The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-18
The Approaching Congress and the Slavery
ouessSon-PxOGr1mme Of the Central Free
SOIL Abolition Organ.

Quession-Prosr~mms Of the Central Frcc
60l Abolition Organ.
From the Washington National Era
THE STRUGGLE IN THE NEXT CoNoREss
Alabama, Missouri, Indiana and Pennsylvania having
yet to elect Senators, will send four Nebraska and anti
Nebraska mem so that the next Senate will stand anti
Nebraska % Nebraska 40.
24 members Of the House TIA have been already
chosen, leaving sixty to be yet elected As all these will
be from the sIavehong States they will of course be
opposed to the restoration Of the Missouri Compromise
It y supposed then that the next House will stand
anti Nebraska 12S Nebraska 106 showing an apparent
ant-Nebrssks majority Of o.
VIII this be an available majority VIII all the men,
berr elected on account Of their hostility 10 the policy
the Nebraska bill be prepared do all they can TO undo
the wrong inflicted by ity Would bill to restore the
clause Of the Missouri compromise be
suueed by the solid phaanx Of hundred and six
slavery members familiar with parliamentary tactics TO
go to final direct votes Can that apparent majority
Of twenty be relied upon for resistance
such taccss Has not the North, with a much larger
majority TO begin with in former struggles invara
bly, reduced in the end TO helpless minority
But suppose the FIRST exception should be presented
the next Congress-that the anti-Nebraska majority
should compel direct vote and trumphanty carry such
Senate to be overcome Will Cass and Douglas Bright
Toucey and Weller Gwin wrgh, and Thompson reverse
their voess The House holds the se-strngs, and
till the Senate yield" That Is true; il can do sobut
will tr When has il done its Men who engage in
such policy must be able TO look upon revolution With
out fear. Could majority of members be rallied in sup
port Of such experiment. Would not the tmidty Of
some, honest doubts in others, the iukewarmness
successy
IT. then IT should seem impossible carry such bin
in the face OF such opposition why would IL not be better
for the antNebraska members to plant themselves at
once on the ground Of principle instead Of Com
s,.ss p1ep q slavery within
portion Of United States territory The
ground the free States stood on in ls4s was
the policy Of the ordinance Of 1887 inerdcng slavery
In all federal territory Betrayed and driven from that
position II compensation in their defeat to
remember that the Missouri compromise itself depar
n of he I'M utiH 49,
larger and more valuable part Of the territory Of
Union to freedom But in 1854 again betrayed, they
bition anywhere broken down and the slave power
now demands all. Whittier shall they goY Ii there
lower deep to which they can be drivens They have
turned upon the aggressor, determined upon final re-
sistance What now is their course fifty four
Forty, or Fight" No more compromise-no halfway
measure-no issue upon exceptions Let them demand
the revival of the policy Of the ordinance Of l7s7"No
slavery in federal territory. This is principle sound
constitutional comprehensive, sanctioned by our n,
thers-a principle, adherence TO which gave US Ohio
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin with their mil
lions Of free aborers and the reputation Of which has
Of slavery consprators who laboring to use the
Union as the chief agency in eecting their dcvsh pur
poses.
Let the antiNebraska members of the next Congress
meet the crisis, then, like They Just as easily
carry bill prohibiting slavery in all federal territory
as one excluding IL from above SO degrees 80 minutes
The slave power will consent to one measure
than to the other. Planting themselves upon a princ
pie they can put forth their full enegethey will
convict themselves by implication TO any promise
they will show the South that they have confidence in
the justice Of their causethey will define the plat
form OF action for the party Of the people, which il
rallying for the campaign OF next year.
There Will be no plotting TO induce Northern members TO
lower their demands. Know Nothngism viii prove
disturbing element. Ambitious asprants for the Speak
ers chair may be willing to barter principle for votes
There Northern candidates who may seek wrgye
themselves into that place through and tortuous
schemes Of compromise Let anti Nebraska members
ware lest they invest with power who will assign
to slavery the control Of the important committees.
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freedom may be fought on the question Of admitting
States. Oregon was ready last year Next winter bill
possibly Minnesota may ask recognition. The slave
power will resist both It. cherished policy
has BEEN the admission Of free and slave States in pairs
with view to preserve the equilibrium between the
two sections 1t will adhere with tenacity:
1t will keep Oregon waiting, with the hope of
mating perdiy the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise by yokng Kansas with Oregon, forcing the 10
drag into the Union the other a slave State. This
abomnabe plot Is what gives much practical signid
canoe to the resolve Of the North Nomoc slave atcs
The North and West must take this grond there il
hope for Kansas II their representatives true the
scheme Of the slavery party will be baed and the ques
ton Of the admission Of Oregon as well as all the other
aggrava,ing forced he cosnry by the slave
power, win be thrown into the Presidential
Then let the observation-disclosures Of the linton true
themselves, and install antislavery administration,
and all else that Is needful will follow in order The
jority of twenty in the House Mt the next
succeeding the Presidents election would stand firm and
receive accessons The Nebraska majority Of the enate
would be paraysed Oregon would be admitted free and
independent Kansas would be remanded 10 its terrific
rial condition. to be organized by it, actual settlers into
free state And one by would the aggression- Of
slavery be emeded until the principle Of slavery
within the exclusive jurisdiction Of the federal govern
men should be fully carried out and practically estab
Hshed beyond cavil or disturbance.
But all this depends upon electng anti slavery
President and this again upon the union Of the Of
the free states, the one issue Freedom Slavery in
utter disregard of all other political questions Pile your
free state joties In Congress mountain high and
long you leave the administration in the hands Of the
slave power 1t win mock At all your efforts.