The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-12-06
The Free Soil Bubble.

The trade of politics has its bubbles,
truly remarks the Philadelphia Dispatch,
as well as other systems of speculation.
The politician is constantly dipping his
clay pipe into the lather of public affairs,
and blowing airy nothings into beautiful
consistency, only to burst and vanish into
froth. When we take retrospect of lhe
bubbles of only few years in the history
of politics, we cannot but be struck with
the high blown schemes which have gilt
tered before every eye, elevated into vast
importance, but which have long since
been forgotten in new fantasies and new
excitements. The bank! the tariff!-what
elephantine bubbles were they! Disend-
ed into magnificent sphericality by the
breath of faction, how did they float ma
jestically in the face of day, swept hither
and thither by gusts of opposition, but still
resplendent with the varied hues brought
out by the clear sunlight of strong partizan
ship. Yet, after glittering before the eyes
of the nation for a season, the theme of
praise on one side and of abuse upon the
other, they have fallen, the wagging tongue
speaks of them no more.
The events of but few years have dis
posed of many political bubbles, and we
are now just upon the eve of similar
consummat ton which will soon be presen-
ted US. The bubble Free Soil, in regard
10 which cunning politicians have waXed
warm, to pierce which adversaries have
already sharpened their lances, and to de-
fend which It's: friends have pre- pared strong
breezes of aid and assistance, is already in
ITS elimination, and, bofare the expiration
OF the next session of congress, will be
numbered among the things ofthe past
All parties are preparing for strong con-
test upon this SUBJECT in the next national
legislature, and the prospects of lively
time were quite lattering. But, unfortu-
nately, all the speeches that were to have
been will not be delivered, and many brii-
liant orators, who were laying out for
themselves eternal fame, will be deprived
of the opportunity of adorning the next
edition of the american Speaker"
The people of California, who. at the
last session of Congress, were treated scan
dalously by the "Buncombe' partizans,
and left without any government, to man
age their affairs as best they might, have
taken their own interests into their own
keeping, and, by their action, have dispos-
ed forever of the bubble Free Soil. They
have, acting for themselves, prepared for
the admission of their territory into the
Union as free and independent State
They have adopted their own constitution
and by nearly unanimous vote, disposed
Of the question of slavery forever. Their
resolution, that involuntary servitude shall
not be allowed within the boundaries of the
State, has disposed of the subject at once
TO the satisfaction of all parties. The free
soilers must be gratified because they have
incidentally carried their point; the slave
holders, great sticklers for the constitution
may not be satisfied with the result, but they
can do nothing else than succomb. Thus
by the action of the people of California,
two of the legs which supported the Will
mot proviso have been suddenly cut away
and the whole platform comes down with
crash. There is nothing left for free
soilers to exercise their sympathies upon,
except New Mexico; and, when the time
comes, the people of that territory will ex-
clude slavery from their dominions by
their own unbiased action. This result
must be gratifying to every friend of true
freedom.