New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-10

s.xebolaipg and non slsveholding States Of the
Union related to tho basis OF representation The
ma, .laveboldine States would not consent ths: in
s,;,r that basis slaves should be counted equal
70 free men, a point upon which Georgia and
the Carolina. had very strenuously insisted. Ho-
mer SAYS that the day becomes slave he loses
half his manhood The trainers Of our Federal Con
.titu,iop were little nicer in their calculation Ac-
co,opg to their estimate slave still continues three
ffbs human being. and to that extent slaves were
10 be counted in determining the Federal population
agreed on as the basis of representation in the lower
House # Congress And that matter stands to this
asv For all economical purposes slaves chs.tels
A much so as the mules they drive for all CON
nercsl purposes they are goods and merchandise :;
but for political purposes they are also persons, a.
least FIVE Of them equal To three persons-persons
however who have no will nor power Of their own
hut whose votes and voices go to swell those Of
their masters the practical effect being that com
pared with the North. every southern voter has the
privilege Of throwing two ballots
The second Compromise related to the importation
Of African sla,es, which it was agreed should be
continued for twenty years by such States as chose
to allow it, at the end Of which time it should be
(for at that moment should Be and might Be were the
same thing abolished by act Of Congress, which,
according was done so that by national laws the
nportation Of slaves from any foreign country IL
placed on level with piracy, and is punishable with
death.
The third Compromise was that Missouri Compro
mise which in consideration Of the admission oil his
sour as slave State prohibited the introduction OF
Slavery into any part of the Louisiana purchase norh
and west Of that new State,-the same which Doug
lass Ksnsas.Nebrasks bill now proposes to repeal.
The fourth Compromise that Of, lSJO, by which,
in consideration that the southern States would
not dissolve the Union, as they had threatened they
would DO in consequence Of the organization Of Cali
fornia as free State the North submitted to the ni
tional disgrace of placing statute book the Fu-
gtiye act Of 1850.
These are the four great Slavery comprehension
promises of which the first regarded BY those
who made them az indispensable to any union OF the
States under the Federal Constitution, while the last
two were equally urged as indispensable to its contu-
uance. These four compromises may in fact be set
down the four pillars which rests the Union as at
present constituted or at least the existing balance Of
power under il.
Mr. Douglas Sampson like has grasped one Of those
pillars, and backed by the Cabinet by the whole body
of the southern Members of Congress- with avery few
honorable exceptions for where villany is the rule
even the cOmmonest honesty becomes hOnorable) and
assisted by body Of mercenary northern scoundrels Of
whom he s the natural and fitting leader, he is tug
giDg away with strong hopes and very encouraging
prospect Of dragging that pillar out of its place Al
ready his bill has passed the Senate Let Us consider
for moment what may be the probable results Of its
success in the other house.
Mr. Douglas and his hackers represent what they
doing IS peace measure" The anti-Slayery agita
ton stunned by the Fugitive Slave act Of 1850, is to
be entirely aDnbilsted by the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. We have read somewhere anecdo'e
of an Irishmsn-who being arragDed for knocking his
neighbor down, and while he in that helpless con-
diton attempting TO pick bis pocket Of note Of hand
tie evidence Of debt which the said Iri.hman owed
him Thought to excuse himself by pleading that
lie did all for the sake Of peace for he could not bear
to have his peace disturbed by the thought that his
neiehbor might ask him for the money Mr.. Douglas
seems to be relation of that Irshmsn at all events
lie and bic majority in the Senate Of the United States
will DO well TO bear in mind that the court thought it
Necessary to protect the public against the too great
zeal of that famous peacemaker by sending him to the
House OF Correction for six months and putting him
under bonds for twelve months longer Such sort of
peace measures seldom succeed where the Peace-mak-
ers merely confne themselves to knocking down aud
robbipg Such attempts, in fact, at pacifcation s-d
silence generally result in greater disturb aoi
louder outcry than ever. So long as the assaulted
party 10 left with brains in his skull, tongue in his
head and blood in his heart-even but few drops Of
the is apt to call aloud for justice and vengeance
Possibly h0wever-and this doubts the contingency
upon which Mr.. Douglas and his followers reckon
possibly, it might in this particular work other
wise. The North has been long disciplined 10 the
school of modification and insult The slayeholaers
seem generally to entertain the opinion cIpressedfo forty
years ago and more by John Randolph to Josiah Quincy
that dey have just as much control the political
leaders Of the North as they have their own ne
groes Randolph indeed confined bis remark to the
leaders of the northern Democratic party $50 caled
bat at the present day most northern politicians no mat
ter to which OF the great parties they nominaly be-
long are reckoned and for the most part are found
about equally plant By singular departure from
the ordinary course of events the heavier the North
has become in pursehe poorer ii has grown in spirit
Milliorsres Doctors Of Divinity with salaries Of FIVE
thousand dollars year, and city lawyers with Incomes
twice as large contest the palm Of super seryceabs
mtatDess With the hungriest aud rsggedes political
scrubs, and contest il with success It has been re-
Gently preached in many pulPs and il laboriOu,y IL
eUleated in many printed sermons at which pOsteriy
viii stare. that there is 10 law higher thsn the Fl
federates 20 doubt rely upon the reverend gen.
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