Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-06-20
From the Nebraska City News of May 10.
GREAT EXCITEMENT TN NEBRASKA CITY,


at last been raised in regard to the South
ern portion of Nebraska. We have with u.
many Missourians and Virginians-some O
them have their slaves already here, who are
among our most enterprissng and popular
citizens, and we are we'll aware that though
they say but little in regard to the matter
they are bent upon establishing the "pecu.
liar institution" in Southern Nebraska, if i,
can be done by a majority vote. Emigrant;
from Southern States are moving here South
of the Platte, faster, perhaps, than-any other
style Of settlers. Emigrants from Northern
States are scarce at present, in proportion
to those from the South, and as South Of
the Platte River is already the most popu.
lous portion of the Territory, and as it is
acknowledged by all to be by far the best
agricultural part of Nebraska, it is a'matter
of Importance 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 be-.
coming slave State. On the contrary, we
see no impossibiity about it. We see no
reason why, with majority Of slave State
emigrsnts for her population, South Platte
Nebraska should not eventually become a
powerful supporter of slavery.
Northern men who take the ground that
every man born south of Mason and Dixon's
line is born indolent and without ambition,
are silly. .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 truth that all Southern men are indo-
lent and imbecile, as some fanatics conf.
IDENTIFY assert, than it is that all Northern
men are industrious and ingenious, which
everybody knows isn't exactly the case.
The cry has gone up from Abolition
throats, "slavery shall not enter Nebraska" !"
It is the same yell of .fanaticism that shrek.
ed in Kansas, and called the Missourians
there to make that territory slave territory.
1t is the same voice that reVerberated in the
halls OF our national Congress, that hissed
in the negro.saving mobs Of Boston and
Chicago, and that now calls slavery to this
territory by regular challenge. Kansas is
ays STATE Msa RaS5sHsa IL IL Ssf Rsk v8g
mens The opposers of the Nebraska bill,
in order that their predictions might prove
true; That they might be written down pro:
phets excite Northern war on Southern
States; sever the Union, or allow each one
of them to be "a President of the United
States as early as 1856.
If there is one thing more than any other
that gives vita Atty to slavery-that propa.
gates it-,hat spreads itlike an infection;
that one thing is the frothing, boiling, ram.
pant -aboltionism of the Northern States.
Had it never existed slavery would have
died years ago, and tine inscription upon it's
tombstone would have recorded natural
death; but verging' towards its dissolution,
the galvanic action opposition was applied,
and it revived to fight aud increase in
strength, as the battle heightened, until now
it has grown a formidable foe to those who
first threw down the glove and the gauntlet.
And now slavery is here, in a small way,
few negroes, twenty or so, and its suPpor'
ters are coming faster and faster. What
sends them here9 A beautiful country is
not all that they seek, but a slavery victory
over those who had challenges them. They
seek to drown that hypocritical voice that
cried "slavery shall not enter Nebraska
and prove it false; they seek to conquer
those who have .taunted them, by making
south of the. Plate river slave State.
The men who started this excitement live
in Boston and other cities, and send now
and then handful Of deluded mortals, to
these territories to carry out the farce. and
illustrate their devotion to freedom, by at
tempting to govern all men in and after the
manner of doctrines taught by Seward
Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, ct ia
omne genus. And so we have some excite
ment in Nebraska city in the way of stree
debates, doorstep discussions; and the ques
ton is shall Nebraska south Of the Plat.
river be a slaue STATE"
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