The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-01-27
The Abolition Appeai-The Revival Of the
Agitation,

exists The leaders OF this faction have issued their
prom against the BILL and appealed to the most
dangerous PASSIONS known actuate their followers
Their organs have been prompt respond to the appeal
The spirit OF abolitionism may now be seen exhibited
in all its deormity Whether il shall prove to be "A
harmless in It's mad rawlings it is INSCRIPTIONS aud
perscvering is yet TO be seen.
No friend OF his country dreaded this band OF ia.
nacs except when counenanced by one or the other OF
the great political parties We have INDUCED the
hope that the patriotic portion OF both of these parties
had resolved 10 render abolidonism powerless for all
time 10 by rejecting from their organizations ali
conneYion with the slavery question The leaders and
organs OF aboltonism pretend be greatly alarmed for
the cause OF ireedom" by the provisions OF MIR Doug
lass bill. Whilst they profess to mourn over the fate
that they apprehend awaits the country their hearts are
really made glad that prelex is furnished them for get
ting up agitation Their hopes Of success are based
upon the prospec, of inducing the anti slavery feeling
of the North to unite with them in opposition 10 the
policy of the Nebraska and Kansas bill With this view
they wholly INSCRIPTIONS in their assaults upon that
policy They represent il movement OF the advo
Gates OF slavery to egslate the institution into The Ne
braska Territory This is a total misreprese niaon ~
the provisions of the bill AS declared BY Mr. Dosva.
IN the Senate, the bill neither egsates slavery into IN.
Territory out OF it, but provides that il NAV oo
there or not, as the people nhabiting il may deter
nine II rests upon the assumption that all the peo
people of all the States have aa interest in the terr,orv
and It opens the door for all who choose 10 make il their
home to enter and when there it comedies 10 them Tho
full right 10 regulate their internal and domestic ntees,
Tor themselves II neither says 10 the slave ,ba,
slavery will or will not in the Territory bnt d.
cares to him that it common property, he shall no,
be prohibited BY any action OF Congress from emgr.,nv
to ii and when there, be must abide BY the Judgment Of
all The inhabitants 10 the continued enjoyment Of his
slave property.
But the great outcy OF the abolitionists is that The
bill violates the solemn and sacred pledge entered into in
1920 between the North and the South They claim 10
be shocked at the enormy of proposition which abro
gates compromise The wckedness Of political aboli
tonism never manifested itself more clearly Than IN is
attempt to rest its opposition on the ground Of fidelity
to compromises. The federal constitution was The
result OF compromise; and yet the ruling sDiris
OF aboitionsm have not hesitated TO defy The pro
visions OF the constitution itself ! Have these asita
tors forgotten or do they suppose that the country has
forgotten the warfare they have been making fer wears
upon the compromises Of the constitution in regard n
slavery Are the men who deny the obligatory force Of
the constitution, and who seek 10 base their fanacsm
on law above that instrument. TO be heard now 10
claim credit for conscientious devotion TO the Missouri
compromise Is the Missouri Compromise more sacred
than the constitution Can they expect 10 receive credit
lot candor or sincerity IN their zeal in behalf
OF the obligatory character of compromises when their
whole history has been succession of de6ancsy against
Inc most solemn compacts and covenants. Where were
'helr CONSCIENTIOUS scrupes to adherng to compro-
misses when they resisted every shape even by force
in some instances, that compromise in the coustitu
uon on which the fugitive-slave law is based But
we may ask the question sll more poin,edly;
When the proposition made in 1850 TO settle the
agitation by applying the line OF 80 deg 30 min 10 the
Territories OF Utah, New Mexico, and California where
then was the love of The abotionss for the Missouri
COMPROMISED They then secuted and rejected that lin.
and The result that the agitation was Queled upon
new principle, which is confessedy war with the Mis-
sour Compromise. But, having succeeded in securing
the admission of California, as free State against III.
proposition 10 apply the Missouri line s territory,
and after having repudiacd the sacredness OF that line
no longer ago than 1850. they have the efroney
TO appeal TO the people 10 sustain them in maintaining the
hdety due 10 the Compromise OF 1890. They aided 10
io'ing Congress 10 quiet The agitation by naugura,ing
new principle OF settlements and now when il 10 pro-
posed TO apply that principle Nebraska they hold
| up The Missouri line saered although they had re.
lected and rerudiated il only three years ago.
Whether the appeal OF the aboinonss shall be effect
ual in reopenng the slavery agitation and breaking up
that fraernal feeling which restored between the
North and the South depend upon the counenance
which they shall receive from the members OF the two
political parties The real object Of the agiaiorss to d.
vide and break down both OF these parties force one
the other OF them become abolionized IN this state
OF thngs we may expect the leaders of aboonsm to re-
sort to every possible appliance to produce excitement
and to make the nisavery feeling of the North avaa
BILE in the contamination OF their schemes They have
already appealed 10 the religious feeling OF ministers and
Christians 10 aid them in rousing the popular sentiment
in opposition 10 the Nebraska bill. They will seek 10
mingle religious fanalicism with political ambition. and
either force OF the great political parties TO rccog
Mise their doctrines gain recruits from both par
ties, and 10 build up a regular abolition party
strong enough TO control the government. This
scheme be eHectually defeated il the two pc.
litical parties stand firmly by their national prnc.
pes--excluding the question OF slavery from their or
CARNATIONS, and uniting upon the common ground on
which the question is proposed to be settled in the
Nebraska bill The democratic party entirely pledged
10 this policy,he democratic administration il pledged
to carry il out-and we have witnessed with pleas.
ure indications that in this matter they will be
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