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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 5-17-1854 Whig Will the people of the old States, on whom this measure will fall most ruinously, suffer themselves to be humbugged by the basely cunning and false representations of the lackeys of the Administration? |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-20-1854 Whig There is a great deal of truth in the following article, which we extract from the New York Tribune, of the 14th inst., and right angry are we at being compelled to admit it. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-27-1854 Whig It is time that minor differences should be forgotten or laid aside. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
A WORD TO SOUTHERN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-23-1854 Whig Cowardice is thought a great stain at the South, yet political cowardice has of late years become nest to universal there |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 4-15-1854 Whig If their defeat is not on the ground of opposition to the Nebraska Bill, then it must be on the ground of opposition to the general course of the Administration! |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 1-27-1854 Whig This is a bold bid of Douglas for the next Presidency. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Amendments to the Nebraska Bill. Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-23-1854 Whig Let the public see where the truth is. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-9-1854 Whig We now learn that a body of the representatives of the South, who are always united in the support of all schemes for the extension of the patriarchal institution, and who now anticipate a certain victory with the aid of the northern doughfaces, have still another deception in contemplation. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-16-1854 Whig The whole slavery agitation has been reopened by the South themselves. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Congress and the Nebraska Bill. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 11-23-1854 Whig The debate on the Nebraska-Kansas bill terminated in the House on Saturday at 12 o'clock, prior to which as arrangement was agreed upon for gentlemen who had not spoken on the subject to be permitted to print their speeches. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 3-22-1854 Whig It is an attempt to prove the locofoco party the national party, and the Whig party a mere faction. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-25-1854 Whig A Washington correspondent writing in reference to the change of front by a number of Northern members, says, |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-15-1854 Whig the bill of Douglas, in so far as it proposes to disturb the Missouri Compromise, involves gross perfidy, and is bolstered up by the most audacious false pretenses and frauds. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 5-31-1854 Whig by a sneaking and covert insinuation, it would leave the impression that they were co-operating with abolitionists! |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 5-31-1854 Whig Not only the balance of power broken down, between the slave and the free States, with a large preponderance in the Senate in favor of the latter, but that very section which is now held out as open to the slaveholder, by this very measure, filled up by a foreign population violently hostile to our interests! |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-16-1854 Whig the daily misrepresentations of the paid organs of the Government in regard to every other point in the existing controversy. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-6-1854 Whig The Washington correspondent of the New York Express says: |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-25-1854 Whig The struggle on the Nebraska-Kansas bill has finally terminated by its passage by both Houses. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2-2-1854 Whig This is Slavery fairly developed. Like Catholicism, it cannot bear discussion. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-10-1854 Whig We cannot conceive how intelligent and conscientious men, who possess a real regard for the great doctrines of human freedom, can excuse themselves for such an abandonment as that which we have been apprised is in contemplation. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-23-1854 Whig Is it not time that the Press of the Free States, without distinction of party, should speak out on this question? |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-28-1854 Whig For our own part, we regard this Nebraska movement of Douglas and his backers as one of measureless treachery and infamy. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-23-1854 Whig Slavery crawls, like a slimy reptile over the ruins, to defile a second eden. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 3-8-1854 Whig the locofoco party, in Convention assembled, gave their solemn sanction and recommendation to a measure which they must have believed, -- if what they had said was to be relied upon, -- surrendered the rights of the South |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-13-1854 Whig The opposition to the Nebraska bill is gaining daily. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-14-1854 Whig The honor of the South, therefore, cannot be trusted where the interests of Slavery are involved, because on such occasions the voice of honor and truth is always silenced by the clamor of low, brutal and selfish passions. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-14-1854 Whig it will probably pass as an Administration measure. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-24-1854 Whig we judge he is after keeping up the equilibrium of things by making a slave and a free State out of his two proposed territories of Nebraska and Kansas. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-25-1854 Whig The Adminstration is determined to put through DOUGLAS'S Nebraska bill before public opinion cows the timid. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-19-1854 Whig "If a Democratic Member of Congress is led by his judgment and his conscience to vote for the bill, as we hope all Democrats will be led to do, and he returns to his constituents to encounter the clamor of Whigs and Abolitionists, together with disaffected men of his own party, no sensible man who understands and appreciates the character of the Executive, will believe that the President will allow such factious men to wield public patronage to overthrow any man at home who has given to the principles of the bill a cordial and conscientious support." |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-31-1854 Whig The substitute adopted is the Senate (Nebraska) bill, without the Clayton amendment. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-4-1854 Whig the last desperate resort of the burglar to deceive his pursuers, is embraced. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-6-1854 Whig An overt attempt is set on foot in Mr. Douglas's Nebraska bill to override the Missouri Compromise. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-11-1854 Whig Slavery is an Ishmael. It is malevolent and malignant. It loves aggression, for when it ceases to be aggressive it stagnates and decays. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-24-1854 Whig where is the man brazen enough to avow that we need any more slave- breeding districts? |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Southern Sentiments and the Nebraska Humbug. New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-24-1854 Whig We verily believe that if the struggle on the Nebraska bill could be continued two or three months longer, the real sentiment of the Southern people would become so unmistakably known that most of their representatives would drop the demagoguical abortion as a thing not fit to be touched. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
The Clayton Amendment to the Nebraska Bill.-- New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 6-1-1854 Whig This important amendment, which was omitted by the House of Representatives, reads as follows: |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
The Iniquity to be Consummated. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-20-1854 Whig It is now reduced to a certainty that the Nebraskabill, which is repudiated by every honest man, and whose author's name is execrated from Canadato Cuba, will pass Congress. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
THE LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH FROM WASHINGTON. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-16-1854 Whig Douglas purposes now to bring up the Nebraska bill forthwith, and to "cram it down," |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
THE LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-24-1854 Whig DOUGLAS'S new bill has taken the best friends of the Administration by surprise. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-18-1854 Whig Some of the Southern members are startled at the discovery that Douglas's Nebraska bill is a violation of the Compromise of 1850. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-3-1854 Whig The Nebraska bill is a Presidential scheme. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
The Nebraska and Kansas Bill.-- New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-16-1854 Whig Our Congressional news of to-day, although it occupies but little space owing to the rule of condensation that invariably prevails in this office, will be found extremely interesting and important. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-23-1854 Whig The infamous act has been forced upon the country by the power of an oligarchy |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-24-1854 Whig The South may depend upon it that the confidence in their honor has been woefully shaken by this repeal of a solemn compact. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 2-22-1854 Whig let the principle of non- intervention be presented in a distinct resolution, which shall fix the doctrine upon our statute book |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-25-1854 Whig 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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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-22-1854 Whig The time approaches for the final vote on the Nebraska bill in the House of Representatives. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 2-1-1854 Whig we confess that we somewhat doubt the utility of disturbing the Missouri Compromise |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-12-1854 Whig he contest has begun on that infamous measure. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-22-1854 Whig We give below the names of the eleven traitors to Pennsylvania and the North, who voted to take up the Nebraska bill, with a view to its immediate passage. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 6-6-1854 Whig The transitionfrom a compliance with this demand to the universal toleration of slavery at the North, is but a step and an easy one. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-26-1854 Whig Sober minded men, who have leaned to the side of the South in the late contests, on the ground that the Abolitionists were the aggressors, will turn and resist this movement as a gross outrage and aggression on the part of the South. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-20-1854 Whig It is a solemn question for the freemen of the Free States to ask themselves, how far they intend to follow the beck of the slave power and to fulfil their plans for supremacy. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Thos. H. Benton and the Extension of Slavery.-- New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-29-1854 Whig To those who, through ignorance or obstinacy, still insist that the passage of the Nebraska bill will extend slavery, we commend the following remarks from the late speech of Col. Benton in Congress: |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-6-1854 Whig contempt for the juggling doughfaces who are mediating this monstrous treachery |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-8-1854 Whig We recommend their perusal to the small fry who are just now making a parade of their great astuteness in the reproduction of Mr. Calhouns's doctrine of the unconstitutionality of excluding Slavery from the territories; a doctrine which his ingenious sophistry alone could shield from contempt. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-20-1854 Whig The Satanic Press audaciously asserts that the public opinion of this City is in favor of Douglas's Nebraska bill |
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Sumner Caning
Boston Courier Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 Whig The member from South Carolina transgressed every rule of honor which should animate or restrain one gentleman in his connections with another, in his ruffian assault upon Mr. Sumner. There is no chivalry in a brute. There is no manliness in a scoundrel. |
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Sumner Caning
Boston Courier Boston, Massachusetts 5-26-1856 Whig The object of the Atlas is to obtain personal and political capital from the occurrence at Washington |
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