Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-01-24

bounds Of our territorial possessions" 80 irresis
tib,eis this proof that the Mercury does not hes
ita,e 10 declare. Of the part acted IN the org
nation and passage Of he Nebraska biiiby Norm
ern members. that II was conceived and esecu'-
cd in n spri, Of deliberate enmity and treach-
erv." and that union with such men "can bring
nonpht but .iisasiei." We have given the Ian
opoge If President Pierce used in the presence oil
Ex-senator Clemens, that he regarded Tue Ne
braska bill "a proposition in favor Of freedom
and did not believe that under its operation an
Other slave state would enter the Union, though
We shonid mcguire the whole Of Mexico" We have
pnbiished the fact that Immediately on The pas
sage of that bill through the Senate Mr. Cass rose
10 hi. feet aud congratulated the Senate 'on the
establishment of squat.er sovereignty and iha'
he has pn licly ayowed.ns tenet ot his political
faith during the present session Of Congress. that
the people of every organized territory, possessed
ola Leri stature. have the right through such Leg
stature. to regulate all the relations OF domestic
lifp--'hose Of parent and child. OF husband and
wife, and Of master and servant, and of all sim-
lar conditions, and to introduce abolish slave
nv, as fully as the people Of State; and that the
change from a territorial to State government,
does not enlarge or diminish, or change this
power of legislation
! To show thu, this is not merely his individual
opinion, but that it is the sentiment of the De-
mocraey In the the State and section from which
! be comes. we present the annexed evidence. On
the day when Gen. Cass uttered the language
above quoted his colleague in the Senate, Mr..
Stuart, spoke as follows;
Il lived up at home To lust that creed which
expected gentlemen residing in other pnris of
the Union to live up to-a fair aud full bona fde
execution of the Kansas \ ebraska act, author
izing the people In ths Territories and in the
States 10 iegisiate for hemseiues the subject
II siartrg | insisted that II was fair. was rcas
enable, judcious, So far "a Congress was
concerned, even if they possessed the power, to
leave the matter 10 the people,
This will do for the Democracy Of Michigan
How T. with the party in Illinois Not again
rcmarkng on the construction given to the Ne
biaska bill by Mr.. Richardson. who plotted it
through the House. nor of Mr.. Douglas. who set
il in motion in the Senate. quote from the
Washington Union Of October the 2S,h, 1854.
AN account of political pilgrimage, through that
State, OF Cen Shields. 1t will be observed that
the Government organ, rejecting the views of
the administration, gives its approval to the in
,erpre,ation of the Nebraska bill adopted by
Gen. Shields:
GENERAL SHIELDS IN IIIINors.--Wc are graf
flied to see that General Shields il in the can
vass in his State, giving powerful aid to hi dis
tinguished collengue.Jndgc Douglas. Seldom has
a contest been so zoalously and ably carried on
as that in Illinois. Judge Douglas has just com
pleted a tour of four weeks and returned to Chi
oapo with confidence of the triumph of the De-
mocracy Gen. Shields has entered the fight with
earnestness and ability. We see n sketch OF his
speech at Springfield. in which he sustained tho
principles of the Nebraska bill with great force
and effect Speaking of the principle of non in
teryeniion. he said:
al allowed the people to fir their o,on con
dition manage their own affairs aud work out
their own happiness in their way. 1t
gave equal chances to equal States in the settle
ment and government of common territory. Kan
sns and Nebraska were free, and the people there
pouid keep them free. Tho estab ,hment of sla-
very in these Territories was not only improba-
able but impossible, and it was always wiser and
better to let people work ont great good Tor
themselves than have it forced upon them by 9th
ers; and this was the way in which freemen al.
ways do what is great and good, by their own
| free and voluntary act. The principles of non
, intervention would not only keep Kansas aud
! Nebraska what they are now. free-bnt would,
by its full and fair operation u zoe should acquire
the continent 10 The Isthmus Of Ddrien, work with
such powerful force and effect that no man Tonld
tper see another Sldre Territory on this continent.
after saying much more On ,hi, head, Gene
raj Shields alluded to the danger of sectional or
CARNATIONS. and of arrnying one section of the
| Union in general sentiment of hostility against
the other The Nebraska question. he sail,
would soon settle itself as, in the midst of this
| angry discussion Kansas would present herself
with free constitution, aud be admitted rs a free
! member of the cunfederacy."
| As additional evidence that the sentiments
pressed by General Shields were the sentiments
of the Illinois Democracy, submit the following
} resolution. adopted at a Democratic Convention
/ at Mddeport Troqrois County Illinois:
.'Resolped. That the Democratic party is M,
only oppo .ed to the further exte aston of slavery
, but are now legislating against its extension
! This will do for the Democracy of Illinois,
! How do they stand in Iowa' From an official
address lately issued by the Democracy of that
State we make the following extract:
1.-The division of American soil by political line,
| does not I'M Americanize any portion of our com
mon country, or any of the people who occupy it
and whether the creation of State or Terri
tory may be the result of that division, the cit
gems Of every portion retain their repu blicar
! privileges and immunities.' As there can be nC
| law where there no subjects for it to act up
| on it results that the right to make laws accom-
panes the individual: and hence citizens reno
wing from States 10 Territories retain that right
as much if they were To remove from one
State to another State. The right, then TO de
termine the question Of frcan siarery rests witl
the citizen phererer he may go. In the State,
| the right to abolish slavery has never been ques
toned nor can the relative right to establish
it be questioned. New York and all hut one Of
the old northern States have exercised the one
and maintained the other. What power, then car