Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-01-13

AT various blmeS We nave TAKEN 0CcdelOH Wnen
speaking of the cutlery raised against the Admins
tration by disappointed Office seekers to remark that
the real test of the soundness of the President his
Cabinet, of their fitness to administer the Govern
ment of the United States to be made upon their
substantive and substantial acts, upon their meas
ures and recommendations, and not upon the mo-
mentous question as to whether John Doe Richard
Roe should have the largest OK the smallest spoon
full of Government pap. The present long session
of Congress will develope of the real character
of men and things, and leave impress for good
OF evil than all the noisy diatribes of all the noisy
factionists III the world.
Opportunity, and as it were by express ARA nge-
men of some higher power: the test arises upon the
bill creating the Territory of Nebraska, and prov-
ding for its future admission into the Union rs
State The Territory lies west of the State of Mis-
souri, and north of the Missouri compromise line,
and, indeed, appears to come under the provisions
of the eighth section of that act, as follows:
6 In all that territory ceded by France to the Uni
ted States under the name of Louisiana, which lies
north of SO degrees and 80 minutes north latitude,
not included within the limits of the State contem-
plated by this act slavery and involuntary servtude,
otherwise than in the punishment OF crime whereof
the parties shall have been duly convicted shall be,
and is hereby, forever prohibited Provided, alaCayS,
That any person escaping into the same, from whom
labor service is lawfully claimed in any State Or
Territory of the United States such fugitive may be
lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person
claiming his or her labor service atore said.'
Judge Douglas, however, in framing the Territori-
al BILL copies into it the language of the compro-
mise of 1850 in relation to the Territories then
gained The Ne braska bill, as reported, contains
the following clause:
'When admitted as a State, the said Territory
or any portion of the same, shall be received into
the Union, with without slavery their cOnsti-
tuition may prescribe at the time of their admissions
1t is not necessary to add, that the Aboitionsts
and Free Sellers are up in arms against what they
denominate overriding of the express provisions
of the Missouri Compromise; nor that the Admins
tration in for its full share of denuncation
that this measure is characterized as of the
consequences of General Pierce's election nor that
it WILL in fact be supported by every friend Of the
Administration, and every legitimate influence which
the President, as coordinate branch of the legis-
latiye power, gveit.
We repeat, the President and his true friends, in
both Houses, pledged against anything like the
Wilmot Proviso, in regard to any Territories or
States hereafter to be admitted. They look upon
this the true spirit and vital essence of the Com
promise of 1850. Upon this issue the true distnc-
ton will be known between those who really intend
support the President and the spirit of the policy
which brought him into power and those who do not
Executive influence or no Executive influence there
be doubt that General Pierce is deeply inter
ested in the success of this BILL the first and the
great trial of the efficiency of the last settlement.
With Free Sellers, with other grumblers, he is
willing to take the responsibility" and the people
will sustain him. Yesterday we published pretty
long article upon this subject from the Washington
Union. In the present instance the Union, beyond
all question, speaks the language of the President
Even Mr.. Folks firmness yielded in the matter O
Oregon, and everybody knows that the policy pro
posed by General Taylor would have been equivalen
to the Wilmot Provso The present President,
Northern man, and Mr.. Douglas, also Northern
man, boldly meet responsibility from which ever
Southern Presidents draw back. Will the South
listen to the senseess Glamour raised against its bes
! friends