The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-31
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.


ceips Of either will be good.
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.
Abolition journalists and abolition orators insist with
frantic pertnacity that the agitation disorder violence,
and bloodshed which marked the brief history
Kansas be solely attributed the organic laws Of
the Territory and that the murders assassnatons house
burning bogus delegates bogus legislatures and bogus
senator's the legitimate fruits of the practical enforce
ment of the popuar-soveregnty principle To each and
all Of these assertions have but reply is opposi-
ton TO- acquiescence in the great principle mboded
the Nebraska BILL which has caused all the
difficulties which patriotic in every section Of the
Union have viewed with the deepest socade and which
have been fomened and heraded with fensh exultaton
by the aboitonis,s Of New York and New England In
Nebraska which has the organic laws her sister
Territory of Kansas and which has thus far been regarded
as protess field for the nearious agaons of abolition
ism, the wisdom, patriotism, and sound repubcanism Of
the popuaroveregnty principle have been fully and tri-
umphantly illustrated What the people of Kansas want,
in order to attain degree of happiness and prosperity
commensurate with their intelligence enterprise and the
great natural advantages by which they surrounded
be let dloato be free from the traitorous influence Of
the New England Emigrant Aid Society-to be secure
from the plots and devices of armed with Sharpes
rifles and goaded to murderous mischief by the studied
rawlings of the New York Tribune and the basphemoua
fanatca exhoriatons of the Beechers Parke Duttons
and the other reverend voaors Of the laws of God and
their country We make these hasty remarks by way
Introduction to the suboned eloquent extracts from
tcle this subject which appears in late number of the
Albany Atlas and Argus:
prey to alien factions, upon which the dema-
gogues Of the North and South testing experiments
as chemists by their posons upon vile animal neigh
Dor State Of Nebraska enjoys profound repose and
ruped prosperity Nebraska is compared With its twin
BROTHER vast cold barren inaccessible region
py Indians and without the facilities for transportation
business that its neghbo enjoys It has no soil like that
which fills the rich valleys Of Kansas and no muttudnous
streams such afford mill sites southern nephbor
Nature has done everything for for
n but why Is IT that the latter such contrast
prosperity and domestic tranquility to its neiQhbor?
The law to organize Nebraska is the same as that which
gave existence to Kansas provided in like manner for
legislative, executive, and Judicial departments II gave
Ike manner the appointment Of and Judges to the
federal executive and left the legislative power the
OF the peoples and in the organic law regard to each II
declared 1t to be the and meaning of the act not
to egsate slavery into Territory State or to exclude
tthersrom but to leave the people thereof perfectly free
form and regulate the domestic Institutions in their own
way subject only to the constitution Of the United States
In the organization OF the State
except that northern was chosen for Kansas and
southern one for Nebraska
why, then, we again ask, is there much difference
between the two Territories this omen Is IL not to be
found in the manner in which the populations were
treated by the people Of the other States
Nebraska left ITSELF The emigration that flowed
TO II was impelled by the natural laws of population Ii
flowed in an and wellreguated stream The people
who made their homes in Nebraska desired frame its in.
situations to suit their principles and interests They
have not asked abroad what they should do nor how
they should do IT, They have invited borderers TO rush
to their polls They have depended on the aims OF Aid
soeiete or the contributions Of fsnacal meetings The
phsnhropst have sent rifles thither The dvines have
counseed boodshed Beecher has blessed no bullets for
them. In word, ney Aave been let alone
"1hey are Free prosperous and happy They have
zed under the act Of Congress- territorial to
which they unanimously 10y and true There Is neither
ton, the assassination OF sheriff. among them Their
indeed wholly undistnguished by any
event.
Nebraska has accordingly fallen great dsrepute with
the politicians II is unworthy OF their consideration
does not call forth single paragraph from the sectional
They have sovereign contempt for Territory
has yet produced single outrage and win never attain
the Of general Is name Ia never
mentioned.
And yet does the example OF Nebraska show that the
question OF efgovernment may be safely left TO terrific
rial population when acting for selfG Would Kansas
II LEFT TO the influences undsturbed by the sectional
propaganda have wrought out It's destiny peacefully
yet auspicously.
I'VE do not doubt IT, Nor do we doubt that at any time
the committed In the organization Of Kansas could
be retrieved h the question had been left the free and
biased Judgment Of the peoples that, II this arbamen
TO be regarded decisive the affairs Of the Territory
could be peacefully settled at once"