The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-20

liz is not yet certain that another is not TO fol-
low. All such facts as these go to show that
these provincial sectional parties are very
powerful, and that their power is not, by any
means, To be despsed.
In the midst of these real dangers, soon after
Congress had passed the six Compromise bills,
which are now the laws Of the land, but which
the proyincialists, North and South, are trying
to nullify or repeal, thevoce of the PRESIDENT
of the United States pronounced, in his message
of December, these ever memorable words:
"All mutual concession in the nature OF COM
promise, must necessarily be unwelcome to men
/ Of srtyene op;nions'' "The series of mea-
sures to which have alluded are regarded by me
as a SETTLEMENT, in principle and substance-A
FINAL sErrLEMEST-of the dangerous and exciting
subjects which they embraced"
1 The principal efforts Of the two great pro-
vincial parties to unsettle what the PRESIDENT
here pronounces a settlement" "a final set
Element" the PRESIDENT is thus pledged to
resist and this pledge, beyond all doubt, has
had most salutary influence in all parts of the
United States. Nobody expects anybody 10
approve euery thing in these SIX Compromise
bills; for, as the Fugitive Slave bill is
unpopular at the North, SO was the adj
mission of California as free State, monop-
olizing the whole Pacific coast, equally unpop-
ular at the South. Congress differed, disputed,
and wrangled nine months necessarily on the
details, and on these details no agreement could
ever be expected; but the bargain has been
struck and made, and the PRESIDENT and all
true patriots feel and consider that the settle
ment must be s'final''--if the Union is to be
preserved-and that we can live no longer to-
gether but in harmony and peace.
That such extreme southern men as Mr.
Brown should demand reopening and re-
agitation of these bills, and reputation of
all of them but the Fugitive Slave bill, is
natural enough, or that such extreme north
ern men as Mr.. GIppINGs should repud-
ate all except the admission of California,
is also natural enough But the attacks which
are constantly made, in some OF the northern
n Wing abolition p papers, upon these mea-
sures, and upon Wing PRESIDENT for sign
+ ing them, is unnatural, cruelty unnatural. The
PRESIDENT has but followed the chart the
Wing party has marked out for twenty years
that acts of Congress are not to be vetoed by
the Executive except for good and almost I'M
questionable cause. The one-man power of the
reto the Wings have denounced in all the forms
and varieties of language. These six acts of
Congress the PRESIDENT has signed, cap
proved; - and GO the worst Of them," as the
| Abolition journals pronounce the Fugitive act
to be, is in the very spirit and language Of the
act of 1893, which GEORGE WASHINGTON
1" approved" Now that these measures
are laws, passed after ten months of the most
alarming struggle that the North and South
have ever had in Congress, the PRESIDENT
pronounces them to be, in his opinion, ''a settle
ment, ga final settlement, can ADJUSTMENT
until time and experience shall demonstrate
| the necessity of further Legislation to guard
| against evasion abuse"
| No man can be friend of his country, or the
friend Of Wing PRESIDENT, who wishes to
| reopen and reagitate these measures, either
on the platform of Mr.. BRowN or of Mr.. GID
DINes; and the opposition Of all such extreme
men is expected. That the PRESIDENT should
wish for and desire the acquiescence of his
party friends in the Wing creed, that acts
of Congress, but for extraordinary cause, are not
TO be uetoed, and that contract once solemnly
made, as in these compromise measures, between
the North and the South, is to be adhered to ''tl
time and experience shall demonstrate the neces-
| sity of further legislation" and then by mutual
! consent, is natural wish, natural expectation.
| Nevertheless, we see so called Wing journals
in some of the northern States, ESQ calling them
selves friends of the PRESIDENT and his Cabi-
net though speaking well enough of him, yet
daily denouncing the great measures that sig
; nalize his Administration, and doing all they
can thereby to bring him and his Cabinet into
odium and contempt. If there is no hypocrisy
| in this, there is such want of judgment, that
we are sure we need but call the attention Of
such journals to such an inmcal position, in or
| der to show them that to denounce the mea-
sures, the principles, the message of Wing
| PRESIDENT and Wing Cabinet, is to denounce
| that PRESIDENT himself, and also the members
I Of his Cabinet.