The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-30
THE ISSUE.

"What id the news today" said gentle
man to colored barber, well known Ia the
city OF Pittsburgh, as he took his seat in the
chair. "The news are very various, sir the
topics are too numerous to mention but re
are the subject" This was the hubbub of the
Presidential election of 1874, squeezed into
nutshell Since that day, Texas has been an
pexed Mexico partitioned; California and Ore
gon organized and admitted; Calhoun, Clay,
and Webster, caponiEcd Europe revolutionized,
re-conquered and restorationized everything
at home gloriously compromised, and almost
every other issue then pending fossilized but
the colored mans answer--t0e are the subject
is this day more emphatically true than it was
in the critical day when it was uttered. Pierce
is elected; the appointments are made; the old
party Issues arc abandoned the Wing party
annihilated, and not mouse stirring in the
political household but the question of Slavery
is more rife than ever. The papers of the
South are loaded down with its burden hall
the editorials of the leading journals in this
interest are occupied with nothing else, and
the general outcry of all it's advocates is like
that of Napoleon on the morning of the battle
Of Waterloo-Mon Dieu! l have all my bat.
ties to fight over again
One of our exchanges says awe have never
believed that the Slavery question was in any
other than the morning stage Of its discussion
that we have not even seen the end of the be.
ginsingof the agitation" The editor continues
"One after another the bonds which held us
the North and South together, have been Civ.
ing way. The powerful religious sect-the
Methodists-have separated, the Baptists have
separated the fret numbering upwards Of
100000, the latter near 100000 persons
meaning worshppes. Nor have the Presby.
terians been free from disaifection And the
only cause that can be assigned for the har-
mony of the others is, difference of church gov
. eminent We doubt not that the lay members
of all the churches are equally estranged in
I brotherly love and Christian affection
e The Cotton Plant says /" The great question
T to be met is the abolition of Slavery. Disguise
1T as we may Il IS Ne great political, social ana
8 rshg'ou idea Of ne day 1t must be metz To
a this, the Washington Union, the Republic, the
o Richmond and Charleston papers, with the
It whole editorial coupcil of public safety, unani
i mously agree; and the Memphis Convention
confesscs the same entiment for the merchant
}. and planters--the entire cotton oligarchy o
z the South.
Is From all which We infer that the politca
Q conspiracy, entered into at Baltimore by tn
q two great psstiea "discountenancing agita
o ton" is nonplusse& and that tho triumph O
o the Democracy ahd|ths extinction of Whigger
f; have only cleared % deck for closer Confc
= between conscience And cotton than we hav
0 yet witnessed. TIP Old, awkward, triangula
Q duel between Whid psuocras and Free-Sole'
{ is to be disentanglf and not blow struc
hereafter WI 20 wzpnG except those that mis-
n So mote it be-" 4 lriL at politics, like trin
. Of law, never csn-sb fairly had until the plea,
r ihgs are brought \ . simple and single issu