The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-06-29


we can see will come of so doing while it
would tend to the injury of other important
interests that require attention. whenever
Kansas and Nebraska shall be settled, they
will be settled by free men. Poor men, or
those whose chief wealth consists In stout
hearts strong hands, and many children, are
the people to settle new countries. They are
the class that will fill up Kansas and Nebras-
kan
It is easy to see that the spirit which per-
yades this paragraph, is identical with that
which animated the respectable Tories of the
Revolution. They earnestly and to the best
of their ability opposed the oppressive meas
ures of tie British Government; but when
the hour came for deciding between submission
and resistance, they submitted. Sick of agi-
tatiOn, they could imagine no good of sufficient
value to compensate for the evils to be appre-
hended from resistance.
We should like these submissonists to tell
us, how far they intend to endure? Is there
any limit to their forbearance? They gave
up the Wilmot Proviso in 1850, submitted to
an inhuman Fugitive Slave Act assuring the
country that all would now be well-the voice
of sectional discord was hushed-perpetual
peace was established between North and
South-Slavery and Liberty might feed in the
same fold and lie down together like the lion
and the lamb In less than four years, their
predictions were falsifed-new sacrifices were
demanded at their hands-the Missouri Com
PROMISE which they had regarded sacred
as the Constitution ITSELF must be repealed.
They earnestly opposed the measure-said 1t
was bad faith, that they had been cheated-it
was scandalous to require this dishonorable
concession at their hands. But, it was repeal
ed-and now, they preach dcquieScence Smit-
ten on the one cheek, they turned the other;
smtten on BOTH they now bare their backs to
their oppressors, and crouch at their feet ID
there any aggression such men will not acqui-
esce inl Any inh:cton they will not endure
Any deed of shame that can bring the blush
to their checks?
What deepens the odium of their course is,
that they offend with their eyes wide open
to the consequences. This slaveholding Ohgar-
chy, which has repealed the Compromise, tells
them plainly, that it intended by that act
to establish the Principle that Slavery is law
full anywhere within the jurisdiction of the
General Government SO that, whatever acquisi-
items of Territory should be made hereafter, it
might have free course in them, without con-
troversy that the act was further designed to
prepare the Northern mind for the thick-com-
ing events of the Future, such as the annexa-
| r ~ Al. &c
much Of Mexico as could be converted to the
uses of Slavery the subjugation of Hayti, and
an alliance with Brazil, so as TO bring North
and South America, with their adjacent islands,
under the o7ershadowing power of gigantic
Slave Empire. These men know that this afro
cious scheme is cherished by the Oigarchy, to
which they are urging submission they know
that at this moment the proposition is under
consideration among its leaders to obtain Cuba
peaecably if possible, forcibly if necessary. In
preaching acquiescence under such circum-
stances, they are traitors to Liberty, traitors to
the free States, traitors to the rights and in
terests of all our People, not interested in
slaveholding traitors to menkind-Tories in
heart and in position
AS to the Intelligencer, which, being South
ern paper, cannot be classed with the journal
inst referred TO- will tell us what tissue ought
to be made in the popular elections about to
take place in the free Statesl What has the
Administration done, but nulify the Missouri
| Compromise? What does the Administration
design to do, but execute the schemes of the
Slavery Propaganda? What Question is there
before the country, but the Slavery Question
and who has forced it upon the country
What then would the Inteligencer wish ito
see the People of the North falling back into
their old organizations returning to Congress
the forty-fye men who betrayed them, and
! giving four years more to an Administration
that has repealed the Missouri Compromise
laid open all our Territories to Slavery, and is
seriously meditating a war with Spain for the
acquisition Of Cuba! Does it expect does it
desire them, to reward Treason, to stamp with
their appreciation, bad Faith, to offer a pre-
MUM to Slavery Propagandism, to breathe
new life and power into men who have con-
vulsed the country with discOrd, and feaTfully
alenated from each other the different sections
of the Union? Or would it have them bring
into power another acquicscent Wing Admin
stration, so-called, such as cursed the Nation
with the Fugitive Slave Act and 80 democrat
lied it en- the question of Slavery, as to prepare
the way for another Administration openly
committed to the propagation of Slavery, as
well as the maintenance Of the Slave Power?
Whatever the Intclligencer may desire, the
People Of the free States we trust, are at least
too much aroused to be again deceived, If
true to Themselves in this dark hour, they will
execute judgment upon every member of Con-
| gress who has been dsloyal to Freedom, and
install an Administration in Washington just
as AntiSlavery as the present Administration
is Pro-Slayery. Only in this way, can they
secure indemnity for the Past and satisfactory
guarantees for the Future.
| OF course, there will be struggle before
this can be accomplished Old parties will be
disorganized; new combinations formed the
/ Press will thunder; sectional Dscord lift its
horrid front; the minions of the Slave Power
will menace the Union Conservation will turn
pale, and raise its plaintive voice in behalf Of
Compromise Concession, Peace, and Concord
But the struggle viii go on, and if the nom
shareholders be immovable united, and deter
mined, it must be decided in favor of Liberty.
Then shall We see whether Slavery be, it is
! impiously asserted bv its advocates the corner