The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-11-18

iStdce7y, as MI. IOOmOS or Mr.. CLl1lq7adfl, or
ecen tie editors Of the Neac York Day Book.
But his numerous and different reports on the
subject complicated it to an extent that COM
PEELED Southern men to take a new position on
the question. Ifthe last report of Mr.. Douglas
was to be accepted by the country as the "rea-
son " of the repeal, then it followed that the
rights of Southern men had received no recog-
milton whatever, for it were far better that
Southern citizens should be excluded. and their
property confscated by Congress, when their
Representatives could defend their rights than
to be thrust out of the Territories by organized
or unorganized mobs. We repeat. then, that
this last report of Mr.. Douglas opened UP new
ground, and forced the Southern men into a
new position. They did not expect that the in
dustrial law would ever be reversed, or thai
Slavery" would ever flow back from the South
to the North. But they did believe that /
things were left to their natural tendencies,
Slavery" would be extended westward indef-
nitely on the parallel of Missouri.
1t was desirable to the whole country tha
such should be the case, as it would give 4
protection to Missouri from the fanatic" e
the North until the nation was ready to extend
our Southern border, and thus permit the whole
tier of transition States to fall back in column,
when the time had arrived, not to get rid of
" Slavery" but of their negroes. Hence the
Southern men demanded q change III tie pro-
grdmpae and instead Of u simple Nebraska bill,
that there should be Kansas Nebraska LW.
tlcO organized Territorial Governments, one of
Which should be Southern and tie Othel. NORTH
e1n, or one intended TOR "slace" State and
the other gioen up at once to tie SO-cdlied friends
Of Freedom. THIS acaS tie bargain, the DIS
hnct understanding, among the Leading support
ers Of the Kansas Nebraska bill; and though
Mr.. Douglas and has friends mere publicly mutt
on the subject, IL is aoeu k,aO,cn TO ere,y one then
an Washington, and au cOurda cih public If
fairs, that they promptly and universally as
sented to 1T.
OF course, no well-informed person supposed
that Kansas would be filled up with slaves, -
but it was believed that the Territories being
on line with Virginia. Kentucky, Missouri,
&c, that emigrants going from these States
would be permitted to carry with them their
slaves and receive every protection for their
" slave" property, accorded to all and every
other species of property. The bill passed, the
cannon Numbered on Capitol Hill and in the
Presidents grounds, but scarcely had its rever-
berations ceased, when the growl of the Abo
lition tiger sent thrill of terror to the hearts
of its Northern supporters, and they ran away
from their work like naughty schoolboys caught
in .fagrante delicto by a stern and tyrannical
pedagogue.
The Day Book, in the same spirit of frank
ness, goes on to define the principles and pur-
poses of the Black Democracy, as follows:
Such is the history and such the conse-
quences of the Nebraska bill, or rather of the
great principle that Northern politicians
saw, or fancied they saw, embodied in that bill
Meanwhile, the decision of the Supreme Court
has torn aside the veil, and placed Slavery
and Anti Slavery truth and falsehood, in that
open, direct, and irreconcilable conflict, which
the repeal of the Missouri restriction rendered
inevitable. Kansas may be substantially dis
posed of, but the same problem is to be solved
in the Indian Territory New Mexico, Arizona,
indeed, on broad belt of territory extending
to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Southern
citizens must have the same protection for their
slave property accorded to all other species
Of property in the common territory, and the
simple question for every Democrat to ask him
self is, whether the Northern people shall be
enlightened on the subject, and be made to un-
derstand that Slavery goes and only goes
where it naturally belongs. or whether they will
continue to blind and deude themselves with
the WORKOUT humbug of Territorial Sovereign
ty and bring upon their party overwhelming
and disgraceful defeat in 1860? Nebraskaism
is dead Lecompton is dead Squatter Sover
eighty is worse than dead-it stand exposed a
dsgraccful imposture let, then, the dead bury
their dead let all honest and patriotic Demo
Gratis rally on the platform of the bred Scott
decision, under the standard of the President
who has accepted that decision, and with open
and manly front prepare TO meet the great
question before the country on its merits"