Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-28
sPIRI1 OF rHE MoRxuer Rtss

- 1AAc ~S0NA OO 030o
The intsttigsnesr makes merry over the
alleged different positions assumed BY tho
friends Of the Nebraska bill, North and South
In Justification of their favor for the bill. say
ing:
Those Of the Sou who accept the Ne
oTasHa Bal do % because 1t repeats the " Mis-
soun eonpromise," although they loaths the
dootrins0f' IS Popular Sovereignty which the
Oil asserts Northern Democrats, on the
other hand, accept the bill because it asserts
Popular Sovereignty" although it repeats
The =" Missouri Compromise" which they cling
TO- So while each section protests against the
part offensive to Il, each swallows the whole
Fanatics in politics or religion find saivo for
every sacrifice. The Koran prohibits to its
votaTlss the use of certain part Of the swine,
which is so obscurely indicated that every
good Mossulman judges for himself, one con
tending tn at it il one part which ia forbidden
and another: that 1t Il another part 20, not
agTeelng as to which part it is, in the end the
whole hog Is eaten.
nWhht, .fte- all, is this popular sovereign
~ which has suddenly % run away with q
sectional popular favor? In President Jet.
ierson 8 lime, the assertion of 1t was punished
by dismissal from ofice; nou it Ia the b Oh
way to prefsrment 'Que fxsrant vitia n,ores
Sunt.'
Upon the interesting subject of the price of
-Four the same paper, says, most appropri.
ately: .. -. 80, =, -.
We are often asked what justiiss the pres
emit price Of family flour in this city? This is
q question not easily answered, but certainly
there seems to be NO reason for long contin
uanee at the rate Of Sill. We find that white
wheat Is selling in Alexapdria at 81 50 Per
6ushei, In Baltimore at S1.55, in New York at
Sf55r '-''f-
" Flour has fallen from 81 to g. so per bar
rel In New York since the first of September
We trust the supplies on hand at old prices are
small. and that our grocers and bakers will
soon lind equal profit on much smaller figures
than now PREVAIL
Of the recent election in Vermont, tho
Union says &C.
The Democracy of Vermont are entitled TO
praise for the frmness with which they have
maintained their ground in the late election
AIthough In decided minority, they. have
their ranks ,unbroken, and polled two
and votes more than they did in the last
identiai contest. They have set an ex-
ple which might be pro6tMbiy followed by
Mo Democrats Of other States who constitute
msjorities but wness diviaious are rendering
them Iowerless ,r.sr
The Union also Ieoks upon the following
(from the Buffalo Consseyriai Adpsrtiser, of
September pa as evidence that the Northern
Wing party, or, at least, portion of them,
are beginning to entertain sensible views upon
the Nebraska question: - . - -
g sThe Commonwealth, . rsbid free soil paner.
published in Boston. and the leading organ of
the free.soil party in New England, has bean
discontinued because it don't pay. The fact
is significant Of the. change going on in the
public mind. The fever heat Of fanaticigm
cent be Kept up. Men are getting to look at
slavery osfmly, cooily, intelligsntly, with q
jus5er appreciation than formerly of its actual
.pTogress and probable future. The result will
aeon be the utter destruction Of the dema.
sogue's and fanatics occupation, 80 far az
slavery 10 concerned. 1.-The whirlwind of aeita
ton, which Gov. Seward, in his famous letter
90 some Boston folk in 1851, compared in its
benefcent puIifyiI effects to the blessed winds
Of Heaven cannot again be excited as II was
then. Even the acquisition of Cuba, if it
shall ever be made, though it may cause much
warm discussion, and profoundly move tbe
public mind, will not provoke the excitement
and passion we have seen in past years tits
undeni able that the principle enuociated in
the bill organising the Territories Of Kansas
and Nebraska-Damely, that the actual popu.
iation of = State shall determine under what
institutions they win live-is in accordance
with the sentiment Of the great majority or
the American people. 1t has been acted upon
by all, and underlies our entire theory Of gov
eminent and policy 1t was asserted whom
California was admitted as State into the
:Union, and when the Territories Of Utah and
New Mexico were organized"
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