Nebraska advertiser., 1860-08-16
For the Campaign.


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We have been asked TO give through
the columns Of our paper answers TO the
following interrogatOries. We know not
Why they are ~propounded, as we are not
o candidate for any office. nor do We in
tend to be. We are perfectly willing,
however, at all times to communicate our
views.
lst. "Do you believe the Kansas Ne
braska Act. gives to the people of Me-
braska, while ia a Territorial capacity,
through the Legislature, the power to
either prohibit or establish slavery?
ID. If so, and were you satisfied that
a majority of the people Of Nebraska de-
sired slavery established in the Territory
avould you vote for, or advocate the pas
sage. Of a Bill BY the Legislature to that
,eFe6t7"
Isl. We are no %jurist, or even men,
ber. of the legal fraternity; but our indi-
vidual opinion is, taking a common sense
view, that when The United States acquire
Territory either by c@ession, purchase or
conquest that Congress possesses exclu-
sive power over that Territory, and is, in
the language Of the constitution, author
lied to make all ''Hssdfd regulations"
therefor, when occasion requires. When
ever a portion Of the people in the States
desire TO inhabit the new Territory, it is
then the duty of Congress to make "need-
.fuI~ regulations The "needful regula-
ZION" is to give them an Organic Act, de-
fning the boundaries Of the Territory TO
be occupied, and the powers, duties and
privileges of the occupants. The pow
ers Congress grants in the Organic
Aci she of course delegates, or rather
releases. We take the "needful regula-
tons" by Congress in the shape Of an
Organic Act as the guide by which the
powers and privileges of the people in a
Territory are 10 be determined. Enter
tanning these views we can but believe
that the Kansas Nebraska bill confers
upon the people thrOught their legally cleo
ted Representatives, while in a Terrific
rial capacity, the right to either prohibit
or establish slavery. We base our opin-
ion upon The following clause in the 18th
section Of The Organic Act:
That the constitution and all The lars
of the United States, which are not To-
cally inapplicable, shall have the same
force and effect within the said Territory
of Nebraska, as elsewhere in the United
States, except the eighth section of the
A-ct-PFeparalory to the admission of Mis-
so0ri into the Union, approved March
sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty,
which being Inconsistent with the princi-
pie Of non-intervention by Congress with
slavery in the States and Territories. as.
recognized by the legislation Of eighteen
hundred and fifty, commonly called the
Compromise measures, is hereby declar-
ed imperative and void, il being the true
inient and meaning of this act not to leg
islate slavery into any Territory, or state
nor TO exclude il therefrom, bat 10 leave
the people thereof, perfectly free to form
and regulate their institutions in their
own way, subject only to the Constitu-
tion Of he United States: Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be so con-
strued asto revive or',put in force any law
or regulation which may have existed
PRIOR 10 the act Of sixth of March eioh-
teen hundred and twenty, either protec-
ling, establishing. prohibiting, or abol-
lng slavery"
X il does BOT eonfer such power il pre-
tends to, and we might enlarge by quot
ing from the speeches made by every
advocate of the passage Of the Bill in
which ,hey, in language not to be misun.
derstood, SAID II did.
2nd. To this interrogatory, we answer
sunequivocally NO. We believe slavery
10 be morally, socially, politically and
commercially wrong. Thus believing, we
would never, knowingly, either directly
or indirectly, utter a word, indite a sen.
tence, or do an act calculated 10 extend
the institution over another inch of our
-nalepel domain. While we would be
willing to cOncede the right, unler the
Organic Act of a3majority of the peo-
pie TO esabliSh, we would be found with
the minority TO prohibit-even though
we stood alone. Were we a member of
the Legislature, and a bill to establish
slavery was pending, and we satisfied be-
,ond q doub, gbSt ,hn cons,itaanrv u,ho