Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-21
VIM. M. Gwin Repudiates the Kansas
Nebraska Bill,

In the debate on the 29d of February last,
in the Senate, Mr.. Gwin is reported as fol-
lows:
"Mr. Gwin said, if he had understood the Kan.
sas-Nebraska Bill as it was now interpreted by
the Senator from Illinois, he never would have
voted for it. He called upon others who voted
for it to state if they had so understood it, II
was evident somebody had been cheated. The
Senator from Illinois had no right to speak for the
Democracy of the free States"
Who the devil has the right, then, to speak
for the Free States2
Mr.. Broderick is reported as making re-
mark in that debate to his colleague, as fol-
lows
"Mr. Broderick was surprised to hear his col
league say that he did not understand the Nan,
| sas- Nebraska Bill as the Senator from Illinois had
explained it, for the California Democracy GER
tainly so understood it,
Mr.. G win reiterated his assertion that the
Democracy of California did not SO under
standit
Now, we put it to any intelligent Demo
crat in this State, who is honest in the eX-
preston of his opinions, if it was not his un-
derstanding of the Kansas-N ebraska Bill that
Congress was not to legislate on the subject
of slavery at all in the Territories. We are
willing to abide by the answer of any honest
man on that point.
The Democracy of this State understood
that bill in the same way, and VIM. NJ. Gwin
makes wreckess and unfounded assertion,
when he says the contrary. The Democ-
racy of this State, then represented in the
Legislature of California, passed, in 1854,
the following Joint Resolutions. They give
a contradiction fiat and unequivocal to the
shameless declaration of Senator Gwin on
this subject. They stand as follows on the
record:
WHEREAS, A bill to organize the Territory of
Nebraska has been introduced into the Senate of
the United States, which bill recognizes the fol-
lowing doctrines That all suits involving ques-
tions of personal freedom and title to slaves shal
be decided by the local tribunals of the States or
Territories, with right of appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States that the provisions
of the Constitution of the United States in rea-
ton to fugtlves from service shall be faithfully
executed in organized Territories of the United
States, as well as in the States, and that they
ought to be rigedly enforced in both that the
people residing in Territories and in States to be
formed out of them, shall decide all questions per
tanning to slavery therein, through their repre-
sentatives, to be elected for that purpose; that
the Compromise of 1850 is inconsistent with, and
supercedes the Compromise of 1920, known as
the Missouri Compromise; and whereas, the
above principles but reterate, in language and
substance, the Compromise Measures of 1850, in
relation to slavery, which measures ought to
be faithfully observed in all the States and or
ganized Territories; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, by the Senate and Assembly of the
State of California That we approve of the pro-
visions as set forth of the bill for An Act to or
ganize the Territory of Nebraska" introduced
into the Senate of the United States on the Esd
of January, 1854.
RESOLVED, That our Senators in Congress be
instructed, and our Representatives be requested,
to vote for and to use their best exerons to pro-
cure the passage of said bill.
RESOLVED, That his Excellency, the Governor,
be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing
preamble and resolutions to each of our Senators
and Representatives in Congress "Passed May
10th, 1854"