Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-06-14
Nebraska and slavery.


forts to deceive the people in reference to the OBJ
| iects and effects of the Nebraska bill. They
pretend that, by the passage OF this bill, the Ter
ritores embraced in it have been given over to
the "foul curse of American slavery" and that
thereby slavery will be extended to and estab-
lished in those regions. There is not single
fact to warrant such conclusion, and the abo-
tionists themselves do not believe word of it.
Their whole object is to keep up an excitement
upon the slavery question, and thus engender a
spirit of discord that shall evcntuate in the diso-
luton of the Union. They asserted the same
things in reference to the New Mexico and Utah
territorial bills, but the result has shown that all
their fears were groundless and their predictions
false, and that, to allow the people to control
their domestic affairs, was not to establish slavery
The same will be proved true with respect Ne
braska and Kansas. There are very few men
who examine the matter candidly, who hive the
least doubt that those territories will come into
the Union within very few years as free as Ohio
to-day is. The Northern supporters of the bill
claim that such will be the result, the Southern
supporters admit that slavery cannot be establish
ed there, and the Southern opponents of the bill
such Bolts, Clemens, Houston and Benton
deny that it is Southern measure, or that the
South has anything to gain by it. In addition to
this, the rush that is being made to those terrific
ries from the Northern States, should quiet the
fears that are expressed, and furnish assurance
that this region will be consecrated to freedom
But the fanatics who are seeking to produce
such an excitement don't want. any such assur-
ance, for they know that all their noise and fury
is sheer humbug; but they must agitatc, and they
will agtate; in fact, agitation is their only aiment
and support, and if they don't agitate they will
surely spoil.
We publish below n few more opinions from
good Wing authority that slavery can never ex-
list in the new territories:
Senator BADGER, of North Carolina, says,-"I
have no more idea of seeing slave population in
either Nebraska or Kansas than have of seeing
it in Observation-Disclosures whit
Senator BUTLER, of South Carolina, savs: "It
is certain that Kansas and Nebraska will never
be slaveholding States.
Senator EVERETT, of Massachusetts, saws: 81
am quite sure, every body admits that this is not
to be slaveholdng region"
The same law of nature which, as Mr.. Web
ster declared, "settled forever, with strength
beyond the terms of human enactment, that sav-
cry cannot exist in California or New Mexico
also interdicts with equal force the establishment
Of slavery in Nebraska. This is generally regard
ed as a fixed fact both North and Sauth.'
HENRY CLAY thus spoke of the principle of
the Nebraska bill "The true principles which
ought to regulate the action of Congress in form.
ing territorial governments for such newly ac-
qulred domain, is to refrain from all legislation
on the subject in the territory acquired so long as
1t remains in territorial form of government,
leaving it to the people of such territory when
they have attained to condition which entities
them to admission as State, to decide for them.
selves the question of the allowance or prohibi-
ton of domestic slavery.
CoNsIsTENcT.-The Wings and Abolitionists
Of the Connecticut Legislature, having elected
red-hot Abolitionst to the United States Senate,
turned about and voted down resolution inviting
the .colored clergymen of New Haven to take
their turn with other ministers in opening the dai-
ly sessions with prayer. The New Haven Reefs
ter catches the hypocrites under the fifth rib 1t
says.
" Hoi IL 10 LDe COIOTeu Clergy
men of this city all signed the famous clerical pro-
test, it is difficult to any good reason why they
should not share the emouments of the legisla-
ture with their white colleagues! If they are
proper persons to sign protests against congress
sional action, they are certainly good enough to
pray for whiggery!'
0TTIn Cincinnati, on the 9th nst Judge Finn,
in his charge to the Grand Jury, declared the first
and fourth sections of the liquor law unconstitu-
tional, as being prohibitory, whereas the General
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