The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-22
THE PRINCIPLES or THE REVOLUTION IN THE
SKA BILL.

nowhere stated succincy and ruthuly than in the
following extract from the Nashua IN. H. Gazette;
eve have yet TO paper opposed 70 the great princi-
pie OF popular sovereignty upon which the Nebraska bill Is
based which does justice the principles the object mean
ing and purpor Of that bill The primary and main pnr
and intent Of the Nebraska bill is to repeal the Mis-
souri, restriction Of 1920 but carry and pepetuate the
principle of popular sovereignty and intervention with
slavery IN Territories eH States, established by the
legislation of 1850 which secured the compromises OF that
year That the application of the principle of non-nerven
ton of 1850 TO the Territories Of Nebraska and Kansas
will render the Missouri restriction imperative and void,
do not doubt"
II is remarkable fact that the opponents of the Ne
braska bill pay the highest tribute the vital principle
which it is based by the studied with which they
avoid its discussion There is limit the amount Of
bitter denuneiaon and bold Misrepresentation with which
the object meaning and purpose Of the bill assailed
but the number very small of those who their
courage up to the point Of attacking its fundamental prin-
cple There is system of tactics which long sue
coed In diverting the public mind from just appreciation
Of aprncple which established and consecrated by
the brave suerngs and tolls and deaths of reyolu-
onary fathers If this principle be not true now IT was
not true when kndled the fires of the revolution and
neryed the hearts and Of eemen peril thing
for Independence The Gazette the principle
in the Nebraska bill in the following orcble truthful
language:
"No paper opposed to the bill has presumed derry the
justice the soundnes of the principle which allows the
people Of every State and Territory manage their domes
tic concerns in their way, under the constitution Of the
United States Indeed, could net, if they would,
less prepared destroy the upon which whole
structure of republican constitutional liberty This
doctrine Of popular sovereignty which is the main feature
of the Nebraska bthe right of every consutionay
ganized community to regulate their domestic affairs in
for vh fore
fathers commended in the revolution and which they
careful to insert in their first covenant of country Aware
the devotion with which the people cherish this principle
for which in the revolution their fathers hazarded their all
the enemies of this territorial bill, before
onal legislature, determined to conceal the fact that
defeat Of the. bill IS desertioh Of the rey principles
mhich gaze being republican system, and which
now animate every great political movement upon earth
which looks to freedom and elt-government."
The triumph of the principle of non-interycnton
sary puts end to the Missouri restriction This is
legitimate consequence and no good democrat will long
hesitate follow sound democratic principle wherever il
may 60 We cannot but admire the boldness and elo-
quence with which the editor of the Gazette cngs the
great principle of popular sovereignty and discrds the
bitrary principle which the Missouri restriction rests
He discusses this point as follows:
No one, we apprehend can to see that the principle
upon which the legislation of 1920 founded entirely
inconsistent with that which is the basis legislation
1850. The former the declaration of arbitrary geo
graphical line applicable moral question designed
determine and control the character of civil institutions
latter is the substitution for that arbitrary line Of sound
wellunderood, and approved political principle The one
intervention the other intervention One them
quenty be abandoned providing the new Terrific
res of Nebraska and Kansas What shall be We cannot
avoid the issue if would 1t upon u.s. and demands
US, good citizensas responsible the political
ton of governmentas democrats devoted the
principles of the constitution pledged
ration of Franklin Piercethat the question:
slider it, and proclaim Judgment thereon. 1t is
object that the great principle of popular sovereignty
only made apply acquisitions since 1870 and con
sequenty intended include the Territories now under
consideration, because with the undenabe fact
that idea of was abandoned and
by the free States and BY the other conceded fact that
far Kansas and Nebraska concerned no practical re
suits involved and because ii the application Of
principle but the principle ITSELF that discussion
Does any intelligent in New England doubt that il terri
toria governments for Nebraska Kansas had been
braced with Utah and New Mexico in the measures of
1880 the great fundamental principle applicable to
would not have been sustained by the dead and
living statesmen who sustained those great of psc
cation and justice Can anything be narrow or un-
satesmanke than the argument that the settlement Of 1850
only intended to apply to the strips territory
braced in those laws and did establish principle for the
guidance of Congress in their future legislation to all the
territory which be TO tho American Union
in the progress Of its inevitable expansion Was the Com
promise Of 1850 political catch, humbug cheat? Mol
We viii not thus deprive the ustrou dead and the emf
nent living Of their chiest and highest TO the graft
tude and respect of their country The Compromise of 1850
intended bond of union and permanent truce to
faction IL would be absurd unjust have said the prin
cpie oil nonnterycnon is just and sound TO
Territories but unwise and unjust the third The at
tempt TO make such distinction in that of trial and
danger and most honorable patriotic concession would
have been met with continued burst
dgnation."