Nebraska advertiser., 1860-02-09

anQ threatening CALAMITY anu disaster
everywhere, and ever now overlapping
the boundaries Of the States and Union,
and by its %tyranical demands ~proclaiming
10 US in the Presidents Message that
slavery is among Us protected by the
Federal Constitution, and that neither
Congress, nor a Territorial Legislature,
nor any human power has any authority
to annul or impair this vested right -
and whereas Congress did in the Act or
ganizing our Territory proclaim to US that
The true intent and meaning Of the act
was not to legislate slavery into any Ter
ritory or State, nor to exclude It there
from. but TO leave the people thereof per-
fectly free to form and regulate their do
mestic Institutions in their own way, sub
lect only to the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States" And whereas the trainers
of the Nebraska Act declared in the ma
tional Congress that slavery was submit
ted to the action Of the people, even in a
Territory, as is evidenced BY the langua-
&c of Stephens of Georgia, that 1.-The
whole question Of slavery or no slavery
was to be left to the people of the Terrific
rieS whether North or South of Sc 80
min, or any other line" And again, 81
am willing hat the Territorial Legisla-
ture may act upon the subject when and
how they may think proper" Also the
language of Butler, Of South Carolina
"Now | believe hat under the provisions
Of this bill there will be a perfect carte
blanche given to the Territorial Legisla-
lures to legislate as they may think pro-
per-" Also the language Of George w.
Jones of Tennessee, sit is, sir, the
power of the people to govern themsel-
yes, and they, and they alone, shall ex-
ercise il, in my opinion, as well while in
a Territorial condition as i the position of
a State" Also by the language of Cobb,
of Georgia, present Secretary of the
Treasury, "Tke majority of the people
by the action Of the Territorial Legisla-
ture viii decide the question and all
must abide the decision when made. -
Therefore
ResOIUsd, That the President has eth
er willfully published a national false
hood. or been too imbecile to comprehend
the plain English of our Organic Act, or
else under coercion of his ~fre-eating,
slavebreeding masters, has published him
self as the ''petty tool of contemplate
tYrants."
find Whereas, The people of Nebras-
ka did by their Legislature recently as
sembled, pass IN act prohibiting slavery
hereafter from their soil, and Gov. Black
struck down the will of the people thus
expressed by his veto, Notwithstanding he
had declared in 1856, relative to slavery
prohibition that, 1.-The general govern
ment can take no notice Of it, either al
the time It exists in a Territory, or when
that Territory knocks at the door of the
Union for admission as a State;'' and had
repeated on the stump last fall,-
whether slave property will be protected
here depends upon the local law" There
fore
ResOlUed, That he has studiously de.
ceived the people as to his sentiments and
intentions. bartered his conscience for his
office, and cringingly passed under the j
yoke and yielded to the lash. !
ResOtued, That we adopt as our rule of 6
action, non-intervention with slavery in
The States, leaving them free to settle il
and peaCeably, but since the ques-
ion Of slavery extension is forced upon
IN this Territory, we will settle it here
n the true spirit of our fathers when In
1857 they proclaimed the northwest Ter
free forever. 4
ResOLUed, That in company with the :
Washingtons and Franklins, the Jeffer- {
sons and Jays, the AdamSes and Nadi- :
sons, the -Henrys and PiCkneys Of the {
Revolution, we will march proudly for !
ward, leaving others TO find if they can s
a safer and wider basis of union.
ResOiUed, That until Henry Clay is J
proven to have been the enemy Of his /.
country, it will be safe for us to adopt his /.
memorable language and treasure it up q
in our hearts: $50 long as God allows 4
The vital current to flow through myveins, :
| will meyer, never, never. by word or /
thought, by mind or will, aid in admit 5
ing one rod of free territory to the ever '
curse of human bondage" !
ReSOLUed, That we are in favor of a :
organization of the State of Neb- c
and utterly opposed to every fur E
her attempt at the ~dismemberment of our
Territory; and rather than see the admis- e
sion of Nebraska postponed for the ben E
of slavery, though we to the Platte
should be attached to Kansas, vet we
would reject the boon and send greet
ng to all our fellow-citizens of North a
Platte in the language of zone cause =
Ind one destiny" =
RESOLVED, That we heartily lament that a
he sectional p%ro-slavery character of the Z
administration party has called into ex- v
stence a "viper brood" of African slave
raiders, defamers of the Fathers of rs, s.
md avowed advocates of secession and
dissolution, to all of whom we vote the
ope of the hangman and infamy of the
RESOLVED, That we re-afirm the reso- b
utions adopted by the Territorial Con- J
'ention of the Republicans at Bellevue in n
ast August. as follows: =
1.-THE resolutions have been published 5,
n this paper, and as their tenor is known q
retty generally, we deem it unnecessary F
o republish them.-ED.