The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-02-02

voting as shall become the free Representative
of Freemen, Free Labor, and Free Institutions
Tho "shumb-scrow" policy, as Mr.. Hughes
styles it may answer for the plantation, but
will hardly be tolerated on the floor of Con.
gress. Even the glory of being yoke-fellowc
with the National Wings" SO highly ccmpl
mented by the organ, will scarcely reconcile
the Democracy Of tho Free West to Plantation
| treatment
Meantime, the People will soon make them
selves felt in this matter. The following cir
cular of q petition has originated in Chicago
Illinois, and is circulating in that State for
sgners "Senator Douglas says the Chicago
Free West, sought to hear from his own State
on this extension of Slavery project. The place
to speak is through the House. Let remon-
strances against this bill be sent to our mem
bers of Congress - Washburn, Wentworth
Norton, Knox, Yates, etc. We have drawn up
a form for convenience sake. This, or better
form, can be copied, and circulated for sigma
lures. Let our State speak, and, in speaking
show that Douglas does not speak for Illinois "
" To the Congress Of the Uailed States:
awe, the undersigned citizens Of the State OF
Illinois, respectfully pray your honorable body
to pass no bill for the Territorial Government
of Nebraska without the Proviso of the Mis-.
souri, Compromise, excluding Slavery from the
said Territory"
In the Legislature of New York, last Mon
day, the following resolutions were introduced
by Mr.. Wood:
"Whereas efforts are being made to produce
the passage of an act of Congress to organize
the Territory of Nebraska, with such PROV.
slons as will permit the existence of human
slavery; and whereas, in the judgment of this
Legislature, the passage of such an act would
not only be inconsistent with the Constitution
of the United States and the Declaration of In
dependence, but would also be manifest v;o-
latlon of the Missouri Compromise: therefore.
RESOLVED, by the Legislature of the State Of
NeW York, (if the Senate concur That we SOL
EMMY protest against the passage of any act
for the organization Of the Territory of Ne
braska, which shall not expressly exclude the
institution of Slavery from said Territory.
RESOLVED, IF the Senate concur,) That the
Governor be requested to transmit O copy Of
the foregoing resolutions to each Of our Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress"
The Democratic Press is not fulfilling the
expectations of {" the organ" In addition to
the extracts already given from tho Post and
Atlas of New York, Palladium of Massachu-
setts, Sandusky (O) Mirror, Missouri Democrat,
An1eiger JVeStern, and other journals of the
Democracy, we copy the following from the
Buffalo nv. ~ Republic, an Administration
paper. Unfortunately, the Republic has put
little too much faith in the Administration and
the supporters of Slavery:
"Wo find that the injustice of tho effort now
being made in Congress to violate the proyi
sions of this Compromise, in organizing the
Territory of Nebraska, is receiving the atten-
ton of other sections than those north of Ma
son and Dixon's line. Indeed, it may be as
sumed as an undoubted fact that no Repre-
sentative Of the slavcholding States would be
found so lost to the obligations of good faith
and justice as to propose to disturb compact
which has been acquiesced i'll, betwixt North
and South for over thirty years in regard to
the subject Of Slavery. The race of dough-
faces and Slavery propagandists will never die,
as long as there is chance to secure tho po-
litical influence Of the Southern people to aid
the schemes of personal aggrandizement which
Northern demagogues set on foot for that pur-
pose. There is one consolation, however, in
this important fact, that although the South
love the treason, they despise tho traitor, and
that they never put faith in that class of North
ern men who in order to secure their own sup.
port betray the rights and interests of their
own constituents at the North. And hereto
fore it has happened, that men who have
thought to make political capital by subservi-
ent trucking to Southern prejudiccs, have in
variably been discarded both by the people
they have betrayed and the section to whose
interests they have traitorously pandered. 1t
would be we'll if ambitious and aspiring poll
ticians would learn lesson from the past
There is scarce an instance to be found, whero
a Northern politician has attempted 10 reach
the goal of his ambition by turning his back
upon the free principles of his own community,
that he has not failed composing his ambitious
purposes And such will ever continue to be
what We arc inclined to regard MS tho retribu-
tions of Providence, on all attempts to sacrifice
principle 10 the schemes of an unhallowed and
base ambition"
Even the g National Wings" a. the or
gan" styles them cannot be whecdlcd into
tho support of this last exaction of Slavery.
Some, of course, are equal to any burden that
may be imposed by the Slave Interest. In the
words of Canning on another occasion they
will 20 the whole hog, and seem the hog they
60" But the respectable and conscientious
among them, with the New York Express, de-
nounce the movement, and the staid, sober,
Conservative Commercial advertiser, of Now
York, says, inclosing long, well-considered
article On the subject
awe think it clear, therefore, that the meas
ure of 1850 was not designed to abrogate that
of 1921; that neither it's friends nor its oppo-
nents 10 regarded it that it's object was to So
cure the admission of California as a free State,
to dispose of the Texas and territorial question,
to kin off the Wilmot Proviso and to furnish
the South with a sure mode of reclaiming fu-
gitives from service. Those difficulties were
at that time pressing upon the country, and to
meet them, the Compromise legislation was
framed. 1t did not contemplate interfering
with former enactments on the subject OF Sla-
very, especially one that had been in force thir-
ty years without cliciling serious remonstrance
or complaint. These being the facts, this at
tempt to nullify the special compact of 1921
becomes a breach of faith, nasmuch as the
Compromises of 1850 were acquiescedi in on the
full understanding that they did not disturb
the Missouri Compromise, the great expounder
of those resolutions being witness. And VIC
might add, that, inasmuch as the prohibition
of 1921 was made pcrpetudt-'forcye prohib-
tied 1T could not, TO cay the least, be repeal
cd by mere mp!ication-which is tho only pre-
tence that can DO urged 10 favor Of Senator
Douglass view.
awe think this attempt to break faith on
the Compromises both wrong and impolitic on
the part Of our Southern friends. Its certain
effect will be to dishearten those friends of the
Compromises Of 1850 at the North, who pcriled
not a little in first adherinp To them who an