Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-10-11
From tile Richmond Examiner.
History of the Wonderful Whig and
Know Nothing Somerset ON the Nebras-
ka-Kansas Principle.

From tue Richmond Examiner.
History Of the Wonderful Whig an
Know Nothing Somerset ON the Nebras
ka-Kansas Principle.
The readers of this newspaper will recol
lect the able speech Of Mr. BADGER whicl
we recently published, showing the obliga
ton Of Congress to incorporate this clause il
the bill We have received such repeated
! demands for it that we are almost inclin
ed TO publish it again, as containing com
plete and crushing reftltation of the slang
of Southern Fillmore men in the last fort
night or month, denouncing the clause as a
Democratic piece of iniqnity got up for par
| ty ends. To shosY tie litter grotndlessness
and meanness of these charges, we here re.
print all clauses of the Nebraska bill which
relate to slavery, designating tlem by THEN
paternity. TIE DOUGLASS CLAUSES.
Copied verbatim, except names, and
boundaries, from the Utah act
See 1. BE il enacted &C., that al that
part of the territory of the United States in
Guided within the following limits, &C. &c. !,
be and the same is hereby created into a
temporary government by the name of Ne
braska and uhea admitted as Ct Sfote Oh,
States, tie said territory, or any portion of
the same, shall be received irto the Union
with or without slavery as their oonstit'l-
ton may prescribe at lifetime o, admission.
See Il. 4 4 4; That the Ccnstitu-
ton and all laws of the United States which
are not locally inapplieable, shall have the
same force and effect within said territory
of Nebraska elsewhere Within the United
States, THE DIXON AMENDMENT.
except tie 9Th section eff tie. ant
preparatory to the admission # Missouri n
to tie Union. approved March G, 1890,
which, being inconsistent with the principle
of nor intervention by Congress with slave
+, ii tue States and territories, as recognis-
ed by the legislation Of eighteen hundred
and fifty, commonly called Compromise
Measures, is hereby declared imperative
and void; it being the true intent and mean
ing of this act not to legislate slavery into
any territory or State, not to exclude it
tllerefrom, but to leave the people thereof
perfectly free to form and regulate their do
nestle institutions in their own way, sub
jeet only To the Constitution Of the United
States ruE BADGER pRoyIso.
Provided that nothing
herein contained shall be construed x re-
viye or put in force any law or regulation
which may have existed prior to the act of
sixth Of March 1920, either protracting, es-
tablislingi et abolishing slavery
See Congressional Globe for 1854, pare
i55. f9r Mr.. DIxoN's original amendment,
ana - = Tor the territorial committees mod
ifeation Of the bill in conformity to Ii.
amendment. See, also, page 240 for Mr.
DNoSi5 remarks declaring his purpose tt
support the bill viii at the abilities he vas
master of, now that il embedded his amend
ment.
Mr.. RspeEn concluded his elaborate de-
fence of this clause OF dr. Dixon with tie
following emphatic sentences !:
Mr.. President, | desire to say, though I
hold none Of my Southern friends on this
floor responsible for the course Ct argument
which l have off ered or any of the inter
mediate views have expressed, IMiak ii
right 10 say, aud Think / hare their an
hortty to sag, ti.at with regard to the results
to which have come on this measure, act
all agree as one maa--egery Southern Wig
Senator. [ wish that to be understood
that the position Of gentlemen may not be
mistaken because they have not yet had Tho
opportunity of speaking or voting upon this
The whole Southern opposition party
save Bolts and his peculiar set of followers
seconded Mr.. Dixon. Mr.. Badger, and 9th
er Wing members of Congress. Tie Know
Nothings were clamorous in extollng thu
measure and the praises of their 10Th sec
tor md Third Degree oath were on every
one Of their TONGUES, Thus affairs wen
sYimningly on at the South with the Ne
braska act until the nomination of Mr.. Fill-
more. There was a world of shutting ano
lodging from that day until he landed il
New York. We shall not undertake to tel
the story Of s6ttIerI Wing and Know
Nothing regeneration siace that event.
Like master Of the ring, he cracked his
whip and the whole party commenced 6
grand round of somersets The disgusting
show is still going on.
This movement was not unexpected by
the DenitetacJ and does r5G' teke them by
surprise. The antl-Demoeratic party O
the country have never been known to rally
long to the advocacy of a great measure o
democratic justice and equality between
citizens and States They may esFouse /;
proposition of, the sort for d time, by mis-
take, but tie moment they detect III
it great catholic principle of equal
justice and indisputable right and be-
nightly, they are as sure to turn from
it as a mad dog FROM running brook, Oh
the Devil from holy water, Ever party o
mere expadents as against broad, just prin
ciples ever the idolizers of men as agaitlis
wise, benifeent measures, they are ever surf
to quit Il principle sooner or later for al
erPctfient-to abandon a measure, howeye
thoroughIy committed to i for time, for
Mar, How could the SoNthefH' snti-De
mocracy adhere to 4 great measure of jus.
tice to the South when Fillmore beckono6
them away? How could they continue in
the support of a principle asserting the
right of Ire people OF the new States TO be
formed out Of lie eonnaon domain to settle
their own domestic institutions, hen SO cap
ital humbug expedient and eharmingly
unjust Congressional piece of quackely as
the Missouri Prohibition presented itself as
an alternative They have gone off tc
Fillmore they have rome n whorina afte,