Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-28

free Democrats, and Free Sellers, as they never
met before The Compromise OF 1850 sent Free
Soil and Abolition stock down to 80 per cent
below par. The Nebraska bill has already
brought it up to par. The passage OF that bill
will make it the highest stock in market.
Even Garrison cannot sink it Seward, Hale,
and Chase never stood 80 high IN public cs-
TEEN as at present, and John M. Miles, Gideon
Welles, and Francis Gillette, stand fair Tor
early Governors of Connecticut"
Now, there are at least ten hundred thou
sand voters in the free States who have been
accustomed to vote with the Wing Party.
What do they intend to do? There is no
Southern Wing Party; its adhercnts have
united in swelling the ranks Of the great Party
Of Slavery which possesses the South, and
yields its political power. Messrs. Toombs Ste
phens, Badger, and Clayton, arc no more to
them, than Pierce, Douglas, Mason, and But
ler What do they intend to doa Cling to a
name which now means nothing, and to Issues
which are obsolete? What does the crisis do
mand? The union Of the non-slayeholders OF
the country for tho sake Of Union and Liberty.
Free. Sellers or Independent Democrats are viii
ling to form such a union. Anti-Nebraska
Democrats will not be wanting. A distinct,
vital issue is presented--the repeal Of The Ms
sour Compromise, Slavery demands this
Shareholders, Wing and Democratic, so-caled,
insist upon this--the Democracy Of the Union
is required to make adhesion to it a test. Why
should the opponents Of the obnoxious measure
quarrel among themselves? Why suffer anti
quated names and issues to prevent their CO.
operation against it : The New York Evening
Post nobly commends the course Of Senators
Seward and Fish in regard to this measure
the New Haven Palladium prefers Houston to
Badger, Hale to Clayton. Let their example
be imitated-let the spirit that animates them
pervade the Northern mind
For once, let us have a Party of Freedom,
meeting the Shareholders fairly and squarely
on the issue they have thrust upon the free
States. Let the clamor of Sectionalism be
secuted. A struggle for Liberty, the great
Interest of the whole Nation, cannot be Sec
tional The forces arrayed in its support may
ut first be confined chiefly to the free States,
but only because Tho men of the South who
would rally with them, are restrained by the
oyerbearing aristocracy of shareholders.
Let the threat of Disunion be spurned A few
hundred thousand shareholders have long held
pos ession Of the Administrative Powers Of the
General Government and we have not dis
solved the Union, or threatened dissolution
And will they dissolve it when the millions of
the People assume for themselves the exercise
Of the same powers Are not the non-slave-
holders as capable of governing as the slave
holders Have the latter any more respect
for the Constitution and for State Rights than
the former The Party Of Slavery has con-
trolled the Federal Government and shaped
its policy to suit its own creed and interests.
Let the Party Of Freedom prove its supremacy
at the Ballot Box, and assume and WELD Pow
er which has been too long abused.
Such an event would break the prestige Of
the Slave Power cxtingnish the race of North
ern services; put stop to the schemes Of the
Slavery Propaganda; release the South itself
from vassalage to an ovcrshadowing Class In
terest and load TO the gradual development in
that region alse Of Party of Freedom.
Nor would there be any fear Of Disunion
The great party controlling the Government
would know how to be just. 1t would respect
the rights Of the States, and maintain the Con-
stitntion. Shareholders might fret and fume
and threaten, but it would not do for them to
rebel against the Government, because by
legitimate vote at the ballotbox, they had been
ousted from power. As well might the Dem
ocratic Party become revolutionary, at finding
itself ina minority. The will Of the majorioy
must govern: and If shareholders be turned out
of the high places Of honor and power by the
majority, they must acquicsce or do worse.
Again, then, we say what do tho million
voters who have acted with the Wing Party,
the hundred and fifty thousand who supported
Mr.. Hale, aud the hundreds Of thousand Anti
Nebraska Democrats, intend TO dol Unite at
the Ballot Box, and take the control Of the
Federal Government or divide, and permit
themselves to be controlled, and the interests
of Freedom tramplcd upon, by three hundred
thousand shareholders
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