New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-13
THE MEETING IN TIE PARK.

A great crime seems on the point of consummaton
in Congress 1t has mastered the Senate; the Execu-
tive is its willing accomplce the last barrier against
s perpetraon is that portion of the House oil Repre-
sentatiyes now struggling for the Right backed by
millions Of indignant People.
There is 10 pretense in this case that tie "agita-
"tion," excitement, whatever it may be called,
commenced on the side Of Freedom. On this side all
was peace and nacton when this Nebraska mine was
sprung upon the Country. The incitement to this
new broil comes from the side of Slavery, and that
eide alone.
Tie p1etense that the Missouri Restriction is
sfituiicEaI is a sefconyicted falsehood An uncons
tutional act needs repealng-it is necessarily null
and void. Fifty repeating acts could not kill il any
deader tLan il is And if the Missouri Restriction
trere unconstitutional its adyersaries could make
case 10 test it, carry that up 10 the Supreme
CouIt at Washington, five of the nine Judges from
Slave States, and all but or two pro-Slayery,)
whose decision would speedily deprive it of the last
senblauce of vitality. The pro-Slarery man do not
take this corrse simply Jseause they knor The Restriction
is Constitutional
Nor is there any basis for the pretense that the MIS-
souri Restriction was superseded by the Compromises
Of 1s5O No man who advocated these Compromises
in Congress through a struggle Of six months, then
intnated that their passage would annu or supersede
tie Compromise of ls2O-l. No man who opposed
the acts Of 1850 suggested or dreamed of such con-
sequence Of their passage. No Southern Unionist
clmed this as one Of the advantages conceded TO the
South il Is5O. No Northern opponent Of the Compro
mses urged that as among the losses to Freedom by
the A6;ustment No Baltimore Resolves Of any party
have sfrmed or implied the opening OF Nebraska to
Slavery is a consequence of the acts oi lcoO And
serator L.chison.-a warm friend Of the Compromise
in l., @ AID Of the D0uglas scheme how-unimateIy
withdrew bis objection the organization OF Nebraska
OFT Free basis at the last Session, expressly on the
ground tiat the North would never consent 10 sur
render the Missouri Restriction AEd H0tc IS pre-
tended that HAD been surrendered three years before,
Gpd hst he had been party to the arrangement!
We who resist the Douglas bill DO not ask Congress
TO cay anything about Slavery in Nebraska. We ask
simply that the Territories be organized either now or
hereafter without saying word on the subject Then
if the Missouri Restriction s unconstitutional or has
teen surerseded the Courts will say so if not, not
Why is not this fair
We plesd for time. Let the People speak This
Hlsh on Nebraska is complete surprise to them-s
snap judgment Nobody understood, when they
tltttcu 1eeeIr. AloueAu -AtDVHA"f - ~ An5otSOA
Tweed, Cummings, Walker, &c, that they were vot-
iDs to repeal the Missouri Restriction. Indiana, Hi
Lois Iowa, chose Representatives for any such
purpose. NewJsrsey and Pennsylvania never dreamed
OF such thing. We urge, entreat, demand, that the
People be allowed q hearing on this immensely i'm
portsn question before discussion is forever closed
LET TEE PEOPLE HE HEARD. We SAX only that
You derde the voice of Public Meetings as shadowy
and unreliable; let hear the authentic voice of the
tsllotboI Who is afraid to refer the question to the
People