The daily union., 1854-02-19

AtAaueas came IN As slayehoding State, without oo-
Iec'on, eight years aferward, Nebraska, the part OF
the territory reserved exclusively Tor free Territories and
Tree States, has remained wilderness since. And
now y IS proposed here to abrogaie, not ndeed the
whole compromise, but only that part OF II which saved
Nebraska as Tree territory TO be Afterwards divided into
non savsholdiDg States, which shoad be admitted into
me uni9n- And this Is proposed. notwithstanding a
UNIVERSAL acquescence IN the compromise, by both par
lies Tor thirty Years. and its continuation. and
aga, ny many acts OF successive Congresses, nowiih
standing that The slavehodng Sates peaceaby
ll'yed. ever since u was made all Their equivalents.
WHILE oSns 10 circumstances which will hereafter ap
pear the non n-siavehoding State have practically
Joyed any OF those guaranteed 70 them.
This The question before the Senate OF the Uni
ted Slales OF America. 80
II isa question Of ,rapscendant Importance The pro.
vso OF $780, be abroga,ed in Nebraska s the ordi-
OF the Continental Congress- 1857 extended
new part Of the national domain, acquired under
present constitution Il il rendered venerable by it's
Wnich, II snendering its trust, after establishing the
inance, epjoned il upon postey always 10 remember
that the cause OF The United States was the cause Of
human nature The question involves issue OF pub
lie faith, and national morality and honor Ii will bs a
sad day for his republic when such question shall be
deemed unworthy OF discussion and intense in.
terest Even II II certain that the inhibition OF
slavery IN the region concerned unnecessary and II
the question thus reduced 10 abstIactlon yet
even that abstraction Would nsoe the testimony OF the
United States on the expedlency, wisdom, morality, and
justice OF the system OF human bondage, with which this
aud other portions OF the world have been long at CT
ed; and il viii be melancholy day for lhe republic and
for mankind, when her decision such absrac-
ton shall command respect. and inspire no hope into
the hearts OF the oppressed But is no such absrac
ton i was no unnecessary dispute, no mere contest Of
blind passion, that brought that compromise into being
Slavery and freedom active antagonists then seek
ing Tor ascendency in this Union Both slavery and
freedom vigorous, active, and self randiZng
now than they were then before or since
tina, period. The contest between them has been only
pro,racted, decided II is great feature in
ona hereafter SO the qaestion OF adheung to or ab
rogatng thus compromise no unneanlng ISSUE and no
conest OF mere blind passion now
TO adhere is 10 secnre the occupation by freemen,
with free labor of region in the very centre OF the
tnen capable OF sustaining and in that event destined,
though il may be only alter lar-distan PERIOD 10 sns
tain en, twenty, thirty. forty millions OF people, and
their successive genera ions forever a
To abfogae Is 10 resign all that vast region TO chances
which mortal vision cannot fully foesee perhaps TO the
sovereignty oil such sned and short lived communities
| as those OF which Mexico and South America and the
Wes, India islands present US with examples perhaps
convert that INTO the OF long and desoang
conflicts between not merely races, bn casies to end,
Ike similar coanct in Eslpl, Ia convulsive exodus
OF the oppressed people, despoing thef superors;
perhaps, like not dsslmar IN Spain, IN The iofcble
expulsion OF The intenor race, exhausting The State by
the sudden aud complete suppression OF great
OF national wealth and labor; perhaps in the disastrous
expulsion oil the superior itself, by people
Too suddenly raised from slavery TO Liberty, as in 81
Domingo. 10 adhere Is 10 secare forever the presence
here, aer lapse OF time, OF iwo four ien twenty
senators, and OF representatives IN larger pro-
porons 10 uphold The policy and interests OF the non
slavehoidiDg States, and balance that evencre asins
presentation ot slavehoding States, which past
perience, and the decay OF the Spanish American States
adnonish US has only is begun; 10 what The
slavehoding States have mIns, navy yards, the mill
iary aeadeay aud Notifications, balance against the
capital and edeTa in the aveholdlng States
10 save against any danger IRON adverse or hostile policy
the caure, The manufactures, and The commerce, as
well as the just influence and weight OF the national
principles and sentiments OF the slavehoding States, To
adhere to the slayeholdng States, as well
TO the siaveboldng Saies always aud IN every event.
night oil way and Tree communication across the
laent 10 and with the States on the Pacific coasts, and
with the rising States the islands IN the Souh Sea-
and with all the eastern nations on ihe vas, continent Of
Asia.
10 abrogaie. on the contrary, is commit all these
precious interests 10 the chances and hazards OF embar
rassment sod injury by legislation. under the nfaesce
oil social, POLITICAL and commercial jealousy and rivalry
aad IN the event OF the secession OF The savehoding
States, which often threatened IN their name bal
thank God without their authority, to give TO seryile
population La Vendee al the very sources Of the
Mississippi, and in the very oi the Rocky
tain-.
Nor is this last contingency against which the states
man, when engaged IN giving constitution Tor soch
territory, so situated. must veil his eyes II Is states.
mans province and duty 10 look before we'll after
know indeed. the present loyalty OF the American peo-
pie Norib aud South, and East and West know that
II ~ sentiment stronger than any sectional interest
ambition and stronger than The love OF equality in
toe non. sayehodiug States and stronger, doubt not
lhan the love oil slavery an the savebodng States But
do not know, and no moral sagaelty does know the
seductons OF interest and ambition, and the inu of
pa, ,son, which yet TO be matnred 10 every region
know tas however, that the Unon is saie now and tba,
1t will be safe so long impartial political equality shall
constitute the basis ot society as has heretofore DONE
in bali OF these States, and they shall thus maintain
just equilibrium against the sayeholdlng Safes But
well assured also tho other hand that II ever the
slavehoIaIng States shall multiply themselves and extend
Their sphere. thai they could without association with
the savehodlng States, constitute oil themseI YES
republic from that day their rule through The
executive judicial and legislative powers OF this govern
win be such will be hard for the non. ayehod.
ing States bear and their pride and ambition since
they congregations oil men, and moved BY human
1 a.
not so rule.
The saveholdIng States already possess the mouths OF
the Mississippi, and their territory reaches far nonhward
along lis banks side 10 the Ohio and on the other
even 10 the confluence OF the Missouri They stretch
their doninion now from the banks OF the Delaware
quite around baS hradand, and promonory, to the RIO
Gfande. They will not stop, although they now think
they may, On the summit ol the Sierra Nevada; nay
their armed pioneers already 10 Sonora, and heIr
eyes are already hxed never TO be taken of the island
oil Cuba, the Qassn Of the Antilles II OF the non-
slaveholdng States surrender TO them The eastern
slope OF the Rocky mountains and the very sources OF
the Mississippi, what errtory ~ill be secute
oy cao be secured hereafter, for the creation and
gsnzaon OF tree States within bound domain
What territories this conIneat will remain unappro.
pflaed and unoccuped for us to annex What ietri.
tories, even II We able 10 buy conquer them from
Great bnlan or Russia, will the sayeholng Saies sai
er, much less AID us 10 annex 10 restore the equilibrium
which, BY this unnecessary measure, shall have
wisely, 40 hurriedly, 50 suicidally subveried
Nor am 10 be lolt that only few slaves will
toto bls vast region One stakeholder Territory,
cises mote political inasce u 6ve hundred freernen
IL ~ not necessary that alb majority oi the citizens Of
State shs be Shareholders TO constitute slaveholdng
state Delaware has only two thousand savrs against