Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-04
The Compromise.

Congress is TO pass no act or clause inhi.
biting Slavery in the newly acquired terrific
rles, and is to tie its hands against passing
any. The South at once claim this as an
unequivocal permission to carry Slavery into
those territories. A Governor and three iudu.
es ATE to be the law makers and law expoun-
ders in each Territory-said Governor and
Judges being appointed by Polk, and of
course chosen from among the most deter
mined, willy, and inscriptions champions of
Slavery extension. Nobody can pretend to
doubt how they will construe the Constitu-
ton. 1t will suffice for them that the 'Reso-
lutIons oil '99 don't even name nigrers,' to
prove conclusively that Slavery ought to ex-
list anywhere and forever. But an appeal
may be taken to the Supreme Courts body
In which there is a clear majority of slave
holders, without counting the doughfaces,
who comprise nearly all the residue. We
are to accept The ar%bitrament of this utterly
irresponsible, VIGOROUSLY one-sided, and very
limited body-hve of the nine Shareholders.
and eight of the nine partisans of the boss
doughface for President-in place Of Con-
gress, consisting Of two hund red and ninety
members, about equally divided in politics, a
majority from the Free States, and nearly all
Immediately dependent on the People. The
substitution is not at all fair.
But you don't mean to say that the Su-
preme Court would warp the laws and mis-
construe the Constitution TO favor Slavery =
Friend, we mean not 10 speak evil of digni-
ties ! but the Supreme Court of 1913 is not
the court Of John Marshall, Story, Smith
Thompson, &c. 1t is a very different body.
And while we can't say positively what the
present judges wH do respecting Slavery ex-
tension, we can say what they hare done with
regard TO the Dor Question. That question
was made to operate powerfully against Clay
and in favor of Polk in 1874; it has since
come regularly before the Supreme Court,
and was fully argued last winter. There was
no way TO decide it but one, as every intelli-
gent person knew, and the decision, by a
Locofoco court would have powerfully told
against Cass g. company in the pending cam
vass. So the decision is withheld-smoth-
red-concealed The delay is a political
trick, to prevent the seasonable exposure Of
past tricks. We hav't a very extensive con-
fidence in either set of tricksters.
The Supreme Court is to have final %iuris-
diction. But when shall it decide! We
want a decision at once. Every honest in
terest requires that the decisive verdict shall
be rendered forthwith. The shareholders
want TO know whether they can take their
slaves to New Mexico and legally hold them
there free laborers want TO know whether if
they 90 there, they ale to work in COMPETE
ton with blacksmiths, carpenters, &C., who
are bought and sold at FIVE 10 eight hundred
dollars per head, with a liberal discount 10
one who buys by the quantity. If the deci-
sion shall be deferred, the mere fact that slave
holders will have gone there expecting to
hold iheir workmen as chattels, will be urged
as a reason why Slavery should be perpetual
ted. They will clamor against an adverse
decision as a confscatlon of their property,
and their brother shareholders on the Supreme
Bench will be inclined 10 syInpathize with
them.
Let this bill pass as reported, and we shall
have an immediate organization of each terri
tory, under influences most hostile to Free
Labor and Free Soil. Slaves will be carried
and held there, and the Territorial Judges
will pronounce the whole a fair business
transaction. Then the Supreme Court has
only 10 defer a decision until Slavery shall
have become strong enough to organize State
governments and apply for admission into
the Union. After that the Court may decide
as it sees fit; Slavery will take care of it.
self.
Friends Of Freedom be not deceived be
not lulled to sleep! The Senate is hopeless,
but bring every influence to bear on the House
and this insidious bill may yet be stopped
there. No extension of Slavery IA. Y.
Tribune.