The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-09

lCauuot Cenaa4lt " thp new dcmnnd from the
souih Hwafpsthe South or ths danger
IN pressing this Nebraska scheme Of Doug.
las upon the country. II pOrtrays clearly
aud distinctly the sentiments Of the people
Of the North ofall classes. We copy an
article from the Rsgiskr or The s5th ult..
and ask fer 1t the candid and serious attep-
tlOn OF every friend Of the Union, both at
the North and the South. They are words
OF truth and sobsrnsss, and should lie head
ed before IL Is too late: Jour.
~The friends. Of the Compromises Meas.
ures OF 1880" at the North at least, after n
full examination Of the measure as Il IL pre-
sented 10 them in the debates Of Compress.
are still opposedto Senator Douglas' Ne.
braska bill. They are opposed to il upon
principle, and because its passage would
be an utter violation OF faith on the part Of
those who are now seeking to force it's
passage. To the Washington Union II il
useless to speak of the inevitable future, IL
that measure is forced through Congress-
II will not open its eyes or ii its ears,to see.
or hear, or understand The Northern senti.
msnt on this subject. We claim TO know
something OF The opinions Of the friends of
the Compromise Measures Of 1850, on this
side of Mason and Dixon's line. For them,
we think we can say truthfully, that no con-
sidsrations Of policy will induce them 10
surrender the provisions Of the "Compro-
mise" of 1920, which limits slavery to IS de-
grses 30 minutes. That among them all
there is to be found scarcely n man who will
consent to such surrender. The sentiments
against the repeal Of that Compromise is
universal. so far as they are concerned. 1t
is deep seated, frm, immoveable, eternal as
far as the word eau be applicable to human
opinion and action.
The friends of the Compromises Of 1885,"
at the north, have suffered by their firmness
in sustaining those measures. They re-
gard them as in support Of, and not in oppS-
sition to the law of 1920. They stood by
both, and because they did so, they became
for q time isolated from their ancient po-
liLical associates and friends. They be-
came in a degree unpopular, were excluded
from official position, and the honors and
emoluments Of place. They were right in
principle, standing upon constitutional
grounds, fighting not so much for themselves
as for their brethren Of the Southern States,
struggling 10 preserve the nationality Of the
Wing party. They were gaining in strength
and numbers every day, because they were
thus right in principle, and because their
course had the hiLh sanctions OF the Con-
stitution. Agitation on the subject of
slavery was dying away. The dawn Of the
light was plainly visible, when the very
people for whom they had been breasting
the current of popular sentiment, their
brethern of the Southern States themselves,
recede from their support, and demand a
greater sacrifice and renewed strife.
The friends of the Compromises of 1850, at
the north the National Wings, have suffered
enough, they have yielded enough, and they
will yield no more. II their brethern OF the
South insist upon an extension of slavery
over territory now free by the laws Of Con-
gress, laws conceived and passed in the
spirit Of concession, and in settlement OF
difficulties, ~endangering the tranquility of
the States, they will find no sympathy a
mong the National Wigs of the NORTH
They may as well understand this at once.
Ifthey persist in this repeal Of the law of
1920, they will find the Wings of the north,
to a man, as a unit, swinging into opposition
against them.
The Union should not be deceived on
this subject. The Democracy of the South
should not deceive itself in regard to the
sentiments of The Northern Democracy
There is no conceivable measure so utterly
repugnant to the whole people OF the free
States, as this repeal Of the compromise of
1920. 1t is doubtless true that the admin
i~stration may secure some scattering votes
from the North in favor of repeal. 1t would
be a strange thing if it could not. With
all its patronage, and the influence Of place,
it would be a miracle almost, fit could moi
secure or purchase a few faint echoes in the
States, or yenal votes in Congress. But
the evidences every where exist, with all the
force and power Of perfect demonstration
that in every free State oil the Union, the
masses, the millions that control the polit-
ical destinies Of the country and Of men, are
firmly, deeply, universally opposed to such
repeal. The people of the South-Whigs,
Democrats, every man who loves the Union,
its quiet and repose-should understand this
is q great practical, existing and fixed fact,
which no sophistry can change-no false
assertions to the contrary subvert Under
standing it, they should calculate the stu
p~endous folly Of arraying the North Of all
parties in a solid body against the South
the free States against the slaYeholding
States--free labor. The repeal of the COM
promise OF 1920, and the extension Of
slavery over Nebraska, will inevitably lead
to this precise result.
Much as we should regret this condition of
things, we seeit clearly defined in the flu
ture. Hitherto, the agitation on the suo-
Ject of slavery has come from the Northern
States; we have been willing to regard the
people Of the North, as the aggressors upon
this suhirct. and iustice toyoPds their Snuth-