The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-12

were butchered. No policeman was killed,
none severely wounded, and only ten at all
injured.
The President lent himself, in advance, to
the purposes of Monroe and his bloody asso-
ciates. The aid of the military was promised
to them. and orders to that effect were issued,
not through the Secretary of War, or the
General of the army, but directly to the con-
spirators themselves.
The condition of Louisiana demands the
prompt interposition of the United States
authority to save her from anarchy. The
Committee accordingly report bill for the
organization of civil government within the
limits of that State. 1t is carefully drawn, and
seems to meet the demands of the case better
than any plan heretofore proposed. It will
come up for discussion to-day in the House.
Admission of Nebraska-A Retrospect.
lT is now almost thirteen years since Stephen
A. Douglas, then Senator in Congress from
the State of Illinois, proposed an amendment
to bill pending in the Senate for the organi-
zation of the Territories of Kansas and Ne
braska, providing for the repeal of the slavery
restriction clause of the celebrated. Missouri
Compromise. The proposed measure, though
disguised under the specious name of "Popu-
lar Sovereignty" was really brought forward
in the interest of the slave power, then aiming
at supreme control in the Government of the
nation. Like an overdose of poison, it proved
its own antidote. 1t served to rouse the
slumbering conscience of the nation, stupefed
and debauched by acquiescence in the infamous
Fugitive Slave bill, and other so-called compro-
mise measures of 1850 and opened that final
epoch of the anti-slavery struggle whose fruits
the nation is even now endeavoring to secure.
Upon the night of the original passage of the
bill through the Senate, William H. Seward,
who led the little phalanx ofanti-slavery men in
that body, made speech, whose lustre we could
wish had not since been so sadly dimmed, in
which he uttered these striking words:-" Come
on, then, gentlemen Of The .SlaUe States. Since
there as no escaping yOw challenge / accept 1t in
behalf Of the cause Of freedom. We WW engage
in competition for the cirgin soil Of Kansas, and
God give the rictory to the side which is stronger
in numbers as it is an right"
What a history from that day to this
First came the Kansas struggle, lasting from
1855 to 1861, and resulting in the final down
fall of the Democratic party. Then followed
the Rebellion of the South, and its mad efforts
to overthrow the Government of the nation,
resulting in the abolition of slavery and theex-
tinction of the slave power. The ship of state
still tosses upon the unclaimed waves of that
great convulsion. But the progress she has
made towards the haven of Republican prin-
ciples is shown in the latest act of Federal
legislation, the admission of Nebraska as a
State upon the basis not only Of liberty, but of
absolute political equality for all her inhabi-
tants. How wonderfully has Providence over
ruled the wrath of men, and caused their
wicked designs to further the great purposes OF
His Wilt
Of the men who voted for the Nebraska bill
in the Senate, poor Douglas has gone to his
grave, dying amid the fierce and bloody con-
vulsion which he did so much to evoke; Cass
too has passed away; Hunter Mason, Slidel,
Gwin, and Benjamin are traitors, fugitives,
and vagabonds from the country which, failing
to rule they attempted to ruin.
vi IllOSt WHO NOltl dSdllloJ IilC DlAl1 iOO1 "AAN
Houston have passed from among men; Chase
is our honored Chief Justice; Seward is Secre-
tary of State Fessendon, Sumner, and Wade
are still in the Senate; and Hamlin has been
Vice-President.
Not one of the thirty-seven Senators who
voted for the bill is now in public life. Among
those who supported the bill in the House of
! Representatives, we find the names of James
II. Lane, Frederick p. Stanton, John c..
Breckenridge J. A. McDougall, and OtherSWho
have figured since in public life. Of the whole
number, however, 113, but two or three are
still left in official position.
Among the opponents of the bill in the
House we find the names of a large number
who are still members of that body, or in
other public positions, such as Banks, the
Washbumes, John Wentworth, Governor
Fenton, Senators Yates and Morgan. L. d.
Campbell etc. Joshua R. Giddings, and many
others of lesser note, have passed away.
In all our political history, there is no one
governmental act which seems to have beer
the proximate cause of such great and startling
results as the passage of the Kansas-Nebrasks
bill.