Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-06-12
Nor,beru COMPROMISE Men.

"wlere will the constutiou.loving and conservative
portion OF the community, who battled for the compro
mise measures OF 1850 find themelvcs " they confirm,
Go assai tho Nebraska billy 1t s grave question, ant
that calls for deliberate reply"
The above paragraph clip from communica-
ton in the New York Mirror of the Sth inst Ii
contains more sound than any thing we have
seen on this subject, in Northern paper for some
time The interrogatory appeals TO their calm, DIS
passionate Judgment and ought to awaken some G'
them to sense of the folly of the course they have
been pursuing A TRADE of abuse and ianatical de-
nunciation against the Nebraska bill from FrccsoilcS
and Abotonists, is nothing more than was to he eN'
pected They glery in the opportunity it affords
them of stirring up sectional feeling between North
and South. Ii is their stock in trade. But IRON
those al the North who have professed to be "thc
notwithstanding and conservative portion OF the
community" and "who bat!ed for the compromise
measures of 1850" better things to be expected
To find such men now in concert with the most ram.
pant, INSCRIPTIONS Abolitionsts of the day, aiding
them in their incendary purposes, is stigma upon
their former pretensions, and humiliating to those
who have hitherto vouched for their sincerity.
That they should continue their opposition to this
Bill and seek to fan the flames of sectional dScord
with the unti,ng zeal some OF them now doing is
effort both dsreputabe to their professions OF CON
stuon.loving and conservative feelings AMI fruit
less of any practical good whatever to the North
What do they expect to accomplish by pursuing such
n course Ask one of them il he expects Nebraska
Kansas to become slave territory and he will tell
you no. We have yet to see or hear OF the ilrst
Northern man who seriously believed that those ter
rtores would become any other than free States 10y the
repeal of the Missouri restriction. Yet with that be.
lief they are not willing to rest satisfied but must
agitate and agtate 20 what end God only knows But
say they the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was
wrong in the first place. and we are unwilling TO sub
NIT to it. And pray what great wong was inflicted
upon them by its repeal? Was not its existence .
far greater wrong to the South? Is any great act
of injustice TO the North to say that the public terri
tory shall remain rs free to the South as TO the
North and that the people settling that territory shall
decide for themselves at the time ofs admission into
the Union as State whether It shall be free slave
territory?
Still, against proposition so fair and reasonable
as this and which they themselves assert will, in the
end moi result in adding another of slave terri
tory to the Union we lind these conservative citi
zens of the North, striving keep up sectional agi-
tation and going hand in hand with the rngleaders
of aboitonsm in doing So Rather than allow this
single act of justice to their Southern brethren, some
of them go 50 far as TO advocate repeal OF the Flu.
gtive Slave Law, and to disseminate sentiments which,
II carried out, they ought to have sense enough to
know must bring about dissolution of the Union
We trust that this feeling is not participated in by
any great portion Of the former supporters Of the
compromise measures of 1850. We know that it Is
not by many, but at the same tme we regret to see
those in the list whose position few years ago gave
their friends at the South reason TO anticipate dii,r
ent course from them now. If they prefer dis union
10 allowing the South to have chance u participate
in the territory of the United States, let them say So
and if they prefer acting hereafter with the abolition
Of the North. trust it will not be long before
they throw off the mask of constitution loving and
conservative" citizens, and avow fellowship with
their new allies