Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-10
Salem, Ohio, August no, 1850.
Clay'S Omnibus Upset.

UlHl 'UufnlDuA ppStts
Clay's cuEningly devised Compromise, after
struggle of five months duration, is at last de-
fcatcd, It was not sufficiently pro-Savcry to
satisfy tho extreme Southern party, but too
much so to win the support of those Senators
from the North who wero unwilling to follow
Webster in his treachery and to be branded
ever after as Doughfaccs !
We rejoice in Wow of this result, not because
we see much reason TO expect that the present
Congress will adopt any measure less objection
able in itself, but because it shows that tho tEsk
of rcconciling the interests of Slavery and Free
dom is becoming more and moro difficult, and
that tho bands which hold together this blood
ccmentod Union arc hourly becoming weaker.
That the Union was conceived in sin and
brought forth in iniquity We need no better
evidence than is afforded by the fact, that, ac-
cordng to the declarations of its friends, it can
be preserved from dissolution only by sacri-
fec of the great principles of righteousness and
the continued cnslayement Of millions Of human
beings. We rejoice, therefore, that tho Con-
science of the North, partially awakened from
its long sleep and galvanized to life by the faith
full labors of the Abolitionists, is at length be-
ginning to intcrposc serious obstacle to the
schemes by which cunning and unprincipled
politicians, for the promotion of their own pri-
vatc ends, arc seeking to hold in fraternal rcla-
tons the slavoholding and non-slayeholding
States to marry Truth with Falsehood, Sin
with Holiness, Liberty with Slavery. Tho plan
of the great leader of the Compromise part, on
which he had built the forlorn hope of retficv-
ing his political fortunes, is defeated, and that,
considering the character of the present Con-
gress, is thing to be thankful for.
The Compromise was killed by mutilation.--
It's arms, legs, and head were successfully taken
off, and finally its heart was plucked from its
foul bosom, and nought was left save-a provi-
sion for organizing Territorial Government for
Utah! This remnant of the original bill was
passed.
And now must como struggle for the adj
mission of California. 1t has already commen-
cod in the Senate Tho bill for admission was
taken up Immediately after tho defeat of tho
Compromise. Texas staggered and South
Carolina threatened, but Clay denounced Multi
fication and avowed his purpose to live and die
in the Union-to die, if need be, for the Union
He utterly denied and secuted tho right of any
one State to set at defiance tho laws of the
Union, and avowcd that ho should obey the
National Government, though resisted by his
native Virginia, or his adopted State, Kentuc.
ky. Even Foote of Mississippi made an anti
Notification speech!
We shall now see whether the North has thu
nerve, in the faco of Southern threats and de
!. nunciations, to vote California into tho Union
She can do it If she WILL and sho will if she i
r not two much frightened! 1t is said that so o
GO Southern Representatives have banded to
gether to resist the measure by factious cal
ling of the yeas and nays on frivolous and un
important motions, and many believe that the
I will succeed. and that Congress will pass tn
, appropriation bills and adjourn. We shall sec