"What does the Union imagine itself to be,
and who does it fancy il is talking to? Does
1t arrogate to itself the functions of an auto
crat, that it presumes to give law to the DEM
Ocratic party! Does it suppose that the DEM
ocracy are serfs that they are to to be thrust
out of the party at its bidding! Does the te-
nure Of membership depend on its capricious
will Is the democratic creed to be enlarged OF
diminished at its sovereign pleasure? Are
new democratic principles" to be foisted OH
the party, and old ones stricken from the
creed, at its command? Are tests of political
orthodoxy to be applied Or withdrawn, as may
suit its changing humor: BY what right hui
man or divine, does it assume to cry s'Anathe-
ma" against any portion Of the democratic
party, because they will not accept new arti
Giles OF faith manufactured to ordcr,' and to
read one half Of the democracy out of the party
because they follow their own convictions Of
duty on questions in reference to which the
party stands uncommitted to the side which the
Union desires them to take:
The democracy every where should rcbuke
this insolence, pOintcdly and without reserve
For one, We will resist such dictation-such
imprudent assumptiOn-now and always-come
from what source it may, and with what sane
lions ii may.