New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-15
II N a FRAUD:

o. rpivers AZ Donqsss med ated reputation Of the
A,,c,r, Comprouise with using harsh and uncharita
b cueee II reference to that echs ne and is abe'-
tors Our snswer TO the charge IS that 10 other isn
rusre tLAn .Iat we use would faithfully express cur
sentiments or DO justice to our convictions. Were It
amply bad measure might speak Oft calmly an
res,uredlv; but as Gu act OF deliberate bad faith in
need by the most sOrdd motives and threatening the
most calantous results, We must treat it as we DO
other gigantic perfdits and crimes The cOnfigratlon
II threatens is not to be extingoished By jets of rose
water.
Is II fraud That is the first question to be con
sidere6 Did tie Country, did Congress, did Mr.
Donolss understand VIXEN the Adjustment of 1850
WAS urder consideration, that its success would re-
neal tie Missouri Compromise and open the terrific
res from Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota westward to
the Rocky Mountains to the introduction OF Human ei'
verYl This is question which certainly admits of a
defnitiye answer. If that rare the understanding
then there must remsin some cotemPoraneous evidence
Of the fact 1t cannot be that this tremendous conse
ouence was involved in the Adjustment Of 1880 AID yet
tLatpo Southern advocate thereof though sorey pressed
10 Justify bis course against the assaults OF Jel
Davis, soule. Mason, Hunter, Butler, TIE Richmond
Examiner &c, ever deemedit worth his while to men,
ton this virtual repeal Of the Missouri Restriction as
among The advantages gained for Slavery BY the Com
promise, and that no Northern Seward, Hale, Dayton
Beecher. or other anti COmprOmiser ever enumera'ed
it among the losses to Freedom by that settlement.
la view OF the notorious Acknowledged, unbroken s
.euce in 1850 Of all parties this point Is MOI the
fundamental assumption Of Douglas y Co nos only
fraud but one most impudent, shameless, audacious
Consider how sterny this Compromise was resisted
by Calhoun, Butler and every Representative from
South CaroIina-by the two Senators and most OF
Democratic Representatives from Nirgnia-by the
delegations from Arkansas and Mississippi Gen FOote
only, we believe, excepted by yenabe and Yulee,
aud nearly every extreme proSlavery man in Con
eress What did they all mean what e0rd they mean,
if tie Adjustment they fought savagey was to have
the effect which 1ir. Douglas now ascribes to it!
We were among the first after it became evident
that no bill Affirming the WIlmot PrOyiso could be
carried through tie Senate to suggest and advocate
tie devisng OF practicable middle ground wherein
moderate men of the North and the South might unite
in efectiDg organization Of the newly acquired Ter
Titories. Though we did not approve the connection
Herewith of topics palpaby extraneous, such as the
rendition OF FugtiyeS and the District Slave Trade,
we did support Mr. Clay's Omnibus bill defining tie
boundary of Texas, admitting California as Free
State, and organizing wMexicO and Utah as Terri
tories without restriction to Slavery. We know
Henry Clay did not deceive US with regard to his
views and purposes in urging that Compromise; we
are morally sure that 10 idea of repeating super
seding" the Missouri Compromise entered into his
mind. Others may have been deeper in his confidence
but he deceived no man, and he discussed the whole
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wherein the Territories to enure to Free Labor
and that the practical business was to save the South
from all needless and wanton humiliation Aad so
Senator Butler, of 5 c. when the Senate adjourned
after defeating the Omnibus said TO US he passed
eXuliiDgly from the chamber, o. don't wonder at
pory support Of ills BILL for it would give you ell you
seek4-that s, the practical exclusion of Slavery
from the New Territories. How would lie have been
asoupded by the information that tie passage of that
bill would repeal the Missouri Restriction and open
ell the remaining Louisiana Territory to Slavery!
But look at the Douglas proposition 10 another as
pect-that of the numerous and serious transforms
ons to which it las been subjected by its author since
he first introduced it. First, it q organiza-
ton of Nebraska which quietly and ambguOusy
ignored the Missouri Restriction; next, it declared
that Restriction superseded" by the Adjustment Of
1SJ0which if true need not have been thrust into an
act of Congress-and it has been worked over aud
over, until at last have pont-blaOk proposal to
repeal the Restretion-but proposal with glazing
falsehOOd appended By way of apOlogy-Or as Truman
Smith forciby terms it AN enactment with
peroraton. Is this the way honest and straight
forward measures are urged
Suppose you were standing in your garden and
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make himself extra familiar aud meanwhile busy hin-
self with eating up half of some rare and precious
fruit which you had just brought to maturity then
cram the residue into bis capacious pockets and bid
you cordial good day, you would have your own
opinion of bis breeding, but you could not consider
him thief But suppose You were sitting out Of
sight in an arbor and should see such q customer
crawling and siding up to your rear garden wall,
lodging from the shelter Of one shrub 10 another and
wormipg himself along the siuuosites Of q Virginia
fence, until be finally got within reach of your Seckels
OF ApTicots and began bagging them-as he supposed
unobserec-you might let him have & stone or charge
peas with moral certainty Of hitting nothing short
of a scoundrel
tbs our earnest conviction that the bill Of Dougas
IN so far az it proposes TO disturb the Missouri CON-
promise involves gross perdy and is bolstered up by
the most audacious false pretenses and frauds Ii
are rrongin this conviction, let it be shown and we
stand condemned but if we are right in orr view of
IT, who can truly say that speak of the plo. and its
cODtIivers more haIshly than they deserve
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GOV. EIGLER AND ERIE.
We publish herewith the Message Of Gov Bigler,
announcing to the Legislature of Pennsylvania that be-
in pursuance of an act of said Legislature annuIing
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