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THE NEBRASKA BILI-N0. 8.
WILL SLAVERY, II PERMITTED, GO INTO NE
BRAsKA?

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WILL SLAVERY, II PERMITTED, GO INTO NE
BRAsKA?
This question should not deem worthy Of
discussion, if it had not been put forward, and,
lregret to see, with the aid of one OF the Sen
ators Of Massachusetts, to push aside the ques-
ton of right and to blunt the sensibility with
which we ought to see principle and compact
,,rostrate and trampled on. AS an argument
for the bill, all that has been said on this
point even if we admit the false premises
amounts to this, and no more that there was
10 guilt or harm in Arn0ld's treason, since the
country was not thereby enslaved
In answer to this question have observe, in
the first place, that so deep and universal an
interest would not be felt in the South con
corning the organization Of Territories in the
North, IL they did not expect that the opening
of them to the influx of slavery would strength
en- the slave power" enlarge the slave mar.
ket, give new impetus to the domestic slave
trade, and enhance more or less the price 0
slaves, and Of course the value Of slave proper
ty throughout that country. The advocates Of
the bill, and particularly the Southern, say
that they do not expect slavery to 20 into Ne
braska; that they do not seek to introduce IL
but simply to assert the principle of the Com.
promise Of 1850. They go for principle not
for profit The effrontery Of this pretence con-
sidering the high intelligence Of our people, is
one Of the most striking circumstances Of the
sase 1t indicates a confidence in the omnipo-
tence OF 6 the slave power and in the efficacy
IF impudent and transparent imposture, which
confuses the sense and momentarily stupefes
The faculties like the quaking of the earth I'M
Ter our feet IL the object was merely to gem
eralize the theory of the Compromise Of 1850,
Why was there no attempt to apply it to the
Washington Territory That would have
been comparatively easy, as no compact stood
IN the way. 1t would have been a repeal Of
an ordinary law. That Territory was organ
.zed nearly three years after the Compromise
of 1850, and the Oregon anti slavery restric.
ton, extended over it in l84S, remained un-
questioned. In fact, the new Territory came
into being so silently that the country was
scarcely aware Of its existence until the APP
p0intment of it's Governor was announced
Either it had not been discovered, at that time,
that the Compromise Of 1850 had any such
bearing as is now pretended, or it was thought
that slave. breeders would stand little chance of
finding much Of market in the remote north
west corner. Either fact is fatal to the pres
emit pretence.
They do expect slavery to 60 into Nebraska,
and there, if permitted, it will go as surely az
night will follow day. Cut the levee, and cof
fes Of slaves will turn into this fine Territory,
just as certainly as the waters of the MISSISSIPPI
pi would turn upon the city Of New Orleans
Missouri is slave State; we all know that,
and by what promises and pledges she became
So She has nowfrom 10000 to 100000 slaves.
Nebraska to vast extent lies within the same
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nearly level prairies, quito as we'll adapted to
slave labor rs Missouri. Viewing the matter in
the light of experience, how can any one doubt
that slavery will flow Immediately into the con-
tiguous Territory, if the levee is demolished
Will not the inhabitants move q0eaward with
the movement of the tide And will not slaves
as well as masters float on its currents? Ten
years ago, Missourian* informed me that he
and scores of his neighbors had removed to far
distant Oregon and Northern California qciih
their slaDes, though, as is we'll known, it was
very doubtful if thcy would be permitted ulti-
mately to hold them there. 1t is stated that
large numbers in Missouri are now awaiting
the signal to rush into Nebraska. Doubtless the
samo, to certain extent, is true of Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, and Mary
land Threc-ffths Of the territory Of these States
lies in the same ATTITUDES M Missouri and Nc
braska, viz: all Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky,
and portion Of North Carolina and Tennessee
as large as Connecticut. At this moment there
are a million Of slaves on American soil situa-
ed in the same latitude as Nebraska, and in
ferior to both in extent and fertility. And
yet not one Of the masters Of this million will
carry or send slaves to Nebraska!
Further, the States which occupy this Sec
ton Of the South have bred most Of the slaves
which supply all the rest. II is too notorious
that Slavery may be sustained indefinitely in
forming States by the business of breeding
slaves for the planting States. There is an
enormous, but, it is said q wise and economical
expenditure of human life on Southern planta-
tions. This, together with the opening Of new
estates creates great and steady demand
which the farming States supply. "Thc Uigin-
tidl I CROP for Interstate slave trade and OK
portation, takes the place Of corn and swine
1t is estimated that slave, before he is twenty
years old, can earn, even on n soil compare
lively exhausted, sufficient to pay his raising ,
and when he is fit for market, he can transport
himself and is salcable at his masters door.
The raising and iattening OF other animals il
dead expense, from the first moment up to
the delivery in the market The difference
between the human and the brute animal, as
a mere marketable commodity, is as striking
as any other difference between them; and it
is rather surprising that this obvious reflection
has not long ago disabused every human flesh
jobber Of the wild notion Of their identity.
rhe result is, that the price Of sLapc is clear
profit!
According TO data furnished by the last
census, the annual amount OF income received
~ the farmers Of Maryland, Virginia, and Ken
tucty, from this business, is Sl2,000,000. In
this calculation, add nothing for the stimulus
to multiplication, which is generally applied in
the breeding States, and, il is said, with power
ful effect do not refer specifically to North
and South Carolina, and Georgia, because they
lie for the most part further south than Ne
braska; but every one who has examined and
compared tho censuses Of the United States
knows that all the original slave States are
and have been from twenty to fifty years slave
breeding. exporting States. Should Cuba and
the valleys Of the Amazon and it's tributaries
be opened to the American slave trade, there
will be demand for "the vigintialp product,
quite beyond our present capacity 10 supply