New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-29

Of he LOnlslaIA hunt y reFpi'eu, 50 nc 'e"'
ne. At tts proposal to overthrow AMI repeal
that sacred ccupsc'. That compost had been,
as he describes It, eminsntly SOU 'hern meas.
ure. supported ana carried By a msjority of
Southern members of Congress 10 both Houses;
be hi. he have said by all the SoutherO Sen
stors and by all the Southern Representatives,
with OILY & sc ors exceptions It had settled by
its passage most exciting and dangerous ssis'-
ton; sns, do~ to the time Of the Introduction
of the Ksnsas-Nebraska bill, it hsd been OBJ
ser.ed for more than thirty years VITA the
most scrupulous good faith on both sides. Qdes-
tons, says Mr. Louisiana Hunt had arisen sub
seqa emily as TO Slave in Oregon, Slavery IN
Texas, and Slavery in the other acquisitions
from Mexico; but no man, In the discussion
of those questions, ever dresmed of interfering
With the time. honored and w,ll-se:tled Missouri
mprOmise. Even Senstor Douglas himself
in q report upon the organization Of this very
Kansas Territory, had recommended that there
should be no departure, either by affirming or
repeating the eighth section of the Missouri
Act, from the course pursued in 1850. In the
M, ssuJes of 1880 favorable t. the Souta-
tie country had acquiesced to most remark.
able extent, and President Pierce had given
solemn assurances that this repose was to suf-
fer no shock during his official term, if he had
power to prevent it. "Under these circum-
stances" az Mr.. Hunt tells US in his speech,
"when the country was enjoying an un'n'er-
"rupted career of prosperity, happy, united
"and harmonious, the Nebraska bli was ush-
"ered into Congress- under the auspices OF
"Senstor Douglas, with the countensnce and
"spproval Of President Pierce, proposing re-
"pt al Of the Missouri Compromise. TWAS un-
"eal led fer, neither having been recommended
"nor suggested by any movement Of the people;
sit was simply an act of calculating, shameless
"personal sggrandizement, reckless OF the
"peace and honor of the country, and endau-
"eering the existence Of the Union itself.
"While the people of the South were passive
"and upmoved pending the passage Of the bill,
"the whole North was aroused in violent opPo-
stion, aud the tables of Congress groaned
"under the weight of the petitions, protests
Sand remOpst ,snces Of the conservative men OF
"the North For himself, after due reflection,
"uninhuenced by any sectional feeling, and
"with a determination to do his whole duty
"as National Represt NATIVE, he gave his
"yoce and vote against bill which he regard
"ed as violation of good faith, and as endan-
"gering the Union of these States"
Such 10 the view which Mr.. Hunt of Louis.
lana takes of the character and history Of the
Kansas Nebraska biil-as to which points it will
be seen that he comedies exactly with MIR.
Hunt OF New-York. But such being the char
acser of that act, the question next arises
what is to be done about it Is the North to
sit quietly down under this gross and outrage
GUS breach of faith or if not, when, where, and
how are remedy and redress to be sought and
Obtalnedl
Mr.. Hunt of New. York, it will be remem-
bered, in bis atteDpt-lGckily avery vain one
to forestall Fusion here in NewYerk and the
formation of Republican party, insisted that
before thus taking the matter in hand We ought
to await the action Of the good and true men
the honorsbls men--the patriotic Wings of the
South. But surely for these good and true men,
for these honorable men, these patriotic Wings,
friends of the Missouri Compromise, advocates
of peace, union and good-felOwsbip, and stern
rebukers of breaches Of faith no one has bet
ter right to speak than the Hon. L. G.. Hunt
of Louisiana. He was one of the very few
Southern members Of COrgreSs-faitbful found
among the fatbless-whO had the courage, the
rectitude and the sense of honor to vote against
the massachusetts fraud and perfdy; and to
him surely, If to any Southern man, we may
confidently look for that leadership in setting
aside this fraudulent procedure, and in restoring
matters to their old position, which our North
ern Hunts so modessly assign to the Hunts OF
the South.
1t is in vain, however, that our Northern Hunts
stand thus calling to their namesakes of the South
"You 20 frstr In vain do they expect from
these Southern champions degree Of pluck which
they feel to be wanting in themselves. Mr.. Hunt
of Louisiana speaking for himself begs leave to de-
cline this perous and bootless post of distinction
and if he declines what other Southern man can
be expected TO slip into bis place. Mr.. Hunt Of
Louisiana is not the man to finch at trAes He
prides himself upon being the soul of honor. He
has sought the reputation of (which he at least
does not esteem a bubble even at the pistols
muzzle. But upon this forlorn hope he does no.
choose to CO. Not we are sure, because bis per-
sorsl courage or sense Of right fail him in this
emergency, but because be does not choose to
throw away his political life upon purely des-
perste enterprise in which be is certain to have
no Southern followers.
Here is the view which this Southern cha npion
Of the rights of the North, this bravest Of the
.ork