The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-06

the privilege Of dying with arms in their hands
will never be hung as traitors, and shooting may
be all even game. do not wish the occasion as
the gentleman does to try the strength of his Gov
eminent.
The Omnibus" has suddenly broken down,
and with great crash The Jews and the
Gentiles, the Abolitionists and the Arnolds, have
been all emptied in the ditch, where each kicks
the shins of his brother in villiany. Wednesday
last witnessed the general overturn-the culbue
generate. The preceding day had been signal-
zed by the passage of the amendment of Mr.
Bradbury-the only real effect Of which was to
gild the pill of bribery little more effectualy
while it increased the virulence of the poison it
contained Still it was expected to glide down
the Threats OF those consciences which revolted
at the dark shades and ugly surfaces with which
it came from the fingers of the surgeon and physi-
elan of the Committee Alas for the fiecting
hopes that day conjured up!
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind fury with the abhored shears
And sits the thin spun thread
First Mr.. Dawson's amendment was stricken
out which lost the senators from Texas Then
all that portion of the bill which related to Texas
and New Mexico was stricken out; then that
which related to California; leaving Utah only
in the line. 9" In this emasculated FORM" says
the telegraph, the bill passed" That is, bill
providing territorial government for Utah,
abolishihg the slave-trade in the District of CO.
lumbia, and creating very Objectionable process
for the recovery offugitlve slaves has passed the
Senate. In the lower House IT Is probable that
even those two last clauses will go by the board :
and the great Omnibus, which was to carry
everybody and everything, and which Mr. Clay
assured the Free Soil faction, would be worth
more to them than nifty Wllmot Provlsos,"
will come to the end OF its journey with no pas
sengers at all--save that feeble dropt baby OF
Mormonism which neither Texas nor California,
nor Mexico will own.
What failure what bungling piece OF
vlllalny! What loss OF sPolls!
We may be mistaken; but with the rest of
mankind, we think there is little more to be
feared from Mr.. Clay's Bill of denominations.
The battle over, the California bill alone is now
to be fairly fought, in open day. So much the
better for us-on. sundry grounds. The Cali
lorna Dill Is no worse than the Compromise, for
the compromise contained 1t. The California
Dill is much less Objectionable than the Compro-
mise Tor the latter, IN TACT, though not in words,
applied the unconstitutional principles OF the
Caiiforma constitution TO all the vast territory
In inc vicinity.
Let the event be then what 1t may, we can
lose no more, nor as much, by the approaching
struggle, as we have lost by the passage of the
compromise bill Besides, the tight will now
be fair one, in open field, and in the light of
day. The snake is out of the grass. No one
fears snake when he can see him, when he
writbes in the plain ground, when our ANGLES are
secure from the treachery OF concealment. The
sole effect the sole aim indeed, Of all the provi-
sions and of all the verbiage with which the adj
mission of California was surrounded in the
Compromise bill, was concealment from the pop
ular eye. The game of the compromises of
the Constitution, was the game of the students
of Pike and Colburn, in village schools. @Think
of number" says one precocious urchin to his