New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-06
TRAITORS AND DOUciFAcEs.

Southern men have always entertained sufficiently
low opinion OF northern doughaces and traitors but if
Douglass bill should 60 through they will have good
reason to believe that the depth Of northern seryy
are untatbomable year ago il would have been elf
fcult TO find who would believe in the possibility
Of disturbing the Missouri Compromise. Senator
AtchsOn at the first introduction of the Nebraska BID
in lie Senate minated desire to get Congress to al
low bis constituents to go into Nebraska with
their slaves, but he found TO encouragement for
tie idea 10 any quarter and at length out
on the floor of tie Senate and declared it use
less to think of repeating that restriction and be
would give up the attempt as totally impracticable.
But since then rirabo dctu the Administration and it
is alleged majority of Congress have suddenly become
converts to the doctrine repeal What one short year
ago was looked upon by the most sangunc as an impos
sibiiity is regarded no longer doubtful How
truly is here illustrated the fact that it is only the first
step in crime that costs When that is taken the down
ward descent is easy. FaciEs desctnsus Accrni.
Southern men have hitherto vented their sarcasms
most lavishly upon the poor tools who have gone to
Congress from the North only to sell out their prnci-
pies and betray their constituents, but they have
imagined there was limit beyond which even north
ern Urish Heapism would not CO. But they Will
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that northern abasement and sefhumililton are inn.
te ard they Will feel themselves under the necessity
Of inventng new terms of contempt and deri.ion in
which 10 cOthe their ideas of the subseryency Of the
representatives from the free States.
We have heretofore shown that the reason for this
astounding inamy is of the meanest character That
il is simply movement TO save Mr.. Pierce with the
ultra proslayery men of bis party and to give hn and
Mr. Douglas political capital to begin the next
Presidential Campaign with. No other possible reason
be assigned for It The pretense that il TO carrr
cut the doctrines Of the compromise of 1850 is too
shallow and transparent to deceive any who has
thmble-iull of brains The advocates OF that cOmpro
mise have before suggested such thing and
pretend it now is Only to show what contemptuOus
estimate its inventors have of the public sense.
Mr.. ntOn, with the Characteristic directness that
marks the mar, and which atones for many of his
defects Of character said the otierday Whoever Gays
lat intended the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
when voted for the Compromise measures of 1850,
lies Sir he tells a lie Sir We presume no man
is better convinced of this truth than Mr. Douglas
himself But with what bitter disgust must he in
Wardly regard himself under such singing reprOach
lie is incapable of resenting this most offensive tmpu
;son Of faehOOd for be knows the truth of the ale
CATION. Mr. Douglas ought TO be dismissed INTO an ex-
ecTated oboury for his nsncerity and bis utter faith
eisress, here sigualy rebufed, but his position
in regard TO this bill constantly compels our IN
willing recurrence to him. From what Mr..
Benton has fun err said in relation 10 tie
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, we presume he
does not intend to vote the question when it shall
come up in the House. He has said that, by that
Compromise the South yielded all the territory north
OF SO 30 to freedom, but if the North wants to sur
render it back again to Slavery the South will not
fuse TO take it,. He feels him self bOu5d BY the OBJ
legation he scOIns 70 repudate tie bargain be con-
tenptGousy houts the proposition to violate a solemn
compact But he sneerinsly intimates that If the
Meth desires to surrender to Slavery tie vast territory
secured to freedom by that compact he is DISPOSED 70
stand by and see the representatives OF the free Safes
degrade themselves by doing it sud thereby earn sco-p
from their coemporsries swift vengeance from their
constituents and branded inlaay from history here.
after.
II would not be surprising 10 see the indignant feel
ing of sn honorable mind manifest itself in this 0,e
such upprncpled potroonery as the act in cues
ton would disclose, but yet hope that not only Mr..
Benton but that every other honorable southern man
will pocket their contempt for tie juggling dougaaces
WHO meditating this monstous treachery and vote
according 10 the dictates Of patriotism and honor