The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-06

What are the principles Of the sgreement or rather
what the terms OF cspiluIaions Our readers will
ind them fully stated in another column in The words
and figures used by those who framed the instrument
Lett be read and weighed carefully and il will be seen
that all ideas Of Union party are spurned and that the
wings OF New York called upon to rally on pure
party grounds The organ Of the administration speaks
OF that portion OF the work OF the Albany architects in
the following terms. eve commend them to the aten-
ton OF those southern wings who have listened 10 the
songs Of no partysm
These are declarations OF principle, broad permanent
perpetual upon which the whole wing party can stand
united 1t stlrs the blood them proca med with
The trumpet tones Of the Empire State instead of dis
cordan ciamor which has for many months panied the
and heart OF every patriot"
This brings us to the man point OF the articles of
captula,on-to "the questions which now sgtate the
couny"(we the words of the contracting parties
to the adjustment
Let us reflect The Compromise consists of these meas
ures:
l. The admission Of California.
2. The settlement Of the Texas boundary.
3. Territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico.
tcithout the Wanot Proviso.
A The fugitive. slave law
s. The abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Is there any mention OF these in gross! We
see none. Why this OMISSION The answer is plain.
Mr. Seward and his hgher-aw followers would not APP
prove them so Mr. Flmore's friends had to yield.
Let us ask which OF the five measures named above
has Mr. Seward denounced They are the second third,
and tour He denounced them in his letter TO the ami
vesay celebration OF the passage of the ordinance Of
1857 Now, let us look and what mention the Albany
platform makes OF these measures:
/. is to the Texas boundary We see in the last clause
OF the left handed compliment to the national adminslra
lion decided approval of the order to repel Texan
authority from Santa Fe.
9 As to The territorial governments for UlaA and Ns,c
Meaio On this point the Albany platform reasserts the
principle of the Wmot Proviso. In the language Of the
New York Tribune, "proelams inferibe hostility 10
slavery extension"
is to the fugitipe- Stare idp 1t claims the right for
all voters to discuss the expedency Of all laws, and to
seek by constitutional their repeal or modifca
lon." This announcement of an abstract proposition
MEANS if it intended TO have any practical meaning
that the Seward and Fillmore coalition does not regard
the Compromise as settlement of the questions which
have agated the countrynot treaty Of peace and
amybut that any of its features may be assailed and
any Of the questions settled by it may be again aga,ed
and that the coalition New York does reserve TO itself
the right oppose the fugitive slave law and to urge
repeal modification. Do we err in these remarks }
Let appeal to the organ OF Mr.. Seward and 10 the
New York Tribune the two blindest and most unscru.
pulous journals of New York,
The Albany Evening Journal says
"Whie acquiescence in and obedience the laws,
stuionaly passed, and whose idy is sanctioned by
the judicial tribunals of the land, is declared be the
a.
such laws, and 10 seek their modification repeal eaf
frmed as right not 10 be surrendered.
"The cord al and unanimous of the several
committees in these propositions only affords crafty
ing indication of the continued attachment OF the party
principle Just in themselves and vital domestic
harmony but the desire of their representatives
a union upon prnc pies which every whig may sanction
who holds sacred the ineips Of human freedom and The
ibufy Of speed"
The New York Tribune says:
"The platform which publish above CONNIE nd
itself Tor Its wisdom aud justice to all wings mater how
widely they may ha differed with regard the
mise in general, the fugtvesave law in particular.
Very properly, II puts foremost those cardinal
measures, adherence to which makes whigs 1t then
procaims nfexible hostility slavery and oyay
the constitution and Union, and the duty of obey
ing every law OF the country as well AS the right of each
discuss all laws, and seek the mod fca,ion
repeal OF such do not commend themselves TO his jodg
men And finally it declares the confidence Of the party
in the national and State administrations"
Can anything be significant than the commenda-
ton Of two such Journalist
But further The mess Of potlage given TO Mr. Fill
more is compounded most strangely. We beg our
readers to look at it, The national administration is
not complimented for Us Why no, Because
Mr.. Seward was master at Albany and while he was
willing to permit Mr. Fillmore TO be compnenied for
those acts which he, the higher law priest, approved,
he would not allow the administration to be COM
mended for anything he did approve twill be
therefore, that all the acts and things for which the New
York coalitionsis at liberty TO commend Mr. Fill
more are specifically enumerated; and the enumeration
is drawn up carefully a catalogue OF picture sale.
That enumeration excludes the support the admins,ra
ton has given to the Compromise. Il mentions the
Cuba proclamation, but makes mention OF the fu.
gi,ive slave law proclamations 1t audes to preserv.
ing the neutrality laws but it makes allusion to
enforcing the fugitive slave law. In fact it repudi-
aes, by the most direct implication, generally and spe
ciay, all those movements of the standardization in
which the blind nfa,uation OF southern wings has
seen the leas, merit Mr. Fillmore has given his
ton this; for he must have given it, or his friends in
New York would not have dared to make such base
surrender-not even sipulang for the honors OF
but agreeing to for part OF the spos in the ranks
OF the victors Mr. Fillmore must have sanctioned il,
or his organ in this city would have shaken hand
90 cordially with Thurlow Weed and Horace Greeley,
It did yesterday when oced the Albany platform,
and encouraged those who wish to asi,ae the slavery