New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-23
THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE AND The
OMAIAS.


The majority OF the members of the Nebraska Legs
laiure who recently found it necessary inoontinenty
to adjourn from Omaha TO Florence hsve put forth the
following ipfanma,ory address:
TO THr PEOPLE or NEBRAsSA
FNor-c1'-ers: The General Assembly of Nebraska
Territory longer able t. discharge their legltl
mate functions at the Omaha seat of Government
Owing to an organized combination Of minority OF iis
owl members aided by IN Omaha mob, and encour-
aged by al Omaha Executive, thew have been COM
PEELED TO ourn their present session to the nearest
place OF safety They accordingly assembled TODAY
at Florence pursuant to adjournment.
The sovereign power of legislation for this Territory
is now exercised slone a; this place. The House OF
Representatives j. II. Decker speaker retains TWEEN
,v.iour of is thiIty-fve members. The Council L.
L. Bowen President retains nine of It's thirteen men,
bers-beiug two.thirds OF their respective bodies
II has bng been evident thst whenever the interests
of Omaha are supposed 10 be concerned il became
hazardous to attempt legislation al Omaha. The
course of the minority, during the whole session has
been oharac erzed by tricks and chicanery unworthy
n manly system Of legislation. II eliminated IN vio-
lence on the 9TH inst On that day the tactonists al
lied with Omaha ruffans, dragged the Speaker OF the
Horse by force from his stand while attempting 10
discharge his duties and the Omaha mob armed ana
ready for any emergency, applauded the foul act:
afixrg 10 Nebraska egslation 81 ndeble STAN, and
covering the very name of Omaha with ineaablc IN
FANY.
| Omaha can boast Of having degraded the sove-
regnty OF the people by thus exposing the sacred per-
OF its elected Representative to the uhressted
violence of an irresponsible rabble.
Omaha can boast of having arrested the wheels OF
legislation at the capitol.
Omaha can boast of having driven the Legislature
| from the seat OF government.
Yet Omaha still retains the capitol-bouSht with
such an infamous past OF corruption, violence ana
crime; but the scepter Of legislation has departed
from the Inflated seat, and the iGwsyeIs from its
HIoToUs halls FOREVER.
| The issue now n ade by Omaha, with the squater
sovereigns of the whole Territory can have but one
solution
The interests the rights. and the wiz Of the popu.
lar masses will No longer be made subserNient 10 the
inrigues Vaccinations OF one locality IL Is no
longer question as to the location OF their seat OF
Government II has now become question as to the
right of the people to rule, II can have but ONE
| answer-the majority must preraH
The Legislature is free from faction and from
| violence. Its acts will be free and untrammeled 1t
will finish out its organic term at this place, jealousy
| devoted to the legitimate legislation required by the
wants of the people and the necessities of the Terrific
~ and if such honest efforts shall fail OF consuuma-
nation they will leave the sole responsibility with the
accidental Executive, who albeit not elected by or
responsible to the people while clothed IN little
brief authority in the absence OF the Governor may
dare to thwart their sovereign Will!
For the full justification of our course, we CONT
IDENTIFY appeal TO our constituency, to whom alone do
| We acknowledge our responsibility.
| Florence, January 9, 1853.
| We published from an Omaha paper the other day
one side of the story of the recent fight in the Legsa'
ture Of Nebraska In The Florence C0rier we find the
| other side as follows:
Son tie 9TH Mr.. Able, of Otoe, introduced bill IN
the House for the removal Of the Territorial Capol
| from Omaha City.
The motion to suspend the rules for the reading OF
the bill showed its friends to be - out of the 80 menl-
| berS. -, =, .,
1.-THE Omaha members, seeing by this that the bill
was certain to pass, determined as the only way 10
| prevent its passage, to kill legislation by talking
| against time bullying, and violence IT necessary;
| ION the eth this game commenced, and the
Speaker in walking up to take his seat, then occupied
by an Omaha member, was seized by Murphy OF
Omaha and IIanscom Ito whom we referred IN our
last Issue the bully of the past session. dragged
| from the platform, and roughly handled. The mob
| rushed within the BAR and by hootngs, Kisses, and
threats of violence randishing bowie-knives and
| pstols-prevented all but their own members from
being heard.
1.-The Speaker declared the House adjourned; but
the Omaha members and their two friends, Morton o.
Ooe, and Mipich Of Nemaha, refused to acknowledge
the adjournment, aud kept up the form OF being II
! Session. ,,.-.
"On the 9Th the House, with but one dssentiH
voice adjourned to meet in Florence on the 9Th at II
q. m. There was full House, thiIty-hye member
being present.
| we learn the limo Of gning TO press that tb
| Council has also adjourned by two-..,,,rd vote "