Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-17
SPIRIT OF THE MoRNINe PRRss,

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The Intettigencer contains interesting
letters from that journals London and
Paris correspondents, treating, for the
most part, the Russo-Turkish question.
The Union has q new prospectus, an.
nouncing that the Hon. A. o. P. Nichol.
son has become permanently connected
with hatjournal, and that various changes
for its improvement, are about to be
made. The Union criticises the recent
very characteristic letter of the Hon.
John Minor Bolts, against the Nebraska
bill, saying s', 5-as.. o -tse7 g.
Messrs Chase, Sumner, and Seward may
now rejoice that they have found q witness
and he q southern man, who comes forward to
disprove- the records which represent the
Abolition party as having uniformly refused
+ to acquiesce in the Missouri Compromise on
every occasion when the South proposed it.
from IS4S down TO the passage of the Compro-
mise measures of 1850. Mr.. Badger, in his
speech yesterday, enumerated the several
occasions when the Missouri Compromise was
proposed In the Senate-frst on the Oregon
bill in 1S48, and afterwards, repeatedly on the
Mexican territorial bills :; and he read the
votes on each occasion, and in every instance
the votes Of tbs southern senators were in favor
of aequiescing in the line, whilst in every
instance the votes of the Abolition senators
were a direct and open reputation of the
Missouri Compromise. But against this evil
deIce Mr.. Bolts asserts that for thirty.four
years all parts and all parties of the country
have acauiesced in it. Laboring under this
conviction as to the facts, he denounces the
Nebraska bill rs the most mischieyous and
pernicious measure that has ever been intro
duced into the halls of Congress This is
exactly the view taken of the proposition BY
the leading Abolitionists, and the coincidence
Is still more remarkable from the fact that Mr..
Bots and the Abolitionists are affected with
like horror at the idea of violating a compact
which has stood for thirty-four years. 1t
matters not with Mr.. Bolts that the whole
South is united in support of this measure
tbis circumstance seems to have alarmed him
tor the fate OF the country, and to have in
duced him to speak out. 1t may enable him
to show his courage by standing up against
the whole South, and denouncing measure
which both parties there support as the
most mischievous and pernicious that was ever
introduced into Congress; but we question
whether it can be considered as any compli
Elent to his discretion. Mr. Badger stated in
his remarks yesterday that every southern
Wing senator in the body had arrived at the
same conclusion he had, and that they would
all support the bill. We may add, that it is
understood that, with possibly one exception,
every Democratic southern senator will also
support the measure. But this is all nothing
IN the eye of Mr. Bolts. He has discovered
that the Missouri Compromise has been ac-
guessed In for thirty four years by all parts
and all parties Of the country and he regards
a proposition to repeal it as the most mis-
ehlevous and pernicious measure ever intro
duced into Congress- A moderate share of
respect for the opinions of the eminent states
men from the South might have induced Mr..
Bolts to be less denunciatory'
By-the-by, Mr.. Bolts, like the preacher
politicians, only comes out thus against
such measures as are sure to pass. II
will be recollected that he has, time and
again, given the weight of his testimony
against men, as well as bills, both O,
which appear only to require, as it were
the finishing touch of the earnest appeals
of the eloquent and ardent MIR. B. to tn.
sure their triumph.
The Sentinel sets at rest Mr.. John Van
Buren's silly notion that the enactment of
the Nebraska bill, and the consequent
abandonment of the principle of the Mis-
souri, compromise, will abolish slavery in
the District of Columbia. The idea was
too preposterous to be noticed, it struck
US. Really, we blushed for the ignorance
OF the clever Prince, as we'll as for his
shailowness, as mani tested in the fact that
he yentured that plea. . a