New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-26
THE RAsCaLs AT WASHINGTON.

If the traitorOus scamps at Washington who, in a
spirit 10 worshiar than that which animated Judas
IscariOt are plotting the surrender to Slavery of the
free territory west Of the Mississippi believed that
majority of the North would fail to sustain the move
ment, they would instantly cease their clamOr, and
skulk back and we should hear no more about it.
But they have adopted the belief that the passage of
the compromise measures Of 1885, and the triumphant
election of Frank Pierce have taken all the spirit out
of the North and that the mass of the voters are now
ready to wink at any party iniquiy, and sustain any
party measure, whatever its enOrmity
We are not sure ii is worth while to attempt to re-
move this impression. These deliberate vioators of
solemn compscts, these yagabond regulators of OBJ
legations the most sacred deserve to be roasted by the
fires of the hottest public Indignation They ought TO
have the full benefit of TIE verdict of an aroused and
indignant constituency and be hung upon the gallows
of public opprObrium. Yet in mercy to the culprs,
who are thus provoking the incensed judgment Of
outraged community We VIII briefly state what oppo.
sitiop may be expected in the Free States TO the III
famous proposal to repeal the Missouri Compromise,
and thus expose the rotten foundations of their hopes
There has been no time during the last seven years
when the Wing and Free Soil parties have not been ia
clear majority in nearly all the Northern States The
only ground upon which any doubt can be thrown on
this presumption is the result of the last Presidential
election. But the vote of the Free Soil party in that
contest only partial being but the Intellectual re-
monstrance land felt to be of the more earnest of
the Free Sellers against the settlement of the Com.
promise measures And the vote of the Wings
in the North was torously the vote only of party
divided against itself. 1t was a contest utterly
baked by cross purposes The Presidential cleo
ton of lSiS and the Congressional elections OF 1850
furnish the only grounds of any just judgment 10
the real strength of the anSlavery sentiment in the
country and these elections justify the statement that
in every Free State that sentiment, whenever it could
be fairly reached has shown itself TO be predominant
Assuming this TO be so, the only question 10 be an
swered is whether that sentiment be aroused and
consolidated and brought to bear in solid phalanx
against the Strocous proposition in question. The
fools IN Washington believe it cannot. We believe it
can And we believe further that this is by no means
the whole strength of the North that will be brought
into the field against this infamous project We shall
have the whole conservative force of the Free States of
ell parties sgains H. We shall have all the men who
donOt believe in violating contracts nor in regulating
solemn engagements on the side of earnest opposition
The moral stamina of the Free States III be set against
the measure. Fair dealing end honest purposes will
everywhere rown upon such fahlessness and fraud So
Der minded men, who have leaned to the side of the
South in the late contests on the ground that the
Abolitionists were the sggressors, will turn AMI
resist this movement as q gross outrage ana az
erosion on the part Of the South. Gu faith in