Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-27
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New York, If the Senate concur,) That we SOL
EMMY protest against the passage of any act
for the organisation of the Territory Of Me-
braska, which shall not expressly exclude the
institution Of Slavery from said Territory.
Resolved, (if the Senate concur,) That the
Governor be requested to transmit copy of
the foregoing resolutions to each Of our Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress"
The Democratic Press is not fulfilling the
expectations Of athe organ" In addition to
the extracts already given from the Post and
Atlas Of Now York, Palladium Of Massachu-
setts, Sandusky (O) Mirror, Missouri Democrat,
AnSeigsr Western, and other journals Of the
Democracy we copy the following from the
Buffalo IN ~ Republic, an Administration
paper Unfortunately, the Republic has put a
little too much faith in the Administration and
the supporters Of Slavery:
Eve find that the injustice Of the effort now
being made in Congress, to violate the provi-
sions Of this Compromise, in organizing the
Territory Of Nebraska, is receiving the attn
ton Of other sections than those north of Ma
son and Dixon's line Indeed, IL may be as
sumed as an undoubted fact, that no Repre-
tentative Of the saveholding States would be
found 80 lost to the obligations of good faith
and Justice a. to propose to disturb compact
which has been acquiesced in, betwixt North
and South, for over thirty years in regard to
| the subject OF Slavery. The race Of dough-
faces and Slavery propagandists will never die,
as long as there ia a chance TO secure the po-
| litical influence Of the Southern people to aid
the schemes of personal aggrandizement which
Northern demagogues fet on foot for that pur-
pose. There is one consolation, however, in
this important fact, that although the South
love the treason, they despise the traitor, and
that they never put faith in that class Of North
ern men who, in order to secure their own sup
port, betray the rights and interests of their
own constituents at the North. And hereto
fore it has happened, that men who have
thought to mako political capital by subservi-
emit trucking to Southern prejudces have in
variably been discarded both by the people
they have betrayed and the section to whose
interests they have traitorously pandered. It
would be well if ambitious and aspiring poll
ticians would learn lesson from the past
There is scarce an instance TO be found where
Northern politician has attempted to reach
the goal Of his ambition by turning his back
that he has not failed comprising his ambitious
what we are inclined to regard as the retribu-
tions Of Providence, on all attempts to sacrifice
principle to the schemes Of an unhallowed and
base ambition"
Even the National Wings" as the Or
gan" styles them, cannot be wheedled into
tho support Of this last exaction of Slavery.
Some, Of course, are equal to any burden that
may be imposed by the Slave Interest In the
words of Canning on another occasion, they
will 60 the whole hog, and seem the hog they
go.n But the respectable and conscientious
among them, with the New York Express, de-
nounce the movement and the staid sober,
Conservative Commercial Advertiser of New
York, says, inclosing long well-considered
article on the subject:
1--WE think it clear, therefore, that the meas
ure of 1850 was not designed to abrogate that
of 1921; that neither its friends nor its oppo-
nents 80 regarded it that its object was to Sc
cure the admission of California as free State
to dispose Of the Texas and territorial question
to kill of the Wilmot Proviso, and to furnish
the South with sure mode Of reclaiming fu-
gitives from service. Those difficulties were
at that time pressing upon the country, and to
meet them, the Compromise legislation was
framed. Ii did not contemplate interfering
with former enactments on the subject of Sla-
very, especially one that had been in force thir-
ty years without elicting serious remonstrance
or complaint These being the facts, this at
tempt to nullify the special compact of 1921
becomes breach of faith, inasmuch as the
Compromises of 1850 were acquiesced in, on the
full understanding that they did not disturb
the Missouri Compromise the great expoundcr
of those resolutions being witness And we
might add that inasmuch as the prohibition
Of 1921 was made perpetuaI-'forever prohb-
tied lit could not, TO say the least, be repeal
cd by mere mplication--which is the only pre-
tence that can DO urged in favor of Senator
Douglass view.
ave think this attempt TO break faith on
the Compromises both wrong and impolitic on
the part of our Southern friends It's certain
effect will be to dishearten those friends of the
Compromises Of 1850 at the North, who periled
not little in first adhering to them, who en-
dorsed the good faith Of the South in the mat
ter, and who certainly ought not thus to be
exposed 10 taunts, and be made butt for
mockery by those with whom they made CON-
mon cause when it was unpopular 80 to do. 1t
will 20 far to destroy confidence in tho assur-
ances and representations Of the Southern lead
crs should the scenes Of 1S49-'50 be re-enacted.
II will throw the blame Of such renewal of agi-
tation exclusively upon the South. IL will null
lify that great settlement achieved at such
cost, for the violation Of contract by one par
ty exonerates the other from observing it,
This, and more than this, will be the effect Of
persistence in this attempt to evade the obIiga-
tons Of q mutual compact; and we earnestly
hope that Southern political leaders will neither
impose such difficulty upon the Compromise
men at the North, nor so violate their repeated
pledges
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