Article Title

The Nebraska Bill.

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Newspaper Title

New-Orleans Bee

Publication Date

5-25-1854

Publication Place

New Orleans, Louisiana

Event Topic

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Political Party

Whig

Region

slave state

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According to a telegraphic dispatch from Washington, which appeared in yesterday's Evening Picayune, the Nebraska bill, divested of the Clayton amendment, passed the House of Representatives, late on Tuesday evening, by a vote of 113 yeas to 100 nays.

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According to a telegraphic dispatch from Washington, which appeared in yesterday's Evening Picayune, the Nebraska bill, divested of the Clayton amendment, passed the House of Representatives, late on Tuesday evening, by a vote of 113 yeas to 100 nays. Twenty members were reported absent. As the long agony is over we trust Congress will attend to the legitimate business of the country, which has been grossly neglected for months in consequence of this impracticable measure. Its passage can do the South no good -- the North no harm. Now that a correct, yet absolutely barren principle, has been needlessly re-affirmed, we trust agitation will cease. If Abolitionists will rave, let them rave unheeded. They will soon exhaust themselves if unnoticed by the Southern press and Southern statesmen.

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Entered by Lloyd Benson. Proofed by Katie DeLong

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The Nebraska Bill.

According to a telegraphic dispatch from Washington, which appeared in yesterday's Evening Picayune, the Nebraska bill, divested of the Clayton amendment, passed the House of Representatives, late on Tuesday evening, by a vote of 113 yeas to 100 nays.