The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-06-29

suggest the measures which ought to be adopted
In this great exigencY. For ourselves, we are
ready to do all that shall be in our power to
restore the Missouri Compromise, and to exc
cute such further measures as you in your wis
dom shall command, and as may be necessary
for the recovery of the ground lost to Freedom,
and to prevent the further aggressions of Sla-
very. SOLOMON FooT, Chairman.
RnSIEb F y Fsyro. Secretaries
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS-NEW COMBINATIONS.
Calm and moderate as was the Address pub
lished in the Era yesterday, to the People of
the United States, by meDebers of Congress OPP
posed to the repeal of tEe Missouri Compro-
mise, it has produced profound impression
upon those politicians WI were dreaming of
general acquiescence in d e Nebraska outrage.
So accustomed had they Scome to the forbear-
ance of the free States, AID so settled in their
belief that existing part9 organizations must
endure, that they verify thought the act of bad
faith, perpetrated by ruthless majority, would
be but a nine days wonder, and then the in
dignation of the hour woalG give place to or
Il
meeting of members of Con gress, the proceed
ings CT which are sig ned by Northern Wing
Senator, as Chairman, and by New York
Democrat and a Western Democrat, as Secre-
taries, suddenly dspels their illusion, and forces
upon them the fact that SO far from acquies-
cencc political organization, ignoring ordi-
nary party distinctions is already formed, to OBJ
tain indemnity for past aggressions committed
by the Slave Power, and security for the flu
ture.
The National Inteligenccr, which first pub
lished the Address, after collaborating on it for
twenty-four hours, comes % the conclusion that
the movement it Indicates s to be deprecated.
"As composition ss5s that journal, cit is
able, and in its terms cal'1 and dignifed. The
purpose which it avows y one which tho gen.
tlemen had perfect riget to form and to an
nounce, as they have dOl2e; but whether it il
expedient at the presepi moment, If at any
time, to make that issue a test at the popular
elections shortly to be ield in many Of the
States of the Union, Is hat we are not pre-
pared to yield our assent TO- We are weary of
agitaii0n-sick and tired Of seeing the ener-
gies Of the Representatives of the People wasted
and the other end of the Union, might eventu-
ate in that most awful of all catastrophes it's
final dissolution. We Go not propose, upon a
question thus suddenly opened upon US, to dog
matize or even to enter into an argument IN
til we are obliged to do so. There is only one
idea which we will now throw out, it having
forced itself upon our minds and that is, the
doubt whether entire success, if that were at
tainable, in the proposed restoration of the
Missouri Compromise would afford any
remedy for the evils complained of, or for the
mischief that has been done"
The Lnteliigencer deserves credit for its man
ly and Independent opposition to the passage
of the Bill for the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise; but It's tremulo1s fear of agitation, its
habitual Difference to the Slave Interest, and It's
policy of yielding everything to its demands,
when it fancies resstan : may endanger the
Union are not suited lst now to the hon
or, the temper, or the n. aessities, of the non
slaveholding voters Of tn country. They may
regard with federation j timid conservation,
but must judge for them elves what is due to
their own rights and t2e great interests in
trusted to their keeping.
by that journal arc we 70 attribute the AFRO
gance, domineering spirit, and successful ag
gressions of a Sectional Interest, which, regard
ing the Union as It's instrument, would dash it to
atoms, whenever an attesnpt is made to wrest
it from it's grasp The Address if it prove any
thing, proves beyond all SRvil, that it is the for
bearance of the people d the free States that
has emboldened the SlFseholding Oigarchy /;
that to their acquiescesee in wrong accom-
plished, is directly Attributable new schemes of
wrong-doing; that every usurpation by that
Power, submitted to, has laid the foundation
for another still more od|ous; until, at last, the
conviction is forced upoR. the nOn-slsveholders
of the country, that the Solicy of acquiescence
to which they have beef educated by the old
parties, and by such jou5 als as the LpteLLgsn-
Ger, is a blunder and rime, having involved
them 10 dishonorable objection, injured the
interests of Free InstitUe~ons, denoralzsd the
whole nation, placed thu Union in peril, and
invested with dangerou'c power a tYrannical
Interest, which, emboldei sd by its last triumph,
now medtates the estabH lhment of a boundless
Slave Empire, cost wha it may in blood and
money.
The Tatetigencer will Ct course find here and
there sympathizer at the North In every
crisis 10 human affairs, where resistance to
tyrants is obedience to God, you will find a
few willing to sacrifice the last vestige of
right for the sake of pease Even the Revolu-
ton, by which we became an independent ma
ton, failed to command the assent of the whole
People The Tories of q the times that tried
mems souls" were many Of them worthy gentle
men, lovers of peace, reluctant to asitate, sick
of excitement, in a word. determined upon &C.
quiescence Not to thegl would we liken the
Intelhgeneer, for its editss are Southern men,
living amidst slavehOldiES institutions, but they
are pretty fair types of Oh men as control the
columns of the Buffalo ommercid Advertiser,
a Fillmore paper if we dstake not,
owe earnestly" say this paper, Sand to
the best of our ability, opposed the Nebraska
measure, so long as o. position was of any
avail but, now that it has passed VIC do not
feel disposed nor called ,apOn by any sense of
duty to enter upon cruz lde against the South
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