Record Data
Source citation
“Abolition Bunkum,” Omaha (NE) Nebraskan, November 3, 1858, p. 2: 2.
Newspaper: Publication
Omaha Nebraskan
Newspaper: Headline
Abolition Bunkum
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
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Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Abolition Bunkum.
A bill, introduced by Mr. Daily, of Nemaha, to ABOLISH and PROHIBIT SLAVERY in Nebraska, is now pending in the Legislature. It is of course favored by the Republicans, who expect to make a little capital by the agitation of a subject with which they have no more to do than with “Booriaboola Gha [Borrioboola-Gha].” Every school boy knows that slavery cannot practically exist in any community, without municipal protection. And the idea of abolishing slavery in a Territory where it does not exist, and prohibiting it where no one desires its introduction, is too Quixotic to be seriously entertained. Why does not some Republican introduce a bill to abolish and prohibit punishment with the knout?
