The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-10


Tbs question Of slavery slavery has at last bssn
raised in regard to the southern portion of Nebr sska
Some Of them have their slaves already here Who ara
amongst our most enterprisng aud popular citizens.
and We are well aware that, though they say but little
the "peculiar institution" in Southern Nebraska it
can DO done by . majority vote. Emtgrauts from the
faster perhaps than any other style Of settlers Em
grants from Northern States scarce at present ia
proportion TO those from the South and south OF the
Platte river Is already the most populous portion of the
Territory and Is m is acknowledged by all to be by far
the best agricultural part Of Nebraska 1t matter OF
importance to all whether 1t be free slave State
We DO DOT affirm; IS many unacquaintsd with our set
tiers do and WILL that there possibility Of Sou hsrn
Nebraska ever beoomiog slave State. On the con
sen Why with majority Of slave State emgrants for
her population. South Platte Nebraska should not
eventually become powerful supporter OF slavery.
Northern men, who cake the ground that every mau
born south OF Mason and Dxons Line 10 born idolent
s snS are foolish and
enterprise in Nebraska which originated In Soutaern
beads and was being pushed and hurried along
more truth that oil Southern INDECENT and
imbece as come fanatics confidently assert than 1t is
which everybody knows isn't exactly the case.
The cry has gone up from abolition throsts siavery
shall not enter in Nebraska" It is the yen OF IA
paticism that shrieked in Kansas and called hs Mssou
ans there to make that Territory slave Territory II
is the voice that reverberated in the halls OF
National Congress- that missed In the negro saving m obs
OF Boston and Chicago and that now calls slavery TO this
Territory by regular challenge. Kansas Is slave
State. Who FASTENED to make it sos Abolition pou.
clans Who desired 1t to become slave State than
al other living men? The opposers of the Nebraska b
In order that their predictions might prove true that
they might be written down prophets Northern
on Southern States sever the Union allow each
Of them to be President OF the United states early
as 1866
II there is thing tnan any other that gives
vitality to slaveryth propagates itthat spreads
like an Infection that thing is the frothng boiling
rampant abolitonsm of the Northern States Had
existed. would agO. n thA In
scription upon its tombstone would have recorded
natural death; but verging towards its dissolution the
gavsnc action OF abolition oppositon applied and
IT revived to fight and increase in the battle
heightened, until 1t has gro formidable foe to
those who first threw down the glove aud the gauntlet
And now slavery Is here in a small way, . few
groes-twenty or Fc-and its supporters are coming
faster and faster What sends them hereY A beautiful
country Is no. all that they seek, but slavery victory
over those who have challenged them They seek to
drown that bypoertical voice that cried slavery shall
not enter Nebraska, and prove It false they to
conquer those who ha tainted them by making south
Of the Platte river . slave State.
The men who started this excitement live in Boston
and other Eastern cities, and send and then hand
full Ct deluded mortals to these Territories carry
the farce and illustrate their devotion to freedom
attempting to govern all In and after the OF
doctrine taught by Seward Wendell Phillips, Theodore
Parker, It id omne genus. And have some excite
ment in Nebraska city in the way Of debates,
door. step dscussons and the question is Shall Ne.
braska south Of the Platte river, be slave Stater