Daily national era., 1854-06-07
very to regulating murder; and John Wesley,
an eve witness of the cruelties 1T American
Slavery, pronounced it 9 the sum OF all villa
nes STRIKE, BUT HEAR.
WASHINGTON, d. C.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE I, 1854.


The Louisville Journal and other Southern
prints that opposed the passage OF the Nebras
ka Bill, now that il is contaminated, labor to
aasuage the Northern agitation aroused by it.
They publish extracts from Northern papers
claiming that after all, the Bill docs not ma
terially damage the interests Of the free States,
and from Southern papers, denying that slave
holders have gained anything substantial from
it. We understand all this. They fear that
the People Of the FREQ States may be driven to
trample under foot tho old parties, the instrn-
ments Of TIE Slave Despotism, and organize
against its usurpations; and all their habits
shrink from the terrible excitement they sup
pose would necessarily result.
While appreciating their love of peace, we
would remind them that no peace is worth
having which is purchased by the sacrifice OF
justice-no peace can be honorable, stable or
bent iicent which is secured only by habitual
concessions 10 the demands Of tyrannical la.
terest They must judge for themselves OF tho
policy that best suits their circumstances
they cannot judge for the North and West
The People Of the free States have been out
ragged, and they were craven and foolish not
to resort to the ballot-box for redress.
HThe more violent of tho Northern men,"
saws the Journal, "will be for waging general
warfare against Slavery, 30 far III they think
they can do so without palpably transcending
the limits of the Constitution They will be
for cxcIuding in all their section of country
every N IN the next Congress who il. not
pledged he most thorough hostility to Sla-
very; they will be for restoring, if practicable,
tho Missouri Compromise restriction to Ne
braska and Kaneas; they will be for the appli-
cation Of the Wilmot Proyiso to every Territory
hereafter admitted into the Union, no matter
what its latitude or longitude; they will be for
the abolition of Slavery in the District OF Co
lrmbia; and they will be for the modification
and emasculation Of tho Fugitive Slave Law,
by cutting out all such Of its provisions as tend
to give 1t the ssighteat efficacy.
Nov, we hardly need say that If party,
intent on such purposes, shall 80 far succeed ut
the North az to obtain the power of control in
Congress at any future time, the Union will he
seve, ed. lf the people Of tho North, who are
numerical majority of the Republic, shall, on
account of any real or,imaginary provocation,
use their power in n manner manitestly injnri-
Gus or insrlting to the Snuth-if they shall ex-
crcisc it tauntingly or wantonly, the South will
not hesitate to dissolve the existing partner
ship, be the consequences what they may"
The Shareholders have gone to tho extreme of
the Constitution, and beyond it, for Slavery, and
the Union was not Dissolved but, should the
North 90 to the extreme of tho Constitution, and
not beyond it, for Liberty, the Union will in
eyitably be dissolved The Shareholders have
done what they had no right TO do and the
Union was not shaken: should the North undo
what they have done, tho Union goes to rrin /!
Four hundred thousand petty despots have
everything their own way, and the Union is
safe If two millions of voters in tho North and
West como to tho conclusion that they shall
not have thcir own way, but yield to the will
Of the majority, the Union is blotted out !!
What docs all this mean? Simply tbis-that
the Union of these States is founded upon Sla
very; that it's great use is, to minister to the
benefit Of Slavery; that its guiding principle
ought to be, the will Of the Shareholders; that
supremacy is their right, subordination the
duty OF all non-slavcholders This is tho plain,
unmistaka able position of the Louisville Jour
nal
A. matter OF fact, the Slaveholding 0ligar
chy have waged IN general warfare" " for Sla-
very, excluded from Congress every man not
pledged to the most thorough support Of it, sent
men to Congress, who in defiance OF the will
Of the North, and in the face Of solemn COM
pact, have repealed tho Missouri Compromise
II has broken down every safeguard against
Slavery in every Territory Of the Union; enact
ed and maintained Slavery in the District Of
Coumbia, and forced upon the free States a
Fugitive Slave Act in derogation Of the guar
antecs OF the Constitution, of the sovereignty Of
the States, of the Principles Of the Common
Law, and Of tho claims Of Humanity And yet
the free States have submitted, without dissolv-
ing the Union. Now, when il is proposed that
they shall through the ballot box, peaccably
install in power Party which shall take pre-
cisely tho reverse action, undo what the Oil
garchy ha done, and place this Federal Gov
crnment rs much on the side of Freedom rs it
has been ON tho side OF Slavery, the Journal
dcnounces such policy ms insulting, injurious
wanfon, and tells us that on ts consummation
the South ,cH not hesitate TO dissolve The eria
ing partnership be the consequences what they
may ~
Well, all we have TO say is this: Before God
and man, had we the power, this day would
are subject the Oligarchy to the test--this day
give them an opportunity to execute that pre-
ciso threat There are some tremulous people
whom the language Of the Journal may intim-
idate but the great majority Of Northern and
Western voters regard this stale CRY Of Dis
union with utter contempt. II is not tho ap-
prchension that that impossible deed will be
done by the South, which prevents them from
adopting the course Of action 40 ruinous in the
judgment Of the Journal but simply tho en-
barraeaments growing out of their division into