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ton, in regard to persons becoming msmbers q d
tho Society. On motion adjourned. rsiasr3 "a
JOEL MMILLAN. Prs't pro Ten. soi.
RAcHEL TREsooTT, Ssc'y. .. =. Z. ~. f,.s !,
Cincinnati Correspondence.
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was as apparent at the present There is far
moro real danger that Compromise cvadins
the application of tho Anti Slavery Proviso to
our new Territories will be passed by Congress-
than of Disunion. The Union of the States II
is popular with the mass of the people in all e
sections. Not only docs the cry, "thc Union
must and shall be preserved" dwell on the
lips of oth-tongucd orators, and popular
disclaimers in State and Church as a tune sure
to suit the prevailing taste--but the sentiment
has an abiding place, deep and strong, in the
hearts Of the people. 1t is an easy matter to
arouse enthusiasm in its behalf, and the South II
cm Disunion leaders, IL in earnest, lie under
the disadvantage of having the prevailing senti-
mcnt and sympathics Of the nation arrayed b
against them. There arc, however, fow, m
any, Of those who have been most active In n
threatening secession If the demands Of the "
South arc not complied with, who have ever il
seriously intended to proceed to extreme meG-nai
urcs. The wisest of them use the cry Of " Dis
union only as a scare-crow" Ito use ahome- %
ly cxpression) to intiis;tate the North into
compromise of human freedom, and judging 10
from the past they have, alas but too good 10
reason to calculate largely upon its subscrvi-
cncc. The whole scheme is 50 transparent, IL "a
is strange that any familiar with the policy s
of the South in past years should be deceived .sf
byit. fsr sloai asr, Boa
On the other hand, that part Of the Press ~ 80
the North which sympathisc with Slavcry-ths ga
Conservatives, Old Hunkers, and no-party, 10
men of all classes--arc loud in thcir lamcnts-a.7
tions over the unfortunate agitation" of this au
subject in Congress- the m-judgcd action Of ,is
"hot-heads North and South the heated de- =
bates, &c. cndangerng the Union and the abso- y,
lutc need of conciliatory counscls, and some 3'g
compromise to save this GLORIOUS Union."--ssas
The Washington letter writers, and such prints d
as the Now York Herald, and Journal Of Gomez
mcrcc, have been unccssing in their endeayors aa.
to create public sentiment in favor of Mr. B.
Clay's or some other plan of Compromise. to -
"quiet the public mind and F" settle the lues- u
ton finally. 1t is truc,that both Clay's aud 5s,i
Wcbster's views arc generally rcpudiatcd by snls
tho Northern Whigs--it is only among the ;ss
Cotton aristocracy, the Bankers, and Merchants
of the large cities-that testimonials in favor
Of Webster and his plans be gotten up.--stsa
Tho mass Of the people in N. England, New I've Z
York and Ohio doubtless in favor of tho ,oos
Proyiso and the admission of California upon ,ol
its own merits, unembarrasscd by any odious Ia
measures, appended solely to propitiate the ,lL
Slave power. But too much reliance should I
not be placed upon their continued resistance to
these unrcmitting attempts to Compromise. a.; yss
both parties feel bound inclined to great
tent, to support the Cass and Taylor platform g7r
of "non-intcrventon, and there is no good b
reason to suppose that the President will refuse s
his assent to any plan promising success which AK
shall settle the Territorial question as to avoid
the presentation of the Wilmot Proviso direct ,s,
ly to him for decision Wehaye seen too much "a ;
Of the yielding of the North-or at least of its 40
profcssed rcpreson,atives-to he surprised OF Il,
any triumph of Slavcholding tactics. Its firm "a
adhcrance to free principles-its rejection Of ali
every compromise of the interest of freedom i
cannot yet be depended upon. a,, sdi vonsl
Nothing can be more short-sighted, nothing ya.
more unreasonable, than these attempts to set. Al
tie this mighty question by compromises ss.l
1t is strange that men of comprehensive minds, tii
such claimed for Webster Clay and ~
Cass--do not see tho inadequacy of the RENE. ,59
dy to reach the disease Taking the most mar. 70 {
row view of the subject, tho Conservatives talk A.
as though the present state of the Anti Slavery
question had been produced by :" few hot a,l,,
headed fanatics North and South A very SUI 4
perhcial view indeed Why do they not see loa
that there is direct conflict between Freedom 2,
and Slavery---betwcen despotsm and Human icp
rights-that Truth, the great Agitator of tbs zs5
Age, is imposing law for down-trodden hu- 1ys
manity into the hearts Of men, demanding, that 20
Eye let the oppressed 60 free and break every ola
yoke" and that these upheavings arc but the sai
strugglings and outbreakings of spirit which ~
cannot be quieted but by the overthrow Of ali "a
oppressoni When such great principles are l1 >
at stake, their progress cannot be stoppedby asa
such palliatives-such miserable expedients j,
as the timc-serveing Statesmen of the day may bl
devise. f .. -...rI I.f4-p asa,
Upon full view of the progress Of FREQ
principles in religion and government in the j
last half century, the wonder is not that the
, present Anti Slavery agitation has arisen, but d
that it did not begin in this country before 1887.
: Astonishing that for SO many years there should
have been such an apathy-sueh dead calm ~
as heavy and hopeless tho waters of the Dead /,
Sea-scarccly broken by the project Of Coloni. s.,
zation-as seemed to rest upon thcpublc mind. .,
1 Any excitement was better than such apathy
4 any storm more healthy and hopeful than un- /.
! !. rufhed indifference, True there has been too
q much excited and angry feeling both within and -
Il without the halls of legisation-but these arc
: but the attendants-the almost necessary in- 4
: cidents of free discussion. Tho Anti-Slayery ,s
: agitation is full Of hope, and its increase the
u sign OF tho continued upheaying and expansion