Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-10
A NOBLE LETTER.

NOBLE LETTER.
The following letter from the Hon. Preston
King was addressed to the Committee OF Ar
rangements for the meeting held at Faneul
Hail. Boston, on the 10th instant, to protest
against the violation Of national obligations
entered into at the passage OF the Missouri
Compromise. The letter does honor to the
head and heart of the writer, who ia known
throughout the country as one of the most able
and reliable friends Of Freedom, whose integ-
rity no patronage has been able to Beduce, and
whose courage has defed all Recommendations.
II would be we'll for the country if more Of our
public men were like Preston King, Faithful
among the faithless, he has never for mo-
ment swerved from the path Of honor and con-
sistency, and now towers far above the reach
of his enemies, commanding the respect OF
every honest man. His letter will meet with
q hearty response from the Democracy OF this
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OcDENsBURG, February IL, 1854.
GENTLEMEN / have received your letter Of
the 10th instant, requesting me to attend and
address meeting, TO be held in Faneuil Hall
on the 10Th instant, to consider the Nebraska
hill
cannot attend your meeting, though it
would give me pleasure to do 30,
have confidence that the scheme to carry
negro Slavery into the Northwestern Territory
will be frustrated in Congress now, or here
after, by the decision Of the political issue Of
slave propagandism, which Mr.. Douglass
scheme presents and proposes to test in the
next Presidential election Should the bill
pass Congress, it will place Mr. Douglas at the
head of the party interested to accomplish its
object, and the interests of free labor and slave
labor will be brought into direct collision upon
an issue to be decided at Presidential cleo
ton. The free labor of the United States will
not, in my opinion, permit African Slavery 70
be extended and mixed up with ito degrade
or to drive out the laboring white man from
the now unoccupied Territory Of the free West.
The bill Of Mr.. Douglas proposes to accom-
plish this wrong, and should be resisted BY all
honorable means The measure is full OF evil I;
its passage would violate and nullify one Of the
most solemn compaots between different inter-
ests Of the country ever made by Congress IT
would demonstrate that acts of Congress IN the
form Of compromises are subject to the will OF
the majority for the time being. and the act Of
q temporary majority on one side will after
wards be made to justify opposite action; it
would dissipate the idea Of the solemnity of the
such acts Of Congress-. The scheme Of Mr..
Douglas also proposes to change the Constitu-
ton. by changing the established construction
Of those who framed it, He seeks c0nstitu-
tional principle and authority in the spirit not
in the words or language, Of the Constitution.
This latitudinarian doctrine of. construction,
although several times set up, has never long
prevailed in this country; and when set up its
overthrow has at all times washed out what
ever heresy it had established.
Our country has passed through many per-
lis good and wise Providence has overruled
them all The Omnipotent still reigns and
by the inscrutable law Of Providence the mach
nations Of evil often beget their own confu-
sion, and bring destruction to the evil doors.
Still the battle between good and evil must be
fought by men, responsible every man for his
own action. In the controversy between Free
dom and Slavery for room on this continent,
the friends Of Freedom might learn q lesson
from their adversaries. They should learn to
be united-cease to be anxious whether Paul"
or "Silasn is the greater man, They may desire,
but they must not expect perfection, and they
should agree to vote together for the better
side, and against the worse, until an admins
tration shall be elected because it is favorable
to Freedom
The gage of battle thrown down by Mr.
Douglas challenges such action. The tyranny
and prescription practiced by slave propaganda
ism against all who do not bow the knee to
Slavery justifes it. Mr.. Douglas raises tho
standard, and challenges political contest
upon an issue that many have regarded as
fraught with danger to the country and to the
Union of the States. have no fears for the
country-no apprehension Of danger to the
Union-no doubt Of correct decision Of the
issue presented.
The friends Of the Compromise Measures OF
1850 declared that those measures would not
extend Slavery into free territory. That opin-
ion prevailed, and the country acquiesced in
the measures. Agitation ceased. The friends
of those measures now present that Compro
mise with new face The current Of popular
sentiment against the extension Of negro Sla-
very in this country is so deep and strong that
it will not seek exhibition in noise and show !;
but If that issue shall be presented by Con-
gress, as Mr. Douglas proposes, that current
will carry the free white men of the country
to the polls at the next and subsequent cleo
tons, until this question is settled, and settled
correctly.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant
PREsTos KING.
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