THE NEBRASKA BILL.Raleigh, North Carolina, Register [Whig](22 February 1854)
When, on one or two former occasions, -- after advancing the suggestion that
the introduction of the Nebraska bill was premature, and expressing our well-
grounded opinion of the motives of
Douglas, the demagogue, in bringing it forward, -- we affirmed
that; since the issue had been raised, the South would be united,
we had not anticipated the violent opposition made by
Mr. Botts, of
Virginia, in a letter to the
"National Intelligencer", nor such a speech as that of
Mr. Houston, Senator from
Texas.
In view of the general proposition involved in the Nebraska bill, our hope
now is that it will be so modified as to be no longer obnoxious to
the special objections urged against it; and, if it cannot be passed because of
those who take care of the public money and Indians, let the principle of non-
intervention be presented in a distinct resolution, which shall fix the doctrine
upon our statute book, leaving Indian "compromises" and particular Territorial
government as questions of subsequent discussion.
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