Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-02-11
Ths Nebraska rrI-Ih. Gan. rIp,s.d.

The Nebraska Ell-Ihe Cane EIp,sed.
The Wellington Correspondent Of the Journal Of Com
mercs, oneof the bo!dest and 8mes advocates Of the
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise thus frankly disclose.
the real scope aud ultimate objects Of the movement nov
in prosressat Washington:
wAsmsoroS, Saturday, Feb. 4.
"Itis objected to the Nebraska bill that IL will establish
principle Of extensive application aud win invoke the
application Of the provisions Oregon and Wash
inston. Certainly wili Tha, is It's main object, The
principle established In $780, Il will be confirm.
ed In 1884 Next will be declared that the ordi-
lion in the Oregon bill, which Mr.. Polk hesatinsy sign.
: ed, is superseded.
Therefore, slavery be universal necessity II will be
allowed universally to prevail But probably, it will DO
found that its limits will be fixed by climate md commerce
by laws above the action Of Congress.
The political effect Of the passage Of this bill will be i'm.
portant, and, the whole, highly favorable IL will put
end to The old parties and cush OUT the coalition of
the Democracy Ii will organize parties into divisions
and both OF them based the slavery question. One
party will be the Nonlntervention party, and the
other the Autobiography. 1t is quite certain which
will finally prevail But the struggle isa length, serious
y begun. AL that has happened this question:
all the combats from 1890, down, childs play
in comparison with what we shall fal and
year. and for years to There sill De COM
promises. The old will be condemned and aside
n.lntervenion side, and Abolition the other
are the only two principles which the contract is
be made"
This valuable disclosure of the purposes OF the cru
sion Slavery Instead of intending simply give full
play to the compromise Of 1850, its object is put an
end to all Compromise the subject Of Slavery All
those which have hitherto been made, will be aside
The next step will be repeal the restrictions applied
Oregon aud Washington. Then q will be made
TO repeal the ordinance OF 1857 Aud the grand end
simeda is TO direct huai and decisive struggle
upon the general question oSavey This is the plot,
discovered by one ofthe potters.
That this will be the legitimate and inevitable result Of
the movement, We have already shown Slavery has
hitherto been protected solely the Compromises which
have been made between its ends and its foes When
issue has been made upon IL it has evaded
in this The Compromise of lSs0 conceded slave.
the admission Of Slave State, condition GER
tain sther territory should forever free The Compro.
mise OF 1850 secured the admission OF Free State,
condition that ceraic other territories should be left
decide Tor themselves TO the admission exclusion OF
Slavery, and that eTeciual should be taken
for the surrender OF fugitive slaves. These Compromises
merely acts OF Congress- aud such be
Al pleasure, All that gives then special validity and
sancty Is the mutual good faith of the parties them.
When this fails OF course they lose all moral obligation
And when the South declared its purpsse repeal the
Missouri COMPREHENSIVE violate the compact of which
they had already rcaped the full advantage IL clear
enough that no compacts would be binding upon them
for moment longer than their interests dictated
adherence to them
But they openly confess their purpose to abrogae
all existing compromises and oprevent any ones
Tney demand direct issue between the extension and
the restriction of slavery Ii it be blessing they de-
mand the right to establish i; wherever they have
get the lfit be evil they submit the question
u W popular Notc-Ntn oTN Liires.
We copy the foregoing from the New York Times, |
paper lately very favorable to the Administration
and of decided Free Soil procivitics 1t may state
correctly the results Of the issue involved in the Ne
braska bill, but it does not give the issue itself
correctly That issue is not whether slavery shall
be extended restricted but whether all the States
of this Union are equal before the Constitution
whether the people section have the same rights
hasa $3.50 ,,,l,,. = A..
the extension restriction OF slavery is the conse-
quence, and is very different matter. We are by
no means certain that the extension of slavery would
tend to increase the influence confirm the perma-
hence of the institution We have thought it prob
able that the diffusion of the institution would weak
en- it, and Missouri and Texas-half the time repro
resented by quasi abolonis,s- 10 strengthen the
belief If the Aboonsts Of the North had not
been blinded by fanaticism and had opened Califor-
mia to black slaves it very probable that the drain
upon Maryland, Virginia Kentucky, Tennessee and
North Carolina would have been SO great than in 80
years, these States might be prepared for Abolition
We confess, that the apprehension of such result
| rtconci!ed US the more readily to the admission Of
California as hireiing State.
But this is n matter which has nothing to do with
the question the equal rights of all the States under
the constitution. We do not acknowledge, and never
will, that the hircling States of the North-whch
make slaves Of white entitled to any SUMO
rority in the territory of the Union over the South
States, which prefer to be waited upon by Afri-
rather than by persons of their color That
| territory acquired by the blood aud treasure
of all the Statcs-and the citizens of all the States
have equal rights to enjoy it. But these MOI them
| gentlemen claim the whole Of it. They wish to e1-
Glade every Southern man with his black slaves,
while they nonopolzc it with then white hirelncs
The Times intlmates that we indie bted for the
present cxstenc Of slavery to coBpronises-that
but for these compromises the North would have
abolished the institution altogether, and that by an.
nullng them n)w, it will forthwith proceed to ex.
nguish slavery. Very wel-wc are ready for that
! issue, and would try it nov as at another
time There are people in the South, and great
many OF them who think there greater evils than
the dissolution of the Union While they are ready
to cOncede that the Union is the source Of many
blessings, they know that far the greater portion of
those blessings have fallen North of Mason and Dix
ons line, and the chief burdens have been endured by
the South Nearly the entire revenue of the Federal
Government enuTes to the benefit Of the North while
the major part Of it is contributed by the South The
South has also suffered in ito morals and its politics by
its association with the hireing States They intro
oduced universal suffrage aud subvcried the RepuLli-
can systems established by the founders of the Re-
public. lf disunion should inct upon us some evils
there are not wanting counterbalancing benefits
and We are prepared Tor any and for any con
+ sequence.
70 onr Legislators evidently in fog over the
SUBJECT OF appropriations 70 internal Improvements Tie
ends oil various internal improvement lines have gotten
atogger.heads with each other Jealouses and conflict
ing interests have arsen which threaten to break up the
log rolling system Of plundeiing the State Treasury The
fact has been demonstrated fully that appropriations for
leading lines cannot b, obtained without carrying along
with them the whole batch Of mud turnpike appropHa.
ions &c, row before the Legisliture The s,aunchcs,
friends Of internal improvements at stand Many OF
them express the opinion that IL il better to cut ooo
from oil paticl schemes upon the Treasury and IL they
thrnts -