The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-06-28
THE BALL 0PENED-GREAT EXCITEMENT IN
NEBRASKA CITY,

The question of Slavery or no Slavery, has at
last been raised in regard to the southern Dor
ton of Nebraska. We have with US many Mis-.
sourians and Virginians some of them have
their slaves already here, who are among our
most enterprising and popular citizens, and we
are well aware, that though they say but little
in regard to the matter, they are bent upon es-
tablishing "the peculiar institution in South
ern Nebraska, if it can be done by a majority
VOTE Emigrants from Southern States are
moving here south of the Platte, faster, per-
haps, than any other style of settlers. Emf.
grants from Northern States are scarce, at
present, in proportion to those from the South
and as south of Platte river is already the most
populous portion of the Territory, and as it is
acknowledged by all to be by far the best agri-
cultural part of Nebraska, it is q matter of i'm.
portance to all, whether it be free or slave
State.
We do not affirm, as many unacquainted
with our settlers do and will, that there is no
possibility of Southern Nebraska ever becoming
slave State. On the contrary, we see no i'm
possibility about it; we see no reason why, with
a majority of slave-State emigrants for her
population, South Platte Nebraska should not
eventually become powerful supporter of Sla
very.
Northern men, who take the ground that
every man born south of Mason and Dixon's
line is born indolent, and without ambition are
sllly-pated, foolish men, and they reckon without
their host. We have seen as much enterprise
in Nebraska, which originated in Southern
heads, and was being pushed and hurried along
by Southern hands, as we have of Northern
undertakings. 1t is no more q, truth that all
Southern men are indolent and imbecile as
some fanatics confidently assert, than it is that
all Northern men are industrious and in penious
which everybody knows is not exactly the case
The cry has gone up from Abolition tbroats
Slavery shall not enter Nebraska 1t is the
| same yell of fanaticism that shrieked in Kan
sas, and called the Missourians there, to make
that Territory a slave Territory. 1t is the same
voice that reverberates in the halls of our Ma
tional Congress, that Kissed in the negro-savine
mobs OF Boston and Chicago, and that now
calls Slavery to this Territory, by a regula,
challenge Kansas is slave State. who
fastened to make it SO? Abolition politi
clans. Who desired it to become a slave State
| more than all other living men? The oppo
sers of the Nebraska Bill, in order that theil
predictions might prove true-that they might
be written down prophets, excite Northern
war on Southern States, sever the Union, O,
allow each one of them to be President of the
United States as early as 1856.
If there is one thing more than any othe,
that gives vitality to Slavery-that propagates
it-that spreads it like an infection, that one
thing is the frothing, boiling, rampant Adolf
tionism of the Northern States. Had it neve,
existed, Slavery would have died years ago
| and the inscription on its tombstone would
have recorded natural death; but, vergine
towards its dissolution, the galyanic action o
Abolition opposition was applied, and it re
vived, to fight and increase in strength, as tn,
battle heightened, until now it has grown
formidable foe to those who first threw down
| the glove and the gauntlet,