Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-12
LYNCHBURG VIRGlNiAN.
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. IL. 1855.

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We quoted yesterday from the proceedings of
the Worcester "Repahliean Convention" 70 show
that The nholi.ienists do not desire the restora.
ton of the Missouri Compromise. A paragraph
in the New York Tribune of the cath ut., makes
this more apparent, 1t says;
There are some outside Of the new organization,
but very few who pretended to favor it, Dho
talk of the restoration ofhe Missouri Compro-
mise line as lis great object. Ue know no rea-
son trhv that line should be rcesfdblishtd In its
origin 1t was forced upon the free States against
their deepest convictions and energetic strug
giles bv combination of the oil but unanimous
South, with few Doughfaees from the North.
The Times is no less explicit. What the CT
feet will be upon those whilon conservative men
and journals who have suffered themselyesf be
gullea by these Jellaby philanthropists Remains
to be seen. If they have spark of dignity or
manhood left. they can pursue but one course
get out of the traitors camp as speedily as pos
sible The journal of Commerce. referring to
the erratc course of Of It's cotemporaries,
makes the following disclosure, which it may be
we'll for Southern men to read carefully:
The Courier, like many other Wing journals,
was CHEATED into the persuasion that its indig
nation as shared by the Abolitionists, because
the Tribune and the Times said il was Why 1t
is well known HAT when the Tribune's col
umns reeked from day to day with epithets ut
for The atmosphere of a sewer. against the repeal
ers of the Missouri Compromise, and called up
on all powers earth and below-and where
ever il imagined its influence 10 extend-io assist
them in procuring the redress If that "perfidy,"
its editors stated privately. ihatit vast he re-
garded as the greatest measure for the cause of
freedom that the s'world had witnessed since the
redemption of mankind by Christ"
What abotionsm seeks is mol the redress of /
any fancied wrong donethe North-no protee- I
ton against imaginary aggressions fsayery-
not security against its eStension-but the over
throw of the institution, wherever it exists. no
matter by what guarantees of the constitution, |
or munments of law, it is held and defended
Hence, however much may favor the free
dom of the press and Of speech, we have always |
thought tha, the teloratiou,by the better citizens
of the Nertb,nf the fools and msefeauts, who are
perpetually agitatinG the question of slavery in
some shape or other, is of Itself a most serious
wrong to the Southern States and people The |
effec, and design of all the agitation in tho free
States is 10 lessen the value Of slave property,
and weaken the title aud hold of the owner
Every SHY sentence mat IL uttered, ana every
lying paragraph that is written have this tenden-
cy.and are born of this hope; and the States and
people which permit these things day after day
permitting wrongs and injuries towar their fell
low -coun,rymen which il is the duty Of good
neighborshp and fraternal feeling TO prevent
If the people of the North were disposed to cur
ry out all the moral oblil cations of the compact
designed to make us one people in feeling inter
est and desiiny-they would quiet these mischief
makers in the quickest imaginable why. The Tr-
bune office and all its branch work shops would
be torn to the ground, aud Lloyd Garrison aud
his brother brawlers would be silenced by such
pressure about their ihroats as would keep them
quiet forever hereafter 1t not the part of
good neighborship. we repeat, in the States, for
any of them to harbor and protect those WHO are
ever plotting and practising insult and injury to-
wards the citizens of sister States. Silence and
naetion in the bystander when crime is being
committed,make him particfps criminis in NOR
ais and law