Washington sentinel., 1854-02-10
From the Wheeling (ya.) Argus.
Nebraska and Kansas.

After deliberation, Judge Douglas has re-
modelled the Nebraska bill first reported
to the Senate, and introduced some new
features. The last bill contains all the pro-
visions for the application of the fugitive
slave law to the Territory, and also provides
that the people of the States, when they
ask for admittance into the Union, shall have
the power of establishing the institution Of
slavery or not, as ia their judgment may seem
best The new features of the bill consist in
the division of the territory into two parts, one
Of which is to retain the name of Nebraska
and the other to be called Kansas, and the re-
peal of the Missouri compromise, so far as it
extends to slavery in the Territory The first
bill, without expressly so declaring, would have
in effect repealed the law of 1920, which en-
tirely excluded slavery from all territory north
Of the prescribed latitude, and this last does
only expressly what the first did impliedly.
Believing this, we had no hesitancy in giving
our sanction to the bill as originally reported.
Now we cannot object to giving our sanction
to the last bill. That the lberality of sentiment
contained in it will challenge the appreciation
Of all at the south, without distinction of party
there can be no question; and it will also be
approved by the liberality Of the north But
there will be opposition to it. There is oppos-
ton to it. and, so long as such men as Giddings,
Gerrit Smith, and Seward exist, there always
will be opposition to anything of the kind.
These agitators are ever ready to do mischief,
when opportunity affords. Troublous times
may be again expected.
For this the south must be prepared. While
we are content and desire to support and con-
tinue the acts of 1850 in all their extent, not
withstanding so much was sacrificed to obtain
them, any further REIMBURSEMENT of principle
should be repudiated If hard-fought battles
are to be fought over again, let it be done man
fully. Aggressions on our rights must be re-
sisted to the utmost. No man, with true
southern heart beating in his breast, will shrink
from the responsibility of defending those insti.
tutions with which he has been raised, to which
he is accustomed, and which he has received
as an Inheritance from his ancestors. Welded
as he is to the institutions OF the land OF his
nativity, no force, however powerful, will be
able to make him finch from his duty in their
defence. The old enemies, Wilmot provisoism
| and freesoilism will again have to be met and
vanqmshed. Theirfriends, so far as professions
go, have forsaken them in great numbers, and
joined the friends of State rights Whether
they will return to their idols and worship at
their former shrines or remain constant to the
latter faith, remains yet to be proved. This is
the time, and the occasion proper one, to put
to the test the sincerity of professions made
when the subject Of slavery was considered out
of the pale of further agitation. If they prove
insincere, their venality will be open to the
condemnation of the world, and their hypocrisy
aughing-stock for the nation. Then it de-
pends entirely upon the quondam freesoilers,
whether another sea of trouble and national
agitation is TO be gone through with. If the
great numbers who have renounced their here
sizes have been honest and actuated by proper
motives, nothing serious is to be feared. The
few remaining can do no great injury by them
selves but if their former associates return to
and join them, then the perilous times of 1850
will again be witnessed, and result in IRENE
diable disaster,