Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-29
reason. for opposing the Nebraska Bill, We

I kecOliect the editor VINO taiks mus uofou~
ly of the Baltimore platform, speaks OF the
equal crimnality Of friends and foes OF Slavery
in flashing the country into a lamentable agita-
ton and assumes that the creed of Democracy
is embodied in that platform, was thorough
and constant opponent Of the repeal OF the
Missouri Compromise and is indignant at ats
consiln nation! He represents a large class OF
socalled Democrats. But let us put the ques-
ton plainly-is it among such men we are to
look for true and efficient opponents OF the
Slave Power fit representatives of the free
States, at such an hour as ths!"
To which the Age replies
"The Era il right. 1t cannot look TO such
Democrats M those whose view the Age repre-
SCENTS, to join in the plans and purposes of the
| Abolitionists against the South any more than
/ their support Gan he counted on to further the
schemes OF the opposite class OF agitators, who
are intent only on aggrandzlng the Slave
! Power
To restore the Anti.Slavery restriction of the
Missouri Compromise, to repeal n vile, an inhu
man Fugitive Slave Act, to establish the Prnci
| pie that there shall be no Slavery within the ex
elusive Jurisdiction of the Federal Government
and thus disable the Slavery Propaganda and
bulwark the rights Of non-slaveholders
against the aggressions of the Slave Interest
are measures stigmatized by the Age as hos
tile to the South, the precise counterpart OF the
encroachmcnts and sinister purposes of the
Slavery Conspirators Now, that such paper,
and the mutilated Party it represents, should
acauiesce in the Nebraska outrage, is just what
might be expected. What does it propose, in
the present crisis? In an editorial, June god,
it calls upon all Democrats to stick to their
organization to tolerate no new combination,
to set their faces against all agitation of the
Slavery Question, and to rally in support of
" the great NATIONAL ADJUSTMENT Of 1850"
Hear it's laudation Of this Adjustment and of its
Wing authors:
"Tothat great measure of peace and concilia-
| tion--in the establishment Of which the high
est patriotism of the Congress Of 1885, ire
spective Of party divisions, was evoked; to
which Clay the great statesman of the South,
with the ardor of patriotism, and with an elo-
quence unsurpassed by the best efforts OF his
earlier days devoted the last and most pre-
cous hours of his political and mortal life; to
which Webster, the equally exalted statesman
OF the North with a power of augmentation
and an earnestness of persuasion rarely equal
led even by himself, lent the weight of his pom
derous intellect and the influence of his
mighty name--to such measure formally
ratified as it has been by the two great politi-
cal parties of the country, and approved by the
voice Of the American people, lot US consecrate
ourselves anew. Let us cling to it as the ark
of our political safety. Fashioned after and
moulded upon the Compromises OF the Constl-
| - xu.th
safety to the glorious political edfce erected
by the wisdom and patriotism of our fathers
| Let ne, therefore, epioin all good Democrats,
by the considerations we have already urged,
by the hallowed memories of the past, by the
imperative necessities of the present, and the
potent incentives of the future, to faithfully
abide by the Compromise of 1S50-to abide by
the platform erected by the Democratic Re-
publican party in l852-ratified by themselves
| in their capacity IA a political organization,
and gloriously confirmed by the American peo-
ple."
To that Adjustment, and to the Baltimore
Platform, affirming it as a finality the country
is indebted, for Franklin Pierce, the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, the border war
threatened by Slavery Propagandists in Mis-
sour, the Gadsden Treaty and the stupendous
scheme of Slave Empire now in process of or
ganization, with the Administration as its ex-
ecutive agent And the highest ambition Of
this professedly Democratic paper il, to see
the Adjustment and the Platform once more
rooted and grounded in the affections Of the
Democracy!
That such a journal should favor the acqui-
sition of Cuba with political institutions to-
tally adverse to ours with feeble white popu-
lation, brought up under despotism, belong
ing to different race, and speaking foreign
tongue; with horde Of imbruted slaves-a
measure demanded by the Slave Interest, to
augment it's power and facilitate its Interior
schemes Of aggrandizement, might be expect
ed. Quoting long letter on the subject from
the Washington correspondent Of the Journal
of Commerce, it follows it up with tho follow
ing significant comments:
lit is manifest, that should IRE acquire Cubo.
the settlement of all the questions started by
the writer Of the above, az well az all others
which might arise, must be adjusted on a basis
required by the equities, the peeuIidrities, and
necessities Of The case
I'VE trust, however, that il our Government
propose at this time to renew the effort 10 ac-
quire Cuba, II wiH NOT damage The question, as
Calhoun and Upshut did ne ANNEXATION of
Texas, By placing the question on sectional tn
stead of national grotmds-on the ground that
it is wanted for the security and advancement
Of local interest instead Of for the security
and Advancement Of the general welfare Of the
Republic We have confidence that the Gov
crnment will not be guilty Of such folly in this
instance"
Confding simplicity "Mnst be adjusted"
&C. Must be- When has your Northern De-
mocracy, 20 called, ever dictated terms to the
Oligarchy that governs youa "Hopc it will not
damage the question, by placing the acquisition
on sectional grounds p" Have confidence The
Government will not be guilty Of such follyl"
! OF course-an Administration that passed the
Nebraska Bill will be very national and very