Demoine courier., 1854-07-13
Political Intelligence---Ab0ut NebgaS-
ka and Kansas.

Nebraska music as will as the Wings.
Lest our Locofoco contemporaries should
neglect to tell their party friends what
ldnes they have TO dance 10, we will do
that kind Office ourselves.
Stark county is one of the Ole strong
holds of the late Democratic party Of
Ohio. A meeting of the leading Demo.
Gratis therein was lately held, al which
the following resolutions were passed:
Resofced, That we will hoist the ban.
ner of repeal, and never cease our la
bors IN the good cause until the Infamous
Nebraska bill is expunged; and we
pledge ourselves not to vote fo. any man,
for any Office, unless he stands pledged
to use all his Influence 10 repeal the same,
without regard TO party organization.
ResoiUed, that il is the duty OF The
General Government TO cut entirely loose
from all connection with slavery, and
repeal all laws protecting it, where il
has the constitutional power to do SO.
1LLINols--PLAIN TALK. The Gale.
ma Jeliersonan, Democratic Journal,
speaks out in the following plain and
unequlvocal language in reference to the
passage of the Nebraska bill, the fayori,s
measure OF the present administration:
The D6mocratic Masses.-The Ne.
braska bill just passed. is The offspring Of
politicians. II is the dirty baniling of
an avowed candidate for The Presidency.
With it. or with the lying pretences of
sovereignty upon which i. is based-,he
people, the Democratic masses. have no.
Thing in common. They were satisfied
with matters as they were before this
viper's egg was haiched-they relied
upon the constitution and the conpro-
misses as they we've wrtten-,hev were
content with the settlement of the slavery
question as wise men lad agreed that i,
shonid be leit--they wished for no re-
newal OF strife, for no internecine war
that could bu. have disastrous result
they saw every foot Of territory 10 which
the United States had claim covered
with law that they thought TO be final
and they believed that the time and oc-
casion for sectional jealousy were forever
gone--that the agilators trade was done
that his stock was sold OUT and his
shop shut up. Aboitionism with these
masses, at the day of General Pierce's
election, was of discount Ii was vir.
tually defunci .-.. ..........
The unchaslened ambition of one man
---lhe foolish and ,reacherous conplici,v
OF President from whom better things
were expected-ihe weakness and cri,ni.
lnal subseryicncy Of Congress. have
changed the aspec, of affairs. The par.
~ that Haunted It's victorious banners in
twenty-seven Ststes in ls52--and that
was sworn. TO repress agitation and give
the country peace, is broken into thou.
sand Fragments, without The power of
aggregaion--ihe peace that was promis
ed assumes the form of bitter hostility
where The sun shone. dark clouds now
iower-where hope was, despair sits.
New York WING pREss-Tur1R
PLATFoRM.--l'he N. Y. Courier, an old
fashioned Wing paper of the CLAW
school, always tifm and faithful to the
South, pouring forth in former canvas.
ses scorching phi!ipics agains, Free
Sollers and Abolitionlsts, that crushed
down their ranks like red ho, balls bea
ched forth from the bulldogs" of"Sev..
| enty- Four, now slernly resents and re-
pels the Nebraska bill as bomb .shel! TO
rend the Union. On the Louisville
Journal reproaching the Courier and
asking the editor if he will become an
Abolitionist, the Courier replies:
1--WE cannot be driven into the Aboli-
ton ranks now or hereafter; but we re-
peat whatw have heretofore said, that
we will not support any man for any
office who is not openly and ayowedly.
IN favor of repeal of The Nebraska in
iquily; and that never with our sanction
shall another slave State be admitted in
to this Union until the compromise of
1920 is restored to the statute books
The Louisville Journal NAV call this ia.
nalicism or whatever else it pleases; the
editor of that paper we'll knows that we
cannot be driven from our position, Of
iend whom il NAV. The South have
deliberately taken from their Northern
friends the only ground upon which ,hey
could befr;end them and retain their SELF
respect; and until the platform thus ruth.
lessly knocked from under them has
been restored, we, al least, shall be found
acting in conformity with our convic.
tions of right, instead of loaninp our.
selves as football 10 men who appear
ia have taken it for granted that because
we Getest abol,ionism. we should SUBJ
mi: to the indigni.y OF sustaining those
who have openly repudiated their faith
aud disregarded their most sacred pledg-
es. In our judgment, fanatic is emil.
lied 10 more respect than knaye."
! RiGHTs OF MINoRITIEs.--The Mer-
curry Charleston, S. c. in view of the
tyrannical manner in which the Nebras-
ka ill was passed through the House..
in defiance of all right and precedent,
says:
"There are some who congratulate
themselves and the country, upon the
success of Mr.. Stephens tactics, who
will yet regret and decry their applica-
,ion. They will ye. feel the value of
the rights of minorities, where thew be-