Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1860 — Slavery in Nebraska. [ARTICLE]

Slavery in Nebraska.

It turns out in regard to Slavery in Nebraska as we had supposed. Governor Black, Mr. Buchanan’s appointee in that Territory, has cooly vet ed the bill passed by the Legislature to abolish Slavery. In this veto we have fresh proof of all the Republicans have alleged in regard to the determination of the Democratic party not to allow the formation of Free States where they can possibly prevent it, even though the settlers may ever so strongly desire to prohibit Slavery. It was said by the repeatedly, in the last Presidential campaign, that if Mr. Buchanan was elected, Kansas would be a .Slave State, if the Administration could make it so. The assertion was always repelled as a slander o» the fairness nnd impartiality of Mr. Buchanan, who, it was declared, could never be guilty of such an outrage. We all know how completely the Republican prediction was verified. Mr. Buchanan and the Administration sought, by the most'outrageous measures, to establish Slavery in Kansas in the face of a popular majority of 10,000 against it. He stood by the Lecompton Constitution to the last, nnd stands by it now. Meantime Slavery

exists in Kansas, and is only kept in order there by the determined hostility of the Free-State men, and their unyielding purpose to grind its head wherever it can be reached. In Nebraska, though so far North as co make Slavery utterly unprofitable, and thence to render the effort to exclude it comparatively easy, the same determined pur- . pose is manifested by the Administration and its friends. It even seems as if the Democratic party were animated by an unci ing spite against Freedom. Otherwise, why should they persist in trying to force Slavery upon communities situated in high | latitudes like Nebraska, where they know ; the sentiment of the people is against it. 'and where they cannot hop? to secure its permanent establishment? It is only on i this hypothesis that we can account for this ' abortive veto of Governor Black and M r . j Buchanan. That veto cannot keep Slavery ' in Nebraska for any length of time, and it is I merely to insult and incense the people of ! the Territory. Its only tendency is to aggravate and embitter the controversy on that phase of the Slavery question opened by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and further inflamed by the proceedings of the Administration on the Lecompton Constitution. It is another eviden.ee that the Democratic party does not seek peace, or harmony, but for some purpose is determined ;to aggravate our disorders to the utmost. I The Administration backs the Slave Power not only in those of its aggressors which j promise favorable results, but yields to its ] malignant dictates where apparently it only I seeks to humiliate those who oppose its universal sway.— -V. F. Tribune.