The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-06-20
TeIerraphIc Summary,

Our private information from Washington, pub
lished in another column, is very important end in
feresting II is TO the effect that the Compromise,
as reported by the Committee of Thirteen, will GER
tanly pass the Senate, and that the opinion is gain
ing ground that il will pass the House likewise
We have all along thought that there would not be
much difficulty concerning il in the Senate; but we
have looked iron its passage in the House as ex-
iremely doubtful. We are, therefore, glad to see
that the probability of its being sanctioned by
this body is gaining ground. 1t shows that
the members of that highly respectable assem-
blage are coming to their senses, and that
public opinion has reached and made an impress
sion upon them. They are probably beginning to
Ind out that fanatacism has gone far enough, and
that rabid reesoilism, like every othe. abstraction
or humbug, has had its day. Recent movements
IN this State, as well in New England, ought to
have admonished them long since that such was
the case. The people of this country are generous
and philanthropic TO fault, or to an abstraction
We might say, and they will indulge themselves in
gratifying their feelings and sympathes to very
great extent They will do So even to the verge of
dsunion. But they will not go to disunion
When they discover that their course approaches
that fearful abyss, they WILL at the first sight of it,
retrace their steps, and, at the same time, resume
their reasoning faculties SEES what tremendous
reaction there has been in New England and New
York, and in some portions of the West, on this
same subject. Look at the action Of Connecticut,
Michigan, and other States, not forgetting our own
Our Legislature were good enough to express the
will OF the people" as it was termed in regard TO
California, in resolution that was of the Wilmot
Proyiso character, up TO the hub, and further if
possible and yet document advocating the pas
sage of the Compromise now before Congress.
has been signed by more than seventy thousand
persons int his city alone, and twenty thousand more
names could he easily added. Were il not for this
benevolent and comprehensive, but abstract feel
ing OF philanthropy in the breasts of the Northern
people, such narrow-minded and one-ideaed states-
men az VIM III. Seward. and others that we could
name, would never be heard Of Such time
servers play upon it for their own purposes and
lead those entertaining it, blndfoded TO suit their
own purposes, without possessing it themselves
and not caring fig about the objects on whom
rs concentrated. Ii is credltabe to the people OF
the Northern States to desire universal freedom;
but that feeling, generous and philanthropic in the
highest degree a. it is, must not be carried too
far. They might wish that every ssn Of Adam
were nch; yet, if we were all rich, there would be
m end to individual energy. The result would be,
that we would become nation of sloths, and an
easy prey To foreign powers. They may wish
liberty Of the broadcast character TO the black race
in the Southern States; yet reason tells them when
they look into the subject, that such liberty would
be followed, sooner or later, by the determination
Gifts recipients well by the ruin of the South.
The fact is, that the North has roted in philan-
ihropy ever since the annexation of the new terri
tories. 1t has been surfeied with indulgences; and
the question Of slavery in its connection with the
new States, and with the rights of the South, as
member. Of our political family, and az guaranteed
10 hem by the constitution, il, we hope, now being
cautiously looked into, not through the Opaque me-
dunn of fsnaiicism, but with the patent perifocal
spectacles Of reason and common sense. We hope
that common sense will carry the day.
We have received nothing further concerning
Colonel Monroe's proclamation, directing the cleo
fion Of delegates Of convention to form a State
government for New Mexico We suppose that
the proceeding will go oa in due course
The Senate were occupied, yesterday, with some
amendments to the "omnibus bill" the particulars
Of which will be found in another column We
are inclined to believe that those amendments were
proposed for the purpose Of delay.
The proceedings of the House are not very in
teresting. They principally consist of debates on
ihe bill granting bounty lands to the soldiers Of the
war Of 1872.