Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-30

For this !" Democratic President, the Post
was willing to subordinate the Slavery CUES
tion--to ignore his pledges Of loyalty to the
Slave Interest: and now instead Of having
learned by the things it has suffered, it stands
by the very policy that has been illustrated
by results 80 benefcent
The question is not whether Party can
be durable, which is based upon single ques-
tion of public policy" but whether political
evil may not at times become 80 intolerable
and dangerous that ordinary parties, growing
out OF differences Of opinions in relation to ordi-
nary public questions, ought not to give place,
and the masses belonging to them, unite in
an extraordinary movement for the repression
or removal Of such an evil!
To state the question, is to answer it.
We hold that the aggressive policy Of the
Slave Interest has come to be intolerable and
dangerous that, until fairly and boldly met
and depressed, the country will be continually
disturbed by dissension, dishonored by usurpa-
tion imperlled by sinister and sectional ambi-
ton its highest interests exposed every mo-
ment to the hazards of war, and all wise legis-
laton DISTRACTED, If not arrested. While that
Interest shall govern the Government we may
prattle as we please about Democracy or Wing
gerry, there will be no clear, defined, fixed
Democratic policy, or Wing policy. The dis
position Of The Public LaLds the expenditures
Of the Government questions of Tariffs, Inter-
nal improvements and Constitutional Construc-
ton, will be determined by that controlling In
terest; Democratic or Federal Principles being
appealed to, just Us its necessities or ambition
may dictate.
The first duty, then, Of the honest men OF all
Parties, we hold, is to wrest the Government
from the grasp Of this Interest, place it under
the control Of Freedom, aud set its face as
steadfastly against Slavery, as it is now set
against Liberty. But, to do this, the policy OF
the Post, which has given tho usurper its as-
tendency, must be abandoned-and whenever
the Post shall come to regard it Of more i'm
portanoe to elect an Anti. Slavery President,
than Pro. Slavery man, protesting Demo-
cratic faith, that vassalage to the Slave Inter-
est will compel him to violate, it will say that
we are right.
Are we not all slow to learn? How many
more buffetings must we endure! How many
more indignities submit to? The d mocracy
of the North feels confident in its power. The
strong man of old defed the strength Of cords,
and bore away on his shoulders the gates of
cities But, in an evil hour he dallied with
the tempter, was shorn Of his strength, de-
prived of his sight and sent " to grind corn in
the prison house of the Philistines. Shall the
Democracy of the North repeat in it's own ex-
perience the story of the Blind Samson, and,
like him, recover its strength only to bury its
enemies and itself under common ruin?
10 Since the foregoing was written, our
eye has fallen upon the following paragraph in
the Evening Post of yesterday, just received.
II as in the right spirit.
"a Kentucky correspondent writing to US in
a complaining mood, says:
"tThoso who wish to do something effective
against the Nebraska swindlers, have certainly
not yet learned the way from the Evening
Post,
awe are not aware that we have been in
any respect deficient in holding up the Ne
braska swindlers' to public condemnation and
scorn. The North has passed its judgment on
them, and will be sure to execute it, Not one
of the authors or supporters of the bill will be
trusted again All those who were engaged in
this act of perfdy, whether belonging to the
Executive or Legislative department, are under
the popular ban they have taken leave OF
public life forever No party which supports
or favors the fraud whether boldly and direct
ly, or family and by implication, has the slight
est chance of succeeding in any election in the
free States, for years to come. The people have
decided this, and we are prepared to cooperate
with the people
Into what party arrangements those who
are influenced by common purpose on this
great question may enter, is yet to be seen.
The present efervescencc will doubtless crystal
lie into some regular organization, which will
send to Congress men who cannot be bought over
to the support Of that series Of wicked meas
ures Of which the Nebraska act is the prelimi-
nary What the nature Of that organization
will be it is not very easy to anticipate, but We
willingly leave it to be decided by the people,
who seem to be fully awake to the Importance
of the subject"