New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-16

so passed. must result IN the dissolution OF
the Union and the overthrow of the Gov
eminent. is, in view of what we have been
considering, demand upon the credullty of
the public mind that strikes one chiefly by
the sublimity of its imPudence. Neither
North nor South would suffer by the repeal
Of its repealable portions, for neither gets
ANYTHING by the adjustment scheme. Texas
alone profits by it; she obtains ten millions
in prime stock with coupons attached This
is something substantial. 1t will buy the
child frock. As for the North and the
South they may each be thankful for moth
inc. The North obtained what she wanted
only by sending along, during the heat Of
the controversy. the gold-diggers to Califor-
MA, who erected so much of the disputed
territory as was embraced within her bOun-
deries, into a Free State As TO New
Mexico, the adjustment does not secure that
territory to freedom, but the agitation of the
Slavery question does, and thus 1t will be
saved. The abolition of the Slave Trade
in Inc District of Columbia, which is one
bottle of the healing balm afforded to the
North by that grand scheme of comprO-
mise, is too much of farce to talk about.
What the South gets, is of equal insignif-
canoe. 4 Territorial Government for
New-Mexico and Utah is established with
out the Proviso, accompanied with the extra
consolation afforded by tho repeated declar-
atoms of the Northern CompromiserS, that
Slavery cannot 90 there anyhow. If it
could, they would 90 against the will of
God and vote to keep it out. She further
gets a fresh enactment restricting the runa-
way capacities of the fugtives; which is
understood to bo effectual in tripping up tho
heels of one runaway in hundred, 1T cost
of five thousand dollars for the achievement.
Such are the immense advantages afforded
to North and South by the adjustment
scheme. One other, however, should be
mentioned. 1t has opened branch of busl
ness called " Saving the Union" which pays
frst-rate.
1t is altogether farcical to tell us that the
Union was saved by these Compromise
measures, or that its preservation now de-
ponds upon sustaining such an essentially
barren and empty settlement" The ad-
4 nd
thing of course. SO was the settlement Of
the Texas boundary. The acquiescence in
these measures. and in the sham of abolish
ING the slave trade in the District Of CO.
lumbia, was and is universal. Nobody has
proposed or will propose to disturb them.
These two principal measures, being of the
nature of compacts, are irrepealable. All
parties were ready to make those compacts
and are now ready to stand by them. They
came about in the regular course of things,
:Hd were the offspring of national neces-
sity, and not the fruits of any bastard con-
ception of the idea of compromise.
The adjustment measures proper, 50
called are thus reduced to two. One, es-
tablshing the territorial governments, with
outany provision relating to Slavery; butwith
the proyiso of the Northern compromIsers
insure to the South all the fugitives they
can catch, by paying five thousand dollars
head therefor This is all there is of the
adjustment proper. If it be compromise,
it is compromise all on one side. At any
rate, here Is the totality Of It's magnitude.
And this is what we are told is the life
buoy of this Union and Government-the
preserver that saves this water-logged ma
ton from sinking We are gone the mo-
ment either measure is punctured. Now,
suppose Congress should take it into their
heads to admit the Territories as States
They may do this, we presume, without let
or hindrance, if it 50 please them.-
Or is this an interference with the comprO-
mise measures which is to bring disunion !
We should like to be informed on this point.
We should like to know, from the proper
authority, for certainty, whether or no
proposition to admit New-Mexico as State
would be reckoned fanatical and whether,
if successful, immediate dissolution of the
Union would be the result? viii some
one of the guardians who have the Union
in charge let us know? If motion of this
sort is not in order, we suppose New-Mex-
leo and Utah are to be set down as eternal
Territories. But, if it is allowable, then
further collapse of the settlement meas
nres Is visible. and nothing remains of the