Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-22

without shame? Or is it the mere organ, on
which different members of the Cabinet are OF
liberty to play as many different tunes?
THE EvIL-THE REMEDY.
Among the dncerest and ablest advocates Of
Democracy and Liberty we rank the New York
Evening Post
In recent number, commenting on the
probable purpose Of the Slave Power to con-
vert Central America into Slave States Of the
Union, we find the following striking observa-
tons
aKnowing, as we do, the desperate necessi-
ties of that stupendous Fourth Estate in our
political system, struggling with inherent weak
ness, and waging war with the spirit and
advancing civilization Of the age-a war in
which either it or its antagonist must be effect
ually overthrown; knowing it's Unsuitable am
bition, and the audacity with which it has
heretofore secured and followed up its advan-
tages; and knowing, too, the suppleness Of it's
Northern apparat0rs, we do not see, especially
since the opposing energies Of England are
likely to be diverted and taxed to their utmost
in another quarter Of the globe, that more
favorable opportunity could be presented for in
itiating the attempt Perhaps the fate of the
pending Nebraska bill may also decide this
question It's passage will certainly stimulate
it's movers to further aggressions, as its defeat
may possibly dishearten them.
s'Of one thing let the North be assured
we say it in no mere spirit of sectional jealousy
or declamatory exaggeration-that this i'm
mense Slave Power, rs it is called, with its two
hundred millions Of capital, and its efficient
political organization, never divided when the
great interest is in question, has, if we may
trust the lessons Of experience, one steady pur-
pose in all its operations; at one time its de-
sires seem wholly concentered on Missouri, at
another ON Texas, at another on New Mexico
and now, to all appearance, its widest aspira-
tions do not transcend the boundaries Of Ne
braska Accordingly after opposing these ag-
gressions we improvidently 90 to sleep, rejoicing
that agitation is over, and that no more trouble
is likely to arise from this exciting subject
Hardly three months ago, at jubilee in Tam
many Hail. an orator of no little political
shrewdness was felicitating his party and him
self on the repose Of the Slavery question, and
ridiculing the notion that it could ever be res
urrectionized We remember that the Euen-
ing Post and another newspaper in this city
were the subjects of his friendly banter, on &C
count Of their preposterous anxiety for Ne
braska and the negroes And we well re-
member the laughter which followed his hui
morous inquiry, If Mr. Greeley will pardon
me, where is Nebraska?' At that very mo-
ment there were men in Washington who
did know, and could have told him, where
Nebraska was, and who were about turn
ing their knowledge to most nefarious &C
count. They could also have told that elo-
quent quietist and his audience who were
30 iubilant over the return Of Democratic
harmony and acquiescence' and who sup
posed that the Free Soil pony was at last
fairly stabbed, that even the Nebraska question
was not the end of this trouble; that the sew
ersl past aggressions to which we have allu-
ded were but successive and necessary steps
in fixed line of policy; and that the propa-
gandists of the Slave Power would not rest till
its empire should be extended and confirmed
over every foot Of territory which is converti-
BILE to its uses"
In another article, in the same number, the
Post thus describes the influence of the Slave
Power on the actual administration of the Gov
ernment:
sBut il is not public journals alone at the
North, that stoop to the task of defending an
institution abhorrent to the genuine and natu-
raj instincts Of every man; the South continues
to WELD an influence, as corruptng as it is
powerful through the Executive department
of the Federal Government. Men DESTROYS Of
receiving appointments from Executive patron
age, adopt the habit of fawning on the slave
interest, like spaniel bringing at the feet Of
his master, and looking beseechingly up to his
face for crust.
aThere seems to be in the very atmosphere
of Washington an infection which taints, al
most as soon as they arrive at the seat of Gov
ernment mon who have appeared perfectly
sound while at home"
The Post states the great evil Of the coun-
try clearly and strongly. 1t is the asccndency
Of the Slave Power in the administration Of
the Government.
What is the remedy for this evil! What
can be the remedy, but the Inauguration Of a
Power precisely and boldly antagonistic to the
Slave Powera Such Power is the Independ-
emit Democracy Will not the Epening Post
think Of this, and reflect whether it is not time
to cease building up at successive Presidential
elections, the very Power whose fatal ascend
cncy il deplores and denonnces?
I'LL AT EAsE.--S0me OF the Senators at
Washington seem to have uncomfortable rem
iniscesces of the part they took in the advoca.
cy and passage Of the Nebraska bill, and find
il necessary, even now that the bill has gone
beyond their reach, to explain and almost apol-
ogize for certain movements OF theirs in rela-
ton to it. Yesterday Senators Badger Butler,
Brown, Clayton, and Stuart, occupied nearly
the whole day in attempting 70 explain away
and gloss over their action ia the matter. We
opine that the New Hampshire election has
frightened some gentlemen, who while ago
were "owre fast for thought, owrc hot for
rulen--N " Com. advertiser.
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