New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-16

promising hostility to Slavery extension In lsi,
- but another phase Of his opinion OF l5tI
that IL Slavery should go into Kansas aud Ne
braska it would be no great harm AFTER Al
However, the argument from any mans CONSISTENCY
or inconsistency is of little WORTH and the grea. ql
ton is whether the opinions he now stands on Ne
sound and wise, or shallow and foolish We are SOM
70 saw that Judge Bronsons last must be esssed uaer
the latter category. He lauds the NEBRASKA OH BE-
cause he thinks it will stop agitation; how ridcaol,
thi, expectation is may be judged from what s DO.
taking place in the free States-an agitation which
not only more earnest decided and universal among al
classes than any ever witnessed here, butwhch 10 hari
vet at its beginning as the Judge will discover II the
hill passes. He also holds with Mr. Clayton Mr. Ever
EFT Judge Douglas and other gentlemen that SLAYER
will never go into the Territories in question, quite
overlooking the fact of its existence IN Marylsni
Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, none of which
are better adapted 10 slave labor or the mors
profitable business OF slaye-breedlng than kan,a
and a great part of Nebraska. But even Il
Slavery should make its way there, he tells US that tie
number of slaves will not at all be augmented thereby
O sapient Judge Bronson, did you never hearof IL.
great law of supply and demand Don't you know
that when crop is called for, and Its price rises ia
market people set to work TO raise it, and greatly Ia
crease the quantity produced Is the savecn,
an exception to this universal law And are not tbs
prices of negroes now very high, offering extraordns
Inducements TO those who have the capital and skill
epcsge in their culture And yet you tell US that tie
opening Of vast territory to this branch OF ttR.
will not add anything TO the amount of business 10 be
done in il
But the Judge would not have Congress interfere
with Slavery at all Why, then bring in frebrand Ne
braska bills Why not leave peace undisturbedl Al
was quiet enough before Douglas opened the quarrel
more quiet we fear, than it can easily become agsa
There was no UNUSUAL discussion of southern Slaveryn
more TO borrow an expression from our letter writer
than there would be slavery in Cuba Brazilor ludi
none at all in respect to urging Congress to act ora
against the institution Both the Wing and Democratic
parties had acquiesced in the Adjustment of $780, and
in his Message Mr. Pierce congratulated the country
on this acquescence and repose pledging himself
that SO far as he concerned, that repose should
not be broken. In the face of all this, the most
fearful and iucurable cause of sectional controversy
ever known is hurled into Congress, and Jaise
Bronson the retired jurist and patriot taxes
satisfaction in il, because it makes for peace
There is one point on which these Letters furnish
no exclamation but in respect of which it wouldh
we'll TO have the views of SO eminent lawyer u
Judge Bronson If the Missouri Compromise ought
TO be destroyed to make for the absolute prnst
ple of non Intervention and local selEgoyernment mt
is called ought the other compromises also to be done
away with Ought all Congressional Legislation D,
the SUBJECT Of Slavery to be wiped from the statute
book Should the Fugitive Law be abrogated'
Should the prohibition of the African slave trade be
removed and that profitable sphere OF enterprise All
commerce once again be opened to such States as might
choose to engage IL i And ought the first Compn
mise of all that in the Constitution relating to tie
representation of slave population also to be annued
Certainly they are all of them restrictive of Oci
sovereignty whether of States squatters,-and the
law against the African slave trade is far more
restrictiye,-than the Missouri Compromise, and
if the one needs to be abolished as q mater
of principle, so do the others But where docs JUDE
Bronson, with lis love of peace, stand on these great
questions What do his democratic principles sayh
them Is he for the revival of the Importation of rs
grOes from Guinea Would he, as an American CID
zen, bow his head in submission if Mr.. Douglas, as
sovereign STAKEHOLDER of Mississippi, with majOrityd
bis fellow planters of that State should insist mak
a venture in that trade and should move the repead
the existing law On these points the Judge is unfor
tunately silent but may safely infer that there is
other of the three remaining Compromises Slaye7l
that he will not go for overthrowing as a meansi
peace, tranquility and the suppression of sectional
taton. When the question comes up, we may look for
Letters from him to that effect.