The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-26
TgE pELusIoys AGAINST TnE NEBRASKA BILL


After yanly struggling to the sentiment OF the
North in favor of restoring the Missouri Compromise the
abolitionss have formally abandoned that impractcao
y and are now gathering themselves upon the platform
Of no more new States their issue amounts to that
or nothing when they assert that no State shall be admit
ted into the Union which recognises slavery in its con-
stituton The New York Commercial Advertiser, old
wing paper several months ago declared in an article OF
great good sense that the idea of restoring the Missouri
Compromise was an absurd impossibity. It will be re-
membered that the Washington Union among the
first to take ground that this idea of Restoration enunc
aod in Mr. Stewards speech against the Nebraska bill
could never be realized and that il would be abandoned
even by that arcagator The result has proved that
argument was as correct prophecy well founded
His abolition followers could not maintain their position
They abandoned it before the batteries of the democratic
press The black republican convention in New York dis
tinctly admitted that the Compromise could not be re-
stored The New York Tribune followed suit and we OBJ
serve that even the New York Courier and Enquirer,
which paper ready to unite with Garrison 10 Ell
feet that object has itself grown sick of the trial. and
throws up its hand in despair 1t may be that there is
another reason for this sudden and general surrender
the part of the abolition combination. 1t may be that
the aboihonsts begin to see that the restoration Of
that the Wanted benefits to the Of freedom in the
North of that restriction would not be satisfactorily real
lied by the sentiment they have been poisoning in the free
States should that restriction beappled to new territory
hereafter acquired
Having therefore, abandoned for their own reasons all
intention of restoring the Missouri Compromise line the
black republicans resortng to the most reckless false
hoods against the friends of the Nebraska BILL and msep
rcsenting the objects Of that bill with characteristic indus
try 1t astonishing how successfully few bad men can
for short time mislead public opinion This very cheat
of restoring the Missouri line exposed and given
up operated in various quarters just as II IT had not been
most dcluson and hardly have the authors
Of this cheat been compelled to confess 1t before they en-
bark in other and IL possible more wicked, attempts to
deceive the people These attempts run through every
grade personal caumny the friends Of the Nebraska
BILL and of malignant perveron OF the principles OF that
measure The common of their appeals is the aega-
ton that II the principle Of the Nebraska bill is based up
on popular sovereignty il is strange that the people OF 'be
Territories are authorized to elect their governors and
their iudges There is not abolitionst in the free
States who got this lesson by heart and who does
not parrot away this strain by the hour In recent
speech delivered by the Hon. Stephen A. Douglass at Chi
caro Illinois, report Of which we find in the Chicago
Times Of the ls he disposes of this feature Of the black
republican argument against the Nebraska bill in man
ner 50 triumphant that we refrain laying the fol-
lowing extract from his speech before our readers:
He then said that as Judge Trumbull had made this
question Of the Nebraska act the issue between them he
would proceed to its consideration Trumbu he had been
informed in his speech on Thursday night had objected to
the bill because did carry ont the principle of popular
sovereignty by allowing the people to elect their governor
secretary Judges marsba DC Because these things were
denied the Nebraska denounced infamous, &c.
Il should be remembered that Trumbul and his friends pro-
fesed an approval of the compromise acts of 1885, They
were support OF the territorial acts Of 1850 yet
Il should also be remembered that the acts of 1850 both
qured the appointment Of all these officers OF the Territory
by the President and not by the people How be hon.
ety approve the acts of 1885, requiring the appointment OF
these BY the President and denounce the Nebraska
act as infamous because 1t does precisely the same
thing? That part of the Nebraska act denounced by
Trumbul as Infamous copied literally from the
acts of 1850, which Trumbul endorses, and insists
were Just, right and proper With what show Of
honesty can Trunbu make this matter the subject of
assault upon the friends of the measure? Who these
Judges the Territories The act makes them United
States Judges and conrs upon them jurisdiction but
what is conferred upon the United States judges in illinois,
Who appoints the judges Of the Unit ed States in this State
The President The act gives them no local Jurisdiction It,
provides that they have such other and further
urisdction as the people of the Territory confer upon
them then they become the judges selected by the people
to exercise local Jurisdiction The marshal of the Territory
has no local Jurisdiction that not exercised by the marshal
Of this State The district attorney has local duties not
performed by the like officer in Illinois These judicial Off
GERS Of tho Territories them stand upon precisely the
footing that like officers stand in this State. The highest
duty Of the governor the Territory is commander of the
militia to defend the white inhabitants from the Indians and
the Indian from the wrongs Of the white In this
pacty he necessarily superintendent Of Indian affairs Of
the United States the Territory and SUCH must and
ought to be United States officer. The secretary Of the
Territory is the dsbursing officer of the United States and
having the custody the public money is of course Off
car appointed by the President The compromise of
1880 for which Trumbu and his 'oldners profess such
bigh regard have these provisions in them, and Trum
bull knew the fact when he arraigned this Why
not then the compromise act infamous Also
when lie that the provisions in the Nebraska act
copied from the territorial acts of 1852
GA Voice. because il did not include slavery.
Judge Douglas. Then why did he not assign the true
objection Applause The gentleman who had just
had stated the true lie too honest for
his leaders.
Another Voice. lie had not been to school.
Judge Douglas. No! but he had learned to speak the
truth without going school, loud appause But these
very same provisions the establishing territorial
governments in Oregon, Washington, and Minnesota. But
who ever denounced these Infamous who Aad
been vGed for voting for them
Now what the provisions in the Nebraska upon
the slavery question The first in these words
And when the said Territory any part thereof shall be
received into tho Union State, it shall be admitted with
without slavery their constitution shall prescribe the
time of their admission
"was that right was wrong? [Cres Of right ghtr