Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-11-04

liking make quite impossible for them 10 become par
tisdas of the measure
Now judging by the consequences Of the passage OF
this BILL it appears that somebody has played into the
hands of the Aboltionists Is 1t possible that was
President PIrRcK that it Senator DOUGLAS that 1t
was the Washington Unons 1t is sure that either OF
these parties had more do with it than all those South
ern uras of whom the Mercury is considered as the
type.
But what is the meaning of this phrase, playing into
the hands Of the Aboonsts" as it is employed by the
Washington Union? Three the north side of the
street draw upon two the south side and order
them to stand and deliver They refuset is Sectional
ism; they draw weapons and show determination to
fight rather than submit to be plundered the high
wayt is Disunon And every successive advance they
make in the array of their and determination
resist is playing into the hands Of the robbers be-
cause if they had lain down and meeky pointed to the
pocket where their money kept, the whole operation
of cleaning them could have been performed speedily
and without disturbing the neighborhood
And are we to submit to ths Are we for fear ofbe-
ing called sectional to wait and the consolidated
North pour its Abolition legons into Congress and make
no effort them with array devoted and vowed
to the protection of all most sacred nterestsour
honor States safety people, hearthstones,
and our lives!
TRUTH FIFTY SpoKEN-The Charleston Even
ing News" has the following reasonable and just
remarks upon the effect of the passage of the Ne
hraska hin upon the country, demonstrated in
the recent elections The precise popular effect OF
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was foreold
over and over again during the time it was before
Congress. There were Southern men IN Congress
from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi
who had the sagacity to see the effect of this mea
sure and the courage to denounce it. Multitudes
at the North defenders of the constitutional rights
of the South, friends Of the Compromise of 1850,
disciples of CLAY and WEBSTER, urged the defeat
of this untoward measure, all in vain.
FROM THE CHARLESTON EVENING NEWS.
There never was completer or more disastrous mis-
carriage than the Nebraska BILL 1t has only blasted
every expectation that originally formed Of it. but il
has proved to its authors positive and unmitgated
Instead of giving effect and confirmation to the
compromise of $780, it has blasted that compromise into
nothingness instead of securing two additional slave
Staesto the Union it has secured additional free
States and instead of putting end to the Freeso
doctrine, it has given that doctrine power and re
spectablty which it possessed before and which
we believe it could never have attained through any
other medium than that opened by this bill We do not
speak of this in exultation Most certainly not There
is much in the present aspect of things that depore
much that did utmost to prevent, by doing
utmost against the passage of the bill But the respon
sibity is not with US; duty has been thoroughly
discharged Able to do nothing more we can fifty turn
the battle to former opponents of the Virginia
school, and withal enjoy smile two at the sight
their obsreperous vowings before all the Of high
heaven they meier submit yet all the while submitting