The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-03-02
Juggling at " a.iln TOW.

Juggling 1t WashIngtou
The following letter from the Washington
Correspondent of the Louisville Courier
shows that the "powers that be" are using
all the appliances in their power to force the
passage Of the "Nebraska fraud:
WAsHIHGroN, Feb. Is, 1854.
MEssRs. GALLAGHER & HALDEMAN:
The excitement and desperation at each |!
end OF the Pennsylvania Avenue, and at all
intermediate places Of public resort are daily
increasing; the national Capitol, like huge
cauldron, IS filled to the brim with antagonls'
tical elements in state Of excessive fer
mentatipn. And this is occasoned by the I'M
necessary and perfdious Introduction OF the
Nebraska bill. Al urgent and important
legislation is suspended, the public mind
throughout the length and breadth OF the Re.
public is becoming aroused and agitated, and
the peace and prosperity OF the country, and
the integrity OF the Tn .vn itself are seriously
endangered The Presidential aspirants Tor
the succession, who are the rival authors OF
this bill of denominations, and their place.
seeking and spols-eating associates and re-
tainers are daily becoming more reckless and
INSCRIPTIONS, as their lyrations vasciilatiuns
and Inconsistencies are exposed TO public
virw. Whatever may be the fate of the bill,
the political tate Of its au' hors and its North
ern supporters is fixed and certain-political
death, and an imam JUS notoriety, il not inn
mortality is their portion-Or in the language
OF Col. Benton, if they fail, they IRE certain
OF being kicked to death, and if they sue
coed, to have their brains Knocked out, sis in
evitable."
The Southern members at first looked on
with complacent observation-disclosures
had no deslre.to be offcious-it was North
ern proposition, and if it did involve the viz.
ation solemn compromises, compacts and
adjustments, they were not 10 blame. But
this graceful assumption was shown to be
untenable and false, and the chvalric honor
of the South was not permitted to protect
itself behind such defences; and then they
boldly stood up and charged the tree-States
with having on divers occasions disrr garded
and violated the Missouri Compronis,, and
at all events, the principles OF the c:mpro
mise of 1850 were Inconsistent with" and
rendered ''Inope, alive and vod' the COM
promise OF 1920. Aud Mr.. Stephens, Of Gror-
gia, even contraied that the abrogaton of the
adjustment of 1850, was demanded by the
spirit and principles of '76-that the great
question of congressional non-intervention,"
and OF "man's right to self government" re-
; CURED that all antecedent restrictions and
} limitations to slave extension should be re-
pudiated and repealed. Sectional elimination
: and re-crimina ion follow, and now the con-
fict is fast becoming sectional one;
, and let whichever section triumph, the
, result will be disastrous. Thus, in the
midst of public tranquility, unprecedented
= prosperity and sectional harmony and good.
fellowship, Presidential asprants and pol
itical demagogues, have succeededin ere It
ing strife, contention, sectional luminosity
aud popular agitation; and il their own
political death and infamy were the only
: point it were not matter of serions regret:
2 but the signal Of the times portend "crisIs'
that will disturb and derange the very foun-
dation Of our individual and sectional pros
T perity. Why will rot the South adhere to
the venerated compact of lS20-spurn the
e perfdlous and traitorous projected outrage of
! faithless and deceitful northern-dough-f faces,
and restore peace and tranquility to the pub
lie mind, aud rescue the Union itself from the
Y foul hands of the des'royers!
The adnnist alton and some Of its Nebras-
ka .backers have been testing the integrity
OF the Pennsylvania delegation. The Pres
ident points out to them his "non interview
ton" IN the case Of the Erie Mobiles, when
railroad bridges were burned the laws resist
Ell and its officers insulted and imprisoned,
Y anc intimates .hat some good turn deserves
another" in return. The Northern, Eastern
and Western members, whose constituents
= were, for months, greatly annoyed and mir
: ed by these Erie Outrages and in which the
n Governor OF the State and her citz ms lent
\ sympathy, aid and comfort, have been sug.
!. gestej that the United States mint may be
removed to New York and the protection to
Z Pennsylvania iron and coal withdrawn, and
10 here the administration and its Nebraska as.
U sociates, nterpose, and ay to the Pennsylva-
MIA delegation, "you support the Nebraska
bill and we will guarantee to you the enjoy
ment Of the mint and the iron and coal pro-
lection" This new "compact" formed with
the view of repeating an old one, was ear.
nestly embraced; but Dawson's plottings to
"supersede" Copper in the Senate of the
United States have exposed the bargain,
and five democratic members have already
boited.
The President and Cabinet some weeks
since concurred in appointing Daniel A.
Starkweather Of Ohio, to the Chill mission.
For five weeks he had been almos, daily as
sured that it was all fixed, but it still hangs
fire, and is held in reserve to fortify any weas
brethren of the Buckeye State, who may
fater on the Nebraska question:; indeed the
bold and corrupt appliances of patronage
and plumber to carry this bill Of abomn atoms
though the Mouse, have 70 paralI i in the
public or secret history of executive interven.
tons.
The Homestead bill was made the spccal
order of the day from the I4th to the 2Ist
inst, but when under consideration in Com.
mittee of the Whole. it has yet been ailud-
ed TO but twice. This great measure for
providing permanent homes for the home.
less, and for settling small! portion of the
thirteen hundred millions of acres of the pub
lie domain with hardy pioneers and adding to
the wealth and poWer ofthe nation has bpen