Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-03-03

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. !

1uc extraordinary course OF the S0utn
ernWhigs, and the remarkable changes ant
subtcrfuges Of Douglas, on Nebraska, hav'
been matters Of profound astonishment ii
all quarters.
1t turns out that those twin brothers o
agitation, audacity and imperious misrule
Messrs. Toombs and Stephens, Of Georgia
(avowed Wing Nulli6ers, are the men who
have instigated, nourished, and finally ma
tured this nefarious scheme; and thai
Douglas and the President are but their
confederates in the plot. The whole move
mcnt has been veiled in obscurity, from
the fact that Douglas has been made to
assume the position of leader in the trea.
son.
Many of our readers will remember the
most extravagant Georgia resolutions Of
ls4o-50, whose paternity is imputed to
Mr.. Toombs and his ally, Mr.. Stephens,
wherein it was announced that that soyer.
eign State would withdraw her representa-.
tives in Congress and take up her line Of
march out of the Union in the event of the
happening Of one or two events-one Of
these being the admission of California as
Free State, and the other the passage Of
the Wilmot proviso by Congress.
At that period, Messrs. Toombs and
Stephens were the rampant propagators Of
the policy Of resistance to the Government,
unless its legislation accorded with their
demands for Slavery. 1t was within few
months after the passage Of those cxtraor-
dinary resolutions, and but just before the
death Of General Taylor, that these two
gentlemen, accompanied by Humphrey
Marshall, Mr.. Fillmore's Minister to China,
and one or t.o other gentlemen from the
South, proceeded to the White House, and
peremptorily demanded to know Of Gen.
Taylor if he did not intend to change his
course respecting the admission of Califor-
MIA ard the organization of New Mexico,
accompany ing the demand with, sub
stantially, threat to subvert the Govern
ment, if ho did not consent to yield to the
n'olent e1aetions. They dared to beard
the lion in his den. General Taylor
memorable reply is we'll known He felt
himself insultcd and outraged beyond ex.
preston, by their demands. He indig-
nantly drove them from his presence, in
language far more significant than polite.
His determined spirit was reused in all its
forco by the scenes of that interview, and
they were al the theme of his dslirious
moments in bis last illness, and undoubt-
sdly FASTENED his death. In reply to their
insinuation, that the South would resist his
administration, and that the Territory of
New Mexico would be invaded BY Texas,
and thus become the battle-ground where
on the South would assert her rights, Gen.
Taylor declared to them, in words Of fire,
that if that contest came, he was deter
mined to do his entire duty; that if neces-
sary, he would himself repair to the field,
and raising the standard of the Stars and
Stripes with his own hand, would conquer
their traitor demonstration, or leave his
bones to bleach upon the plain. He after
ward scornfully added, that he " feared the
d rascals would back out" This
self-constituted committee of faction then
skunk from the old hero's presence, and
hied to their confcderates, where q report
of their failure to intimidate the President,
was made in utter dependency at their
prospects. At that celebrated interview
with General Taylor, the domineering
spirit Of Slavery extension was effectually
quelled. And if General Taylor had lived,
We should have no subsequent compromi,
ses, and heard NO more of its brazen de-
mands, its impudcnt threatcnings, and its
infamous aggessions now projected. But
he died, and that spirit renewedly reared
its black head, cracked its lash over the
North, and strobe onward to victory.
Such are the antecedents of Messrs.
Toombs and Stephens, touching the i'm
portant movements of 1850, so closely
connected with those Of to-day. These are
the men who, protesting to be Wings, de-
stroyed the Wing asccndaney in Congress,
by defeating Mr.. Winthrop's election for
Speaker in 1850, who made war upon Gen.
Taylor and his Cabinet, and who have been
the stormy spirits Of disorganization and
misrule, and savage agitation, from the
beginning of their career. They now ap-
pear as the projectors and hackers of a
bolder and more gigantic outrage than was
ever before Matched in their prolific nest
of evil.
Here is unfolded the true view of the
Nebraska outrage, which has till now baf.
fed all attempts to unravel its secret his
tory: That the southern Wing Senators
have consented to become tools in the hands
Of Mr.. Toombs, to be by him transferred
over to confederate with certain Demo-
cratic leaders, for the purpose of striking
down the rights and power Of the North,
BY the shameless violation Of an ancient
and sacred compact, is monstrous. And