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

The Compromise Bills.-A Settlement.
There are two parties rising up in this conn
try, both not without strength, but they must
necessarily be sectional parties, because their
principles are provincial, and the basis of them
is so narrow, that no real statesman can stand
upon them.
Ex-Governor BRowN, of Mississippi, has
laid down the platform Of his, as he would call
it, the Southern party, (the South Carolina
and Quitman party,) in speech which he
delivered near Port Gibson, Mississippi, and
which he has caused to be reprinted in this
city. After sneering at, if not denouncing,
such northern Democrats as CAss and DOUG
LAS, whom for years he has been accustomed
to act with, or support, and such southern
Democrats as CoBB, the Speaker, and FooTE,
the Senator, he lays down as the duty of his
section, and his sectional party, to demand:
/. "a restoration of the lave of Texas, in hec
p1ba over the country which has been taken from
her, and added to New Mexico, ESQ to carry
there, without dispute, slave property
40. Qn suostance) the establishment of slavery
by express law in New Mexico and Utah. (The
southern Wilmot proviso.)
80 Abstinence from all interference with slavery
give it protection.)
80. continuance of the present Fugitive Slave
law.
s'5 No State to be excluded from the Union be-
cause her constitution tolerated slavery"
If these demands are not all granted, Ms.
BRowN demands dissolution Of the Confed-
eracy
Per contra, now, judging from the petitions
which have been presented in Congress this
session, the northern provncialsts demand, as
a sine qua non:
81. The establishment of universal freedom by
express law in New Mexico and Utah, (though ar
guing all the while that, under the Mexican law,
it exists now,) that is, the northern Wilmot pro-
viso.
''2. Constant interference with slavery in the
Territories and the high seas, (refusing it any
sort of protection.)
ss3. Instant repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, Tor
the qualification of it by State sovereignties, or
man sovereignties, acting under COINCIDENCE" &C
cording to "the higher law.")
80. Abolition of slavery in the District of Co
lumbia.
ss5 Exclusion from the Union of every new
State wishing to come in saveholding, (notwith-
standing the pledge to Texas in the act of anncxa-
uon.)
Mr.. BRowN acquiesces in the admission OF
California, and the northern provincialists ac-
quiesce in the ten millions for Texas, Gf, in
other things, they can have their way,) be-
cause these are ''facts accomplished" which
cannot be repealed.
Now, ii is not to be disguised that both OF
these provincial parties powerful in their re-
spective provinces. South Carolina is even
now ready to secede, upon Mr.. BRowN's plat
form, if Georgia or Mississippi will take the
lead All the Mississippi members of Con
gress, if we Judge by the record, stand upoI
the platform of Mr.. BRowN, save Mr.. FooTE
whom Mr. BRowN turns over to the North
Florida and Alabama, Mr.. BRowN thinks, vii
follow Mississippi, if in the coming Mississippi
State Convention Mr.. BRowN's platform il
made the platform of that State. Not les
powerful are these provincialists in the northern
States. They have already subjected the ole
and renowned Commonwealth Of Massachusetts,
But bare eight votes in some three or four hun
dred have saved the country from an out
and-out nullifier and higher-law, man, in
the person Of Mr.. SUMNER. In New
York, the Empire State, the Legislature as
yet hesitate to say whether "'the higher law p
or the common law, with the statute law. il
the law Of the land. Vermont stands on ihs
record nullifer. The great State Of Obi,
has ga higher lawp Senator in Congress, anc