Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-05

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cargo of Freedom is lost forever.
/" Liberty Tor the slave, or Slavery forNthe free
aborer,' il now the dilemma into which the
Union IL forced by the cupidity of the slayehold-
ers and the corruption Of free State political
adyenturers; and rs observation-disclosures, there Is
no choice left TO u.s. but TO submit TO the iron
despotism of the Slavery propagandists, or suffer
the North and the South, like Abraham and Lot of
old, to part as friends rather than TO live togetl-
er as rival enemies in a hopeless aud embittered
struggle to harmonize systems so utterly, fatally
irreconcilable, as LIBERTY and SLAVERY
The gentleman from Georgia, r. Mr.. STEPHENS, I
the other day, seemed 10 imagine himself fighting
over again the great compromise battle of 1850 !;
and inasmuch rs Northern gentlemen at that time
either We're, or affected TO be alarmed for the
safety OF the Union, the gentleman is under the
delusion that the like buster now, will produce
the like effect upon the present Congress. That
gentleman, land he is by no means the only one
in the same darkness) evidently did not then
understand the causes which led TO that ruinous
and disgraceiul surrender Of Northern principles
and Northern honor and he must have been
dreaming from that time to this. That compro-
mise may be said TO have been the last will and
testament Of certain very distinguished, but aged
and iniirm, candidates for the Presidency wherein
they gave and bequeathed to the South all the
rights and benefits guaranteed in that compromise
in consideration OF the anticipated support of
Southern politicians for that high Office; and the
usual testamentary form running in this wise
eve, A. b., &c, being weak in body but of sound
and disposing mind and memory, in view of the
uncertainty of political life, and the certainty of
political death, and being fully persuaded that
this is our last and only remaining chance for
realizing the high object of our ambition, do give
and bequeath" &c, would have been no inapt
preamble to those measures.
But sir, that compromise was and ever has
been, odons to the people Of the free States, Of
all parties. Ont Of compassion to the eminent
gentlemen to further whose chances for the
Presidency it was made; and to quiet the nerves
of certain timid and conservative gentlemen who
were doubtless, really alarmed at the cravings,
and hssings, and howlingsn Ito use the amable
language of the gentleman from Georgia, of
Southern gentlemen on this floor, that compro-
mise was reluctantly acquiesced in by the Wings
and Democrats of the North. But it never re-
ceiyed more than reluctant, a loathsome acuui-.
escence; and in this turks the great and fatal
delusion of the projectors and advocates Of this
most Ubiquitous measure. Neither the intellect
the heart nor the conscience of the people of the
free States, was with, or for that compromise.
On the contrary the intellect the heart, and the
conscience of that people, (those of them, mean
who were endowed with these attributes,) con-
that humiliating act But sir, the gentleman
from Georgia, and those who are co-workers
with him, are laborng under the strange deusion,
that the compromise of 1850, has now become
popular in the free States, and that this Nebraska
and Kansas bill, being only another cub of the
same litter, will also speedily become as great a
favorite with the people of the free States. From
hence sir, comes TO the advocates of this bill, the
pleasant fancy, that all the opposition to the guilty
project of cursng with the mildew of Slavery the
heart of the North American continent and turn
ing it into kennel for the breeding of slaves
for the shambles of the South, are but the Sra
wings, and howlings, and hissings, of the beaten
and routed ranks of the factionists and malcon-
tents" the gentleman from Georgia has it.
Why sir, we " factionists and mal-contents"
predicted just such n finale, to that weak and
toicked bargain sale, and surrender Of humanity
and Justice, and the honor and interests of the
free States and we take this new rascality very
coolly but your treacherous arrow has touched
the crura nerve of the drowsy and slumbering
old fogies who were snoozing comfortably under
the shadow of Southern chivalry and Southern
honor; but now, the great deep of the Northern
heart is heaving with the Indignation of those
betrayed, but thoroughly reused leyiathans and
my advice to the chivalry and doughfaces is
to stand from underp for if thou hast run
with the footmen, and they have wearied thee
then how canst thou contend with horses?" Yes
sir, if the few obscure, despised, and hated Abo-
AS You contemptuously call them, have
been an over-match for you, what are you to do
when the united hosts of the betrayed and in
dignant free States enter the course against
you2 Oh says the gentleman from Georgia TO
the Representatives of the free States betray
your constituents, commit treason against hui
mainly; and make your names but other words
for hypocrisy, knavery, and cowardce. :" Go
back TO your constituents and tell them you are
right, and they are wrong" Yes sir, the gentle
man from Georgia recommends that we return TO
our constituents with this fagtious lie in our
right hands," and try to palm il of on the read
ing, rejecting, moral, religious, and intelligent
people of the free States and he seems to think
they will take all such stuff for Gospel rs readily
as a congregation of illterate half-drunken, pot
house loaiers would, the oracuar crudities, cant,
and humbuggery, of iavorite political leader,
from whom they expected TO receive gratis, both
politics and whiskey.
But in this business, this sublime, heroic bust
ness, of boarding constituents by throwing their
cherished principles in their faces, is game that
two may play at; and | say 10 the gentleman
from Georgia, "physician, heal myself Sup
pose the gentleman returns 10 his own constitu-
ents, and tells them that " they are wrong and
he is right that slavery is great moral wrong,
a curse to master and slave, and a double curse
TO those who are neither masters nor slaves; and
that il ought not 10 exist at all, much less be eX-
tended over those Territories now free. | hatter
myself that shall be able to convince the gentle
man from Georgia, that my proposition is reason
able in comparison with his to MS of the free
States. Looking through the returns of the
seventh Census, ! find all classes ofthe gentlemans
constituents, number ll060l. OF these 81 435
are slaves, and SIC free colored. Now, the gen
tleman would not need to eypend much breath in
good faith, TO conquer the prcjudices against lib
erty, of this, the largest portion of his constitu-
ents. The residue of them numbering 46,320,
are free white persons, of whom Z o 1886 are males,
above the age Of twenty years. About onc-tenth,
or 100, shareholders, the balance, $500, are
"poor white folks" q believe they are so termed
mt the South)
Now sir, ] am persuaded that a gentleman so
full of the red-hot lava of eloquence as the gem
tleman from Georgia--one so richly endowed with
the gift of making the better appear The better reason,
would have hut little trouble in demonstrating to