Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-17
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
Southern View Of Ihe Administration.

Trucking as the Administration necessarily
is on questions relating to Slavery, there is con
sideretion in the fact that it is not sufficiently
subscrvient to the Slave Power to satisfy the
demands Of the extreme South. The dough,
soft as it is, is evidently becoming less and less
pliablc; at least the fierce advocates of HUI
man Bondage do not ai,oays succeed in mould
ing it according to their favorito pattern. The
Southern Press, is indignant at thc course Of
tho President in relation to New Mexico, thus
explains tho circumstances and motives which
have controlled his action.
When General TAYLOR camo into power his
mind was probably not perverted, at lenst on
this question. Accordingly, Secretary CRAw-
roRD reiterated the orders of Mr.. MARCY, to
recognize Texan jurisdiction everywhere cast Of
the Rio Grandc. This was before Congress as
sembled. When that body met, when the
representatives of the States and Districts as
scmblcd together Mr.. SEWARD, like Satan, ap-
pcured also among them-a demagoguo, an
intriguant, and aspirant. He found in Mr.
Bliss, the Presidents Private Secretary end
son-in-law, and a Northorner--a man Of opin-
ions congenial with his own, With him he
met frequently lato at night through him he
communicated with President TAYLOR, and
obtained his confidence and became his adviser.
Tho President had already been persuaded to
modify tho order of Mr.. CRAwroRD, 80 as to re-
quirc the officers OF the army in New Mexico
not TO aid Texas, but to be neutral. And q
letter had also been written to Mr.. CLAY, in
October, to promote tho views of the New
Mcxicans, Mr.. CLAY was coming to the SEN
atc-hc had written an emancipation letter to
the people OF kentucky, which augmented
that popularity he previously possessed in the
North. IIc was not friendly 70 General TAY-
LoR. The latter, therefore, was persuaded to
make higher bid to tho North. Mr.. CLAY
came forward with plan of Compromise that
gave the North all the acquired territory, but
for tho present created but ono now State for
tho North. General Taylor's policy gave the
North two new States at once. And for that
purpose it was oxpedient TO prccipitate not only
California, but New Mexico into tho Union. 1t
thus became indispensable to reverse the policy
before adopted towards Texas, and to wrest
from her enough territory and population to
make, with that west of the Rio Grandc and
New Mexico, Frecsoil State.
And thus was bchcld the humiliating specta-
Gle of two Southomcrs, Mr. CLAY and Gen.
TAYLOR surrounded by Northcrn supporters,
and competing with each other in mutilating
and dislncmbering tho South for Northern
support,
On the death of Gen. TAYLOR, Mr.. F1LL-
MORE acceded to power. lie was not of the
SEWARD school of Whigs---was not so friend
ly to Abolitionism or to several other modern
isms, Mr.. WEBSTER became his Premier, and
was also moro of an old-iashioncd Wing. But
on that account they were both liable to denim
ciation from the now ond powerful school. OF
themselves, we think, that neither AIR. SEW
ARD nor Mr.. WEBSTER would havo written or
advised such paper as this message. But
TAYLOR he'd taken the initativc-he was a
Southerncr = they were Northerncrs - how
could they dare to do less for the North and for
" freedom than q Southern Prcsidcnts How
could they encounter SEWARD & Co. bS 1ro
the Nortlnrn poeptv -7rnurncy ncy-n~---yAi@slge
That Senator Seward was an influential coun-
scllor of President Taylor, SO far at least the
Territorial questions are concerned, is fact toe
well known to be disputed; and it is certainly
crcditable to him that he welded his influence in
q manner calculated to secure the interests o
freedom so far as they were capable of being
secured under tho present Constitution. 1t was
also creditablo to President Taylor (to his sa.
gacity il not to his love of prncipc) that hc
listened to such counsel in preference to that
which would have made him the unqualified
tool of the Slave Power The fact that {
Southern President sought to increase his
chances of recollection by conciliating the
North is very significant and encouraging, be.
cause it is an unmistalable indication of tho
change going on in the Public sentiment of the
Free States,