Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-27
TAKE YOUR STAND NOW.

AhhG 40oA SAAN0 wv.
The New York Evsning Post well remarks
that if the fragrant attempt now made upon
Nebraska succeed, it will be but the beginning
Of q new series Of aggressions. LET the Ne
braska Bill be passed after violent struggle
and we find ourselves on the threshold of an
other--a struggle to cxpunge the prohibition
of Slavery from the act fixing the boundary Of
Texas. When that is annuled, will come the
conflict on the question Of repeating it for
Minnesota and Oregon. Our stand must be
made now, or we shall lose every inch Of soil
which the previous Legislation of the country
had consecrated forever, as we thought, to
freedom
The truth il, carry this Bill through, with
its l4th section, and special legislation will
scarcely be needed to throw open the whole Of
Texas, Minnesota Oregon and Washington, to
Slavery. For surely, if the principles Of the
Legislation Of 1850, commonly called the Com
promise Measures suspended, as that section
asserts, the restrictive clause Of the Missouri
Compromise Act, Minnesota, which was form
cd out Of the Territory to which the restriction
applied and which has been considered exempt
by it from Slavery, is without defence against
its introduction. That is not oil. Admit the
averment in the 18th section, and the restrictive
clause concerning Slavery in the Texas Com
promise, and in the act establishing a Terrific
rial Government for Oregon was also suspend
cd. Pass tho Bill, then, with this section, and
its intent and effect will be to repeal all laws
enacted by Congress heretofore, excluding Sla-
very from any Territory Of the United States,
organized or unorganized, 80 that not one foot
of soil shall be held sacred to Freedom and
Free Labor.
So stupendous is this scheme Of fraud and
aggression, that the proof of it's existence
must be continually presented to the People,
or they will be tempted to doubt whether it
could enter into the heart OF man to devise it,
Read again the l4th section Of this new Bill
the ultimatum Of the Slave Interest
"SEc. IA. That the Constitution and Laws of
the United States, which are not locally map
plicable shall. have the same force aud effect
within the said Territory as elsewhere in the
United States, except the 9th section (the Anti
Slavery proviso) of the act preparatory to the
admission of Missouri into the Union, approved
March 8, 1920, WHICH WAS SUSPENDED
BY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LEGlSLA-
TON OF 1850, COMMONLY CALLED THE
MISSOURI COMPROMISE, AND rs HERE.
BY DECLARED INOPERATIVEn
Let the People of Illinois, Indiana Ohio
Pennsylvania, and New York, bear this in mind,
that should Messrs w Wentworth, Harlan, Olds
Disney, Green, Dean, Perkins, and other DEM
ocratic members, vote for this Bill, they will
vote
LIST. For the abrogation Of the Missouri Com
promise.
2dly For Justification of the Truth of His
tory, viz: that the Compromise Acts of 1850
suspended the Auti-Savery Proviso of the Mis-
souri, Act Of 1s20-the intent Of which is, not
only to render imperative that proviso, but
proviso identical in principle, almost in lam
guage with that in the Texas Compromise of
1S45, and in the Oregon Territorial Act of
I84S.
That they will commit such a deed as this,
we do not believe. The power of Party, when
welded by Slavery, is tremendous but we will
not believe that it is 50 omnipotent that il can
compel Democratic members from the free
States to damn themselves with deeper in
fanny than clings to the memory Of Benedict
Arnold. aThe organ" may whine and threat
emit may tell them, as it did this morning
speaking Of this Nebraska bill
aThat the Democratic Party is entirely
pledged TO this policy-the Democratic admin
istration is pledged to carry it out-and we
have witnessed with pleasure, indications that
in the matter they will be sustained by Nation
al Wings in every section Of the Union -
Domineering Representatives Of the Slave In
tercst in Congress may undertake to drill them
into submission, to teach them that they are
under suspicion, that they viii not be per-
mitted ito skulk,n that this Nebraska Bill will
be applied to them as testn Of their fidcli.
ty to Slavery, and that if they reject it, @they
will sink 20 low that the hand Of resurrection
cannot find them.n* We shall expect when
the time shall arrive for action, to see them
voting as shall become the free Representatives
Of Freemen, Free Labor, and Free Institutions.
The athumb-screw policy, rs Mr.. Hughes
styles it may answer for the plantation, but
will hardly be tolerated on the floor of Con-
gross. Even the glory Of being yoke-fcllows
with the. "NationaI Wings" so highly compli-
mented by the organ, will scarcely reconcile
the Democracy Of the Free West to Plantation
treatment
Meantime, the People viii soon make them
selves felt in this matter The following cir
cular Of q petition has originated in Chicago,
Illinois, and is circulating in that State for
signers. Senator Douglas says the Chicago
Free West, fought to hear from his own State
on this extension Of Slavery project. The place
to speak is through the House. Let remon-
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