The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-03-23


sa tne 20 Qls "a iuatel nnd eye dle
cnssoa spfane IS Is tie Senate DUR which
sumner Seward, Wide, Hassenden, eli and
Wilson, 90 Abolition fre.brand of ha body
took occasion 70 make manifest their dian mist
purposes and tha hatred d tho South. II
npoA be consideration of tho bin offered 81
atoF Touncey. 81 Connecticut to protect Office
and othor persons acting under tie authorii
the United states. This Bin provides that Il 8
suit be commenced il any State Court, against
any officer 81 tie United States, 81 other person
Coz en- act done under law, Or color 81 law Of tie
United States the defendant may remove such
Sc to The United States court ste ID that
circuit and If there IS no circuit ia The district
inthe Court clothed With Circuit powers
Mr. Wade tie FreesoiI Senator from Ohio,made
the first onslaught upon the bill 81 declaring that
Il was designed 70 again introduce The agitation og
slavery into Congress This declaration it IS
evident was only trick 81 Wade TO excite
agitation himself For, when did be 81 those Who
act with him ever seriously deprecate upon the
subject Of slavery IA professional agitator-. ID
man whose meat and drink is agitation -rising ii
his place with grave air protesting against agi-
tationl Nas there ever such graceless inpudence
displayed ii the Senate Of the United States be-
forea Why, as the whole country knows agaita-
ton IS the only business Of Wade's life its one
great purpose the allin-all Of patriotism and
public duty a. this Ohio incendiaryis pleased to
understand the terms And Yet the hypocrite
efIeets to feel uneasy at the thought Of agita.
ton!
Senator Douglass and we record It to his last
ing honor had the nlanliness, the independence,
and the patriotism as hehas had throughout the
whole Of the Nebraska controversy, to beard
Wade and bis confederates to their faces and tel
the cowardly traitors bis opinion 81 them ami
their motives. He well said that The Ohio SEN
ators passion was not against the bill under con
sideration but against the constitution 81 Tie
country-that he himself went for the law because
Ohio did not--ana for the sake Of putting down
rebellion and preventing anarchy. M. Douglass
proceeded at greater length and boldly declared
his readiness to meet Wade is q northern man Oh
Northern soil to discuss theprinciples q re e
braska bill with him. We max GLOWING
extract from an Bis senator
q am at little loss to understand the motives /
of the Senator from Ohio. His point is to make |
out that this is the most INDUSTRIOUS measure ever
brought forward III the bill be monstrous how /
can Northern men excuse Southern men for an /
infamous act? He does not choose to arraign
Southern man. He says yon may go to extremes
if you will be a demagOgue faEslfy history and
cater to the prejudices 1T my people 1T home Il
had trusted that among gentlemen there would
not be charges Of philanthrophy, which the au-
thors knew were false when they made them Why
then this onslaught upon the Senator from Con
nectieut at this timer rejoice that as Northern
man born at the north with no synpathies 10 IT,
terests save what Northern men have in the whole
country that I did introduce the Nebraska Kan-
sas bill Washington Territory was admitted IN
to the Union in 1853 leaving her at her pleasure
as to Slavery. One year afterwards brought in
the Nebraska bill the very same. Why then this
The first vas 4 Wing doctrine
which that party embodied Is the Washington
Territory under the platform and banner. of Gen.
Scott You turn against the Nebraska bill be-
cause hereby you can get men into power who
otherwise would never be elevated to Office. 1T
IS hypocritical and you know il tobe so. have
thrown it into your teeth q thousand times. The a
yas.ae IS to dissolve the Union. There IS not an
aboiitioIst in che country who is not disnnionist
And WHY? The Constitution recognizes Slavery II
Tf vou do not accept this element it IS yonr duty
o 90 to the dissolution Of the Union. It IS the
bottom Of the scheme ron have IN view. Nebras-
"a you do not care for There IS not a principle
d the Nebraska bill but was IN the Washington
1ill This Union cannot be preserved except By
ideIity to the Constitution Shall we be true
support all laws which emanate under the
constitution. We will admit new States to have
uch lau they please So, long as they do not
rotate b Constitution. While Virginia or any I,
lther State has slaves, theneW States should have
he same liberty. [
There is no man North or South but must adj
aire Senator Douglas for the independence with
which be thus expressed himself in this debate
And as we are free to acknowledge our ohIiga-
ions to him for the firmncss aud defiance with
7hich be met and replied the onsanghts Of Wade
nd his allies upon the constitution and rights Of
be South. During the entire discussion he stood
3 to them like man and q patriot while they
remhled and skulked ike traitors and towards as
hey are. Il
Mr.. Gillette figured in the debate inviting at
antion to and commenting for an hour Of mole
pon what he calledthe Black Code Of the Dis 2
net Of Columbia notwithstanding It was shown y !
y aLessrs Dawson, Rusk and Jones that that book
las slender upon the South and npon the coun-
y, and that the laws it contained were as obso S
,te as the BIue-LaWs of Connecticut Mr. Jones
{ Tennessee declared that tie understanding ex- I
ted among these Abolition Senators to make q d
ombined demonstration at the time they didsand I
oneluded with expressing himself il thefolloVing