[draft] [excerpt] ...The Nebraska bill passed the senate at midnight, amid oaths and drunken insolence desecrating that once august chamber; and later it was passed in the house by a violation of its rules so audacious, that in an ordinary case would of itself have alarmed the country. But connected with the Nebraska swindle, it attracted comparatively little attention... ...With the passage of the bill that removed the land landmark of freedom, and opened our western territories to the curse of slavery... ...Let each citizen, who has felt the insult and wrong of the Nebraska perfidy, remember his personal responsibility and swell by his vote that record of condemnation which, gathering from state to state, is about to fill Congress with honest representatives, who will convince the slave power that 'there is a North'...