Georgetown weekly news., 1854-10-19
sITnited We stand"


been led to make few reflections upon the
result of those proceedings. They have had
hot wook of it, but we can now congratu-
late eur citizens that the storm is over
True, we can occasionally hear the low NUT
terings of its distant thunder, and at times,
without much incredulity we imagine that
we still recognize little electricity in the
political atmosphere; but then, this is natu-
raj enough, and can be accounted for on
philosophical principles. We now have
time to breathe again,-to talk over the
past, and to speculate upon the future
This opportunity seems to be well improved,
and it is right that it should be. 1t is the
only way we have Of communicating our
various wants, and of making public our
various sentiments and opinions. "In num-
bers there is strength" Like large bodies
of water, in commingling together, they pu-
rify themselves. But to the Nebraska Bill
again. Many are the speculations that are
made upon its passage. The Anti-Slavery
men, upon this subject, curse the progressive
spirit of Southern Chivalry," while the hot
blood of the South boils up at the deter
mined and dictatorial position of Northern
"doughfaces. So goes on the grumbling.
AS to ourselves, we cannot say that the
South should be blamed for the repeal of
the Missouri COmprimise measures and the
passage of the Kansas and Nebraska Bill.
These measures originated in the North
The bill was brought forward and agitated
by Northern men, and it was not till issue
upon the question was actually made, that
the South, being goaded on by the taunts
and threats of the North, came up stoutlv
to the support of the Bill. But the North
as a people, cannot be at all to blame
for the agitation of this question. 1t is
confidently our opinion, that both the North
and the South have been grievously imposed
upon by a few ambitious and designing
demagogues, with Fred. Douglass at their
head, whose sole object has evidently been
to agitate the smooth surface of the great
deep, in order that they might ride the high
est wave. And this they have done, re-
gardless of all consequences. They did it
against the wishes of the North-they did
it contrary to the expressed will of the
South-they did it in the face Of principles
which, as statesmen and patriots, they should
have held more sacred than their lives, or
their honor, were it even possible that this
should be the forfeit, But they have al
ready eaten Of the bitter fruit of their own
doings The storm which they created for
selfish purposes, has proven itself the means
of their own destruction; and, though our
Union has thereby suffered the pangs of
most dangerous operation, yet we believe
that even this will finally result in her more
perfect health and peace as a nation; for,
although we are what is usually termed
Northern man, and personally opposed to
the further extension of Slavery, yet we
cannot but believe that the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise and the passage of
the Kansas and Nebraska Bill will result
in the good of our country. We cannot
see that in this Bill there is any material
infringement upon the rights of the North,
though, as a settled question and a compro-
mise, it should never have been agitated or
changed. But let us look at it as it rests
at the present time. As free territories, the
North has equal rights with the South as,
upon their admission into the Union, the
majority of the State to be admitted. has it
to say whether it shall be free or slave
holding State. The balance of influence
must here prevail, and among American
citizens, and in American territory, we can
not but believe that this is essentially right.
This is the condition in which all our Terri
tories are now placed The question is, we
hope, finally settled, md our Nationl Con-
gress ought not, and we believe will not,
have anything more to~do with this once
dreaded source of disunion.
Dependent upon their own numerical
strength, let the citizens of each Territory
decide, by manful majority, whether they
shall be free or slayeholding States s,-thus,
the question will no longer be national
one, and this bone Of their terrible conten-
tentions once disposed of, the North and
South will again fraternize in all the great
principles which tend to the emolument and
honor of our glorious and united Republic.
In view Of all these great advantages that
will naturally grow out of the present es-
tablished landmarks, let us no longer prate
about disunion. Let him who expresses