The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08
WESTERN DEMOCRACY AND THE Ne
BRASKA BILL.

TFrom the Charleston Evening News Ds",'' Il
Tha Washington Union quotes IRON the
Chicago Times the synopsis II contains
Con Coss' speeeh in Chicago. The SUBJECT OIL
the speech is, Of course, SLAYER! a"u ',e
braska Bill. According to the Oh'e"so I,",
Cen Cass stripped the question Oh All 'he
,oi.renrosentation which aboIitionism anu
ha,o thrown around it, lie illus
- most forcibly the pure non-nterven-
tion by Congress with the subject oil slavery
IN the Territories which they had established
II. disnroved-and we think to the full salts
faction of all who heard him-the accu-
sotion that the bill Iegislated slavery into the
Territories. lie maintained as clearly settled
Lam that slavery could not erist an tie Terrific
yics rithowt positive lao TO protect and s"Sta"
it," In reply to some structures III the kIeh-
mond Enquirer, the Detroit Free Press IN
which Gen. Cqss is authoritatively represent
ed. states his position also to be- 'that SLAVE
rv can only erist by virtue Of laes passed oy
the Territorial Government az the Ae6rdS@d
Terriforn." Gen Cass doctrine OF non inter-
yention is therefore this; Slavery cannot so
into n Territory in consequence OF the colonl-
cation of any of our Territories by Southern
men with their slaves. In fact, Tor slave
holder to carry his slaves with him into
Territory is to free them. 1t is not until
Territorial Legislature shall pass law estab-
fishing slavery in Territory that 1t can then
legally exist This is the Generals doctrine;
and when appied,to the late Nebraska and
Kansas Act, it has not at all authorized or
sanctioned slavery in these Territories. Not
n slave can exist within them until these Ter
ritoral Legislatures shall pass law estab-
fishing slavery within their limits So ac-
cording to Cen Cass' view of these acts, eve
nv slave which has already, or shall hereafter
be carried into either Of these Territories, is,
ipso fdcto, free This is what the South has
gained by these acts. Even the poor priyi-
lege of entering these Territories with their
slaves and keeping them as such, until the
frstTerritorial Legislature composed ofsquat-
ters shall declare them free, is not granted by
these acts. Did the Southern Representa-
tyes understand that this was the meaning
of the bill when they supported it Senator
Douglass not only takes this ground of Gen.
Cass', but he goes further; he claims the merit
for the bill that by aboishing the Missouri
Compromise he has excluded the plea of Free
Soil He has opened the way for the free
States to build up some six new free States
South of the Missouri Compromise line of
% deg. 80 M Gen. Shields follows in the
same strain. The Washington Union intro
duces with hattering commentaries the sketch
of his speech lately delivered at Springfield.
1t speaks as follows
Gen. Shields has entered the fight with
earnestness and ability. We see a sketch of
his speech at Springfield, in which he sustain
ed the principles of the Nebraska bill with
great force and effect Speaking of the prin-
ciple Of nonintervention, he said:
ut allowed the people Che said) to fix their
own condition, manage their own affairs and
work out their own happiness in their own
way. 1t gave equal chances to equal States
in the settlement and government of common
territory. Kansas and Nebraska were free
now, and the people there would keep them
free. Tile establishment of slavery in these
Territories was not only improbable, but i'm
to let people work out great good for them
selves than have it forced upon them by 9TH
ers; and this was the way in which freemen
always do what is great and good, by their
own free and voluntary act. This principle
of nonintervention would not only keep Kan
sas and Nebraska what they are now-free-
but would by its full and fair operation, If we
acquire the continent of the lsthmus of Da-
rien, work with such powerful force and eff
feet that no man would ever see another slave
Territory on this continents
Gentlemen of the South were these the
objects you had in view, as the fruit of your
legislation, when you supported this measure
or are these the allies on whom you will pro
pose to rely, to protect the rights and insti
tutons of the Southl According to thei.
stat,ment of their designs, they differ not a
whit from the Abolitionists in their policy
towards the South Non-intervention as
completely means the triumph of the Free
States and the exclusion of the South from
the Nebraska and Kansas Territory rs any
direct legislation can effect. And this is oil
the support we are to receive from the Demo
cratic party of the Northern States-that
which the Washington Union daily sustains
whilst publishing FORTH with concentrations
their anti.savery disclaimers and denuncia
tions, that we are to look for the preserva
ton of the institution of slavery.
LYNCH LAW AND EXCITEMENT IN TEXAS
The people of Navarro county, Texas, have
lately been greatly excited on account of the
abduction Of two muatto boys, and consp
racy to murder Col Elliott, their owner. A
man named Wells, who was implicated by
the confession of another named Morgan, was
seized by some unknown persons, who hung
him, horribly mutilated his body, and then
threw it into creek, where it was found
Nine respectable citizens were charged with
this latter outrage, but after examination
were DISCHARGED, MORGAN has since stated