The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-23
From the New York Journal Of Commerce.
REPEAL OF THE NEBRASKA BILL.

The Evening Post and the Tribune dsputing first
to the praccaby, and secondly, to the expediency
if practicable restoring the Missouri Compromise The
Post takes the negative and the Tribune the affirmative
on both these counts The Post says:
aTous political improbable than thata
bill restoring the prohibition of slavery the Territories
Of Kansas and Nebraska be got through the United
any prospect of in the proposed
tempt the Senate and the President into
willing restoration Of the repealed compact, alike
unable to perceive the necessity disturbances Of such
measure.
ave do believe it polite for the people of the free
States the Missouri Compromise, even il they
have it in their power They do better. That COM
promise hard bargain for the free States. While
i was on the statute-book we stood by it. II has been
broken by the slave party Let profit by Its abroga-
ton BY their perfdy fair advantage has been offered
to Shall we hesitate to improve it? Not only Kan
and Nebraska and the other territory before secured
freedom shall be free but So ALSO shall every other
State which shall hereafter come into this Union.
" There understanding that future States, now
composing part of Texas should DO admitted as slave
States. This agreed to by leading northern men,
Daniel Webster before he had made his mind his deep
and fatal plunge of the seventh of March into the tprbd
waters, said that in compliance with this understanding
he should regard as his duty to vote for the admission
of other slave States from Texas.
From that obligation and from all other obligations to
slavery except to let it alone in States where it
lists have been released by the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise"
We agree fully with the Post, that lsrc is not thu
slightest probability Of the Missouri Compromise being
stored for several years to come" ut ALL None know
this better than many Of those who loues shouting
RepealV Still it just well their leading OBJ
ject if repeal possible probable Nor
gan dead is good to politicians Morgan living and
sometimes better Anything to make hue and cry-any-
thing that by Misrepresentation and distortion be
used to get the in and the ms QUITS "a good enough
Morgan for present purposes Therefore united effort
repeal be made and if success is impossible much
the better because the struggle will last the longer All the
issues nearly ALL which formerly divided the democratic
from the wing party, icunct aud any thing which
can be made to answcras a substitute is real windfa
and must be kept alive Mt all hazards
we further agree with the Post that the restoration ef
the Missouri Compromise If practicable, would moi
be expelient The reasons for opinion entirely
different from the Posts but that need prevent har-
mony of action since alike hold that repeal imprac-
ticablc, and would be nexpeden if practicable
Abandoning these issues the Post would make q stand
the question of admitting any States into the
Union with slavery, those which stipulated to
admit in treaty with the then independent nation
of Texas That was real 'conpact"--a compact not
of Congress with self-rot Of one part of pongsts3
with another part Of Congress but Of tile whole Of C6
gress, and the whole nation, with another nation. Evef
Geo Wood, "a whg dyed in the woody when urged, il
the heat Of the Nebraska excitement to declare liz
views in regard to the Missouri Compromises Was COM
PEELED TO admit and did admit in the face Of those who
wished to elicit fran him contrary opinions sLat said
Compromise mot compact Let the question
be asked him regard to the joint resolutions adopted by
Congress for the annexation of Texas and the acceptance
by Texas Of the therein stipulated tone Of which
that providing for the creation of States out Of
Texas with without slavery, the inhabitants Of such
States respectively may eect) and IL he decides that
hi, is compact having all the strength ard lasp34,
of a iieaty We viii Mag up HdoIc Tho Esue then
which the Evening Post wond make for the coming elec
tons is whether because this nation repealed act which
this nation enacted and to which there other party
therefore this nation will repuate its solemn compacs
with another nation by Of retaliation and rstribubn
very disAst .sste and oNc which TIE l!se democracy
we doubt not will be very ready TO accept,
No view the conduct of the present administra
ton, and that of the previous Gaphn dynasty without
being convinced Of the 6rmnes efficiency and ability with
which President Pnrrn las carried out the lonp-cherished