New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-05-22
NEBRASKA AID FINALITY.

The leaders IN the Nebraska Conspiracy are deceiy
ing themselves and pushing their followers to ruin
lv mutual assurances that The immediate success of
n cir crime will ensure It's future inpunity. "TO be
'sure" they say, there is some excieIAen. n0r AMI
don't pretend that TIE repeal Of The Missouri
'Rcsticiioni is porular in tie Free States. But let
lit once be carried and shall be ready to prove
that there ia 10 lOpe OF it repeal, and that all fur
Ter sgitation against it must be fru,less. We
shall then appeal to the wealthy, the trading the
tin ill., tie quiet to Join in discCnntenIncng an
excitement which con have 10 other elect than 20
weaken the banls # ihe Eion,-and they cannot
fail 70 be Impressed. and 10 join in sitting the
waves OF agitation
- II tie assassination could tralnnel up tie cons.
"qucuce f-ys BE great dissecior Of human nature,
tlcn Crime might be cxpcdloHi and Virtue another
name for romantic FOLLY. Lady Macbeth thought it
could ani exclaimed, A LITTLE water clears OF this
deed, with the affected careessness OF Douglas
or Rbbard But she soon found her calculation
mistaken one: so will they. Analogy alone ought to
suffice to urdeceiye them. The sacrifice of principle
made Iy the North in accepting the Missouri Com
promise at first proved fatal TO most OF the Repre-
sentatiycs Of free States who favored it. Most Of the
Members from free States who voted for it were
thrown out Of public life at the next elect and few
oil them ever got buck again. Parrot, Palmer, Eddy,
Shaw. and others who voted 10 admit Missouri a
slave State in consideration OF guaranteed equivalents
to Freedom which the south lis repudiating never
recovered from tie stunning blow thus inflicted upon
their own popularity and fortunes. Ii Will go harder
with those who may sell out the North. because
newspapers are more abundant and Intelligence
geuer,. than tley were thirty years go.
We have said that the passage of tie Nebraska bill
will 70, end the agitation which its proposition has
cited. We 20 further 1t Will not even settle the le
gal que;.on which il contempates. Congress may
vote to open Nebraska to slavery; but that does not
prove that slavery will thereafter have the legal right
70 exist there. Sound constitutional lawyers maintain
that Congress has right TO repeal the Missouri CON-
pact of l,20 that any afectation of doing its
pr, would be nullity. The Ion. GEORGE A. SiN-
MONS Rspreseutatve of the Essex district ofour State
sud widely known rs ripe scholar and able lawyer,
IN lis speech On tie 10th inst discussed this point
thoroughly and gave it as his decided opinion that
there exists no power in the General Government to
leaslize slavery in Nebraska and kansas None who
brow Mr. s will believe lin capable # giving legal
opinion which lie hiss not carefully weighed does
ccnsciertiou.ly entertain. We cannot find room for
flttNA iuk hi4oN H. 'NtloNtr WI. eA'n lis
tearing On tie Ioint we src considering:
Il sav then that the Missouri Compromise was a
.0r ro,as cr. and which tle cOu..s wll D. bound
&c 81 d il. on 20 a. action Of Coulrcs. Oher
-ent-,nen have e. oxen II 4 - e'mH'c' bin'i-F 20
Iol0f and good nia iut 10 BOT intend 90 repeat helr
argrn,l. It : of 10 use. Where lis 40. found,
Iust tu.n 10 scUe'h ~ clse.
Ill Is Iiaa, tha. he Missouri Act c97 - ub-
sf1lsiy Tie OHIO ordinance. ODsag Gee f1sf cf-
c. '0... S'0rfrg. Each Of ;Lem disia-u' he. be-
The irerseu. aIa the permanent IL .he way
between he tMpofary proysors for territorial g0-a-
ric the Iernrn-Ut provisions embodied IN the b
Of ,' Tie, tie Ohio ordinance declares shall remain
for,rr, and DC Missouri ct hat Tie people shall a-ways
be entitled TO- them.
This Missouri charter. Mr. Chairman. was. Ike the
OF e. GCClf fl ard acted BY lie settlers b. im-a-
tons and sel iltl. made lie aitL % b. and became
iLl. ~ 3, ai..s % lie full extent %: AREA AID IL
TcVuaiCl - ~ territories 70 be formed w. thin IT,
ard Ui con. stations 20 granted 10 lc.a. Now sir the
vas only "a auerimtu. e. the charter C. i.i2 by al s1g
flc il article e tie Ohio nance fl.hlcnr slavery
Which Lad tttl omitted in the OF -ra III the nj
nest Cc,Cr ed tie Territory ~ 1i.l - which dill
lcf ttt ue cff,e III vegr az -Wari II lei. an i.
illus itcI pa. ell Iace oi the cAar,e. .som thai time
O. ut,l Is 4 originally rc0II ia .. The Te-r0rv
..tr Ilnpt 10. Gs political crumrly. 10 alccp.
tlcrr covered hy ihe amendment ron which he Sia.s
O.. lfi vel Iowa All Auues "a, after
wc. taken ar erected urlc, see5se organizations bu.
lCs,.s- relua.rdts-Eebrasks and Kansas.
Tie ac constituting the Territory o. Missouri ike he
o!t constituting me Norf--t ltrTieTy embodes
t. subsistence Of colonial ci-4--. viz certain RIGHTS ard
Trs C-es irfrchCs Guaranteed "a The settlers
l one d. siG ailois AL settlements az sccurel
= --.it o,r.-r. or .ac o.ter Ih Missouri C'-i-