The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-08-08
THE MEMBERS OF THE COMPROMISE CON.
MITTEE.

1t is due to the members of the Compromise
Committee of the Senate to say, that since the de-
feat of the measure which they had prepared
with 30 much labor and defended with 80 much
ability, they show liberal disposition to co0pe-
rate in other measures for the settlement of the
California and Territorial Questions That they
are disappointed, grieved, mortified, we have no
doubt; but we are glad to see them rising above
all petty resentment, all selfish feeling, willing
to consider respectfully what might be suggested
by others.
Mr. Clay, the day after the defeat of his long
debated bill, avowed himself in favor of the ad-
mission of California as a separate measure,
since the Senate had decided against combining
il with others; and in favor too of California
unrestricted, with the boundaries she had desig-
mated. And he took occasion to administer
fers of the South, denouncing them as traitors,
and pedging himself to stand by the Govern
ment of the Union in whatever efforts might be
necessary to execute the laws Of the United
States. Much as he loved Kentucky, his own
State, should her arm be raised against the Union
he would Withstand her.
Mr. Foote was no less jealous in his denuncia-
tions of Disunion We have seldom listened to
strain of invective and satire more powerful
and effective than he delivered last Thursday
against the nullifers of South Carolina. He de-
eclared that he saw no cause for Dsunion or Sc
Rhett and his associates to universal execration.
Mr. Atchison Of Missouri, in some remarks
last Friday, while Censuring Northern men for
their opposition to the Omnibus bill, took care to
pour contempt upon the declaimers about Dis
union. The dissolution Of the Union was not
subject, he said to be mentioned in the Senate of
the United States; it should be left to stump ora
tors and demagogues, who were in the habit of
exploding any amount Of gas.
Mr. Badger of North Carolina was no less
severe upon the Rhetts and fuckers He denied
the right of any Senator to speak for his State
for the South, and pledge it for Disunion. He
gave it rs his opinion, that there was no probable
or possible contingency in which the State of
North Carolina would give the slightest counte-
nance, directly or indirectly, to any movement
looking to the destruction of the Union. The
Constitution of that State recognised the Federal
Constitution as paramount, and in swearing hdel-
ity to the former, the express qualification was
made-so far as it does not conflict with the Con-
stitution of the United States. For himself, he
was citizen of the Union"
Now, although we have never apprehended
anything very serious from the ridiculous move
ments of the Rbett tribe Of politicians, VIC re-
joice to see Southern Senators manfully rebuking
the spirit of Disunion, and invoking the People
of the South to maintain unimpaired their fidelity
TO the Union. II the traitorous demagogues
were permitted to believe that they had the SYM
pathies Of their respectable fellow-citizens, they
might be emboldened to commit some overt act
which would bring on temporary conflict with
the Federal Government As friend Of State
rights, anxious that the Government of the Union
should depend rather upon Public Opinion than
Brute Force, we should deeply deplore such
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