The Iniquity to be Consummated.Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Morning Herald [Whig](20 May 1854)
It is now reduced to a certainty that the Nebraska
bill, which is repudiated by every honest man, and
whose author's name is execrated from Canada
to Cuba, will pass Congress. Well, if the bill
must pass, let its authors pass it -- let the iniquity
be consummated. We have some consolation in
the belief that reaction will soon follow, and justice
and freedom have their revenge on the traitors
who now so arrogantly despise the will of the
people. All faith in compromises will be
dissipated, when the signature of President Pierce is
attached to the bill; and then will come the tug of
war between the northern love of liberty, and the
supremacy of Southern slavery. Then it will be
determined whether the Southern aristocracy and
their chattels, or the Northern people with their
plows, hatchets and rifles will occupy the western
wilderness; and whether freedom or slavery shall
become the basis of American civilization.
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