Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-14

settle down into more decided and hostility
to slavery and the whole South than could under any
other circumstances likely in future be pro-
vokeds speak of that class Of Northern citizens to
which the Senator from Massachusetts,, (Mr. SUmsER)
and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. CHASE, and their fol-
lowers belongprofessional agtators, who avow their
purpose of continued agitation. alude to that body
Of soberminded and rejecting citizens who though anti
slavery in their sentiments, have approved the
fanatical rawlings and mschisvous Vaccinations Of the
various Abolition societies and sects who have had dis
posonto disturb evade any of the compromises
antics Of the Constitution for the protection Of the rights
of the Shareholders but who may yet entertain feelings Of
decided hostility the introduction Of slavery into any
Territories heretofore considered free territory Is there
just ground to apprehend that the repeal of the Mis-
Compromise, which, whether constitutional or not
for than thirty years has been regarded in the
North as valid settlement of line north of which sa
very could go repeat is there danger to be
apprehended THAT the repeal Of that settlement will i'm
part stronger and deeper complexion to the ansayery
| sentiment Of this class of Northern ctzensy
aThe people Of the North imbibeA their antslavery
sentiments in early ein the period of their infancy
at the domestic reside, in the nursery in the primary
and high schools they have had them confirmed in the leo
in the church. and by the popular literature
of the day. sentiment thus deeply implanted in the
hearts of whole population though may be ordnari-
y quiet and seldom break forth into fierce agitation yet
have seen in the history Of the Missouri Compromise
how promptly and with what effect it may be brought to
exercise its influence occasion Louisiana had been
admitted as slave State in 1872 Mississippi in 1917,
and Alabama in 1919, without opposition; and all the
while scarcely consciousness seemed to pervade the
country that there any diversity of institution
sentiment in the North and in the South which could give
rise any serious conroyersy-but in 1920, when Mis-
tba Hn;o ,lyx
whole North rose the Of their political lead
ers and protested against it.
"Sr believe there is better feeling prevailing at
the North towards the South than formerly would
not be wise the part Of the South to do nothing
the current Of that better feeling unless urged
by great necessity in vndicaton Of its rights p?
Nor was the expression Of regret at the introduc-
ton of this bill confined to Northern men. Besides
other evidences of this that might be mentioned
find that Mr.. Books, of South Carolina, in COM
mencing his speech of the 18th March in favor Of
the bill, said:
/ al am frank to avow my belief that it would have
been wiser and in better keeping with the general inte
of the country had the bill providing Territorial Co.
vernments for Nebraska and Kansas been delayed until
pressing wants of the people of those Territories had
caused them to apply to Congress for relief.
"The friends of the bill maintain that the so-caed
line has been superseded by subsequent
of legislation which inconsistent with it. and that it
is therefore virtually annued would have preferred
| to continue in this attitude"
Scanning the effect of the bill upon Southern
interests in time to come, especially the !" non
Intervention feature, Mr.. BELL showed that the
principle would be of very little practical conse-
quence.
'The right (said Mr. BELLY to form slave States
out of the ample territory Of Texas is guaranteed by
compact safer and stronger than any which Congress
can furnish by giving its sanction to this measure
There is little spot Of hopelessy barren country of
few thousand square miles in extent ceded to the
United States by Texas under provision of the compro
mise Of 1850 to which this principle Of nonnter-
vention if established may be applied it be safe
y done without violating the compact under which Texas
came into the Unon and that is all And is it for this
poor boonf my friends will allow the expression, this
phantom-that called upon to sanction
which will impart life and vgor with heads
and fangs the halfconquered hydra Of the North
Is it for this that called upon to give promise Of
better day those political agtators at the North who
staked their whole fortunes and hopes power
the successful formation of great Northern and
tonal party the last and most fatal evil that befa
the country for its contamination will be the destruc
ton OF the Constitution ana the e1tlncuon OF puplC
liberty Is it for this that called upon to supply
new weapons of warfare to oil the enemies of the South
and invite combination of Wings Freesoilers, Soft
Shell, and Independent Democrats, Liberty men, Adolf
tionists Socialists, and Atheists, founded upon
mon principle but hostility to the South common OBJ
Meet but the acquisition Of power and the spols
How prophetic were the words of this patriotic
statesman That new strength has been given tc
the antislavery feeling Of the North by the legsa
ton of last session no man can doubt. After the
passage of the Compromise measures Of 1850 the
anti-slavery parties had dwindled away and become
quiet and the country was at peace; SO happily
tranqulized, indeed that it was the subject of spe
cial approbatory remark by the President Of the
United States in his Annual Message at the opening
Of the last session Of Congress. In short the Abo
liton feeling had become SO inert that at the com
mencement of that session all parties considered il
perfectly harmless As an evidence of this, it is
only necessary to recur to the movements Of the
Anti-Slavery Societies in the early part Of the win
ter. The subjoined paragraphs from Boston paper
! transferred to our columns in January last, will
show what feeble and sickly demonstration was
made at that time by the Anti-Slavery men Of
Massachusetts, as compared with their more re-
cent efforts
MASSACHUSETTS ANTI-sIAyERY CONVENTION