New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-21

OF FoOte and the sO0thiDg voice oil Ne'-ier' AMI
timely throwing lnto the den OF few hundred mlaa
cled fugitive black he became q last as placid as
when Wiluot frs. veuhred 70 stir hin up wi. he
pro'iso.
The abrogation Of the Missouri Compromise in a,
Nebrafka bil however, is moro dangerous proceed
ING than tie mere resistance and protest OF the slave
power against al attempt Interrupt It's oSn develop
ment and growth The latter had the plausible us.if
cation Of selfdefense. The former is wln.ol sni
uBpro,o ked outrage is the lion turned loose BY bis
drunken keepers among the crowd OF helpless men,
women and children Who have jus; been feeding and
fondlinp him The North had loaded upon its con-
science the Missouri Compromise. as thing to be
ashamed of for the e' Il permitted All connved at
While Only halt sppeasing their sefreProaches By Oon
sderiur tie good gained in securing freedom north Of
367 80, the people Of the North had never allowed
themselves TO believe that this freedom had no real
securtT This very compromise has been pointed at,
A. evidence Of the compatibility of sllyeholdng and
free institutions It's maintenance for more than tarty
wears az proof positive that the aggressive character
attributed TO the SlayOcracy vas but the morbid lm'
.eipipg Of fanatics Politicians both north and south
have well understood this compact as underlying the
national Union. 1t would be IN dss to add to the in
fanny of those northern legislators, who consented to
tie compromises OF 1850, by asserting that such con
sent implied the abroeaton Of the earlier compromise
Of 1920 or by believing even, that they wolt have
ever given Slavery the chance Of legal existence
in New Mexico and Utah if they had BOT coasidered 1T
excluded from nearly all the old territories, b. al ire
pealable act.
1t is step of palpable insanity for southern poltl
clans TO set aside the Missouri Compromise because it
is the type of all Compromises, the destruction OF
which involves the destruction of that whole system of
legislation. The sentiment and conscience Of the free
States is hostile Slavery, and would naturally seek
its destruction The South has been able TO keep this
hostility in check by yielding in part 10 its demands.
As long the North could show some equivalent some
advantage gained 10 sef for concessions yielded By it,
there would be bystaEders enough 10 approve the bar
gain. The Nebraska bill has no equivalents it is a
sheer and naked fraud. The grave alteration il makes
in the established policy of the country has apology
in the emergency OF any other question The great ad
vantage gained by the South s not counterbaincei.
ever before by some concession to the North The
measure is cuboed with other TO give 1t the res
possibility of good fellowship but in&rudes upon ia
the eIrontery of its single impudence. In fine, the
doctrine of con prousing-oi mixing good and evil
together Liberty and Slavery, so as to give the State
substantial and not visionary character-a doctrine
taught in the schools and preached in the pupts as
the epitome Of all practical wsdom-must be consid
cred as having fallen into disrepute. Down with the
Compromises! No more cODpacts This is the spirit
of the proposed legislation for Nebraska No wonder
that the conservative apologiss of Slavery are dis
mayed and sleDced wonder that the people OF the
North are indignant and excited; wonder that the
spontaneous hatred othe meannes and cruelty OF slave
holding breaks cut ia earnest eloquence from all lips
Compared with the earnest purpose of the North to
maintain freedom in the territory secured to 1t by the
Missouri Act the Wilmot Provi.o was but temporary
within. Having impusively given expression to the
latter in 1s46 the North, State after State newspaper
after newspaper politician after politician reraced its
steps until the derded Compromise of 1850 became
the platform of the nation The South got the position
of the oppressed and weaker party popular lnpathies
flowed over TO IT. ambitious leaders fell of to it,
brides and intimidations surrounded members OF Con-
gress and there genuine heart or cons.aacy in
the aid and comfort given them at home. In fine, the
Wilmot Proyso through generous sentiment, was Ia
ken at the ebb and led not on to fortune.
Thus far the feeling excited by the Nebraska bill
has been quite different. The protest against it was
Of first faint and feeble. Men seemed unwilling TO
believe the national legislature capable of such stu
pendous treachery. But every day has strengthened
popular indignation. Party discipline cannot repress
it, executive influence Cannot bride it to silence, and
what is worse for the shareholders, the old bugbear OF
dissolution of the Union is not available in toe present
trick, for disunion feeling is now rising in the heart
of the North There are indications that the scep.er
10 passing from the hands Of the slave power. Ine
present race of politicians lack the cool policy and far
sghtednsss of earlier southern statesmen. The mad
ness that forebodes destruction already affects their
councils If this Nebraska bill is the last feather that
is to break the camel's back which they have ridden
so lorg, they may thank their own faulty for it,
But why does the South want more slave States
Not to increase her political influence, surely. No
State ever came into the Union with such apprehel-
sions on the part Of the Slavocracy as California
She gave nominal majority of two TO freedom in the
United States Senate, and thus destroyed the long
cherifhed balance OF power. On the other hand, slave
holding Texas was repeatedly spurned from the Union
and only reluctantly admitted last by the consent of
the free States Bat slayeholding Texas represented
in the Senate by honorable men has more than once
thrown half her influence upon the side of freedom,
while free California, employing shareholders and
Backyard adventurers TO DO her politics as abe has
New'EDglaud aborers TO do her work and earn her
wealth has stood steadily by the interests Ofslaye
breeding and slayeseliDg though she had expect.
ant partnership in the business. When has New
Hampshire been unwilling to undertake any dirty job
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