Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-01-24
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The lntelligen6er, announcing the death
Of Mr.. Alexander de Bodisco, says:


Of Mr.. Alexander de Bodisco, says:
'sThis lamented gentleman had filed the
distinguished post Of Russian Envoy in this
country during the long period of seventeen
years, and, while ever faithful to his own
Sovereign, he discharged his delicate trust
with unsurpassed acceptableness to our Gov
ernment and people His good Offices wore
always ready for good purposes, and he was in
his conduct hero ever true to the character Of
his residence in this community that he was
familisrly known to all our inhabitants, and
to great numbers of our leading citizens through
out the country; with all of whom the frank
ness of his manners, his liberal hospitality,
and cordial courtesy, rendered him an estab-
lished favorite, and for . long time, 1t may be
said, placed him at the head Of general So
ciety, in which his death will create q void
that will be long felt. It may be added that
the domestic ties which he formed in our
country doubtless strengthened his own claims
to the general regard"
We are very sure that all who knew
the deceased well, will realize the truth
of what our contemporary here says of
him and his demise.
The Union, announcing that as the Ne
braska proposition of Senator Douglas
looks to fidelity to the compromise of
1850 as an essential requisite to Demo-
cratic orthodoxy-the Administration re-
CARDS it as q text of Democratic ortho-
doxy-makes an explanation of yester-
days action in the Senate upon it, which
presents, in nutshell, as it were, very
plain and satisfactory explanation of the
case as it now stands. We, therefore,
transfer it to our columns, IS follows:
1T was expected that the action of the
Senate on the bill would commence on yester-
day; but the Committee on Territories having
concluded that two territories, instead of one,
should be provided for, and that the provision
In regard to the operation Of the compromise
principles of 1850, should be more specifically
defined, Mr.. Douglas presented two bills, In
lieu of his former bill, and their consideration
was postponed until the bills could be printed
As now proposed by Mr. Douglas, the 14th Sec
ton Of the bill is as follows, the amendment
being embraced in brackets:
Section IA. That the Constitution and Laws
of the United States, which are now locally
inspplicable, shall have the same force and
effect within the said territory as elsewhere
within the United States. Except the 9Th sec.
ton Of the act preparatory to the admission of
missouri into the Union, approved March 6,
1870, which was suspended by the principles
of the legislation of 1850, commonly called the
compromise measures, and is hereby declared
lnoperative.1
This amendment declares, in express terms.
that the Compromise of 1920 was suspended
by the principles of the Compromise of 1850
As far rs we have observed, the general con-
struction Of Mr.. Douglass original bill was.
that in adopting and re-enacting the principles
OF the Compromise of 1850, it necessarily su-
Perceded the Compromise Of 1920. This was
our construction Of it. and with this under
standing Of the effect of its provisions, we ex
pressed our opposition to the amendment of
Mr.. Dixon That amendment, as we under
stand, to repeal the Missouri Compromise act.
that was an admission that the compromise of
1850 had not superseded the Missouri Com
promise, and, therefore, that it was now ne
cessary to repeal it to carry out the principles
OF the Compromise Of 1850. The principles of
the two Compromises, in our Judgment, are
wholly Observation-Disclosures one rests upon the
principle of congressional non-intervention.
the other recognises the right of Congress TO
legisate on the subject of slavery. The two
could not exist together in regard to the same
territory"
The Sentinel contains an elaborate COM
munication against the right of the Hon.
Mr.. Phelps, from Vermont, to a seat in
the Senate. The same paper gives Secre-
tary Guthrie independent support" in
the shape of letter from Frankfort, XIV.