Dakota City herald. [volume] (Dakota City, Neb.) 1857-1860, 1859-09-03

~ W ~ E"rA"H VI
the National Government for the last siI
years, and especially Of Buohanan's admins
t%ration; deplores the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise, aud The Kansas outrsges; holds
the bred SCOTT decision to be erroneous; thu
slavery cannot exist except by positive, ioos
Law; is alarmed at the prodigal waste Of treas.
ure lavished upon unworthy favorites; give,
the foreign policy Of the government a thrustj
and after "a rev minor growls at the neglect
Of Inland Navigation, subservieucy, etc, pass
es on TO declare,
let That this territory shall be free.
2nd That citizens Of the United States en-
igrating here have the right to l~egislate,
subject to the Constitution and the regulations
Of Congress, and that il is tbs duty Of the
Territorial Legislature to prohibit slavery.
80 That every settler should have 100
acres Of land.
4th. That there should be a Railroad up
the Platte to the Pacific.
5tb. That diver streams in Nebraska
ought to be bridged.
9th. That there SHOULD be no distinction be-
tween uaturslized and foreign-born citizens.
9Th. That Nebraska should be organized as
a State and admitted, speedily.
sth. That they hold the Administrator re-
spOusible for the African slave trade
0A. That they will JUICE the Democratic
party by its acts, rather than by ito profess
ions.
After speeches from Thayer, Daley, Bennett
aud others, in which they expressed their mu-
tual qualification, at what they coustrue to be
derelictions in the Democracy, they baiiotted
nine times for a candidate 10 be politically
killed, next month, but without making q
choice. They took a recess Of ten minutes
and when they 70 assembled determined to
make MIR. Daley, of Nemaha, the victim
We sympathize with him sincerely, that be is
to be the scape-goat, this fall, a. we have the
authority Of the Nsbraskiaa for believing him
to DO a young man Of good address, fair tai
ents, and q social gentleman, psrsonnlly.-
His ip up to Bellevue placed him in a sinilar
predicament to the man who took fl trip down
to Jericho. We would take more pleasure 10
seeing some old, hardened demagogue immo-
lated than one 30 promising, one so young
He will, no doubt, appreciate the moral Of the
story Of Poor Dog Tray, As soon as the people
this matter in land Should be get
badly used, he must consider that be was
fnub1 in very had cpmpopv
After the nomination was declared uuaui'
Bennett Of Otoe, fred at the aock, and
near breaking the thing up in a row 800
He marred the harmony 50 much urged, and
SO sadly wanting previously, by talking Of
'repaying treachery with interest and des-
~learnedly and freely, but bitterly, on
false hopes He ought to thank his stars
that he escaped, narrowly as he did.
This is a fair and we believe, a correct &C
count Of their doings. 1t shows conolusiyely,
that Republicunism in 80 is sun prisiugly diff
'erent from what it was in sc. Congressional
Intervention is ignored altogether, on the sla-
very question, and the Territorial Legislature
to have power to prohibit the i~nstitu-
ion. We think this is providing towards Pop
Sovereignty pretty fast, for men who
it 80 y~aliaLtly and denounced it SC
q short time since. They hSve copi
d EXTENSIVELY, the essentials in the Democrats
Platform, as is evident to any one who com
,ares the two. Ifstripped Of what it stealth
ly borrowed in this manner, Republicanism,
n Nebraska, would not have a rag Of princi-
10 left to cover its nudity. It's chief adyo-
in this territory. are reckless aspirauts,
leu OF untamsd ambition, who have been
laguetically, drawn into this political vortex,
here they will be whirled round for a time.
ut sooner or later, be dashed to pieces.
The following gentlemen were nominated OF
he same time, and same place, and by the
lme convention, and are as sure of-to use
ulgar parlance-"going up the spout" as
lat they are nominated. John h.. Kellom,
chool Commissioner, IL W. Dupuy Terri
,rial Auditor Territorial Treasur-
r, o. Davis Territorial Librarian.
P. W. Hitchcock was nomiuetad for District
.ttorney Of the fret Judicial District