Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-11
WASHINGTON, D. C.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1854.
10 Both Houses Of Congress adjourned yes
terday, until Monday next
" HIRELINo,n EQUALITY, ETC.


we would maintain it on every proper occasion
There as nothing an the social on moral organi
cation Of the hirehng States, Which entities them
to a superiority over as We don't want war
Of words about it, but the thing itself we will
not surrender --Riehmord Va.) Wing
The h,reiiag States The Whig is compli-
mentary; but it betrays the real feeling enter
tanned by the Shareholders towards the North
ern States Hirsling States!p They arc
considered always in the market, ready to be
hired out to the highest bidder. The South
holds the Administration with its patronage,
and hires the North to do service for it. 90"
said chivalrous member from Kentucky, in
relation to the Nebraska Bill, We don't do
such work ourselves; we can hire plenty Of
Northern men to work for usv The general
calculation is, that the Administration, with its
patronage, is good for at least forty Northern
votes in any emergency in which they may be
required by the South The division Of Ne
braska into two Territories was lucky thought:
it precisely doubled the Offices to be filed. Two
Governors, two Secretaries Of State, six or ten
judges, attorneys, marshals, agents, &c. How
chances multiply for those disposed to please
the Administration at the expense Of their CON
stituentS
Or, perhaps, the Wing sneers at the North
ern States as hireling, because the People there
hold that the laborer is worthy Of his hire
The Wing is enamored Of system which au.
thorizes one man to extort the labor of another,
without pay, and sell him to boot if it 10
please him. An honorable system, this! No
hireling labor here! The idea Of paying wages
Of rendering to every man fair equivalent for
his services, is decidedly vulgar. True nobility
consists in living upon the unpaid earnings Of
the poor.
But there are other points in this brief par
agraph from the Wing.
II misrepresents the question in controversy.
The question now is, not whether the North
and South have equal rights, but whether q
bargain or compact, agreed to by the two SEQ
~ shall be violated by the South, after it has
received its full share of what was stiPula-
ted Whether the North, after having been
constrained by Southern influence to yield it's
principles and policy 30 far as to accept Of that
Compromise, shall be swindled out of the con.
sideration which induced its acceptance
Under still another aspect the Wing misrep-
resents The Question. The real issue involves
the rights and interests Of both North and
South. Positive enactment by Congress exclu-
ding Slavery from Territories applies to all the
People Of sll the Slater If the Southern man
cannot hold slaves in the Territories, neither
can the Northern. The restriction is not dis.
eliminating, although it may subject to special
Inconvenience the few owners Of slaves who
might wish to settle with them in our Terrific
risa. The prohibition OF Slavery in the free
States is absoluts and without discrimination,
operating as well in relation to visiters and so
journers as citizens, although it may subject to
peculiar Inconvenience the few persons from
slave States who desire to carry their slaves
with them wherever they 60. The act abolish
ing the slave trade IN 1908 bore with particu-
lar weight upon the interests Of the class Of
shareholders, by cutting of their supplies Of
labor from abroad; bot it was no invasion Of
the equal rights of the South, Cor the act was
general applying without discrimination to all
the People Of all the States, prohibiting them
all from engaging in or encouraging tho slave
trade
II tho greatest good Of the greatest number
should be studied by Government, the mainte-
nance Of the Missouri Compromise is duty it
owes to the mssas Of the People, in all sections
OF the twenty-five millions Of the People of the
United States, not more than two hundred aud
fifty thousand OF three hundred thousand are
slsveholders
These, with the few persons directly depend
sut upon them, might be benefited, pecuniarily
in very limited degree, BY repeating the Com
promise and throwing open Nebraska 70 Sla-
very; but how would the interests Of the mil
lions Of stockholders in both sections be
promoted What they want is, Free Labor
The observation-disclosures Of the South rejoice when
they can find in new territory shelter from
the dssolations and expressions Of the Slave
system. Tho non-slayeholders Of the North
ought not TO be exposed in now Territory to
the degrading composition Of Slave labor The
exclusion Of Slavery by Congressional enact
mons Poiicy denounced alke Dy tho inter-
ests Of both--and Congress, in continuing il in
force in Nebraska, does injustice to no section,
asserts the superiority or inferiority Of no sec
ton, but simply declares that the permanent
welfare Of some twenty millions Of People, citi-
ssns Of the United States, East, West, Noi tn,
and South, is Of more importance than the
petty pecuniary gain, or the selfish political
aims, Of q small class Of persons, confined to
one section Of the Union, Interested in uphold
ING an institution, not only purely sectional
and exceptional, but unfsvorable 70 the great
ends for which tho Union was established, and
repagnant 70 the fundamental principles of its
Government
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