Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-16
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.



Sentinel in rdstion to the Nebraska bill, and
desire special attention to it.:
Before wego further, we will quote those
sections Of the bill which, because Of a clerical
error did moi appear IN The bill as originally
published. They are in these words:
60 SIC. 81. And be IL further enacted, That,
in order to avid all misconstruction 1T is here
by declared "a be the true intent and meaning
OF this act, 10 Ear as the question Of Slavery is
concerned, to carry into practical operation the
following propositions and ciplesestablished
by the Comprsmise Measures Of 1885, to wit
First thit all questions pertaining TO
Slavery in thu Territories, and IN the new
States to be foimed therefrom, are to be left to
the decision II the people residing therein,
through their appropriate representatives.
Second, that all cases involving title to
slaves and Questions Of personal Freedom"
are referred ID tho adjudication OF the local
tribunals with the right Of appeal TO the SUI
preme Court ofthe United States.
50 Third, that the provisions Of the Constitn
| ton and laws 81 the Unitcd States, in respect
to fugitivcs from service, are to be carried into
faithful execution in all the organized Terri
tories, " the Same as in the States"
A very remarkable omission, indeed. We
can understand how clerk might misappre-
bend word, oroverlook a sentence; but how
hc could omit IN entire section, containing
most important provisions ia a mystery. Our
first article announced that, although the mani
fest intention Of the hill and report was to set
aside tho Missouri Compromise, still the decla-
ration At contained concerning the admission Of
| States to be hereafter formal out Of the Terri
tory, did not strictly touch the relations Of the
Territory 80 long as it remained in the Terri
torial condition; and we addel Eve doubt
whether this is up to the demandsof Mr.. Atch-
ison & Coz The Albany atlas took q similar
view
A rumor began to prevail, that the authors
OF the bill were somewhat chagrined at the
supposition that the Slave Interest could find
any fault with their work--and 10! several
days after the publication Of the report and
BILL and Of our comments :" a clerical error u
is discovered--the section above quoted was
unfortunately omitted Now, this section,
most happily, comes up to the full demand Of
Slavery! Had il appeared at first we should
have had no occasion to remark that it was
rather below the requirement Of Mr.. Atchison
It seems framed as if to exclude the construc-
ton we gave it; for it says, that { to avoid all
misconstruction,' the meaning of the bill is, to
refer all auctions pertaining to Slavery IN the
Territories, as well rs States to be formed out
of them, to the People residing therein, for
their decision, Through their appropriate rep
resentatives!' That is, 30 far from the Terri
torial relations Of Nebraska being fixed by the
Missouri Compromise, the People residing
therein may, even while ii as Territory, tol.
crate Slavery section SO completely meet
ing the. point we made, looks more like codi-
Gil than "a clerical error!n
It may save General Cass the trouble of
moving special amendment to repeal the
Missouri Compromise. 1t may satisfy Mr..
Atchison and his associates. II may answer
the cunning purposes Of the Sentinel, and those
who sympathize with it in its hatred of the
Softs." It may prevent the Albany atlas
from being coaxed and threatened by the Ad-
ministration into the support Of the bill, now
1agrantly setting aside the Missouri Compro-
mise in its application TO the Territorial condi-
ton Of the Territory It must compel the whole
body of the "Softsn and liberal Democrats to
reject the bill as it now stands, and thus alien
ate themselves from the Administration, and
throw it into the hands of the Hards,' or, by
accepting the bill, TO renounce the last claim to
consistency, to abandon all hope Of popular
support in New York, and dwarf themselves
into meager minority without character,
without principle, without responsibility, with
out position, without influence Undoubtedly,
this is the policy Of the Sentinel, which is wait
ing 10 sea whether, after this important acleri.
cal error" correction the Albany atlas as the
organ Of the Softs," will accept or reject the
Bill
HoT CoRN.-The editor of the Courier des
Efafs Unis says Of Mr. Scion Robinson's Five
Point Sketches that they are bad book, and
q bad action Pa bad book, because the con
tents consist Of the shame and the horrors Of
q great CITY, stitched together in poor and
pitiful stylcn--and bad action, because such
publication has q tendency to corrupt the
mind Of the reader Hot Corn, he thinks, be.
longs to the dangerous school Of literature, Of
which Eugene Sue was the founder, with his
Mysteries de PARIS "Under tho pretext Of mo-
rality, and affecting to expose crime it leads
the reader along the foulest paths Of vice and
Of midnight crime, and leaves in the purcst
hearts a knowledge Of evil which did not exist
there before, and excites in minds already cor
ruptcd an under-ourrent Of social hatred, min.
gled with certain 6endish pride. The poison
which such works distil is the moro abomina-
BILE and the moro certain, that it falls almost
always among the lower classes and works its
way through them, under shelter OF its perfdi-
GUS garb.'
We have not read this book, and shall not,
if convinced that this Is it's character. We