Daily national era., 1854-02-28
Extract of a Letter dated--z

Extract of a Letter dated-<a
GRANyILLE, PUTNAM Co, ILL,
February %, 1854
Notwithstanding the efforts of Senator Doug
las to drive his Nebraska bill through Cong
not allowing the people W bs heard -
TO this infamous scheme, tbs'- ~ nan ie'n"pn
ias SsaS q. ualsaa .1' .ome Of stephen A. Doug
dar~s~-. :. in language not to be misun-
a. To-day we are 10 the midst OF
large and interesting assembly, composed chief.
ly Of farmers, and that, too, Of every party,
filled with indignation ut the course OF their
Senator Sir, we feel, as we ought to feel, mis-
represented, and we feel, aud are determined
to act as the people Of Illinois ought to feel
and act, and Senator Douglas will yet know 1t.
SPEECH OF Hon. WIN. H. SEwARD.-Fred-
erick Douglass Paper says that if this nation
be not dead in trespasses and sin, given up to
blindness Of mind and hardness Of heart, lost
to all sense of honor, dead to the sentiment or
feeling of shame, resolved TO rush on in q ca
reer of folly and wickedness, determined to up
hold Slavery at any cost, and to the last ex-
tremity, the speech delivered in the United
States Senate, last Friday, on the Nebraska
bill, by Hon. VIM. H. Seward, will not fail to
make n deep and controlling impression upon
the whole country. A greater effort, We un-
dertake to say has never been made in the
Senate Chamber Of the United States, on any
subject, or for any purpose The history Of
the contest now going on between Slavery and
Freedom is spread out in clear, attractive,
and statesman-like manner. The rise, progress,
and present attitude Of the slave power, are
stated with that logical succinctness, and brief
directness, for which Mr.. Seward is eminently
distinguished. Where his master hand has
touched, il would seem no man need attempt
TO improve, and what he has done would seem
70 be beyond the power Of man to undo
MR. TooMBss SpErcH.--0n Thursday, MIR.
Toombs made q speech in favor Of the Nebras-
ka bill. He attacked Messrs. SUMNER Seward,
and Truman Smith, with good deal of yio-
| lepce. bot was very deficient in argument re-
plying TO their speeches He appeared very
\ much like restive horse under the infiction
| Of the rowcL
4 Mr.. Toombs based his defence Of the Ne
| braska bill upon the principle Of squatter SOW
/ ere;cnty He denied that Congress has any
! riebt whatever to control the affairs Of the
peonle of the Territories. The sovereignty, he
said, was in the people Of the Territories,
whether they were many or but o few. II Mr..
Toombs really believes this doctrine, we DO not
see how he can vote for Douglass bill. He
knows very well that this bill does not allow
the people OF Nebraska TO exercise any act OF
sovereignty whatever in relation TO the sd-
mission or prohibition Of Slavery, or in relation
to anything else Yet he has the effrontery
to defend the Nebraska bill, while no denies
thas Congress has any authority to do what It
therein assumes to do.--Boston Comm.
Mrs. Mary Pendrey, aged 6s years, said to
| be the first white female born at Cincinnati,
died there last weel,,
! Mr.. Macaulay once observed, that prize
sheep were only it for candles, and prize es.
1 says to light them.