Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-08-18
THE FEDERAL PARTY AND THE SLAVERY

ought to do so-that some two weeks since
the Senate, after the most anxious delioera'
ton, conceived and enacted bill, known as
the Compromise Bill" for the settlement OF
the slavery question. This bill received the
vote of every Soulhera Democratic Senator
and of all the Southern Wing Senators with
the exception of four, one of them the Hon.
GEORGE E. BADGER, of North Carolina 1t
passed the Senate by vote of 80 to %, and
was regarded by the ablest and fastest friends
of the South as the best compromise for the
South that could be made. Well, this Com
promise measure, after having received the
most mature and anxious deliberation of the
ablest body in the world. and after having
been passed BY vote of three-ffths of its
members, was sent TO the House of Represen-
tatives, and there the motion was made to lay
it on the table, without the slightest conside-
ration! Who, Shareholders of North Carroll
ma, do you suppose was the man who, in hot
haste, made this motion to lay this Southern
measure on the table: Who but ALEXANDER
H. STEPHENS, the great bell-weather of the
Federal party in Georgia Whose votes kill
ed this measure in the House of Representa-
tives? Why, the votss of Southern Wh'gs.
Voters of North Carolina, will you bear this
in nnd' Bear in mind, We beseech you, that
of the eight Southern Federal votes that killed
this great measure in the House of Represen-
tatives, TWO of them were cast by recreant
sons of North Carolina, NATHANIEL BoYDEN
and RICHARD SPE1GHT DoNNELL. We beg
you to bear this in mind. Treasure it up, and
let these men have the full benefit of your re.
collections in all time to come. Remember
too that not single Whig from the free States
voted with the South, whilst TWENTY ONE
DEMOCRATS from the non-slaveholding States
voted like men with the South on this great
question. We beseech you to reflect upon
these matters, and ask yourselves, as citizens
of the South, if you can longer act with par.
ty that is willing to sacrifice your dearest in.
terests for the sake of party triumph. Ir
closing this article, we beg your especial at
tention 10 the following remarks, which we cliI
from the New York Globe, the organ of TIT
Free Soil" Wilmot Proviso party of thu
State of N. York. Wequote them for the pur
> pose of shelving you that the Wing party il
Congress are regarded as the natural allies O
the ant-slavery men of the North. We cal
> upon you who read the papers and are acquan
ted with these facts, TO circulate them amongs
the people,
From the New York Globe, July 81.
The defeat Of ,Ohat ,Uas innpudcnty called
Compromise BM-As we anticipated, this infa
nous bill, mifnamed a Compromise bill, has Leel
defeated in the House of Representatives. Tn,
vote of New York, with n solitary exception, wa
given against it. That exception Was the vote O
Mr.. BirdsaIl, son.in-law of Senator Dickinson.
I Everywhere in the North the defeat of thi
bill will be received as intelligence of the mos
cheering character Its defeat saves tho virgin
soil acquired from Mexico from the deadly con
I termination Of slavery. The unhoy schemes O
the slave power are frustrated, and the people will
now, the more effectualIy, organize with a view
TO united and more energetic movement agains
any future effort of this power to extend the nsti
tuition of slavery new lands. The genuine
FIRE of Liberty will burn brighter than ever. w
rejoice that the time has come when the Nort|
, will no longer be the mere tool of Slave oliear
! chy.
To the Wings in the present House of Repre-
> sentatives the country owes much. The devotion
ton to the principles Of Liberty manifested b,
! their vote to lay the Infamous Bill on the tab G
forces from an admission that they have proves
themselves far more Democratic than large mum
her Of the peoples representatives who lay spscia
claim to the cognomen. The insolence of tn
: slave power is BUNDLED by House of Represen
r tatives in which majority called Wigs
= Not single Wing from free State voted for th
: Bill. But we have t,Oenty-One recreant member
i from the free States, calling themselves Democrats
b. who went for Slavery! Maine furnished two
these traitors to Liberty. New York one, Pennsy
{ vania four, Ohio Eve, Indiana 1--WE, and IIlino
!. four.
A1-We find the followino in the R,lt;ror