Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-03
soUTHERN SENTIMENT.
FROM THE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN.


SOUTHERN SENTIMENT AND THE NEBRASKA UMBuG.-
We verify believe that il the struggle the Nebraska
bill could be continued two three months longer, the
real sentiment Of the Southern people would become so
Enthusiastically known that most Of their Representatives
would drop the demagogical abortion thing not fit
to be touched. We fnd by looking over our Southern
exchange that the opposition to this measure spread
ing and becoming powerful day by day. Our peo-
pie are beginning to appreciate the practical north
e'sne' Of the project They beginning to that the
mere reatrmation Of existing fact called for
by the exgencies Of the times for the protection of
any constitutional right they enjoy; and they are
also becoming acquainted with that other truth that the
whole originated by politicians to promote
their own advancement Even In South Carolina the bill
is regarded with disavor That ultra Southern Rights
Journal the Charleston Evening News in its issue Of the
18th instant says:
The Scenes IN THE HousE.-We witness in the House
OF Representatives at Washington dsgraceful struggle
and that over measure containing no constitutional
principles however il may ignore some, and involving di
rectly great interest Ii claims to be neither anti
slavery nor proslavey yet desperately fought
as if it were vital issue between abolition and slavery.
IL is confessedly Of positive or practical
value to the South and it is taken by it only for certain
supposed negative avantages yet our Representatives
are exhibiting heroism, heroism 'chivalrous and
classic in its defence and support surprising even their
effort OF 1850 when constitutional safeguards and
rights States and section were broadly ruthless
ly, and vitality destroyed
"What is the secret of this struggle? 1t is very sim
pie and is twoold The essential value of the Nebraska
bill to politicians is that it is sklful specimen of that
species OF political noncommittasm which has Of late
become SO valuable in party contests and Presidential
elections yet subserves design in perpetratng substan
tal and systematic departures from the first principles Of
our republican organization. The solution is this
plain truth that the North in the nsolence Of its anti
slavery supremacy satisfied with the covert adyan
tages 1t gains by the BILL but demands have them
direct and unequivocal II would have the pleasure of
kicking and humiatng the South openly while the lat
ter is implorng be kicked only sub rosa This may be
| classic but we doubt as to the chipalrous
We have all along wished that the Southern press would
speak out fully this subject With the exception
Of very few leading organs that invariably echo any
keynote that may be sounded Washington there has
been general discussion Neither the people nor the
press appeared to any thing about it. This universal
Indifference accounts for the ignoring Of discussion
Should the bill be defeated there will be regrets ex
pressed by the Southern people, and should it be carried
similar state Of feeling will exist None but the trading
politicians interested and thus far their appeals
have produced no agitation among the masses.
When such able and patriotic Southern statesmen as
BELL Hunt, CuLLoM HARRIS, HoUsTos, and others OPP
pose of this kind the inference is fairly egti
mate that it contemplates practical good, immediate
contingen remote otherwise the South In fact
it do none, matter in what light it may be viewed
All the effect it has had, or is likely tohave is to fur
nsh the enemies of the South and the Union-the Adolf
tonists of the North-wh fresh weapons wherewith
continue remorseless upon both
rive wish the reader to understand that it is the
New Orleans paper, and not we, which applies to
the Nebraska bill the epithet HumJug, flash word
which do not'use at all, and should not apply to
any thing Of respectable origin.-Eaitors ~. htel
FROM GEORGIA " UNION or MAY 81.
The great agony is over! The Nebraska bill has
finally passed the House by vote Of 1l3 yeas to
100 nays. We trust the South is satisfied as for
the North, We honestly believe she has achieved