The true Democrat., 1854-07-05
The Nebraska Law.

On our title page will be found the law ere. ating the territories of Nebraska and Kansas As 1t has been, and, in all probability, will con. tlnue to be, until the August election, subject of discussion we invite the attention of the public to it. The attention of the editor of the Whig we especially request to this law. Though he has been discussing it's merits, and severely censuring even his own party for sup porting it in Congress, we do not believe he has ever read or seen it. Our readers will remem- Der how he boldly declared that it was law which permitted |" free negroes and .tt.gitive slaves" to vote upon the question of the adms- sion or exclusion of slavery in these territories Had he read and studied this law as he should have done before he undertook to pass judg- ment upon it, he never would have committed such an error, or wrote those long articles so strongly condemning its friend and supporters in Congress.
 Upon the subject of the right of suffrage un- der this law we quote the following from it:
 sEc. 5. And be it further enacted, That every FREE WHITE MALE inhabtant above the age of years WnO snail De dIl dcUudl lGSUeuJ Ol said territory and shall possess the qualifications here matter prescribed shall be entitled to vote at the first election and shall be eligible to any office within the said territory
 The editor of the Whg has expatiated so repeatedly and at such length, about his imma- culate hMlyuzaess, that we desire to know how he will reconcile his statement about the voting privileges of free negroes and tug'tive slaves," !" with the section above quoted which confines the right of voting to free aohite males a1one!-
 The editor of the Whig passes with so much rapidity from one mistatement to another, it is almost impossible for us to keep up with him. When he charged that the Nebraska bill per mitted free negroes and fugitive slaves to vote, he challenged us to contradict it. We did so, and referred him to the law. Since then he has dropped it, and started other objections, equally false and unfounded. In vain we have directed his attention to the unenviable position he now occupies before the public. Caught in willful attempt at deception, he endeavors to screen himself by starting other issues.
 The truth is, the position of hostilityxo the Nebraska bill was taken by the Whig before it had read it. Its knowledge was acquired sole ly from abolition newspapers, in whose veracity there is no reliance to be placed. Its quota tions are taken almost entirely from papers north of Mason and Dxon's line, and its arguments are those suggested by these bitter enemies of the South.
 In its OnnoSlflOn tO tho N abraclyo 1ou- # io opposed even to its own party. The Wings in Congress as body supported and voted for it while only one southern whig senator, and seven representatives voted against it. The re- peal of the Missouri compromise, which it so bitterly assails, originated with whig. MT. Dickson, a whig senator from Kentucky, the banner State of whiggery, first introduced it into Congress, and it is justly regarded as the proudest act of his life. In opposing 1t, the Arkansas Whig stands almost alone The greatest and best men of its own party assisted in the passage of the Nebraska bill and the repeal of the Missouri compromise.
 The Whig has boasted and clustered a great deal about its veracity, but unless 1t confines it. self more closely in future to the truth, it will entirely lose the character it thus covets. AL ready the confidence of the whigs in the pu- rity of its motives and the truthfulness of it's assertions, has been greatly shaken. Then refusal of its urgent request to assemble in convention and nominate an anti N ebraska can- didate should be a warning to it.