Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-20

sympathy with European tyrants and their miu-
ions But the report was and is believed well
founded by the great majority Of our country
men, so that it is not surprising their passions
have been infamed against him.
But, he has left us and we hope Discord
may now cease. Let not our countrymen be
arrayed against each other as aliens, because
of a difference of religious faith. Let the Prin.
ciple of Free Thought and Free Utterance be
everywhere recognised in this country, as ga
cred and inviolate. Let not American Catho-
lies countenance political dogmas incompatible
with the fundamental principles on which our
republican institutions rest Let them not
countenance any claim set up in behalf of the
Church to control, or interfere with, the exer-
else Of mans political rights. Let Protest
ants rid themselves of prejudice and animosity
against their Catholic fellow-citizens. Let them
abstain, even in moments Of excitement from
insulting demonstrations against them. Surely
they can maintain the right of private judg-
ment, calmly and firmly urge their own dis
tinctive opinions, and meet promptly at the
ballot-box whatever attacks may be made on
the Common School system, without being pro-
voked into prosecuting spirit. In this coun-
try we are bound to guard sedulously against
two great evils violent conflicts between
Races and between Religions
As the editor of political journal, we have
nothing to do with the religious. worship or
creed of the Catholic Church When we see
Prelates and Presses Of that Church assailing
political doctrines which we cherish as the
creed of Democracy, we shall feel it our duty
to confront them, not in spirit Of religious
bigotry, not in the character of polemic,
but as an advocate Of American Republican
ism just as we have done 10 the case Of some
Protestant Ministers and Presses that have
gone out Of their way to uphold Slavery and
Despotsm.
WAvERING-A DECEPTIVE MOVEMENT.
There is an evident wavering among the
managers under whose auspices the Nebraska
Bill was brought forward. Soon after its in
PRODUCTION, it was apparent that they were
rather disappointed at the manner in which
their work was received We pointed out the
fact, that while the bill was intended as
cover to the designs of those who were deter
mined to force Slavery into Nebraska the
declaration in regard to the future admission
of States to be formed out of it, did not form
ally touch the relations of the Territory to
Slavery so long as it remained Territory. This
omission was unacceptable to the ultras of the
South, and accordingly, a few days subse-
quently, appeared an entire section, entitled
the 2lst section, which, we are informed, had
been omitted through "a clerical error
Remarkably enough this omitted section
supplied what we had pointed out as deficient,
providing expressly, to prevent all miscon-
struction, that I" the true intent and mean
ing of the act, so far as the question of Slavery
was concerned" was to carry into practical
operation certain principles established by the
Compromise Of 1850, the first of which ia
that all questions pertaining 10 Slavery in the
Territories, and in the now Stetes to be formed
therefrom, are to be tetf 10 the people residing
therein, through their appropriate representa-
tives"
0fcourse, this direct recognition and affirm
alton Of the right of the People Of the Terri
tory Of Nebraska, to establish Slavery therein,
if they should choose to do 80, was equivalent
to an abrogation of the Missouri Compromise,
which had forever excluded Slavery from that
Territory.
So the Union and Detroit Free Press thought,
and they congratulated the country upon the
in the Nebraska bill of this
principle Of Congressional Non Intervention.
But the managers had now gone too far on
the other side, and they soon became aware that
their bill, with this afterthought in the form OF
q 2lst section, would encounter strong Demo
cratic opposition, and q the organ" began to
open its eyes to the fact that the Administra-
lion Party was in danger Of being divided by it.
Again there was wayering which was be.
trayed by the organ" in quoting editorially
the article to which we referred yesterday.
from the Albany atlas, which assumed that
probably they both agreed that tho bill left
The Territory upon the ground Of the Missouri
Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
We showed that the Union had committed it.
'elf against such an understanding but the
TACT that il quoted such an assumption in edi-
torial type, in its editorial column, without dis.
'ent showed either that I" it had been taken
Aback,n or il was about TO stack ship
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