No Title.New Haven, Connecticut, Register [Democratic](14 February 1854)
[pointing finger] The whig legislatures of New York and
Massachusetts have adopted resolutions against the
Nebraska Bill. That's perfectly consistent with
whiggery; perfectly in character. At heart, abolitionists --
the federal, or whig party would not be
faithful to its antecedents , nor its principles (or
rather want of principles)if it did not oppose the
Nebraska bill, which gives to its inhabitants the
right to frame their own laws. This is not a
palatable doctrine to whiggery -- hence the denunciations
of the whig and abolition press. The Whig
convention which meets in this city to-morrow, will
probably follow in the footsteps of Massachusetts, and
New York. All the opponents of the Compromise
of 1850, will be opposed to the faithful carrying
out of its principles, as embodied in the Nebraska
bill. Whiggery lives upon such excitements. --
Whigs have always been noted for kicking up a dust
on every important measure of the Democratic party;
but from their first panic, in the days of Andrew
Jackson, what has their noise and opposition
amounted to, with the people? Just nothing - and
so it will be in this case. A ginger pop explosion,
and all will be over.
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