The Nebraska Bribe.Harrisburg, Morning Herald [Whig](22 May 1854)
The time approaches for the final vote on the
Nebraska bill in the House of Representatives. It
is right that the country should be reminded under
what influence that vote is to be given. Here is
the bribe, as it is officially offered in the President's
own official organ, of a recent date:
From the Washington Union
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
the disaffected men of his own party, no sensible
man, at least no 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 him.
[<<Previous Editorial][Next Editorial>>]
|
