New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-16

tresses, but Offering 70 replace tnem III pVesoe'i'"
of those fortresses Just IS they were when sur
rendered-as if they could be so replaced after
the allies hsd taken complete inventory OF all
their provisions and munitions, and learned to
certainty how long each garrison could hold out
and how many shots it could FIRE. Move can
not rebuild the Past, and the Missouri Compro-
mise il one Of the most irreeoyerable Of sill things
lost to earth.
Tie North, then finding by experience that
compacis long regarded as morally rrepealable
save BY the free and hearty agreement OF both
parties are obserVed by the South only so long as
seems to her convenient, naturally says, "a way
" with all Compromises Let Slavery have all
.. that the Constitution asores her, but nothing
..beyond Let there be no more Slave Terri
- tory-uo more Slave States Let Slavery abide
in States where it is now legalized until those
States see fit TO abolish ii; but let it not adj
=" vance another inch under the flag of our
Union" And this stand the People Of Iowa.
VERMONT and MAINE have just ratiied-those OF
the two latter States BY overwhelming majoritles.
But now steps forward the Hon. WILLIAM
A. DUER-one of the ablest Compromise Mem
bers of the XXXIst Congress and the leader OF
the Silver Gray bolt from the Wing State Con-
vention of lS50-and says 10 substance, "fou
81 are going too fast and too far The Nebraska
"bill is all wrOng-I little thOught the South
"would ever do such thing when l consented
$50 the Compromises of l55O-but it won't do
"to say no more Slave States, but only No more
N.IxasLo rsS,orsd IN
" FREEDOM" And he cites John Quincy Adamss
assent 10 the admission of Kansas as sustaining
his position, when, truly eIpounded, that assent
makes just the other way. Mr.. Adams was
deeply implicated, as a member of Col. NOnroe's
Cabinet. in the Compromise of 1s2O-hsd Off
cially advised the President to sign the bill, and
was in every way committed to the supper II the
COMPROMISE. But had he lived to see that Con-
promise deliberately repudiated by the Sol 4,
does any man believe he would have persisted IN
voting TO admit new Slave States into our Union
Whoever does So totally mis,pprehends the Sage
of Quincy.
Mr.. Duer is a lawyer, and we believe good
one. He can Judge, therefore, what would be
the moral force of criminal code running thus
Stealing is forbidden, and all who do steal
"sball il convicted, be sentenced to restore the
"stolen property" He knows we'll that those in
cined to theft would reason thus 'lf steal may
"have to restore, and may not; at the worst,
close nothing by stealing; while with good luck
Il shall make handsomely" Who doubts
that stealing would flourish under such code
Yet this is Just what Mr.. Duer proposes to do
with regard to Slavery Extension and the repu-
dated Compromise. Nay: he gives the repudia-
tors chance to wait and see whether they can
clutch Nebraska or Kansas under Douglass
bill, and then decide whether it ia best to hold on
or restore. If they are baffled in their foray on
Kansas they may consent 10 see the bars OF our
field put up behind them after they have been
driven out Of it, and then unite in reestablishing
the Compromise line That willneyer do, Mr.. d.
For it must never be forgotten that the Ne
brasba bill does far more than throw open the
great Central Territories to Slayery--it inaugu-
rates a principle-the principle, namely, that
Siarery mag go uhererer can, and the american
People as such shall interpose no impedimeHt. That
is the gist, the essence Of the Nebraska repuda-
ton. MI. JtUcftOu anu COupdlilOls
Human Bondage out Of all the then U. S. Terri
tories. The Compromise Of le2O. following the
Mississippi and Florida purchases, allowed
Slavery 10 gain footing, il it could in all U. S.
territory south of 3Go 30, but expressly excluded
it from all north Of that line. Mr.. Douglass
measure throws down, not the bars only, but the
entire fence, and prescribes that Slavery may go
anywhere, into any present or future Territories
OF the Union. The provisions of the bill may
legally cover only the Central Territories, but
the principle applies eyerywhere and Mr.. Doug
as expressly calls on all his followers to
adhere to the principle unshrinkingly. If
that principle is upheld, there is 10 more Free
Territory, properly so called, but Slavery may e
gally go wheresoeyer it can find or make 4 local
public sentmen. 10 sustainit. And leading South
ern journals have explained that, while they con-
sidered the chance of the South to secure Kan
sas or Nebraska of ANAL account, they regarded
the principle of the bill as of inestmable import
onee, in view Of its prospective application to
Cuba, Mexico, Central America, &c. And that
principIe-assertiDg the right of the first few
hundreds or thousands Eho may struggle
into territory as large as Germany to impose
Slavery on the Millions who are within few
years TO follow them-is expressly Endorsed by
our Adamantine candidate for Governor as not
only right in itself but certain to secure universal
concurrence Yet not even Mr.. Bronson will
pretend that the afirmsnce of this principle is
not a complete surrender of all the ground con
tended for by our State and the North in past
controversies respecting the extension or limita-
ton Of Slavery. He knows that it is an uncOn-
ditional surrender of the ground taken by the