Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-18

instant without far ss we are aware any vote on the
measure.
In ALABAMA, the Legislature adjourned about fort
night since without expression Of opinion in favor Of
| the BILL
In LOUISIANA the Legislature has adjourned, and was
silent on the Nebraska bill.
In TEXAS the Legislature adjourned about month
SINCE leaving the subject untouched.
In KENTUCKY the Legislature has just adj ourned with
out expressing any opinion the BILL though it found
time to pass more than thousand acts.
In TENNEssER the Senate adopted resolution endors
ing the principles contained in the Nebraska bill by
vote of II to l. similar resolution introduced in the
House laid the table; and that adopted by the
Senate taken towards the close Of the session and
lost for want of quorum.
In GEORGIA. the House unanimously, and the Senate
with only three dissenting votes adopted resolutions
strongly in favor of the BILL and nsructing their deega
ton in Congress to vote accordingly.
If, then, we are not mistaken in any of these
statements, and we believe we are not, out of ten
of the Legislatures in the Free States which have
been in session since this bill was introduced five
have passed resolutions against it, four have kept
silence and only one has given adhesion to it, and
that Mr. DoUGLAs's own State, and consummated
entirely by minority of the Legislature. Out Of
nine of the Legislatures in the Slave States which
have been in session, only has expressed itself
for the bill, So far as the Southern Legislatures
afford any test, the remark made some time since
by the New Orleans Bee is fully verified:
so far the South is concerned something not very
far from indifference is felt upon the subject Let the
Nebraska bill be rejected tomorrow, and the South will
sleep quite as sound at nights as before We shall
have revival Of the REASONABLE discussions of 1902
We might refer to other criteria of public opinion
where the State Legislatures have not been in ses-
sion. In MICHIGAN, to the election in Detroit,
Gen. CAss's own city, where the Wing Anti-Ne-
braska candidate for Mayor was elected by majority
of more than thousand over his Democratic Ne
braska competitor though the city usually gives a
Democratic majority of eight hundred. In Con-
NEoTIeUT, to the fact that the Wing State Conven-
ton unanimously, and the Democratic State Con-
vention almost unanimously, passed resolutions sus
tanning the Compromise of 1920 and in utter oppo-
sition to the Douglas Bill In New HAMPSHIRE,
to the election which has just taken place. wherein
the Democratic majority has been reduced more
than three thousand on the Gubernatorial vote and
diminished to almost nothing in the House of Re-
representatives., where last year this majority was
eighty strong, though this is the Presidents own
State, and though the greatest pains taken by
the Administration party to elude every issue on
the Nebraska bill, and the New Hampshire Patriot
the Democratic organ of the State, vehemently re-
pudiated the idea that this question ought to in.
fuence the election, making use of this language:
"This measure will not be permitted to divide the
members of the Democratic party any more than the
question of granting hundred and sixty of land
to actual settlers"
But is unnecessary to dwell upon particular in
dications like these It is impossible for any un-
prejudiced mind, after making proper allowance for
the force of party discipline and the influence of the
National Administration, to resist the conviction
that the people of the North are ardently and
strenuousy opposed to the passage Of the Nebraska
bill, annulling the Missouri Compromise, and that
the Southern people do not regard the matter with
any great degree ofneres one way the other Isit
wise, them is it truly patriotic, to push measure
which cannot be carried without causing an excite
ment at the North that will end no one knows how
or when, and which, if left at rest, would, occasion
material dissatisfaction among the people in any
part of the Union?