The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-06-07

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When an Administration journal speaks
out thus explicitly and cnudldlv, what
may we not expect from an outraged and
indignant peoplc2 All old party ques.
tions dwindle into insigniGcance beside
this great issue Never before was an
Administration sustained by its party
presses in manner like this:
The Nebraska bill passed,
1t is with no satisfaction that we refer
to what We have all along said of the
Nebraska Till, that with such q House
Of Representatives as we have at Wash.
lngton, there was very great danger Of
its success. On Monday tho bill passed
by ID eotcs to 100, meagre majority.
1t is true, and meagor as it was, and ar.
tlicial aud Fictitious majority, in which
mems votes were at variance with their
convictions. The administration have
been actively ard openly canyassing for
the votes of members, ever since the bill
was sent to the Committee ofthe Whole.
The Washington Star, one of the Jour.
nals by which the measure has all along
been sustained, spoke only two or three
days since Of the general rumor that
clerkships i'll the public Offices were to
be conferred upon the friends ofmcmbers
who voted for the bil-a rumor which
was treated as authentic. and which no.
body has taken the trouble to DENY or
discredit Indeed, it is we'll understood,
that all the influence Of patronage and so :.
licitation has been exertcd By the Pres.
ldent to secure the passage Of the bill.
| But for this influence. continually put
forth and daily reinforced, the measure
would have found in the House the ir-
nominious end it deserved
Of the dishonor which measure re-
opening to the barbarous institution of
slavery vast region, closed against it
for a third part Of a century, must bring
upon our country, we have already spok-
ell. There is another Of view in which
we must now, whether willing or not.
look at the question. The President
has taken a course, by which the greater
part of this dishonor is concentrated on
the democratic party. Upon him, and
MS Administrations, and upon all the
northern friends OF the Nebraska bill in
Congress, and upon the democratic par
" VINO gave inc present Executive his
power OF mischief the people will visit
'his great political stu OF the day. The
wings of the free states have taken care
that no part OF the guilt shall be found
Oh their sklr's. Their representatives
IN congress, to man, voted againat the
Ncoraska blli, as II they had agreed a
mong themselves that the democratic
party Oh inc North should take and bear
1no ohtire responsibility OF the measure.
ne result Is inevitable Seward Is IN the
asoenon"cy III 'hls state and the North
9eherai,y 'he democratic party has lost
Is moral s,feng,h IN the free states; it
IS striPpeo Oh the respect OF the people
py the misconduct OF those who claim to
be It's Leaders, and whatever boast we
may make OF our excellent maxims Of
i'giSiaton ana policy In regard to other
questions, inc deed OF yesterday puts us
Ill minority ior years to come.
Let it be remembered tbot thor, ..o
two classes of men At the Nor,I ,boso
resentment is awakened NV his nroo ~o@
ioo--,hat is to,ov tLoso wLn ,:NH o,1
in the compromise of $50 and ,bo ",o9 n.Io
did not Tho lattcr cIoss no,;aI y9o Nv
tue promise made with such emphasis
and solemnity in Mr., Pierce's inaugural
speech that the agitation of the slavery
question should never be revived during
the continuance of his administration, if
any power which he coald exert might
prevent 1t. In the very teeth Of this en-
gagemeent they have seen him consent to
be made an instrument for reviving this
agitation, wantonly. without necessity.
without any urgency on that part of the
South. not casually or thoughtlqssly. but
with the most deliberate pre- determine
ton. Not only the enemies Of the COM
promise OF 500, therefore but its very
Trends at the North are deeply offend
ed 1t Mr. Fillmore sacrificed his popu-
iarlty by the part he took in his legisla-
ton OF 1881; If he saw himself, in con-
sequence, excluded from nomination to
the Presidency two years afterwards his
northern associates compelled to go into
private life, and the wkig party defeated
and broken up, what may we expect the
retrbution of this still greater political
transgression to be
Still moro strorolv will u,o ,,,,;.
dsonrroLat;or Az 1;s"o wv Puo,'o
oXnrosspl if the peDn1o shall soo m H..