NEW YORK OBSERVER, Secular Department (there was also a 'Religious Department' edition), May 25, 1854  

* Kansas-Nebraska Act - slavery ?

Page 2 has a: "Letter From Washington" which is a nice editorial concerning he controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would become law in just 5 days: May 30.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty", allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. The conflicts that arose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the aftermath of the act’s passage led to the period of violence known as "Bleeding Kansas", and helped paved the way for the American Civil War.
Four pages, nice condition.