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NEBRAsKA..-THE. COMPROMISES.
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NEBRAsKA-.-THE. COMPROMISES.
We last week gave some notice aud some extracts
from a work entitled Letters TO the People. What
We then published gave brief account Of the
manner in which the Missouri Compromise had
been already yiolated-and hence the very reason
able apprehension that it would be again. Below
We continue our extract from this work. The
writer is no abolitionst in the ultra of the
term, hut he presents facts and considerations of
the gravest Importance.
sAiNr Lorrs, Sept 7th, 1858.
MY DEAR FRIEND: l wish to say few words
moro about compromises, and l am done. When
one party fas to fulfil his part Of contract, then
the other may demand, and compel them to do so,
or depart from the previous engc cement What is
fair for side, is fair for the other. As it would
have been q breach of tho Missouri Compromise,
for the north to have demanded triangle lO4 miles
long and 60 wide, and exclude slavery from it, and
take it away from Missouri just 50 much breach
of the Compromise was committed, when 50 much
Of the free forcre free, territory was given to Mis-
souri, aud slavery.
This crime has been wrought by the south, and
that very violation has given to the north the right
to demand, that Missouri shall be free State.
Upon certain conditions the United States declared
Missouri a slave State; the conditions violated it
instantly makes the question the as before the
the Compromise, in which the north demanded 1t
should be free State. AS il was made slave
State solely these conditions it would, il the
north insisted upon it, become free State, upon
the holding Of single slave upOn the forbidden
premises The fact that the north has moi ret olled
against this cncIo,chment, that il has not demanded
that the constitution Of Missouri should be changed,
and exclude slavery, does not relieve the south one
particle for what they have done; for If the north
was recrcant in not guarding the interests Of free
dom, it is no excuse why the south, Who form Il
part of the Union, should not cauc up aud protect
1t. But the south not only did not protect her own
Missouri Compromise but sought its violation,
and accomplished it.
But if time and the solomnitics Of legislation
cannot make firm and abiding one cympromise,
neither can they another Our Congress has again
passed Compromise, it has been un Justly called.
In the Missouri Compromise, the north were de-
mandants. In the aeyTo-rcndiion Compromise the
south were dcmandants. In the Missouri Compro-
misc. the south the promissors. In the ncsro-
rendition Compromise the north were pronssurs.
In the Missouri Compromise, the south promised TO
keep its hands of this Nebraska Territory.
In the slayo-rcnlition Compromise, the north
promised to chase, hunt, catch, hold, and deliver
back to bondage ever poor fugitive slave.
In the Missouri Compromise, the south promised
humane, just, and huly thing. In the negro
catching Compromise, tho north promised an inhu-
man, unjust. and unholy thing.
In the Missouri Compromise, the south by their
VOTE settled that question. Ia the black Compro-
mise, the north, by their vote sustained it.
In the Missouri Compromise the south gave
promise torere, designing that the should never
be revoked, for its execution would always be sal
utary. In the slaye-catchng Compromise, no time
specified, for the continuance Of tho act, for it
can breed no good to any one
But how did these Compromises stand in their
opcration2 The Missouri Compromise has never
yet had but chance for trial. and how farcd It (?
Missouri wanted the trianglc,-tho richest soil
within her present borders in order to extend the
curse over it,-and she obtained it. We are on the
eve Of The question once more, and what says the
promissor nowY Senator Atchison, the acting Vice
President OF the United States, may be considered
as the exponent OF southern opinion. In speeches
he has been making in various portions of the
State, he is reported taking the ground, and in
effect asserting, that he will fight the admission Of
Nebraska, unless it can come without the Wilmot
Proviso that il shall come in as a slave Territory
or, at least, with the question left open, and all
done TO foster slavery that is posi- Jlc There are
mon in western Missouri, who are tamperng with
the Indians, and trying TO aducc the ablcst of them
TO become slryeholders. The very question before
Congress, tie very reason why Nebraska ia not
thrown open already 10, that the south are unwil-
ling to stand to the Missouri COmpromiso-are un-
willing that free Territory should be erected on
the frontier of the down-nlng slave State of Mis-
souri,. The south originated presented and passed
the Missouri Compromise but thew have never
respected or preserved it.
But how is it with the north and her black Com
promise? She passed it, and laid it on her own
shoulders, because Of the blustorings of the Mem.
phis Convention of southern disunionists. And
again and again, hns she come up with the sword
OF justice, and the arm of law, and debauched
public sentiment, all bearing down upon one poor
itrembling VICTIM and consigned him to Injustice
and despair. Oh, glorious, sublime, transcendant
'workl Oh noble humane, Christian spiritl Wbat
JOY swells the bosom Of the universal north as il
contempates each of its God-like acbiovomcnts
Well may yeexclaim, " We are the men of nrinoinle
i0e sustain the Union; ,ce caught him; ace kent the
south in good humor; the negro can't be very smart
toe, 1000 900 ofus) caught hinl,-he cannot heir
himself, he must go backW
But, in some very sinful places, whore twice or
thrice humanity has triumphed over insonsibilitv
and conscience conquered fear, and the owes God
gave him to guide him, the feet to carry him. and
the intellect to counsel him, operated we'll and tho
endangered wretch escaped from you, IA 900 OOO
freemen y why, what has been the result? The
northern press has denounced it, and the south has
rung toscn Of alarm and horror, ut your faithless
ness and perversity in opposing and violating the
negrorendition Compromise. And, to make amends
and show your true love for slavery and your sin
core repentance for your neglect you permit free
men to be kidnapped; and when in violation Of
your own statutes slaves brought into your
bounds, and are freed by your laws, you annul the
statute by paying their full value, until even Louis
lana herself convulses with laughter at your ridic.
uIous sycophancy r-rs-. ~ '..r4 NJ y
And, to add indgnity to your degradation, To