Nebraska advertiser. (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, February 09, 1860, Image 2

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    THE ADVERTISER.
It. W. FURNAS. EDITOR.
' THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. "fl, 1SC0.
. ' FOR PRESIDENT IN 1SG0,
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
" ; Of the. United States.
' FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
ANDRF.W JOHNSON.
... Of "Tennessee.
DTlU? cnTr C ourseT
The Nemaha City Herald, an ultra
Republican sheet, and the Nelras,kaCi:y
Vhr5, znvlira Adin migration sheet, are
greatly exercised cf late, at what they
are pleased to term the inconsistent
course of ,4R. W. Furnas, Editor of the
Brovvnville Advertisers We want no
better evidence of the corectness of our
course than to meet ivith opposition from
cuch sources.
Now we challenge the editors cf those
papers, cr any one else, to show a single
instance in which we have varied a hair's
breadth in our political course! -We
mean just what we say. Politically, we
hare always been, and are yet, governed
'"in our actions, and the course we pursue,
'by what we conceive to be principles,
tx.d we make these principles a sine qua
tion, in our course ; and we further tell
gentlemen who differ from us, cither
, m principle or policy, that the position
wt nrninv tinon the "issue of the day"
is backed by the masses of the people
land, and they will yet force politicians,
who ride hobbies only for a day, to come
to them.
We arc not disposed to notice, or de
Tote time, or space in our paper, to ev
ery little thrust that may be made at us ;
prompted only by feelings of jealousy, or
Vammsp p nnt become the slave or
A W Vsfe V. IS "V - - -
loo of blind and Uisncnest paruzans.
We are pleased to discuss, upon their
merits, any questions that may arise, in
which are involved the interests of the
people, or welfare of the Territory; but
will never condescend to low personali
ties' or scurility.
As to the Herald's intimation, that we
vi n n ri r i v ihm n - i r a. 1 a i .t v u ia w w a
iCU tV iWl-ulX'!"' " J '
that's-all bosh, and we understand per
fectly well why it thus talks. We nei
ther profess, nor propose to lead anybody,
nor do we allow any one to lead us. This
thing of leading people is something we
do not believe in; its entirely out of place"
'among the American people. As for
ourself.'we do cur own reading, thinking
and acting; and are quite sure the peo-
- pie pf. Nemaha County, "Douglasiies" or
not, are fully competent to do the same.
Such "flings" are downright insults; call
in question tiie intelligence 01 our peo-
pie, and tne iieraia ougm louaie
ficient good sense to know it does know
it:
; The" Yacs thinks us inconsistent be
cause we publish in our paper the call for
Republican Convention ia this countyf
and charges us with quoting from the
Republican Press in this Territory in our
- review of Gov. Black's veto message.
In regard to quoting from the. Republican
JPress, the News knows belter; not a
svlable have we quoted from the Repub
lican Press. We have studiously avoid
ed quoting from any o'her than the Dem
ocratic Press, or Democratic Speakers,
for -the simple reason that the principle
we are contending for vas a Democrat
ic principle, and we proposed to sustain
it 'from Democratic authors. Are the
quotations in anoiner column irom me
Cnicago Times, Philadelphia Press, Cin
cinnati Enquirer, and Pittsburg Post
from Ihe Republican Tress?
As to the cdl for a Republican Con
Yentipn ; bur paper is a local one, and
anything our patrons desire to give pub
licity, shall find a place in our columns.
The JWir speaks of "the friends of
Mr. Douglas spitting upon such misera
ble trickery," &.c, i. e., acting with the
Republicans or any body else who advo
cate his principles. Does that paper
mean or refer to our course ia the Leg
islature upon the Bill to prohibit slavery
ia Nebraska? If so,'. we have only to
ay, Mr. Douglas, himself, in the U. S.
Senate thought it not "inconsistent" to
b found voting with Seward, Hale,
Wilson and others, in sustaining the
. principles enunciated by him in opposi
tion to the Kansas Lecompton Constitu
tion ; -Douglas Democrats in the election
cf Speaker of the House of Representa
tives in Congress, found it not "inconsis
tent" to vote for Mr. Pennington ; Doug
las Democrats in our Territorial Legis
lature others than ourself found it not
"inconsistent" to vote with Republicans
for the "Bill to prohibit Slavery in
Nebraska." " And we are pleased to
find it. not "inconsistent" to act with Re
publicans or anybody else, who will act
with us, in sustaining Mr. Douglas' po
sition upon the rights of the people of
the Territories. If Democrats choose to
prove recreant to the professions they
Lave made in regard to Popular Sover
eignty, and Republicans choose to take
the Kansas Nebraska Act as given us,
and act it out, tre are willing to work with
" them upon that question. We quote from
good autnoruy better man irom euner a
Republican or Democratic Tress when
we copy .f rem. Holy Writ, which reads:
"Bat what think ye? A certain man
had two sons ; and he came to the first,
and nid, Son, -o work to-day in my vine .
"He answered and said,! wilb riot, but
afterward he repented, and went.
"And he came to the second, and said
likewise. And he answered and said, I
go, sir: and went not.
"Whither of them twain did the will of
his father ? They "say unto him', The
first."
The Democratic Tarty raid "J tn7"
carry out certain principles, but when the
time and place arrives to practically dem
onstrate these principles, they fail to prove
true. The Republican party in Nebras
ka, especially, said, will net," but re
pent and do the will of the people.. Our
readers can draw their own conclusions.
We go for the tprincipls Mr. JVnrs,
and we are willing to work with any set
of men who will carry them out. Do
you understand us ? ' We hope you do.
Talking about "consistency the " edi
tor of the J"ews in a letter written to the
Chicago Times attempts to explain why
Douglas Democrats voted against the bill
to prohibit Slavery ia Nebraska ! ! ! That
is the richest thing we have yet heard of.
Douglas Democrats vote against a bill to
prohibit slavery in Nebraska!! "No
such thing in the book."
Mr. Reynolds claims to be a Douglas
Democrat !(?) and to speak for others in
his letter to the Times, giving as a rea
son why he voted against the bill, which
simply was to prohibit slavery in Nebras
ka, that by voting for the bill he would
thereby recognize the existence of slavery
in Nebraska! You might as well say
that voting for a Homestead Bill, you
thereby recognized the previous existence
of such a law. The. Times in reply to
Mr. Reynolds, very appropriately and
sensibly, says:
"We do not agree with Mr. Reynolds
insupposing that an act 'to prohibit,' rec
ognizes the presence of the thing pro
posed to be prohibited. An act to 'abol
ish,' pre-supposes the existence of the
thing to be abolished. The act before
Legislature was te prohibi, and not to
abolish. We agree with hi n, however,
in his opinion of the absurdity of the
whole act. It was an absurdity only
equaled by Gov, Black's very unsound,
injudicious attempt, to carry out the attor
ney general's exploded 'political ax
ioms.' "
Is Mr. Reynolds satisfied with the an
swer to the interogatory he propounded
to the Editor of the Times ? viz :
"I ask you who were the most consist
ent and true popular sovereignty Demt
crats those who voted for or against this
ridiculous and nonsensical proposition to
prohibit slavery in Nebraska ?" . "
"This little pig went to market !"
and was sold.
While Mr. Reynolds is "explaining,"
would it net be well for him to "explain"
why he offered an amendment to the bill
to prohibit slavery, the provisions of which
was that a negro should be allowed to
testify in cur courts against a while man,
and that his evidence should have equal
weight with that of the white man ! which
reads as follows:
"Any black or mulatto person, or In
dian, or any perron of Negro or Indian
blood shall be permitted to give evidence
in favor cf or against any white person
whatsoever, and hisor her evidence shall
be entitled to the same weight and credit
in the courts of this Territory, as that of
any white person.
Away with such manifestations of
friendship for either Mr. Douglas or his
Territorial doctrines. Sustain Buchanan
and his edict in the matter of direct issue
between he and Douglas on the doctrine
of Topular Sovereignly. Mr. Douglas
and his true "friends will everywhere spit
upon such miserable trickery, and consign
to a merited oblivion the pitiable huck
sters who offer his principles for barter
and sale," in that maniser to use the
.Vetrs' own language in reply.
As to our seeking at the hands of a
Republican Convention, a nomination as
Candidate for Delegate to the Constitu
tional Convention, cur friends who are
conversant with our wishes in regard to
that matter, will bear us out in saying,
such is not the fact. While at one time,
we are free to confess, we would have
prized the honor of a seat in the Consti
tutional Convention, and would yet, did
circumstances permit, and the people
will it, yet we would not have accep
ted the nomination as candidate from
any convention that might have been held
in the county, upon any other condition
than that of an adherance to the position
we have always occupied upon the issue
of the day. We would not, under the
circumstances at present surrounding
us, deviate a hair's-breadth from our
principles even to be made Tresident of
the United States. Our views are well
understood in this county, upon all ques
tions in which are involved the welfare and
prosperity of our Territory; and we have
reason to believe our course in private or
public has given satisfaction to the ma
jority of our fellow-citizens. But from
the fact that we cannot give the prop
osition "fcr a Convention" for reasons
which we may hereafter Rive -our cordi
al support, and as our business affairs are,
or will be such, that if a candidate and
elected, and the Convention did meet, we
could not attend, without too great a sac
rifice on our part, we through the columns
of our paper declined Incoming a candi
date. This much in r?e$rA to tirself
we deem is but proper to fc$y,
Ex-Gov. Cnitc of Ohio, was, m the
d of this month, elected to tl? V, S.
Senate ia the place of Mr. Pec if. The
vote was, Chase 75, Vagh 51, Corn in 5.
Mr. Chase was first. elected to the U. S.
Senate ly the Democratic party.
Delegates to llie Constitutional
ConTenllon.
The Convention which met in this place
on Saturday last presents the names
T. W. Tipton and Dr. McPherson of this
city, D. C. Sandersof Nemaha City pre
cint, b. A. Chambers of Peru precint
and J. D. N. Thompson of Long's pre
cinct.
We were prevented by other engage
ments from witnessing ihe deliberations
of the Convention ; but are informed that
it was well attended by persons from ev
ery section of the county, and that its
proceedings were characterized by mode
ration, yet firmness and determination in
reference to the rights and interests o
the people. From our personal knowledge
of. the character and number of "citizens
from all parts of the county we met on
the street that day, we have no hesitancy
in indorsing the representation.
The gentlemen whose names are pre
sented are too well known to require any
commendation, cr suffer from condemna
tion ; they are from the ranks of our most
reliable, substantial, and intelligent citiz
ens. Messrs. liDton. cnambers ana
Thompson possess a goodly amount of le
gislative experience; and Dr. McPher
son and Jude-e Sanders are unsurrassed
as" sound practical business men.
Four out of the five of the above nam
ed gentlemen were "born and bred'
Democrats never voted ariy other kind
of a ticket when party lines were drawn
but recreancy to professed party princi
ples has driven them to seek other party
affiliations. If Nemaha County is made
irredeemably . Republican, Opposition
Unit a, or by whatever came it may be
called in the future, such a result can on
ly be attributable to the no-Congress-
Legislature-or-human-power doctrine cf
Mr. Buchanan, and the "soft delusion'
ukase cf.Gov. Black. .
Congress A Speaker Finally
Elected.
We are at last permitted to announce
to our readers that & Speaker is elected.
Ex-Governor Penxingtox of New Jer
sey, upon whom was concentrated the
Republican, and a sufficiency of Anti-Le
compton Democrats, and American votes,
succeeded by a vote of 117 to S5 cast for
M'Clers axd. Mr. Pennington is an
Old Line Whig, but has for several years
been acting with the Republican party.
Joiin W. Forxey, Douglas Democrat,
and the able editor of the Philadelphia
Press, was elected Clerk.
We regard the election of these two
officers as a triumph of the conservative
feeling of the country over the ultraist?,
who seem to think their mission to be to
create and enlarge a feeling of enmity
between the different sections of the
country. However much hot-headed po
liticians may denounce conservative men
and measures, they and they alone have
always been the oil poured upon troubled
waters. It is a source of rejoicing to the
country that such men and measures are
yet to be found in the land; and when
they cease to exist, then indeed may we
have cause to tremble for the safety and
perpetuity of our free Republican form of
government.
We may now look for Congress to go
to work and do something for the coun
try ! The gashas.been pretty much used
up within the past eight weeks.
"The Son Delusion."
The Press throughout the States, both
Democratic and Republican with the
exception of course of those owned by
the Administration are out upon Gov
Black's veto message." We quote a few
extracts from Democratic papers only.
The Chicago Times in speaking of the
message says:
"In his message, the Governor Hon
Samuel W. Black, furnishes the legisla
ture with a literary and legal production,
which is a weak, very weak, condensa
tion of the other Black s famous argu
ments. As a matter of history proper
to be recorded, and not because of any
remarkable merit in the paper itself, we
give the message a place in our columns.
It is possibly the poorest effort yet made
against the right of the people to govern
themselves. It-resembles in spirit and
tone, some of the veto messages of old
Dunmore, thd royal governor in Virginia,
in which that officer, in obedience to roy
al commands, employed the executive
negative to defeat all acts of the colonial
legislature which denied to British sub
jects the right to carry slaves into any
of the royal dominions. .Lacking Uun
more's ability and polish, Gov. Black, of
Nebraska, insists in his message that the
people of Nebraska have no political rights
which are not subject to the laws of other
states. Each slaveholder in Missouri,
derives the legal title to his slaves from
the laws of Missouri; Gov. Black insists
that the Missourian who brings his slaves
into Nebraska brings with him the title
to his property which was approved by
the laws of Missouri; and that wherever
he may go, outside of the State, the law
of Missouri overrules all other laws, and
continues to afford protection and title to
the slave property. This doctrine is abso
lutely subversive of all state authority.
If the right to hold slaves iu a Territory
be a right which is secured by the Con
stitution of the United Slates, then sla
very becomes cf its own force an insti
tution superior to all laws, except the
constitution. If slavery cannot be re
pealed or prohibited in Nebraska by the
legislature because the constitution pro
tects and guarantees security to it a3
property, how can Gov. Black, a3 a law
yer, (he was once a judge.) maintain that
the people of Nebraska, by a state con
vention, can displace and overrule the
Constitution of the United States? A
State convention has no more authority
to deprive a citizen of a. rfcht, hf Id bv
him in virtue cf the Constitution of the
United States, than can a" territorial leg
islature. Both bodies are necesss.rily
limited in their powers by that instru
ment, and yet, Gov. Sam Black, in fee
ble imitation cf Attorney General Jere
miah Black, holds that the" Territorial
Legislature cannot over ride the Consti
tution cf the United States, that being
the special prerogative of a state convent
tion. The argument is flimsy, idle aud
preposterous, and the legislature inflicted
the severest possible ; punishment upon its
author by having the message printed
and circulated. " No one who reads it
will fail to pity the individual who has, in
order to screen and .support the presi
dent, put his name to a document so full
of glaring and blundering absurdities.
The Philadelphia Press, the editor cf
which is an old political associate of Gov.
Black, says of him and his message :
"The Executive authority of the Ter
ritory is vested in Col. Samuel W. Black,
of Pittsburg, who was appointed Gover
ernor by. Mr. Buchanan, and who, while
always an ardent Democrat, was at no
very remote period, a warm adrocate-of
the Wilmot Proviso, and we believe the
author cf the resolution incorporated into
the Platform of the Democratic State
Convention, adopted at Pittsburg in 1S49
in favor of the Wilmot Proviso. In the
campaign of 1856, Col. Black was an
earnest chaapion cf the doctrine of Pop
ular Sovereignty as then understood in
our State ; and few who heard his elo
quent speeches at that time could have
doubted that wlien he advocated the right
of the people iof the Territories' to con
trol "their domestic institutions," with
special reference to the slavery question,
would have supposed that he entertained
the sligetest doubt about the power to de
cide whether slavery should or should not
be tolerated among them. However,
since the recreancy of Mr. Buchanan to
his pledges in 1856, and the dissemina
tion of the peculiar and abstruse doc
trines of the Jeremiah S. Black pam
phlet, Governor Samuel W. Black Las felt
himself constrained to veto the law pub
lished above. . The reasons assigned in
his veto are of so intangible a character
that it is difficult . to comprehend them; but
they appear to be based partly upon the
provisions of the Louisiana treaty, by
which the Territory of Nebraska was
acquired, and partly upon the reasoning
of the Attorney General, in his reply to
the Harper Magazine article of Judge
Douglas. The argument based upon the
Louisiana treaty unfortunately proves
too much ; because treaties are the para
mount law of the land, and if, in cense
sequence of that treaty, the people of a
Territory, duriug the continuance of their
Territorial condition, cannot abolish slaj
very, it is idle to suppose that the peo
ple of a State, when a State Constitution
is formed, or after they have been ad
mitted into the Union, can abolish slave
ry. This same objection applies, to a
great extent, to the supposed arguments
founded upon the alleged unconstitution
ality of the law quoted above. If the
Constitution prohibits the abolition of sla
very by the people of a Territory; it is
difficult to understand how the people of
a State formed out of a new Territory
acquire that right.
The Pittsburg Post, of which place
Gov, Black was a resident, before com
ing to Nebraska, thus speaks of it:
."Governor Black is an appointee of the
President,' and not a Governor elected
by the people. It would seem from this
fact, that the doctrine of non-intervention
with slavery in the Territories has been
repudiated, for, in vetoing this bill Gov
Black has interfered with the will of the
people, expressed through their chosen
representatives. . The only true doctrine
is, that the people of the Territories, as
of the States, must be left to decide npon
this question as they may choose. Gov
Black's fine-drawn arguments that the
Legislature is not the people in the sense
of the onranic act, will not do. iiis veto
of this bill is directly in the teeth of the
doctiine of the majority of the Demo
cratic party on popular sovereignty."
The Cincinnati Enquirer says :
"The action of Governor Black of Ne
braska, in . vetoing a law which the peo
ple of the Territory had passed prohibit
ing slavery, thus violating the great prin
ciple of local self-government, meets with
the condemnation of the Democratic
press.
"The veto, in every respect, was mis-
chosen and improper.
"The people of the Territories, since
they have been told by the ultra Southern
politicians that they should have slavery
whether they want it or not, are much
more likely to legislate hostile to the in
stitution than if such threats had never
been made. The people of the States
and Territories will do as they please
about slavery.
Senate." at that time." understood the
Kansas-Nebraska bill as I then did, and
now do."
Mr. Davis then replied by throwing up
to Mr. Douglas his removal from the
chairmanship of the Committee on Ter
ritories, and giving as a reason for hi:
removal that he had chitned ; to which
Mr. Douglas replied : ' '
"I have never complained of my remo
val from the chairmanship of the Com
mittee on Territories, and I never inten
ded to allude to that subject in this body;
but I do assert that the record prove that
the Senate knew for eleven years that I
held the identical opinions which I ex
pressed in my Freeport speech, and
which are now alleged as the cause of
my removal; and during those eleven
years, with a knowledge of those opini
ons, which are repeated over and over
again in this body, within the hearing of
every member of the Senate, I was, by
the unanimous vote of the body, made
chairman of that committee. At the end
of eleven years I was removed, and the
cause assigned for my removal is that I
hold the identical opinions that I had ex
pressed for the eleven years when I was
unanimously made chairman of the com
mittee.
"If this be the true. state of the facts,
what does . it prove ? That those who
removed me changed at the end of the
eleven years, and I was not sound be
cause I did not change as suddenly as
they. My only offence consists in ndeli
ty to the principles that, I had avowed for
eleven years. I challenge the world to
show that I change a hair s breadth on
this question during those eleven years.
If, at the end of that time, my opinions
were incompatible with those of the ma
jority, it shows that the majority had
changed their policy, but I had not chan
ged my opinions.
Mr. Green then came to Davis relief,
and pitched into Mr. Douglas by charg
ing him with admitting the question to be
a judicial one, and that he (Mr. D.)had
said he would abide any decision the Su
preme Court might make; and that as
that Court had already in the Dred Scott
case decided adversely to Mr. Douglas'
position as to the power cf the Territo
rial Legislature, that he (Mr. D.) was
acting in bad faith by still contending for
the rights of the people cf a Territory,
In answer to which Mr. Douglas said :
Mr. Donzlas ana the Disunion Ists
So soon as Mr." Douglas had sufficient'
ly recovered his health as to appear in
his seat in the Senate, he was pounced
upon simultaneously by Davis, Clay,
Green, Mason, and all others of that
Stripe, who are for his annihilation and
the dissolution of the Union. He how
ever, pinned them all to ; the wall. We
would like to lay before our readers the
entire debate, but it i3 too lengthy for our
columns. We make a few short extracts
from Mr. Douglas' remarks to show what
he always held and yet holds to be the
power of a Territorial Legislature over
the subject of slavery.
Mr. Davis, in course of debate, charg
ed Mr. Douglas with having changed his
opinions or positions a3 to the power of a
Territorial Legislature. Mr. Douglas
replied: ,
"When the time comes for discussing
it, 1 will show that at that period, on the
very night the Kansas-Nebraska bill was
passed, I stated that the sole object of
the repeal of the Missouri restriction was
that the people of the Territory might
ntroduce or exclude slavery tnrough tne
Territorial Legislature while a Territory
as well as after they became a State; and
no man who heard me then can ha re an j
excuse for not knowing that I held the
Territorial Legislature, in the Territo
rial capacity, could do it. The record ia
the Globe will sustain rue.
"I believe I can show from the record
that a majority cf the Democracy of the
"In 1S56 I did say it was a judicial
question, and I said it over and over
again before 1856. I have said it since
1S56. I declared in my Illinois speeches
that it was a judicial question. I have
declared the same thing in every publi
cation I have made during the last year.
I assert now that it is a judicial question.
The point is that for many years it was
no want of soundness in principle that I
held one side of that judicial question,
while others held the opposite, and I as
sert that the Senate did know that I held
one side of . the judicial question. But
moie, I have always said that I would
abide by the decision of the Supreme
Court, not only as a matter of policy, but
from considerations of duty. I take the
law as expounded by the Court. I re
ceive the Dred Scott decision as an auth
oritative exposition but I deny that the
point now under discussion has been deci
ded in the Dred Scott case. There isjio
one fact in that case upon which it could
have arisen. The lawyers engaged on
each side never dreamed that it did arise
in the case. It is offensive and injurious
to the reputation of the court, to say that
they decided a great question, which had
been the subject of agitation to the ex
tent of convulsing the whole country,
when it did not arise in the cr.se, and
when it was not argued by counsel. Sir,
it would prove the court unworthy to de
cide great questions in a civilized country,
if they would take cognizance of a case
when there was no fact on the record up
on which it could arise ; when the counsel
on either side never dreamed that it was
in issue, when there was no argument on
it, and foreclose the right of self-govern
ment to thousands and hundreds of thou
sands of people without a hearing.
"But one word more. I assert, and the
debates will prove it, that the understan
uing or me Kansas-menrasKa Din was,
that this was a judicial question, to be de
cided when it should arise on a Ternto
rial enactment. All the speeches of all
of us show that it was in that way and at
that time that this judicial question was
expected to arise and be decided. The
understanding was that, when a Territo
rial Legislature passed an act on this
subject, of which any man complained, he
should be able to bring the matter before
the Supreme Court; and to facilitate that
court in getting jurisdiction, we amended
the bill by putting in a peculiar clause,
providing that a case affecting the title of
i i . i
property in slaves mignt oe tatcen up to
the Supremo Court without reference to
the amount involved. Nobody ever
dreamed that the court wa3 going, in a
decision on any case that did not affect
that question, to decide this point, with
out argument and without notice, and pre
clude the rights of the people without al
lowing tnem to De neara. n nenever a
Tt-rritorial Legislature shall pass an act
divesting or attempting to divest, or im
pairing or prejudicing the right to slave
property, and a case under that act shall
be brought before the Supreme Court, I
will abide by the decision, and help in
good faith to carry it out.
istration-party as headed by James Bj
chanan; and whereas we find the subject
cf slavery occupying m some form or
other the whole attention of the Union,
and threatening calamity and disaster
everywhere, and even noiv overleaping
the boundaries of the States and Union,
and by its tyranical demands proclaiming
to us in the President's Message that
slavery is among us "protected by the
Federal Constitution," ani 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
ganizingour 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
ject only to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States." And whereas the framers
of the Nebraska Act declared in the na
tional Congress that slavery was submit
ted to the action of the people, even ia a
Territory, as is evidenced by the langua
ge of Stephens of Georgia", that "The
whole question cf slavery cr no slavery
was to be left to the people of the Territo
ries whether North cr South of 36 30
min., or any other line." And again, "I
am willing that 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 I believe that under the provisions
of this bill there will be a perfect carte
blanche given to the Territorial Legisla
tures to legislate as they may think pro
per." . Also the language of George W
Jones of Tennessee, "It is, sir, the
power of the people to govern themsel
ves, and they, and they alone, shall ex
ercise it, in my opinion, as well while in
a lerntonal condition as in the position o
a State." Also by the language of Cobb
of Georgia, present Secretary of the
Treasury, "The majority of the people
oy tne action cr tlie lerntonal Legisla
ture will decide the question ; and al
must abide the decision when made."
Therefore
Resolved, That the President has eith
er willfully published a national false
hood, or been too imbecile to comprehend
.1 1 A . . . .
tne piaia Jbngiisn or our Unramc Act, or
else under coercion of his fire-eating.
sJave&reeding masters, has published him
self as the "petty tool of contemptible
tyrants."
Ind Whereas, The people of Nebras
ka did by their Legislature recently as
sembled, pass an act prohibiting slavery
hereattertrom their soil, and Gov. Black
struck down the will of the people thus
expressed by his veto, notwithstanding he
had declared in 1S56, relative to slavery
pronation mat, "ine general govern
ment can take no notice of it, cither at
the time it exists in a Territory, or when
mat lerntory knocks at the door of the
Union for admission as a State;" and had
often repeated on the stump last fall,
'whether slave property will be protected
here depends upon the local law." There-
ore
Resolved, 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
yoke and yielded to the lash.
Resolved, That we adopt as our rule of
action, non-intervention with slavery in
tne Mates, leaving them free to settle it
egally and peaceably, but since the ques
tion cf slavery extension is forced upon
us in this Territory, .we will settle it here
in the true spirit of our fathers when in
1S7 they proclaimed the northwest Ter
ritory free forever.
Resolved, That in coraranv with the:
1 ... i
asiiiDgtons and l rankiin?, the Jetfer-
sons and Jays, the Adamses and Mndi-
precincts, fcr the purpose cf
cf the Republican caue. '
On motion, the EJitors cf ths c
fanpr WPrfl rpnnocle.l r. ...IV i i "
ceedings cf mis Convention.
. S. W. KENEDY, pr7
T. M. Taldott, Scc'y.
The CocsTcatk aj
DEDICATION.
e&urch cf this Ciy m v.
el to the worship of G..4, on nxt Sabbat tht U
at 1-2 past 10, A. 3f. Sermon by the EflT Brt
iinvn. si coneciiun laKen on taat occui
citizen of
attend.
BrownTli'.a aai ririaSty ittj
7
WnV'in nv v... -it . a
v.mi, lom...
Syrup cf Sassafrai stand unequalled among (j,,
wui.cv. .u. pycc-i.i vuriuj msei? ,)J t8i.
Hjs Mamalcie Liciment has become cne
ptes artic!s cf trs-.'e. Sf?rchinti
th.
constant urply of tfcese mediciaes on Land.
Uw,t
NEW ADTERTISE2IEXTs7
Lime! Lime!! LimeJJ!
The un.leridgTiprl -hue kiln are i:uati Bi,.. .
west of BroirnviUe. on the road league to ft r
keeps constantly on hand a very suprif.r 'm
lime, to which h invite- tie atte&tk.n r th, ' "
In; TLe Lin:e will te delivered at ite ki n of ..'Hi
other pint in te county, ajdired ,s'
Feb. 9, IStiO 6m E
Improved Farm IbrEenF
It U deaired U rect cut aa improved ,lr, , i
westcf tfrownvdie. The firn, bi 60 ac'e !
under (toed tight fenre-h,-prv,f4o
" a. n
V V . . i - ...
L4ic utiu uuuev lun.viwvn ,.r irr.a ...
improvement are a ?xd fraae house i brte "'hr
log stable, other oct-hon, a never txiu. ' 't
water. The-frm nil! be rented for cVJ prit"f
share, or taken in iujproTemeni ni.,i. L . '
for a!ef jr ca-a. 4?to
For particulars apply to O. r. BUbt "
.North Star P. O . or Soo0.i ya
Legal Notice.
David Scigel P'a A
To Spria- Term A D
BrownviCe nuJel Corjpany
ana HDen . t urnas, Court for Nenuh. eoao
Richard brown, f ty, Ntbraka Terror
jioiuer jonnson,
J. W. Coleman,
0car F. Lake. Defend'!
Richard Brown wili take notice that Davie few,
aid county of Nemaha clul, ca the21t daycf Decent
A. V. 1S55 file bin petition in therffice of the Clerk it
the said District Court for Xemaha Coasty .X-b-ui
Territory, a;,-aj rjst the 3rownvil!e notel Corapinyit.'
R. YT. Furnas, F.i .hard Brown. Ilomer
Culemau, OacarF. Lake, Defen.UDti. wh
edof aid defendant the uruof fiv e hunlredand tii.-.
ij-eignc collar wun interest therein at !a rat of n
per cent per annum from the 13;h d.iy i.f December k
D. 13o3, on a rroniissory note executed brth. n'
enUnts to sij p!3nitnr on the 13th day of December
1358. And the said defendant Richard Brown ia iiM
further notified that upon the necessary iffldaritof at
said plaintiff an order of attachment bi been i.Bj
atfainst bim, and that he i required to acDer
wer on or before the first day of the next term of u a
court, or judgment will t rendered agaiaat him
aid claim aud cost.
HEWETT JtTXOlfAS
3I-lw$7 CO Feb. 9, ISoO Att'y for rz.
SHERIFF'S S A LE.
I
Heath Nakol!?,
v?.
It. W. Furnaj
NOTICE ia hereby given, that I ci
puoiic auction, as mu aocr or the &oa in 5
the U.t term cf the District Court f-r 'exU
county, .ebr;i;-Ka lerntory. was held in Crivrvii'. .
in ?aiJ county, on Saturday, the 3J day of Man-b,
A. D. lSO.at one c'clork r. if- of said dav the ful- 1
lowing described re.il-cstato to-wit : Jfs Vo. 113
in liUn-k No. 17, and I t no 3. in Mack no 40. and !
l..t II, in block 20 in Urownri'de, and let 7 in UVk "'.
, in r urfftison s addition to Ilrownvil'a a:l tht ''
n -rthcatt quarter of the southwest quarter of mc
tion twelve, town Gri, north of Hano fifteen, eait
of tho lixth principal meridian, eontaiaiot f,r?y
acre?, al?o the following lot in Nemaha Gity, to-
wit lot sixteen, in Uoik no 15. and lot 15 ia block !
61, lot 13 block 33 lot 2 block 17. Lt 10 block 87,lct i
3!Mock5I, lot 11 block 23, and lot 15 bloek 22, t
all in said Nemaha county, taken aj the crcperty cf I
. furnasor. an execution in farr ef cati i
Nuckolls i;xued by the Clerk cf the D.Mrvt Court
of the said Nemaha county, and to n; diragttd m f
&hri3 of saia countv. ;
Given under my hind this ninth dr-y of Fetru- 5
ary a. p. 150.
J. Is. WELL.S, I
S!i?r'J tf Nemahacountj.'
br ALFT.ED V. DEN 'IAN, Deraw. j
rrcwDvi:,'Fv s, n:o.
Sale of Real Estate.
Wle-ea 03 :;e twe,itT-ecr;d djy of April A t
A:eTiCfr 31. if-w Ji,:kai. Ferias. bit tite,
r lie ju'-.e f w-rsrij-t si. vnuei;i t a proru-
rr - iJUic ca.: J.J l.Li. i'Zi. drawn :o
i .a;i c.-;U-- aiii S.tj T t: ll.e nine mootta
suns, me 'Henrys ana i jcLncva - trie : n-i-. -.;'joeu. th t
revolution, we uia march rro.iulv for
it -
Repnbllcan Convention of Nemaha
County.
Pursuant to notice a large number of
voters assembled in the Congregational
Church of Brovvnville, Saturday Feb. 4,
1SG0, for the purpose of organizing the
Republican party of Nemaha County. S.
W. Kennedy, Esq. was called to the
Chair, and T. M. Talbott appointed Secretary.
A Committee consisting of T. W. Tip
ton, John McPherson and J. W. Graham
was appointed to report resolutions for
the action of the Convention, whereupon
they made the following report which
was unanimously adopted.
Yikereas, We have been called upon to
assemlle in a county capacity for the first
time, in order to form a party organiza
tion, in opposition to the present Admin-
ward, leaving others to find if thev can
a safer and wider basis of union.
Resolved, That until Henry Clay is
proven to have been the enemy cf his
country, it will be safe for U3 to adopt his
memorable language and treasure it up
in our hearts: "Solon? as God allows
the vital current to flow through my veins,
I will never, never, never, by word or
... r
tnougnt, by mind or will, aid in admit
ting one rod of free territory to the ever
lasting curse otnuman bondage."
Resolved, That we are in favor of a
speedy organization of the State of Neb
raska, and utterly opposed to everv fur
ther attempt at the dismemberment of cur
Territory; and raiherthan see the admis
sion of Nebraska postponed for the ben
ent ot slavery, though we to the Platte
should be attached to Kansas, yet we
wouiu reject the boon and send greet
ing to all our fellow-citizens of North
Platte in the language of "one cause
and one destiny."
Resolved, That we heartily lament that
the sectional pro-slavery charac'.er of the
mi . ....
administration party has called into ex
istence a "viper brood" of African slave
trader, defamer of the Fathers of '7G,
and avowed advocate of secession and
dissolution, to all of whom we vote the
rope of the hangman and infamy of tho
traitor.
T . 7 I T1 a rn i
nesoivea, mat we re-aiiirm the reso
lutions adopted by the Territorial Con
vention of the1 Republicans at Bellevuein
last August, as follows:
The resolutions have been published
in this paper, and as their tenor is known
pretty generally, we deem it unnecessary
to republish them. Ed.
T. W. Tipton, being called upon, made
a brief, enthusiastic speech, denouncing
the political corruptions of the day.
Speeches were also made by John Mc
Pherson, J. P. Baker and others.
The following persons were unanim
ously nominated as candidates for the
Constitutional Convention, to be voted for
on the first Monday of March next ; viz :
T. W. Tipton, D. C. Sanders, John
McPherson, J. D. N. Thompson, and S.
A. Chambers.
On motion, a Central Committee was
appointed, consisting, of C. W. lVheeler.
of Brownville, as Chairman, J. P. Cro
ther of Nemaha City, J. P. Baker cf
Peru, R. Hughs of London, W. S. Huhs
of Long's precinct, S. G. Goode of Glen
Rock.
Said Committee were authorized to call
two outers to their aid, m;each f th?ir
: tm. r3.k" ii: enu.ha r.-n kj, Netrafka. tu".t
Tie ),: .'. ii: :)" -mi .1 i a':; Barter aiit ro'?J '
tarrfr Uit iiJ. liij-t: tnk -r of ectiir ipctt:"
(i"? is imts:':: rtmiiiiir Lt ' rth uf rar.; i rtfl
v.ti ,".; rfi iinifC i.h i;ir:s.tKe Lcoc-ci .3
rs 14,14 is. rc'.iru f Nemaha cu.y.
raaa. i-.-a, ; v( eU iu ni l Ctft i-j(
lai-l pv;u; rj ..'o . - .4 fLI y anl proavtlJ ifi-
u J J-.-scZ.ari-t o.vrf:c J :le au.l tern f il "
at r.iar.:n:y, the ..l J L. Crsn fioul 1 at a:iy u
after the ciatcnt? ticrt. t rr.xfr-J u ell the
eriUed real wtate at nf-!i ren-in to the hift
lcr frcah in hand at He J. r f tiiecrice of lue C
ty Clerk of 8ald Nemaha County, he being requir. i
lora making saiJ sale to gire D"tn'e thereof by puV..
tion in some newspaper published in naij rooniy n t'
coQei:uiive weekly issue f inl piper, the proceHi-.f
aid tale to be ni'"J n the payment of siil r at.' A1
-tereas Faiitnte h.isnt r-ien paid or any part thW;
Notice i therefc-re hereby piven thai I wi;i, on Saitf
Uay the 7th Jay ut April. A D labO, between th Iku'
9 o'clock A M and 4 o'clock p 31 of ta'.J day," from
door of ihet.r2.-e of theCounty Cierk of Nrmtt
county. In the tfitin cf BrywnviUe in sail coopty. p"
cefd toseMan.l will sell tothe hihet bilJer fr ts
the ahove dexntefl real estate wjta the inproveirxnt
therennt.) beloriycinj;, and up.n uch nale will aiai'
execute, acknowlclxe anl deliver to the pnrchaer cr
purchaer a dee1 or deet for mi 1 real estate i
cordance with the powers contained nnii sxtri by
deed. JOHN' L. CASSON, Trustee.
January 31, ISHO. I:.w$2i
I'roliatc IVotiee.
NOTICE la ieretr siven to at I per nt interested
a iiSappears that, there are claim asmst the e''f'
Andrew J. Darr, Uto of Johnson county, h"eMi.iT?r
ritorjvleeascd, 1 have appointed M'-nJy. the 3th Jar f
ITarch, 1S60, astbeSiii! day for hearing c';n! K-r,,t
aide-tate. Persons havinz claim ssairwt etJi
are hereby notified to fie them at my offce oa or be
fore the aid diy, or they will forever be ilerarre4 -lection;
and frum setting off the came in any
whatever. C. A. (H.iHt'S,
Actin? JwUe .r Probate.
Ordered that Ihe above notice be published for twtirt
successive weeks iuthr Nebraska AWertWfr.
G. A. GOSHEN', A. r.
ABSAUAM Ma.ix, Admini-itra-or.
Johnson ConLty, November 15. llio3. t4 20- I2tf$il
Probate Notice.
WLcreas appTcati' n ba tbiJy tee "!je l!J'r"
tmeCourtof Neaaba Comity. Nebraska TerrlW' 1
John Ktbs to be appointed i.d ni:nstratr of tfce
Cbar!e Ebb, late of t. Kearney, N. T. dfcraM.
noticei terebv iriven that Saturday th-? 10th J7
March, A. D.. It 60, at 10 o'clock A. ii. it tbe !:"
for the hearinj if nid application at ray office. 1
Brownville, in nil cnur.ty, when and were :i V1'
n-n interested may appear and hw ca-i w iT !'!,le.r
of administration of said estate should not bt
the taid aprlican;. . .
Given under my hand and off!'-! a 1 eal this lit .U
February A D InW,
CVRt'S W. TVIIZIIaEIT, Prufcate Jo'
Nc30.6w-$7
SHERIFF SALE. ,
vnTirc;.ii1n.;r.nV..n. r h Wll.Ki-
I
y - y - - - I
riffin and for tho County of Nemaha, Nebraska I ;
on U-vrit : tho 13th Jay of I ehmfy. (
t two o'clock, p.m. of said da, that I
ntTnr tnr an.1 otl i r. hixhett l.l.l.Ifr loffc3"
at thelereein thecitjof Urownrille insa;.l ;
county tho fcllo'ting dt-stTibo-d property 1,lt,t ,! j
strata ferrj bo.it Otoe, au.I the gnIi and eaatt-
chattel now lrinat th j lid leree, the tiUf4.1
ing under and by Tirtueofawnt &.um eix""
directed torao andiued aiiin.'t th idb at upo
the said jteam ferry bo.:t Otoo, at the March adjar"
ncd tc:ral359f f the DiJtrict Conrtf M.e c'
nwrl o.url at t?ie f (ivernber adioxn
held and begun, cn January 19, a o li'O toi th aiB
of six hundred and forly-ix dollars acd fcfty-a
cent.aad lorco.ttjof suit. .
Gion under icj band tuunrjt Uay oi ttfJ -
J. B. Wi U. .
2w-5U0 Sheriff f Nemaha Czunlf-
S. T Ilazelline & Co., .
171, Walnut Strict. fdMrgj' Giito
Dealer, in Seed,, Tsf. , J?- U'
Plant. CMt flowers, Ajr.cultura! lmp!ep;.-
and Dilwrrrsi'Sj k. via-
H
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r
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