Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-08-25
IFfom the Washington National Era.l
THE STRUGGLE IN THE NEXT CON
GRESS.

Alabama, Missouri, Indiana, and Pennsylva-
MIA, having yet 10 elect Senators, will send four
Nebraska and anii.Nobraska men; SO that the
next Senate will stand, anti-Nebraska %, Ne
braska 40.
OF the o3i members of tho House, III have
been already chosen, leaving sixty 10 DO yet
elected. As all these will be from the slave
holding States, they will Of course be opposed
to tho restoration Of the Missouri Compromise.
1t is supposed, then, that the next House will
s,and-an,i- Nebraska 1873, Nebraska lO0, show
inc an appurent anii-Nehraska majority of 90.
viii this be an available majority viii
nll the members elected on account of their hos
tility to the policy Of the Nebraska bill be pre-
pared to do all they can to undo the wrong in
ncted by il Would bill to restore the sla-
vory-prohibiiory clause ofthe Missouri comprom-
ise be suffered by the solid phalaux Of one hun
bred and six pro-slavery members, familiar with
parliamentary tactics, TO go 10 a final, direct
voiel Can that apparent majority Of twenty
two be relied upon for successful resistance TO
such tactics Has not the North, with a much
larger majority to begin with in former struggles
been invariably reduced in the end to helpless
minority
But suppose the first exception should be pre-
scented in the next Congress-that the anii-Ne-
braska majority should compel direct vote, and
triumphantly carry such bill, how is the Ne
hraska majority of eighteen in the Senate to be
uvercomei NNill Cass and Douglas, Bright,
Touccy and Weller, Gwin, Wright and Thomp-
a. gsffka Hone, tg11s
the purse-sirings, and can stop the supplies
Aye, il can arcs, all legislation till the Senate
yield" That is true it can do so-but Will
it, When has it ever done it Men who en-
gage in such policy must be able TO look up
IN revolution without fear. Could a majority
of members be rallied in support Of such an ex-
pcrimenii Would not the timidity Of some,
homes, doubts in others, the lukewarmness or
treachery of others, be insuperable obstacles 10
its success
II, then, it should seem impossible to carry
such bill in tho face Of such opposition, why
would it not be better for the l!i:Nehraska
ground Of principle instead ola Compromise j
tho principle of "No slavery within United
States territory" instead Of no slavery in a
portion of United States territory The ground
the flee States stood on in 1918 was the policy
of the ordinance of 1877, interdictng slavery
in all federal territory. Betrayed, and driven
from that position, it was some compensation in
their defeat TO remember that The Missouri com
promise, itself departure from the policy of
the ordnance still secured the larger and more
valuable part of the territory of the Union to
freedom. But in 1854, again betrayed, they
were robbed of this heritage the policy of
slavery-prohibiion anywhere was broken down
and the slave power now demands all. Width
or shall they got Is there lower deep to
which they can be driven They have turned
upon the aggrcssor, determined upon final re-
sistance What now is their true course -
"Fify-four Forty, or Fight I" No more COM
promise-no halfway measure--no issue upon
exceptions Let them demand the revival Of
the policy of the ordinance of l757-"No sla-
very in federal territory. This is a principle,
sound, constitutional, comprehensive, sanctioned
by our fathers-a principle, adhered 10 which
gave us Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois,
and the reputation or wttcffnas given US rex.
us, notification, propagandsm, with horde of
slavery conspirators, who are laboring to use
the Union as the chief agency in eIeciing their
devilish purposes.
Let the anti-Nebraska members Of the next
Congress meet the crisis, then, like men,
They can just as easily carry bill prohibiting
slavery in all federal territory as one excluding
it from above 80 degrees 30 minutes. The
slave power will no more consent to one meas
ure than to the other. Planting themselves up
On principle, they can put forth their full en-
ergies-they will not convict themselves by i'm
plication to any compromse-ihey will show
the South that they have confidence in the JUS
tice Of their cause-They will define the true
platform of action for the party of the people.
which is now rallying for the campaign ofnext
year.
There will be no plotting to induce Northern
members to lower their demands. Know Noih-
ingism will prove disturbing element. Am
bitlous aspiranis for the Speakers chairm
be willing to barter principle for votes. There
are Northern candidates who may seek to wric-
gle themselves into that place through new and
iotuous schemes Of compromise. Let anti
Nebraska members beware lest they invest with
power man who will assign TO slavery the
control of the important committees
After all, it is not Improbable that the real
battle of freedom may be fought on the question
Of admitting new States. Oregon was ready
last year. Next winter, bill for her admis-
sion as State will DO brought forward, and
possibly Minnesota may ask recognition. The
slave power will resist both measures. Its
cherished policy has BEEN the admission of free
and slave States in pairs, with view to pre-
serve "the equilibrium" between the two sec
tions. II will adhere 10 it with desperate ten
ecity; it will keep Oregon waiting, with the
hope of consumaiing the perfdy of the repeal
of tho Missouri compromise, by yokine Kansas
with Oregon, forcing the one to drag into the
Union the other, as slave State. This abom- !
Unable plot is what gives so much practical sig
nifcance TO the resolve of the North, "No more |
slave States" The North and West must
take this ground, or there is no hope for Kan
sas' If their representatives are true, the
scheme Of the slavery party will DO bafled, and
the question of the admission of Oregon as well
as nil the Othpr arOravatinr i.s,,o. FL 49,