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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-30-1854 Democratic If the Journal editor would not be classed as an abolitionist, he should not fulminate abolition doctrines. |
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Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 1-27-1854 Whig This is a bold bid of Douglas for the next Presidency. |
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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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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-13-1854 Democratic Since the introduction of a Nebraska bill Greely has been busily engaged in fabricating public opinion against it. |
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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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Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-16-1854 Whig The whole slavery agitation has been reopened by the South themselves. |
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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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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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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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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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Glorious News from Washington -- Passage of the Nebraska Bill. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 5-24-1854 Democratic Those who desire to keep the disturbing and distracting subject of slavery in Congress, as an eternal bone of contention between the North and the South, instead of referring its decision to those to whom it legitimately belongs, will, of course, send up a howl of rage over the result, which, to them, is so calamitous. |
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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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Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 3-14-1854 Democratic With such a showing as this, the Whig paper at the South, that raises its voice against Northern Democrats, should call up on the mountains and the rocks to fall on them and hide them forever from the gaze of honest and patriotic men. |
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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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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-4-1854 Democratic And it is this same principle, so eloquently advanced by Clay and Webster and the Democratic statesmen who went with them in that movement, that is incorporated in the new bill for Nebraska |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-4-1854 Democratic we expect to see abolition attempting now to cloak its head under the mantle of good faith, and cry aloud for the maintenance of pledges, while it presses forward its own wicked objects. |
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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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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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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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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-21-1854 Democratic it places the claims of the bill to Southern support on the true ground of the equal constitutional rights of all the States in the Territories |
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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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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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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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New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-6-1854 Whig The Washington correspondent of the New York Express says: |
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Nebraska - Mr. Douglas's Report. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 1-16-1854 Democratic We commend Mr. Douglas' report not only for the ability with which it is prepared, but for the sound, national, Union-loving sentiments, with which it abounds. |
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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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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2-2-1854 Whig This is Slavery fairly developed. Like Catholicism, it cannot bear discussion. |
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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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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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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 1-23-1854 Democratic the North and the South ought to unite in sweeping it into the rubbish of extinct legislative anomalies |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-4-1854 Democratic Senator DOUGLAS made a powerful speech in vindication of the Nebraska bill |
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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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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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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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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 1-30-1854 Democratic The persons who have been busiest in charging the Administration with favoring Free Soilism, are now "standing upon the other tack," and assert that the Administration is doing all it can for the benefit of slavery! |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-2-1854 Democratic As we are a little oblivious respecting the "loud-mouthed attacks of the democratic press," which the Courant alludes to, will the editor be good enough to produce them? |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-2-1854 Democratic The only mode of relief we can think of, will be to elect the editor a delegate to the great "Hen convention |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-4-1854 Democratic The abolitionists, free soilers, and free soil whigs, the Boston Post thinks, had better save their breath to cool their porridge, instead of wasting it in denunciation of the Nebraska bill. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-6-1854 Democratic its sole object is to confirm the principles of the Compromise of 1850, and remove the question of slavery from the National Councils. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-14-1854 Democratic Whiggery lives upon such excitements. |
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Mississippian Jackson, Mississippi 3-31-1854 Democratic we have no fanatical women roving over the country and bringing reproach upon the community in which they live, by mingling in affairs which pertain to the sterner sex, we have no preachers who convert the sacred desk into an arena of sectional strife, and whose blasphemies make the very angels weep. |
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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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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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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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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-14-1854 Whig it will probably pass as an Administration measure. |
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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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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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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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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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One Hundred Guns for Nebraska! New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 5-24-1854 Democratic At sunrise this morning, one hundred guns were fired from the Public Square, by order of the Democratic Town Committee, in honor of the passage of the bill |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-29-1854 Democratic We are glad to get rid of it. |
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Parties -- will they be Sectional? Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 3-28-1854 Democratic We have too much confidence in the magnanimity, good sense and prudence of many Northern Democratic Statesmen, to despair of National Parties at this time. |
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Passage of the Nebraska Bill in the House. Mississippian Jackson, Mississippi 6-2-1854 Democratic it achieves the great object of removing from Congressional interference the slavery question |
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Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 5-26-1854 Democratic It has not been our opinion that the South would gain any very decisive advantage by the passage of the Nebraska bill in its present shape |
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Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas 9-6-1854 Democratic The final passage of the Nebraska bill, through the Senate, was publicly announced by the roaring cannon. |
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Renewal of the Slavery Agitation. -- The Nebraska Bill. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 2-1-1854 Democratic the selfish schemes of trading politicians who seek to get up another abolition mania in the hope of thereby getting into office. |
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REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-3-1854 Democratic distinctly and unequivocally in favor of repealing all the anti-slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-27-1854 Democratic As Mr. CALHOUN observed, governments were formed to protect minorities -- majorities can take care of themselves. |
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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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Senator Douglas -- the Nebraska Bill. Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas 2-3-1854 Democratic It is predicted that this report and bill will re-open the slavery agitation, both North and South. |
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Senator Douglas' Speech -- The Nebraska Question. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 2-11-1854 Democratic the able and unanswerable speech of Judge Douglas upon the Nebraska Territorial bill |
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Senator Douglas-- Squatter Sovereignty Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-14-1854 Democratic So far therefore from these governments being empowered to exclude slavery, any action they may take upon the subject, would be a matter for discussion and decision, both by Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-6-1854 Democratic We are able to do only imperfect justice to the speech of this distinguished Senator in defence of the territorial bill |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 6-3-1854 Democratic the passage of the Nebraska Bill is the renewal of agitation of the subject of slavery, under circumstances, too, of unprecedented intensity and bitterness. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Speech of Judge Douglas on the Nebraska Bill. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 2-14-1854 Democratic We regret to learn that several whig papers at the South, such as the National Intelligencer, the Louisville Journal, and the New Orleans Bulletin are out in opposition to the Nebraska Bill. |
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Speech of Mr. Douglas -- Renewal of the Slavery Agitation -- Its object. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 2-1-1854 Democratic We have seldom read an abler or more conclusive argument in support of any measure |
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Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 4-18-1854 Democratic We see a disposition in some quarters of the Democratic party to discuss the question of Squatter Sovereignty as applied to the Nebraska Bill. |
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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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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-1-1854 Democratic The Compromise of 1850 is well understood to be a "finality" -- superceding all previous action, and designed to stop all agitation of the slavery question, in or out of Congress. |
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The Crisis in Congress -- Duty of the Majority Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 5-15-1854 Democratic The principle of the power of the majority is essential to the authority of government, and should not be sacrificed to those technical rules which are ordained for the protection of the rights of a minority. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-21-1854 Democratic it must be apparent to every one who looks upon the Congressional proceedings, that the whig organization, as a National party is ended |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 1-9-1854 Democratic That not only the administration, but the Democracy of the whole country will show their determination to stand by these measures, and to practically apply them whenever in the organization of territorial and State governments, or otherwise, the same principles shall arise, we feel the fullest confidence. |
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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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Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 2-16-1854 Democratic On our side we have the whole power of the Federal government and the moral support of a sound public sentiment |
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Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-2-1854 Democratic Northern journals betray a gross misrepresentation of the temper of the public mind of the South |
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The Importance of the Early Passage of the Nebraska Bill. Mississippian Jackson, Mississippi 4-21-1854 Democratic The condition on which the Democracy of the slave-holding States co-operate with their brethren of the North, is that of non-interference with the rights of slave-holding States, and opposition to Congressional legislation, which discriminates in any form against the property of one section of the Union |
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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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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-13-1854 Democratic Its daily conglomerate, hashed up from Greely's mint of festering misrepresentation, calumny, and impotent malice, finds no response with the people of Illinois. |
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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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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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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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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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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-3-1854 Whig The Nebraska bill is a Presidential scheme. |
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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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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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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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Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 5-30-1854 Democratic the South has learned that she has many friends at the North upon whom she may rely for justice in the hour of need. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-3-1854 Democratic There never was a more needless excitement than that which the whig press is trying to raise on this subject. |
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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 5-19-1854 Democratic The opponents of the Nebraska bill failed in their disorganizing efforts to defeat this measure by legislative trickery |
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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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Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 5-31-1854 Democratic it will tend to remove from the halls of Congress the slavery controversy, and to transfer it to the people |
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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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The Nebraska Bill. Abolitionism. Union Washington, D. C. 1-15-1854 Democratic his proposition is regarded by abolitionists as a death-blow totheir hope of making the slavery question available forfuture political excitement. |
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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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Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 1-25-1854 Democratic The union of the Democracy on this proposition will dissipate forever the charges of free soil sympathies so recklessly and pertinaciously urged against the administration by our Whig opponents |
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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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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-12-1854 Whig he contest has begun on that infamous measure. |
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The Non-Intervention Principle. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 1-31-1854 Democratic Now is the time to give practical effect to the leading principles which triumphed in the election of Pierce. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The South and the New York Factions. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 1-26-1854 Democratic It is perhaps, well for the South that parties at the North stand thus committed |
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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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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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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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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)
Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-8-1854 Democratic But the position of the Abolitionists on this question is not only treacherous, but it makes also the legislation of the country absurdly inconsistent. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-23-1854 Democratic Whether time and consultation, and the various influences that work on the minds of Members of Congress, will increase the number of supporters of the bill, remains to be seen. |
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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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WHIG OPPOSITION TO THE NEBRASKA BILL. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 2-7-1854 Democratic we apprehend before the struggle is over, the majority of the active and aspiring Whigs of the South will be found in opposition to the repeal of the Missouri restriction. |
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