Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-08-17
The Defeated Compromise.

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In ptr last we gave the vote which vir'
tunlly defeated the Compromise Bill IN
the Senate of the United States, accom-
panied by remarks which extended Il
considerable length. Our views were
based Upon telegrnphie report of the dis
astrous days neutrality-suspicious., we
may have been led into some slight lnac.
curacies. Those inaccuracies, If there
were s,ich, did no injury to the character
Of any Senator. The bill, as the mail has
sitce brought intelligence, had been virtu
ally destroyed by striking out the CLAUSE
relative to the settlement of the New
Mexico and Texas boundary question:
The clause, iii the original bill, providing
for such settlement, was one of the 1ius'
important portions Of it, and, as that hat
been defeated, many senators who were
in favor of the bill as a whole, cared af
forwards very little abost its fate. This
was the case, we presyme. with Senator
Downs, of Louisiana. He would have
voted for the Compromise, as a whole
but after it had been emasculated of it,
most important Iroperties--when the set
| tlernent Of the New Mexico question had
been Observation-Disclosures probably care
less az to what became of the remainder
of the bill, and, perhaps, thought it best
to'sei1d what remained of Salue In the bill
to the tomb Of the Capulets," by voting
to strike out all that related to California
As amended by striking out the provisions
relative TO New Mexico and Texas it was
M imperfect and unsatisfactory measure
of adjustment, and this, no doubt, induced
Senator Downs to vote as he did. lie
had been III, able, consistent, and patriotic
supporter of the bill until its power for
good was mainly destroyed, and were the
measure again presented, t,nmutilated, we
feel assured that he would again support
It. There is no-.doubt that he would.
MI. Soule, on the contrary, opposedthe
bill strent1ously and perseveringly, from
first to last, in opposition to the wish OF his
constituents, certainly, and to the best in
terests Of our common country. 1t is to
such that we alluded when we stated that
to /" defeat the bill the ultras united--the
opposites came together-tle extremes met
and confessed
Well, the extremes did meet. Soule,
Of Lonts,aa,u, voted with Seward, Of Netc
York. Davis, Of Mississippi, with Davis,
of Observation-Disclosures, of Aiabama,
with Baldwin, of Conuecticut-Butler, of
South Carolina, with Benton. of MIS-
sourt.' IF the above does not present a
unity Of ultras, oPposites, and extremes,
we do not know the meaning of the term.
We think we have now fully vindicated
the paragraph in our former article, a por-
ton of which is quoted above, from all Oh
lection.
In opposition to the Compromise Bill,
from the time il was first presented to the
Senate until it was defeated, the disunion-
lists of South Carolina, and elsewhere III
the South, have worked tremendously and
and lovingly with the abolitionlsts ard
free sellers of this North! Why? Their
opinions upon the slavery question are as
wide apart rs the poles are asnnder-yet
they have the same objects in view, a con
tinuance Of sectional agitation for the pur-
pose OF advancement, with the intention
eff ultimately destroying the Union of these
States. This is a fair inference. When
we see the Composites working in the
harness, pulling with all their might
to accomplish a given object, we may
rightfully and p%rtidently suspect that some
object of sufficient Importance to cause
them to stihe their mutual luminosity for
the time being. is in process of accomplish
ment, to induce such strange companion
ship.