It is clear that we are to have the Slavery agitation reopened again in Congress during the present session. The "finality" of the "Compromise" will be severely tested by the discussion of the bill reported in the Senate to-day by Mr. DOUGLAS, from the Committee on Territories, authorizing the Territorial Government of Nebraska. The bill throws the new Territory altogether above the Missouri Compromise line of 36° 30', and extends it westward to the Rocky Mountains, and provides that, "When admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without Slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." This, you will perceive, is the "repeal of the Wilmot Proviso," under the name of "Missouri Compromise," which Mr. ATCHISON has for sometime been understood to favor, and without which he proposes to vote against the measure. Mr. BENTON is just as determined that the Missouri Compromise line shall extend so as to make Nebraska free territory; and of course, were there no other elements of antagonism, the collision of these two flints would be sure to produce the fire.
Still more, the Indian lands by the bill, even though lying within the boundaries of the Territory, are, as I understand it, excluded from the operation of the Territorial Government until the Indian title shall have been extinguished; and a special provision guards against any interference with the "right of property" of the Indians. As those Indians hold numerous slaves, it is not difficult to perceive what are the rights of property to which the bill refers.
The provisions of the Fugitive Slave law are extended over the Territory, and the seat of government is fixed at Fort Leavenworth.