New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-15
OFFICIAL INCENDIARIE. :.

We presume il must be getting pretty well under
stood throughout tie country that there is no interest
whatever which the present National Government
feels itself bound to look after but that Of Slavery
For this it struggles to pass the Nebraska bill and Tor
this it proposes 10 10 war with Spain. For this
the country is convulsed 10 its center By the herce
conflict in Congress; and for this the great com
rercia interests Of the nation meDaced WIKI de-
structon.
We desire TO know if this state Of things is to
continue forever 10 the Administrator and
all the politicians Of the dominant party propo5s
to hold the country in one perpetual bro.l about
Slavery Is il to be kept up to feyerheat and
tcrmented cternally after the present fashion
Here we are at this moment driven to the brink OF
civil revolution BY insane legislative proceedings in
behalf of Slavery backed by the Administration. Tae
majority suggest other subject talk upon no other
subject insist upon no other subject and propose 70
do nothing upon any other subject 1t is slavery
Slavery Slavery, now and always, and nothing else.
Slavery in Nebraska, Slavery on Bunker Hill, slavery
in the fields OF Ohio, Slavery in Cuba slavery every
where. Mr. Pierce and his Cabinet and special
fr,nds breakfast. dine and sup on slavery They 1--we
ana move and lave their being in >l7ery. Iney
battle in it and wipe Themselves Try win IT, Niger
owning. niger driving Niger c9tchiEg and n'ggaf
breeding, constitute taer sole political caP.i.- aad
elo!oss all their tine aud ali their thOugits. The
one topic OF their Congressional orators of their cen
trail organ and OF their country newspapers, Is nggers
in Nebraska, uiggtrs in the South nggcrs IN CdOl,
free blacks, emancpadOs domestic servitude, ap-
prentice., Attenuation. Cuba, Hayt Brazil, AMI the
West Indies Cufy, fOmpeE CGsar, sally ana oman
would seem to be their sole company by day and by
night Every other subject wholly overlooked every
substantial interest of the country disregarded every
other question forced on all occasions to give way to
this
Sgch conduct is not only ridiculous and shameful;
if is wicked and criminal 1t is enough to bring
down universal reproach upon the administration of
our public affairs and to disgust every sensible man
in the country with the very names of Administra-
lion" and Government 1t does seem a. though
it were high time tor the people TO rise mase and
demand OF the executive branch ofthe Government TO
cease 10 woIy the public mimi and the public ear
with its slavery projects. and attend to its proper
duties and to exact OF Congress the iuhment offs
u.t functions, or insist chat it shall adjourn and 90
home. The executive and legislative agitation of
schemes of slavery extension has become ntoera6e
nuisance, which must be- abated Ii has already pre-
cpitated dangerous legislative crisis upon the eoIn-
ana now threatens war Win lcdu4n- P"Ntl Va
Europe the result of which would be the destruction
Of our foreign commerce, the bankruptcy OF every
ship-owner in the country and of onehalf our mer-
chants, tie establishment Of another Hsyti on our
borders. and a probable black nsurrectiOn in the
South which the Free states would be called upon TO
put down.
Where are the Union saving, peaee-oying- conserv
ative men. Of both South and North, now II there
ever was time which called for their combined ac-
cn il is the existing emergency. The Executive has
become fountain Of mischief the majority OF Con
gress colossal engine of agitation, harassing the pub
lie quiet provoking disorders in the State, and threat
ening the public prosperity with sudden disaster and
ruin Let the class appeal To come forward and
orgsnze and demand peace, demand quiet demand
the cessation Of Executive and Legislative agitation
and the restoration of the national tranquility which
the President and his supporters have wantonly dis
turbed by their insane projects for the spread Of hu
man beudage