Daily American telegraph., 1852-04-29

Of the country. To keep up an irritation re-
specting them is only to impede their beneficial
operation.
Readers Of this journal know that it regards
the Compromise measures as q settlement, in the
ordinary acceptation of the word, Of the disputes
which made them both necessary and expedent
But cordially as we approve OF them as the best
arrangement that could be made under the cir
cumstances and firmly as we believe that they
are calculated to be permanent, we do not see
any reason why the Whig party--or, in fact any
party-should be required to Incorporate them
IN lts political creed. They were not and never
can De u political or party issue, simply because
they were not IN their origin and are not in their
nature political or partisan. Least of all do we
see reason Tor requiring either party or both par
ties to declare them . final" There is no fear
Of their being repealed SO long as the circum-
stances which demanded their passage continue
to exist But for one party or the other, or even
Congress itself, to declare them fnal is an absur-
dity. 1T is not in the nature of wise legislation
to be final, where the people are their own ru-
ers. 1t must and ought to adapt itself to the
views and wishes of majority of the people
Evidently the constitution Of the United States is
not final in the sense Of being an unalterable in
strument. The same sovereign power that made
it can amend it, as several independent States
have at times amended each its own constitution.
but one are irrepealable but they are not there
fore final although perhaps that which gave
money to Texas was. One bill erected California
into State. But do those who insist upon
hnalty for such legislation mean to say that CAL
ifornia shall remain single State? Will they or
can they guarantee that it shall never be made
into two States? Is the legislation that made
Utah Territory fnaL7 And New Mexico? May
not each Of these in due time claim to be admit
ted as State, and shall Congress then say, s.No,
tho legislation that made you q Territory was part
of certain compromises which were final" The
claim of hnality then carries its absurdity upon
its very face; and though ourselves quite willing
that it shall proue TO be q final settlement " we
can never consent so far to stutify ourselves and
cannot desire to see the Whig party do SO foolish
a thing as to publish to the world that certain
legislation Is final, when it is notorious that the
people can, if they choose, abrogate it through
the next Congress; especially as further endorse
ment of that legislation is entirely unnecessary.
and only calculated to proclaim before the world
one of two things-either that the Americans are
not q law-reverenclng people, or that when the
American Congress provides, after months Of
earnest consultation and discussion, remedy for
certain evils, it has to be puffed and certified
adnaaseu'n before the people will consent to use
it; neither of which things we disposed to
believe
1He wing Natlondl IoFcHtlon VIII no lLs Wnoie
duty if it declares that the Wings of the Union
do acq~teSce in the Compromise measures, fugitive
slave law included. II they 90 further than de-
claring this and recommending a continuance of
such acquiescence they will step out Of their
province for no convention can rightfully take
upon itself to say that the people Of these United
States shall not repeal law which they-the
people, and not the convention-did them
selves enact. And we warn the gentlemen who
proved SO refractory at the late caucus, that if
they suppose that they can raise third and
successful party on such a basis they will find
themselves most egregiously mistaken.