Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-28
From the Albany Register tSilyer Gray
THE FRIENDS OF THE COMPROMISES MEASURES
OF 1850

THE FRIENDS OF THE COMPROMISES MEASURES
OF 1850.
at is asserted that macy Of the friends Of
the Compromise Measures Of $50 are opposed
to the bill now before Congress, organizing the
Territories Of Nebraska and Kansas upon the
broad principle of popular soyereignty. That
this should be the case, among those who are
surrounded by clamorons Abolitionists and
reckless demagogues we can readily suppose;
but that any friend of the Compromise Meas
ures of 1850, after q full examination Of the
measure as it is presented TO him in the de-
bates of Congress, should continue to oppose
the bills Of Judge Douglas in the Senate, and
Col Richardson in the House, we shonld great
ly regret to believe - Washington Union.
aThe friends OF tho Compromise Measures Of
1882 at the North at least, "after a full ex
animation of the measure as it il presented to
them in the debates Of Congress are still OPP
posed to Senator Douglass Nebraska Bill.
They are opposed TO ii upon principle, and be-
cause its passage would be an utter violation
Of faith on the part Of those who are now seek
ing to force its passage. To the Washington
Union it is useless TO speak OF the inevitable
future, if that measure is forced through Con-
gress. 1t will not open its eyes or its ears, to
see, or hear, or understand the Northern senti-
ment on this subject, We claim to know some
thing Of the opinions Of the friends Of the Com
promise Measures Of 1850, on this side of Ma
son and Dixon's line For them, we think we
can say, truthfnlly that no considerations Of
policy will induce them to surrender the pro-
visions Of the z Compromise 2 Of 1920, which
limits Slavery to SO deg. 80 min; that, among
them all there is to be found scarcely q man
who will consent to such surrender The sem
timent against the repeal Of that Compromise
is universal, 30 far Oh they are concerned 1t
is deep-seated, firm, imm0vable, eternal, as far
Us the word can be applicable to human opin-
ion and action. i*aas9ti
The africnda Of the Compromise Of 1850 y at
the North have suffered by their tirmness in
sustaining those measures. They regarded
them as in support oil, and not in opposition to,
the law Of 1920. They stood BY both, and be-
cause they did 80 they became for time iso-
lated from their ancient political associates
and friends. They became in degree unpop.
ular, were excluded from official position and
the honors and emoluments of place. They
were right in principle, standing upon consti-
tutional grounds fighting not so much for
themselves MS for their brethren Of the South
ern States, struggling to preserve the national
ity Of the Wing party. They were gaining in
strength and numbers every day, because they
were thus right in principle and becaufe their
course had the high sanctions of the Constitu-
ton. Agitation on the subject Of Slavery was
dying away. The dawn Of the better light
was plainly visible, when the very people for
whom they had been breasting the current of
popular sentiment their brethren Of the South
ern States themselves, recede from their sup-
port, and demand vastly greater sacrifice and
renewed strife The friends of the Compro-
mise Of 1850 at the North, the National Wings
have suffered enough, they have yielded enough,
and they will yield no more. Ii their brethren
Of the South insist upon an extension of Sla-
very over territory now free by the laws Of
Ccngress--laws conceived and passed in the
spirit of concession, and in settlement of Diff
culties endangering the tranquility of the
States--they will find no sympathy among the
National Wings of the North. They may as
well understand this at once. Ii they persist
in this repeal Of the law Of 1920, they will find
the Wings of the North, to q man, as q unit,
swinging into opposition against them
The Union should not be deceived on this
subject The Democracy OF the South should
not deceive itself in regard to the sentiment Of
the Northern Democracy. There is no con-
ceivable measure so utterly rcpugnsnt to the
whole People of the free States, as this repeal
Of the Compromise Of 1920. 1t is doubtless
true that the Administration may secure some
scattering votes from the North in favor of re-
peal. 1t would be strange thing If 1t could
not. With all its patronage, and the influence
Of place. it would be miracle almost if 10
could not secure or purchase lew faint echoes
in the States, or venal votes in Congress. But
the evidences everywhere exist, with all the
force and power Of perfect demonstration, that
in every free State OF the Union, the masses,
the millions that control the political. destines
of the country and Of men, are firmly, deeply,
universally opposed to such repeal The peo-
pie Of tho South higs, Democrats, every
man who loves the Union, it's quiet and repose-
should understand this as great practical,
existing and fixed fact, which no sophistry can
change--n0 false assertions to the contrary
subvert. Understanding IL, they should calcu-
late the stupendous folly Of arraying tho North,
Of all parties, in solid body against the
S0uth--the free States against the slaveholding
States-free labor against slave labor. The
repeal of the Compromise Of 1920, and the ex-
tension Of Slavery over Nebraska, win inevita-
bly, lead to this precise result ts
Much as we should regret tLls condition of
things we see II clearly defined in the future
Hitherto, the agitation on the subject of Slavery
has come from the Northern States we have
been willing 70 regard the people ct the North
as the aggressors upon this subject and iugtire
towards their Southern brethren induced the
national men of the North to resist such az
gression. but this position ia reversed. The
people Of the southern States have themselves
become the aggressors They are bent rpon
breaking down the barriers between slave Ia
Dor and free labor, which were reared BY SOL
emn compact The national men Of the North
resisted aggression, on the part Of their poli.i-
cal associates and friends at home. They will
just as firmly resist oil aggression on the part
Of the South. They will let the institution Of
Slavery alone where IL exists They will leave
it all tho protection which, by the Constitution
literally and fairly construed. il il entitled TO-
but they will not stultify thai: pssiacsa, their
their yisws % policy, Che obligations
o. sumsnisy, BY doing more. They will not
stand out against the spirit Of the age, and the
popular sentiment OF the world 10 favor Of the
i institution Of Slavery, when it thus becomes