Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-28

WASHII0TON NEWS AND 0Oo8R.
The Coming Changes in National Politics.
The distant public may not all be aware that
this is the point at which one can best iudae
of the condition of popular sentiment in al,
quarters OF the Union. and can also trace, most
clearly and satisfactorily. the schemes of
olques and combinations of politicians of all
parties Letters reach here, daily, from every
county Of every State in the Union, most of
which are accessible to any gentleman taking
an interest in the progress of public affairs
They come, for the most part, from local poll
tisians, and treat of the VIKINGS in and out of
those anxious to stand fair with "The Dear
People" We have seen bushels of such let
tiers of late, and, in them, we find that nine
tenths Of the current Northern uproar on the
subject of the Nebraska bill, is attributable to
the efforts of the anti slavery party to recover
the ground they lost in the triumph of the
compromise measures of 1850. We refer to
the party which sought to prohibit slavery in
the territory acquired from France in 1919 and
loZo, and, subsequently, opposed the acquisi-
ton OF Texas, only because it was slaveholding;
and the Mexican war, only because they con-
csived that the territory likely to be acquired
as its result, would eventually be slaveholding
territory. We find from these letters that men,
disappointed in obtaining Office under the
present Administration, are, many of them,
backing up the plans of these veteran anti
slaverites, only in order to embarrass those in
power The great mass of the people of the
North, SO far, refrain from engaging actively
in the current crusade against the South, as is
manifest in the fact that the names of ninety
in hundred of the speakers, resolution draw
ers, committee men, and others, appearing in
the newspapers as the active opponents of the
Nebraska bill, are simply those of we'll known
higher-law men or abolitionists. The clergy
men who are taking part in the crusade, with
very few exceptions, fill pulpits from which
similar acts of interference in American poll
tics have emanated, on passing occasions, ever
since they began that work in their denuncia-
ton Of Thomas Jefferson and his administra-
ton. However, thoughtful public men now
in this city, seem to agree in the opinion that
just now the labors of these enemies of the
Union are really more dangerous than ever
before. This arises from the fact that the
public mind of the South is by no means we'll
affected towards the continuance Of the Union.
The contest of 1850 obliterated ardent love
for it from the hearts of hundreds of thousands
there. That is, for the Union, with the influ-
ence of abolitionism yearly increasing, in the
matter Of controlling the policy of the General
Government. The election of the present Chief
Magistrate, with a record as a legislative
statesman, showing that, on all sectional issues
he was consistently and unainchingly true to
the spirit Of co-equality of the sections in
herent in the Constitution Of the United States,
by so large majority, temporarily restored
the allegiance of Southern sentiment to the
Union. This anti Union Southern sentiment
was further quieted by the alacrity with which
Northern Democratic politicians, heretofore
acting more or less with the abolitionists, ig-
nored their late Positions so as to seem to stand
fair in the eyes of those who had patronage to
dispense. The illusion is, however rapidly
passing away. Letters are now pouring into
Washington from the South, which tell of the
swift uprising Of the Southern rights senti-
ment, 80 rife there in 1850, embracing on this
occasion an unanimous South; as it did not
then, it will be remembered. They can stand
much, but not any and everything. They
find themselves, one and all, for the first time
denounced apparently from q majority of
Northern pulpits, and in a majority of North
ern newspapers, as being worse than thieves,
villains, murderers, DC. They find it becoming
fashionable for the preachers of all denomina-
tons but the Roman Catholics, to follow the
example Of Henry Ward Beecher in spouting
of the South, its character and aims They
understand clearly that the very last ism
which has arisen at the North, is one based on
intense hatred of all persons and things South
ern. They know that, at best, owing t, the
| difference in their pursuits, climate, locality,
&C., the Union makes them commercial tribu-
taries to the North. They know, further, that
while they have certainly derived many valu-
able advantages from the Union, so far, which
they might not have enjoyed without it, the
North have enjoyed ten-fold as many, which
they certainly never could have attained, but
for its existence. The bug bear of want of
capacity to manage their slave property with
out the Uuson, has no terrors for them; while
the pecuniary profits of free wholly unrestrict-
ed) trade, have many charms for their politi-
cal economists. In all their elections since
1852, those of their public men have succeeded
| sn every Southern State, who went farthest
in the contest of 1850 against the continuance
of the Union.
These are simple facts, the truth of which
is known to every man North, as well as South,
who has noted the history of Southern public
affairs for the last four or five years From
them, We deduce the opinion, that in less than
six months, every man at the North, who has
more to lose than to gain by dissolution of
the Union, will be at work to stop the progress
Of this very last ism, to which We refer above
As, if not stopped summarily, its fruit must be
Misunderstanding between the sections, to
bring the union Of the North American con-
federacy much nearer to the point of disrup-
ton than ever before.
Tho Clerks Biu.-We learn that Yesterday
it was finally voted in the Committee of WAYS
and Means to report back the Senates " Clerks