Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-03-09
Another CCmprOmiSC...frOm The Committee
on TIC Territories,
From the New York Tribunc.

nc ltllliOf grows HIiONHfT INdt lllt t1NttSt
Committee on the Territories has agreed on
the bases of bill providing for the Adniis-
siUn OF California aud d c harmonious ndiust-
ment herewith OF all the questions affecting
Slavery which now convilse the country. Ii
is added thut said bill will soon be reported,
and will pass.
We regard all this as very probable cx-
cept the closing assertion. We see 10 cvi-
dence that Congress is Yet prepared to act on
the exciting topic in any manner which eth
cr will or should give peace TO the country.
When the Compromise spirit shall prevail,
there will be no lack of Compromise propo-
eiiions; aud until it does we attach little iln-
uortaDco to any such. II the South is will
ing to accept Mr. Clay's programme, why
not say SO, and let the North take that into
serious consideration Ii the South is not
willing TO 90 so tar as that, what use in talk
ing at all OF Compromise? To suppose
that the North can he induced 10 20 further
is TO cherish mischieyous delusion.
The Coinmittc on Territories is composed
Of five Loco-Focos, three Wings and J. X.
Giddngs -Four of the nine Members are
slaveholders including Kaufman of Texus (;
one OF them is n Wing lClingnanl but just
now ultra pro-Slavery to the brink of Dis
union. Or the five from Free States, one is
VIM. A. Richardson OF lllinois--a devoted
and trusted pro-Slavery mau; another is DIR.
G. N. Fitch, new and untried lnan, from
indiana. There are but three meu on the
Committee with any Free Soil back bone in
them-namely, Rockwell OF Mass. Colt OF
n. Y. aud Giddings of Ohio; while Slavery
has Linn Boyd (Chuirman) with Seddon OF
Va. Clingmun of N. &. and Kaufman OF
Toxas. II only needs Richardson's vote
81. Il II.
Inittee and report Dill-so let anybody who
can look for good from that Committee. WO
cannot.
The chief evil of these projects and ru-
mors OF Compromise is their tendency to
induce compromise spirit in this section,
which will ultimately be more intent OH
settling the question somehow than on SET
Ting il right. Already we see Buchanan
overbdding Cass for the Propagandists'
-->alnisas;,ife .ha,pext Presidential struggle hY,
sifTtaffy -rr1nrring the South all our present
territory South of SO 3U, with Mexico,
Cuba and Iiayti in reverson. The South
ern Uiigurchy say never u word of compro-
Iuisp Inenselyes-they leave that to ther
Northern serviors aud others; and there is
not n reliable assurance on record that any
thing short of a vast and positive Extension
of Slavery will satisfy or be accepted 10y
them. Then why not stand at ease this
way about new compromises until we see
what is proposed from the other side, and
who beside ourselves are TO be committed to
Compromise should there he one? All
know that the North will he found quite
ready enough to come into any plan OF adj.
justment that she ought TO acquiesce in
why not let thni suffice until Compromise
shall he offered u.s.
But the Union! the Union think of the
peril of the Union Wen, we do think of il.
Instead of scouting or rdicnling as chimeri-
cal the idea of n Dissolution OF the Union,
we firmly believe that there are sky Mem
bers of Congress who this day desire it and
are plotting to cfl,'ct it. We have no doubt
that the Nashville Convention will be held,
aud thai the leading purpose of its authors
is the separation OF the Slave Suites from
the Free, with the formation of an indepen-
dent Southern Coniederacy. We do not
seek TO beiillle this plot--we know that il il
formidable, and would do what we may TO
tleieat it. BY no word OF needless provoca-
tion, by no insulting taunt, no threatening
bravado, would we supply weapons TO the
ready hands of the Disuuionists. But of tho
two evils, Disunion or Slavery Extension
we prefer the former of the two perls, we
consider the latter the more imminent
Whenever the alternative shall he presented
- Give TO Slavery all the Territory South
of So 3V or the Union shall be dissolved !!
our answer shall be Perish the Union
Freedom and Justice ioreverp If the Poo
pie of the Free States will temperatcly
kindly, but firmly evince the same scnti-
ment, we shall escape the curse aud shame
of Slavery Extension aud still preserve the
Union. On the other hand, all coquetting
with the threatened perils, either by giving
IN TO Slavery Extension or wuntony badg-
oring the South for its procliyiiy to DisImion
aud daring the conspirators 10 proceed with
their schemes, is uulimely aud periIous.-
Let the friends of Freedom he wary, wise
and firm, and all will yet be well.
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