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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-10-1854 Democratic The only serious danger to the permanency of our institutions is the proclivity of the central power to interfere in the rights of the States. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-27-1854 Democratic But whether slavery would or would not go to Nebraska, is not the question. That must be left to the people, whom we must learn to trust. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-10-1854 Democratic Let not abolitionists talk to us of the sacredness of compromises! Nothing is sacred with them. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-4-1854 Democratic The principle of Congressional non intervention in the domestic affairs of the States and Territories is strongly intrenched in the popular heart. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-11-1854 Democratic Shall, or shall not, the people of the Territories be permitted to manage their own affairs in their own way? |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Michigan and the Nebraska Question. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-3-1854 Democratic no effort at agitation, either on the part of abolition, whig or "independent" papers, can move that sentiment from the firm base on which it stands. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-7-1854 Democratic We furnish our readers to-day with the first half of Senator Douglas' speech on the territorial bill. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Mr. Everett's Position -- Necessity of Mr. Douglas' Bill. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-15-1854 Democratic Let democratic statesmen, at least, be consistent, and cling to the republican doctrine of non-intervention. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-6-1854 Democratic It is no part of the business of Congress to legislate for the territories. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Slavery in the New Territories. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-15-1854 Democratic It is simply recognizing, to its proper limit, the great principle of the right of the people, every where, to self-government. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-18-1854 Democratic The battle is between popular constitutional rights on the one hand, and the encroachments of the central power on the other. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
The Missouri Compromise -- How the Question Stands. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-2-1854 Democratic We deny to Congress the power to either establish slavery or to prohibit it, in a Territory or a State. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
The Object of the Compromise of 1850. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-6-1854 Democratic take the whole question out of the hands of Congress, and give it into the charge of the people interested in it |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
The Organization of New Territories. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-10-1854 Democratic all questions pertaining to slavery in the Territories, and in the new States to be formed therefrom, are to be left to the decision of the people residing therein |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-9-1854 Democratic When abolitionism shall be finally crushed out of Congress, no other question can soon arise whose tendency will be to disturb the relations of cordiality which naturally subsist between the two great divisions of the country. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-12-1854 Democratic it takes the right ground essentially, and we have no doubt that the nation will sustain it. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-13-1854 Democratic The bill for the organization of Nebraska, like the Compromise Measures, is common ground upon which all sections can meet. |
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Sumner Caning
An Atrocious Speech and a Disgraceful Assault. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 5-23-1856 Democratic It was an atrocious speech. But its atrocity did not warrant the personal assault upon him by a South Carolina member of the House of Representatives. |
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