New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-02

OF the Union depends keeping the hlssoari C'P'
misc irviolate ther words would no. AL u1peieV-
,r es,, no- would they be as the IDLE wind 81 TIE
.ntitious sccurnuators OF slave property Not tha'
obolders cep be Convinced that honesty 10 the bs's
o,;cv for cir peculiar institution They know better
I'D bence the atrocous snd perfdious Neorasha
I'm r., acme persons and things, Satan ana slave
holding fox example honest is the worst polcy II Is
/ ,,io;dsi Human Slavery and African Slavery es-
rsciaIv. is the child fperfdy Honesty Is ~ de'
foe It cannot live by principle on Whiea u eould
not have come into existence. Hence slavery Is HAsP
~ 10 what il can to break down freedom side oil eve
~ COMPROMISE or n other words, profit BY maAing "
self false TO its promises fast and as Tar as Poso'e
! PINT nessibIy slaveholders may be convinced tnat
perfdy nav be pushed little too far. Ii the people
NJ the North are too chilly TO the claims o. humanity
10 rest for their sake the usurpatOns OF the slave
o,rer those usurpatons must by and by reach point
bere the selfintere At Of the North-n which she Is
NOT accused Of GOODNESS defciency-wll De startled
What If this Nebraska business should be the fatal
,tepl The NJ ssouri Compromise guarantees the rights
Of free labor in territory about large as all the
present free States That guarantee is worth money
TO the free States-an rcslcuable amount Of it. The
moment you have demolished that guarantee and for
HGlly opened Tie ttIIloIg 10 du iunt4uboH WYNN
prisons women for teaching the alphabet you have de-
precated its value in the worlds market BY untold nil
liors you have robbed millions Of free men. born and
unborn of their birthrght. You have smten the land
with curse which ayerts immigration aud prevents
it from bearing its cue part in the industry OF clvza
ton You have spoiled an immense future market for
the future products OF our great northeastern hive
PDfsibly the abettOrs o. this nefarious scheme may
fnd tie mass of northern conscience unde7eloped
that II will be satisfied to take in trust their absurd de-
fence that Slavery will be only diluted, not increased
by this bill But northern farmers know something Of
Canada tlstles and they know that Slavery n its ag
rcuturs aspects bears striking analogy to that pes
tent weed Senator Douglas holds in his bag lO,oO)
bushels of Canada thistle seed He tells with very
serious face that it is already in the world, and to be
town somewhere. What difference then can it make
whether be scattered spsrsely densey 1t makes
on immense difference whether yOu SOW it on my farm
or not replies every intelligent farmer Let it be all
one SAYS the free North to the thistle cup whether it
vegetables over twenty degrees Of latitude or ten Sup
pose that there be not thistle the more for the beney
client dissemination Of the which You propose it
is a very different thing for domain of half mil
lion square miles whether you empty your baeia bag
over its valleys or south of its impossible southern
wall Your bill is rascally reputation of fair
tract worth to us some hundred millions of goo money
which you propose to sacrifice for your own benefit.
Douglas and his rivals in the OF niIuty too
wise to take advice of and if they not, it is
now too late TO profit by it, They crossed the Rub-
con when they first ventilated their peridious bill
Repentance is out of season. If they bent upon
winning nfamy and could have been contented with
Telease of it, they should have let the Missouri Com
promise alone and simply brought in bill to rePudate
the rational debt They might then have gone into
comfortable oblivion at least their coffin
ids were screwed down. But they have made another
choice and doomed themselves to be immortal in the
detestation of mankind as the most noxOus things that
ever vegeated on the dung hill of political corruption
The conscience Of this age fully up the level Of
bargains and even much above it that it has cost many
a twinge of remorse and qualm of sefcontempt to
keep good what is popularity rsdered the fair though
rather nbumtn bargain to deliver up fugitive slaves
On the question Of resembling TO the immense cost Of
the vast majority of the Republic the righteous part
OF contract fairly made and universally acquiescod in
for whole generation there will be action of the
national conscience which the little giants of servy
did not suspect when they planned their perhdy
Whether their bill passes or not, their own fate is
sealed Our commercial christianity may sacrifice its
humanity to Slavery for dollars and cents, but sacr
fciDg dollars and cents to Slavery is another matter
1t will not lightly throw swey the reverson of a
ket worth twice that of 81, he slayeholding countries
in the world especially when in saving it something
may be done to stop the mouths of Abolition roilers
aud redeem its lost character with the world.