Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-11

that that principle is Of no Importance <her vo, a.,
gain practical advantage by such declaration Won
cannot demand this without placing your own condue,
and theirs in similar case light Of in which
they will feel keen the consequences Of your disregard
OF their cherished principles They did not SO treat
IN the matter OF New Mexico They forborc to fasten
upon that country restriction because 1t would have
done them no practical good and would have been osn
sive to you This piece Of history is this moment
sent to their minds and is doing the work Of alienation
and distrust with fearful rapidly.
There is one other suggestion which wish 10 mals
When the compromise of 1850 had to be car.
ried to the convictions of the people Of the North and
the public peace to be restored the men who undertook
that work had great vantage ground on which to stand
They had the old Evolutionary feeling of attachment to
the Union to appeal to. For the law requiring the
render Of fugves they had the Constitution and the
imperfect performance Of its requirements which the old
law had exhibited For the other measures. and esne.
ciay for the surrender Of the Wmot provso thew had
the equivalents and computations involved in the adj
justment How different is every thing now Not a so
tary of all the conservative classes of the North
rise up and say that this repeal Of the Missouri
promise is necessary No can pretend that anv in
erest of the country requires that this violence should
be done to Northern feeling and Northern rights The
people Of the free States be addressed with the
arguments of 1850, and will or can undertake to
vndcate before them for which he can plead
no good to the country or to any part of it, The food
gates Of agitation viii be thrown open and there will be
none to stay its devastating course. speak that which
know, and am no willing witness to its truth For
many have been close observer of the workings
OF the antislavery movements and tendencies Il is
now generally agreed by intelligent men on both sides Of
Masons and Dxons line that the discussion of the evils
or the wrongs of slavery has done good to the slave
or the master So firmly have always been convinced
Of this that never knowingly gave vote or spent or
gave arhng that could have the least tendency to aid
in the agitation discussion Of this subject But what
is to counterfeit the efforts Of fanaticsm or misguided
philanthropy, or political knavery when the whole Moth
is stunned by such blow now threatens to fall upon
them WHO'S to teach and practise respect for Southern
rights when the rights of the North violated without
even the plea Of necessity? What is take the place Of
that great conservative element in Northern society which
secures the practical observance of the doctrine that sa
very is affair Of the States where it is found when
that element has been stricken and by the Suth
itself? Yes, by the South ITSELF For though i,be
that man actually representing free State is the a.
thor Of this measure the most alarming Of oil the sigs
Of the times is, that Northern Democrat can commaI
the support of Southern Wings in measure that mus
inevitably ALLEVIATE the feelings Of the whole of thei
Northern brethren and transform the free States into VI
vast arena Of agitation where voice of remonsranc
can be raised or heard C. N
WASHINGTON, MARCH Q, 1854 ln. NJ