Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-06-26

The Slavery Compromise.
Tho Washington Union has an article
upon the compromise of the slavery ques-
,ions,cfccted by thelast session of Congress,
inwhich ii decIarcs that, "evcnts have prov
cd that the measure, as whole. was nee
cssary, and that its delay would have WI
dencd, probably beyond all remedy, the
breach which sectional prcjudiccs had
made in the harmony and good under
standing ofthc various portions Of our
common country"
| We fully concur in this, but We do not
comprehend by what right, the Taion
claims the compromise to be Democratic
measure, as 1t does in the following open
ing sentence of the article:
All Is exceedingly annoying to the special organ
not To be able To precipitnte the friends Of tho Com
promise into the ranks Of the wing party and 10
| able that party to make a President out of dem
ocrntie mcasurc.
Now VIC had thought, if there was
member of that party, who had a more
perfect intelligence Of what was democrat
ic(?J, than others--a kcener and deeper in
sight into the policy of the party, than was
vouchsaiedto the dullcr optics flhosc less
acute and wa,chful, and more wax-hke
and cleaving tenacity, to every thing that
savorcd of demoerqcWD, it was The late
member from the Amherst district-and
yet after, as we may presume, most
searching scrutiny into its origin, details
and bearings, he SHE'D from it, with some
thing, we suspect Of the knowing air,
which brilliant and crudite member of
our State convention, from a ncighboring
county, is said to have assumed, when he
discovered and proclaimed that the mixed
basis was ga ID wing trick" The
same may be said Of the member from this
district. The Compromise gave out none
Of the odor of Democracy, to his highly
cultivated ofac,ories. The Democratic
organ in this place has been supposed to
know something of the substance, the CO.
lor, taste and smell ofthc paba1un, upon
which democracy fccds-but it found moth
ing. so much as to "stay its stomach" in the
Compromise. The very name was nau-
scous--our language scarcely afforded ad
jestives harsh enough to exprcssits distaste
and avcrsion--the measure was SO much
Of ON insult---so gross an ouirage---so
grand a scheme of plumber asd oppression.
We do not mention these things to prove
that the Union is wrong-albeit the I'm
Joni wrong-but to show how uncertain
u thing Democracy is, ard how differently
it is viewed by its most faithful followers.
Bythe way, we never could understand,
with what fitness the term "su5missionisks"
was applied to the wings, and those of the
other party whoapprovcd the compromise.
Those who opposed it were pledged to re-
sist, some of It's provisions, "at every haz-
ard and to the last extremity" and yet we
find them now, intoxicating and practising
acqaieseeacc. Who are the submssionists,
they who originally approved and aided
in thepassage of the measure, or they, who
opposing and pledging themselves to resist
1t then, are now seen quietly submitting to
III But we are told that the compromise
bill was an insult-to whom, eask! Ger
tainly not 10 those, who made it law, but,
IT at all, to the party who endeavored but
failed to prevent it, 1fthen, as is evident,
they are the real submissionists, and if, as
they allcge, the measures of the last session
were insulting, they involve themselves in
the disagrceabe category Of submitting to
insult--a condition which we had thought
them incapable of occupying, and will not
assign to them.
The truth is the compromise, or some
measure like it, was essential, not only to
the well-being, but the safety of the rcpub-
leland the debates and proceedings had
upon 1t abundantly demonstrated, that no
other measure, answering its ends, could
have passed at that session. 1t would have
been fearful experiment to have postpon-
cd IT.. The excltcmentthat then prevailed,
could scarcely have passed away except
by violent explosion Civil war was
raising its Gorgon front in Texas. The
Wilmot Proviso, which would have been
the aiaram of war, was impending by a
thread. Depradations uponthc property of
the South demanded immediate discontinue
ancc and PREPARATION. The country had
come to that stage, when peace or war
were the issues, and we cannot but feel
that they. who chose the former, acted wise
y and patrio,ically.
4 IsB' President Fillmore left Washing
ton last Saturday, by the steamer Occola,
for Old Point Comfort where he will re-
main FIVE or six days. The Secretary OF
the Interior, with his lady, the lady of the
Postmaster General, Mrs. Hall, and the
Hungarian and Polish heroine, Miss Apo.
lonia Jagcllo, accompany him. The Rich
moud Republican has the best reason for
knowing that his Excellency, will pass
through Richmond on his return fiom Old
Point Comfort, towards the close of the
week. He will bcaccompanied by several
members of his Cabinet. The Rcpubh.
can takes 1T for granted the city authorizes
will follow the example set by other cities.
and make suitablearrangemen.s for receiv-
ing and entertaining the Chief Magistrate
of the nation. The Council of Norfolk
have already taken the proper initiative and
] appointed a committee TO invite The Presi-