The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-02-11
Hopes of our Ne.ghbor.

and is getting back lEto the traces. IL GA
not do it very gracefully to-be-sure-but it
did make the evolution on the most approx
ed Chinese plan. Had its head been as hard
as Kong's, the flop might have been made
with as little apparent injury to the Uranium,
but as it is not thoroughly ossified, as yet. it
is feared that additional swelling will be the
result. But symptoms of returning sanity
begin TO ma nifest themselves again. Our
Eeighbor has come back to his "irst love-"
the compromise, and with truly repentant
spirit embraces her again as of old. He ac-
knowledges his fault and promises repara-
ton. To-be-sure he said publicly, when he
took himself to the concubne Nebraska,
that he cared nothing for Compromise. He
as publicly called her hard and libelous names
and said she was ilegitimate, that she was
conceived by wicked men and "adultere rs''
when in sore "fright." Finally he told her
to her very face, that even her name was a
''hateful word" aud ought to be botted from
2Ossess but one virtue, and that was in al
lowing people to do with her as they pleased
This only virtue, he told her, "squarely and
fatty" she lost by intercourse with her elder
sister Missouri, who had made "rver Styx,
across which no negro should be ferried"-
All these things and many more slanderous
tales has this man told of Compromise, at the
suggestion and earnest solicitation of Nebras-
ka, all to prove the former nuIlity. Ne
bra ska made herself the more lovely to our
neighbor.the more bewitching and irresistible
because she would allow him free interc curse
with darkies, a pleasure which his former
spouse had denied him.
But hear his repentance now! after indul-
ging his sinful lusts for three long days. lie
is ready to exclaim: "AII, all is vanity and
vexation of spirits Our neighbor now goes
back with contrite heart and in deep Eumi-
lily, and beseeches the injured Compromise
TO take him back to her bosom. He affects
never to have disliked her person nor heI
principles; it was only the hateful name be
did not like, and in an evil hour, when bask
ing in the smiles of the concubine Nebraska
he fell, and "death and all his VICE." and hor
TOR OF her name, and the very ground she
stood on, entered and took possession Of hi:
soul. He affects now to even love her as O
yoTe, and says Nebraska loves her too, anC
will do everything in her power to re.affiru
her previous good character. In yesterday.
Enquirer our neighbor tries hard to pu, him
self right before the public. and reconcile
his position on the two bills as consistent
Hear him:
The Journal affects to imagine that we are
opposed to the Compromise of 1850.
The Journal does believe that you are op
posed to the Compromise of 1850, unless il
can be so construed and modified as to sane
ton or invite the extension of slavery. GU
OF your own mouth we judge you and arrive
at our conclusion. You say that you are op.
posed to all compromises, that neither the
Missouri Compromise nor that of 1850 have
answered their object, and that no compro.
mise can; that all compromises are "mere
time serving compacts wrung from frightened
hearts," You then proceed to say that the
compromise measures of 1850 have but one
redeeming feature in the mard that it, the ug
ly. Missouri Compromise steps in and neutral
ICES entirely. Thus you prove, if your Ian
guage means anything, just " hat you aver
that the Compromise measures are nuli,y
But, says you, the Nebraska bill only pro-
poses to re-affirm the Compromise. If tina
Is all, then why this bill. Did not the Dem
ocratic party re-aifirm it at Baltimore! Anc
has it not been re-afirmcd over and ove
again! We understand your position, neigh
Dor; there is no use to disguise it. You ia
vor the extension of slavery at all hazards
and the Nebraska bill simply seeks to oper
the door for that purpose as well as to al
interminable agitation of the subject.