Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1855-06-12
From the Nebraska City News, May 1871
GInnnr,, in MnhraSka


Tbenucstion of slavery or no slavery, has at last
been raised in regard to the Southern portion oil Ne
hruska. We have with us many Mlssourluns ana
NirginiRns some of them hare theW SLapeS EHtFeday
here who arc among our most cnterprlslng ana pop
ulnr citizens, and we are well aware that though
they say but little in regard TO the matter they are
bent upon establishing the peculiar lnsutaton'
in Southern Nebraska if it eau be done by major
ity vote. Emigrants from southern States are mo-
wing here South of the Platte, faster perhaps than
any other style of settlers Emigrants from northern
States at present in proportion to those
from the South and South of the Platte river is
acknowledged by all to be by far the best Ngricu-
cultural part of Nebraska it is II matter OF lmpor-
lance TO all whether it be Il free or slave State
We do not affirm, many unacquniIited with
settlers do and will, that there IS no possbllty
of Southern Nebraska ever becoming slave State
On the Contrary-wc impossibility about it
we see no with majority of slave-state en-
igrants for her population South-Platte Nebraska
should not eventually become powerful supporter
Of slavery.
Northern men who take the ground that every
born South of Mason and Dixon's line Is born
indolent and without ambition, are y-pated Tool
ish 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 dlong by Southern hands us We have
of Northern undertakings. 1t is no more Il truth
that ali Southern ndOleut and imbecilc, as
some fanatics confidently assert, than it is that all
Northern men are industrious and ingenious, which
every body knows isn't exactly the case.
The cry has gone UP from abolition throats, ''Sia-
very shall not enter Nebraska" 1t is the yell
of fanaticsn that shrieSel in Kansas and called the
Missourinus there to make that Territory slave
Territory 1t is the same voice that reverbGTNtcd in
the halls of our National Congress, that Kissed i'll the
.egro-saving moEs of Boston and Chicago and that
now calls slavery 10 this Territory, by regular
challenge. Kansas Is n slave State Who fastened
TO make it so? Abolition politicians. Who desired
it to become slave State than all other living
men? the opponents of the Nebraska bill, in order
that their predictions might prove true; that they
might be written down prophets; excite n northern
war on southern States sever the Union allow
each one of them 10 be President Of the United
States rs early ms 1856.
If there is one thing than any other that gives
vitality to slavery-that propagneS it--that spreads
il like infection, that one thing is the frothinE,
boiling rampant AUolitiOnism of the northern
States. Had it existed, slavery would have
led years ago, and the inscription upon its tomb
81 one would have recorded natural death; but
vr ing towards its dissolution the gaIvanic action
Of ABOLITION opposition was applied, and it revived
TO sht and increase in strength the battle length
cned until now i has grown formidable foeSto
those .Tho first threw down the glove and the gaun-
let.
And n NV slavery is here, in small way, n few
NEGROES Yeuty or So and its supporters coming
faster nno Ister. What sends them here? beau
tfu couut' is not all that they seek, but slavery
victory over dose who have challenged them. They
seek to drown that hypocritcal voice that cried
slavery shall not enter Nebraska" and prove it
false they seek to conquer those who have tainted
them, by mnklL south OF the fiatte river slave
State
The men who started this excitement live in Bos-
ton and other eastern cities and send now and then
handful OF deluded morals to these Territories TO
carry out the flrce nd illustrate their devotion to
freedom, by attempting To- govern all men Inland after
the manner of doctrine llught by Seward, Wendell
Phillips Theodore Parker ct I'd oMRe gems. And so
we have some excitemeut IN Nebraska City in the
way of street debat6s-dtc r-steps discussions and
the question is stall Ne5ro sar South of the Platte
riger be Il Stare Slate 2"