Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-30
WASHINGTON, d. G.
FRIDAY, JUNE 80, 1854.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND ITS SUPPORTERS
NEW YORK

THE ADMINISTRATION AND 10 oufTOniEho--
NEW YORK
Turning our attention To the course OF what
ia denominated the Democratic Press in New
York. we $50 too little to encourage the hope OF
any eHialent action for Freedom, among those
accustomed to be regarded ~ Democratic lead
ers. Whatever may be the sentiments OF the
Peoph who have voted the Hard ticket
their papers are determined supporters oil the
Nebraska Bill, on the fraudulent pretence that
it embodies tho Principle of Non Intervention.
Fix Senator Dickinson, their leader-when was
he ever lacking in service to the South has
signiiied his approval Of tho measure, and it is
probable that at the State Convention OF his
followers, to be held on the 18th of July, an
expression Of opinion in favor of it will be So
! cured without, however, any censnro of those
representatives OF the Party in Congress who
voted against it.
The Press Of the "Softs," with rare excep-
tOns, maintains an ominous silence. From the
introduction Of the measure it has manifested
more anxiety to save the Party from trouble,
than the country from tho disgrace OF its pas
sage Its effort has .been to carry water on
both shouders--to please the People, and not
displease the President The fact that Mr..
Marcy, its leader and protector, held place
in the Cabinet, restrained and embarrassed it's
action Now that the outrage is inflicted its
policy is quietism. 1t is disposed to discontinue
tho discussion of the question--it is as little
disturbed as if no great wrong had been com
mitted-it has no rebuke for the Administra-
ton that perpetrated tit proposes no meas
ure of redress, no policy for the prevention of
similar outrages hereafLer-it gives no counte-
nance to the popular and generous movements
now in progress in the free States to visit retri-
button upon tho heads Of those who have be-
trayed the Cause of Freedom, to compel the
Slave Interest to retreat from its usurpations
and to provide guarantees against future ag-
gressions So far from it, while the majority
is silent, prominent journals that disapproved
the introduction of the measure chiefly on the
ground OF the mischievous agitation it aroused,
are now making light Of the approhensions
awakened in the froe States by its passage.
Conspicuous among these is the Albany Epen-
ing Atias, paper which zsalousy sustained
Van Buren, in 1s4S, as the representative Of the
Wilmot Proviso, in relation to which it placed
ut the top of it's editorial column the standing
motto "The stone which the builders rejected
has become the head of the corner"
That stone did not become the head of the
~ H. hill Iora q al
Party, into which the atlas fell back, and was
spit upon by the Chief Architect, who, from
tho time he was selected for his Office to the
present moment has been just as zealously sus
tanned by the Atlas as was Martin Van Buren,,
who was chosen to lay that corner stone. The
atlas now Knocks at the fears Of the opponents
of Slavery, and regards as apocryphal all that
they say of the schemes Of the Slave Power.
No statesman has given more prominence to
these schemes, or warned tho people more sol
EMMY against them, than THOMAS H. BENTON,
who used to be an authority with the atlas
That portion of the Press, which, concurring
with this far-sighted statesman, familiar with
the tactics of the Slave Power, aware of its
necessities, and reasoning from uniform series
of past aggrcssions on its part has been direct
ing attention to the project for smuggling Sla-
very into California, or dividing it 80 as to So
cure the southern half to Slavery; has exposed
the purpose Of the original Gadsden Treaty
has dwelt upon the imminent danger Of Cuban
annexation; pointed out the intrigues Of slave
holders in Dominica brought to light their
hall. formed designs upon Central America and
Brazil - is ridculed by tho atlas as the
alarmist press"
If Cuba is ever annexed, it says, its ties
to this Union will be formed with the North -
80 there is nothing in the measure to be dep
recated. This is the practical infercnce--the
old game over again--money to the North,
power TO the South. " It's ties will be with the
NORTH Yes, tho North will supply it with
cotton, machinery, and breadstufs, and do its
trade, just as in it's intercourse with the South,
but the political ties Of Cuba will be with the
slave States Its acquisition will servo to aug.
ment and perpetuate the Dcspotic Interest
which now governs the whole country. But
who cares 70 long as the Softs" Of New York
can enjoy the Spoils, and the merchants Of
New York accumulate their gains
The same paper tells us that Texas is likely
TO be the mother OF free States that New
Mexico and Utah will come into the Union
FREQ States--that Kansas and Nebraska will
come in free. OF course, the annexation of
Texas, NTH Slavery was wise measure--the
organization Of New Mexico and Utah with
out that /" cornerstone" once paradcd by the
Atlas was all right--and the repeal Of tho
Missouri Compromise, after all, amounts TO
nothing If Cuba be annexed, the North will
be tho gainer--apd as for danger to Califor
MIA, and all these rumors about Slavery propa
gandsm, do not lot us BIO disturbed by "the
alarmist press"
aCavyv pb;losopbv 40 far even as TO let tho