Democratic banner., 1847-08-23
The WiImoi PrOvisO---ifs Object and
TerInS.

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viso) only demands that the newly acquir
ed territory be kept open to the free chi
grants from the Northern and Southern
States, instead of being reserved to slaves
There are free laborers in the South VIII,
would not think such a proposition, plainl,
states, either aggressive or helusire."-
ALBANY .aHds.
1t is certainly new to us that the Provise
''oEly demands that newly acquired terrific.
ry be kept open to the free cmigrants from
the Northern and Southern States, tnsteao
Of being reserred to shyes." Who has
ever asked that it should be preserved &c
slaves?" Have the South? Has any one:
No! Had the Soathern people sought tc
impose on Congress the passage of a Provi.
so that slavery should be established in all
new territory that might be annexed, we
should have opposed it more s~,renuously
than we have the Wilmot Proviso.
But tie south have asked no such thing,
they have sought so such test-they have
sought TO impose no new restrictions-they
only ask that the compromises of the con-
stitntion, and the spirit of concession and
liberalty, which entered into the organiza-
ton of our national compact, may be OBJ
and maintained. They do not ask
that the new territory sholl be preserved 10
They only ask that they may
equal rights in the new territory
that they shall not be virtually excluded
territory which they have done quite
their share in purchasing with their trea-
and with their blood-they only ask
that the new territory may be admitted OH
the same condition that other States have
admitted-leaving it to the people Of
The new territory or states, to decide for
themselves whether they will have slavery
Or not-whether they will have imprison-
ncnt for debt or not-they ask that all these
Of local legislation, and the selec-
ion of what institutions they will establish,
and what not, may be left to the people
who shall own and occupy the
new territory. Is there anything unreal
'onable in this? Is there anything inconsis-
ent with Democratic principles, or with
he spirit of Our Republican Government
Why, then, should papers like the "Alba-I
~ Atlas" which processes to support
principles and our republican,
Institutions, be seeking to create sectional
4nimosity, strife and division-to array one
'ortion of the Union against the other-toI
iolate the plain and palpable compromised
f the Constitution? Why does it call upon
he Federal Government TO usurp the pre-
ogatives and rights Of the people of the
ew States which may be annexed? DoesI
hat paper distrust the wisdom, and honesty,
nd patriotism Of the people, that it would
deprive them of their reserved rights.3
las it forgotten, or does it mean to disre.
ard the warning voice of the Father oil
is Country, who con jured those who should
ONE after him to "frown upon the first
avn Of any attempt to ALLEVIATE one sec-
Of the Union from the other?:" Or,
oes that paper regard such old fashioned
atriots as Washington and his Revolution
re companions, as too obsolete in their no
ons-as too conservative" in their views| t
suit its exclusive pretensions to political
Whatever the Atlas and its :.
BOLTON and Wing adjuncts may say or dol
, the questions--however much they maylt
Eek to vent their spleen and retaliating 4
snom upon the South-thcy will hardly !
I'd the great mass of the Northern De- d
ocracy so demented, so %callous to the I
ice of patriotism, and SO distrustful Of n
e rights and prerogatives of the people, |
to follow their %anti-patriotic and anti n
emocratic example.-N Y. Globe. h
II ready rule Eor Farmers made readi- h
A "quarter of wheat" is an English a
of eight standard bushels-so if !