Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-02-22
From the Cleveland plaindealer.
The Nebraska Bill.

The Sentinel, an excellent democratic paper
published in Rossville, Ohio, has the following
about the Nebraska BILL
9 But it is claimed, that the Missouri com
promise is sacred compact that can never be
annulled or set aside, without acting in bad
faith ; and that its binding force should ex-
tend to the Pacific no matter how the territory
was acquired, or Of whom. These very persons
who are now giving it such broad latitude have
been the first to cry out against its binding
force. Whenever and wherever q territory has
been organized since 1920, the abolition spirit
of the country has totally disregarded it. II
the Territory was north of certain latitude, its
spirit must be re-enacted; and if south, it must
be trampled under foot as an infamous law.
Now, with what grace does this cry of
plighted faith come from set of men that
would not recognise any compact as binding,
which did not embody their peculiar notions I?
They consider that when difference of opin-
ion arises between them and their antagonists
in sentiment and they accomplish their pur-
pose, 1t is compromise sacred and irrepeala-
Bile, but if they fail to effect only part, then
it is not to be considered an irrevocable COM
promise any longer than they are unable to
effect what they first desired What consis-
tency this I"
The Dayton Empire, in the course of an able
article, says:
" The object is merely to leave the question
OF slavery with the people, both in the States
and Territories of the Union, where the demo-
cratic party have always held that it Justly be.
longs.
" This is the ground that has always been
taken by the democratic party in their national
conventions, when the question was before them
1t was so in the last Baltimore convention and
the platform then established, has been affirmed
and re-atfrmed by numerous State conventions
since held. The design of Mr.. Douglass bill,
we repeat, is simply to settle the question of
slavery on the basis ofthe compromise measure
of 1910, 50 that it shall not at every future ses
sion OF Congress, be opened anew, when ter
rtorial governments are to be established"
The Lorain argus, speaking of the late demo-
ocratic meeting at which the Nebraska bill was
triumphantly endorsed, says:
The democracy
: Men, high-mnded men, who know their night,
And, knowing, dare maintain
came forward of their own accord. resolved to
stand by their cherished principles and their
party, as the only means of carrying those prin-
ciples into practice.
This result must be and is regarded by all
CANDID minds as aspontaneous endorsement Of
the course pursued by the democratic State
and the administration of President
Pierce. 1t is an assurance that the democracy
of Lorain will stand firm and remain true in
all emergencies
The following we take from a forcible leader
in the GAINESVILLE Aurora:
From the rawlings and howings of aboli-
tionists and disunionsts all over the country,
person unacquainted with the facts would sun
pose that the bills for the establishment of ter
ritorial governments for Nebraska and Kansas
really contained provisions which would force |
slavery into these territories. The New York
Tribune, and kindred spirit-rapping and fusion
abolition prints, have raised the black flag of
sectional agitation and strife, and declare that
" repedW shall be the watchword of new and
powerful northern party, which will rise like
T" Phoenix from the ashes" and sweep them, if
passed, from the national statute-book Fren-
zied and frantic like, they rant abuse, and
threaten every neck with hempen rope, that
does not contain n Uranium as wild and crazy
rs their own. o yes, the Missouri compromise
are now Of immense value, and must |
not be molested, say they, or the union of the
States will be severely