The New York herald., 1850-06-13

kind; and they stand. Compromises made in court,
and entered on record, are of ;sat kind; and they
stand. Compromises made by individuals on claims
10 properly are likewise Of that characteY End they
stand. respect all such compromises. But where !
there happens to be nothing to be compromised, no
It. no penalty for its breach, no o6lig..:oo on .nv
one-pQt even i's TO observe il, and when
no TWO human beings can agree about its meaning,
men compromise becomes ridiculous and pesufe-
Ious' Save no respect for it, and eschew II. IL
Cannot stand, and will fall, and IN its fall VIII raise
up more ills than it was intended TO cure. And of
this character deem this farrago OF incoDgruous
matter, which has been gathered up and stuck to-
gether, and offered to US : all or none me my,
a compromise, and the name cannot make 1t SO.
In the first place, there are no parties to make
compromise. We are not IN convention, out IN
Congress; and do not admit geographical dlvi'
sion of parties in this chamber although the Com
mittee of Thirteen was formed uon that prime lpe-
six from the South, hall a dozen from The North,
and one from the borders Of both. ! recognise no
such parties. ! know no North, AMI I know no
South; and repulse and repudisie, as a thing to
be for csademned this first attempt to establish
geographical parties in this chamber, by creating
committee formed upon that principle. la the next
place, there is no sanction for any such compro-
mise authority 10 enforce it-none 10 punish its
violation In the third place, there is nothing to
be compromised. A compromise is concession,
a mutual concession of contested rights between
two parties. know of nothing to. be conceded on
the part of the slavehoding States in regard to
their slave property. Their rights are independent
Of the federal government, and admitted in the
constitutional right to hold their slaves as pro-
Perty, right 10 pursue and recover them as
property right 10 it as political element in
the weight OF these States, by making five
count three in the national representation. These
are our rights by an instrument which we are
bound TO respect, and will concede none of them,
nor purchase any of them. never purchase as a
concession what hold 10 be right, nor accept an
inferior title when | already hold the highest.
Even if this congeries of bills was compromise,
in fact, should be opposed TO it for the reasons
stated. But the fact itself is 10 me apocryphal.
This is the case of five old bills introduced by
different members as common legislative mea sures;
these five are caught up by the Senator from Ken
lucky, and his committee. and bundled together,
and then called compromise Now, this mys-
tihes me. The same bills were ordinary legsla-
ton in the hands of the authors; they become a
sacred compromise in the hands of their new pos
SCISSORS. They seemed TO be OF no account as laws;
they become a national panacea compromise.
The difference seems TO be in the change of name.
The poet tells that the rose will smell sweet
by any other name. That may be true of roses, but
not Of compromises. In the of the compromise,
the whole smell is in the name, and here is the
proof. The Senator from Illinois (1r. DOuglas)
brought in three ofthese bills; they emitted no smell.
The Senator from Virginia (Mr Mason) brought
TO another of thenl-no smell in that. The Sena-
tor from Missouri, who now speaks TO the Senate,
brought in the fifth-ditto, no smell about it.. The
ofactory nerve of the nation never scented their
existence. But no sooner are they jumbled to-
gether, and called compromise, than the nation
is filled with their perfume People smell it all
over the land, anu Ike the mhalers OF certain
drugs, become frantic for the thing This mysti-
fes me, and the nearest that can come TO a solu-
ton of the Mystery, is in the of the two DIR.
Townsend's and their sarsaparilla root They both
extract from the same root but the extract Is to-
tally different article in the hands Of the two doc
tors: produced by one, universal panacea: the
other, little less than poison. Here is what the
Old Doctor says of this strange difference
I'VE wish 1t underst cod, because 1t s the absolute
truth, that s. =. Townsends article and DIR. Jacob
Towpsepds sarsaparilla heavenwde apart, and In
fnitey dissimsr that they unlike in every par
ticular, having not one single thing in common
And accounts for the difference thus
The ssrsaparilla root It is well known to medical
men, contains many medicinal properties. and some
properties which inert or useless and Others which
Il retained in preparing for use produce ermsnta.
Of the properties Of sarsapara are SO volatile that
they entirely evsporate and lost in the preSara-
Known o"y toe to the hs' in its
Moreover those volatile principles which ny on In va
por, exhastion, under heat are the very es.
scntia medical properties Of the root which give ton
Now all this is perfectly n,elligible to me, un-
dersiand il exactly: 1t shows me precisely how
the same root is either 10 be poison or medi-
cine, il happens to be in the hand OF the old or
The young doctor. This may be the case with
these bills. To me il looks like n clue to the
yslery but ] decide nothing, and wait patiently
for solution which the Senator nom kentucky
may give when he comes to answer This part Of my
The %d pocG TOR %nSs Il ,S
bottlcePto wit, Ola Doctor Jacob Townsend
not young Doctor Samuel Townsend. This shows
that there is virtue in name when applied to the
extract Of sarsaparia root, and there may be equal
virtue in IL when applied TO compromise bill. III
so, il may show how these self same bills are OF no
force or virtue in the hands OF the young Senator
from Illinois, tNlr. Douglas.) and become omnipo-
tently efficacious in the hands Of the old Senator
from Kentucky.
This is the end Of the grand committees work
five old bills tackled together, and presented as a
Il "a a
queId 10 be accepted under pcnalty-lhe penalty
Of being gazeiied as enemies OF compronlise, and
played % by the organs The old one, to be sure,
is drsadfully out of tmc-the strings all broken
and the screws all loose, and dscoursing most wo-
ful music, and still requiring us to dance it And
such dancing IL would be! Nothing but turn round,
cross over, stt-,o, and back out Sir, there was
once a musician-we have all read Of him-who
bad power with his lyre--(bnt his instrument was
spelt lyre)-not only over men, but over wild beasts
also, and even over stones, which he could make
dance into their places when the walls OF Ilion
were 10 be built. But our old organist was none
of that sort. even in his best day and since the
injury TO bis instrument in playing the grand ma
tioEal air Of the fourff-the. fifty -four forty or light
tits so out Of tune that its music will be much more
apt 10 scare of tame men than 10 charm Wild
beasts or stones.
No, sir no more slavery compromises. Stick to
those we have in the constitution, and they VIII bc
stuck to- Look at the four yoics--those four on
the propositions which submitted. No abolition
Of slavery in the Stai.s; in tie forts arecna-,
navy yards and doci yards none in the District Of
Columbia: no interference with the slave trade
between the States. These are the votes gwen on
this floor, and which are above all Congress COM
promises, because they abide the compromises Of
the constitution.
The committee, besides the ordinary purposes Of
legislation, that of making laws for the govern
meni Of the ;,oplc, propose another object Of a
different Kind. that Of giving peace and happiness
to q miserable and disrra ced people-innuendo, the
p>ople Of the United States. They propose this
object as the grand result and crowning mercy Of
their muliifarious labor.
The gravity with which the chairman Of the
Committee has brought forward this object in has
report. and the pathetic manner In which he has
enforced IL in bis speech, and the exact enumera-
ton he has made OF the public calamites upon his
fingers ends, preclude the idea, as ] have before
minated of any intentional joke TO be practisej
upon ne by that distinguished senator otherwise,
! might have been tempted to believe that the emf
ncnt Senator, unhending from his serious occupa-
tions, had condescended TO nmuse himself at our
expense. Certain II is that the conception Of this