The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-24
THE TRI,E ISSUE.

THE TRUE ISSUE
The New York Evening Post comedies that the restora-
ton of the Missouri Compromise is mpraccabe in the
present condition of the Senate and hence lays down the
following fhe true issue Y
IA more comprehensive and many think better ISSUE is
presented question of limiting slavery to the States,
and prohibiting in all the Territories beyond the ursdic
ton of the States"
This is only different mode Of stating the issue
which Mr. Seward proposes array the North against the
South it is the Wimot provso applied to all territory
belonging United States and consequently the reec
ton of any States whose laws recognise slavery
legal However much opposed to sectional agita
ton and however solcitous to the of
sectional hostility finally and eectnaly removed
free admit that other certain mode Of attain
ing these ends but take the deliberate judgment OF the
people the question whether Congress shall determine
the character of the domestic institutions of the Terrific
rie and conditions to their admission States
which violate the fundamental principle of equality
whether the inhabitants of the Territories themselves shall
choose their local Institutions and finally into
the Union States upon terms of equality with the other
States This the real issue rendered by the champions
4republicanismn
We know that accept this issue to stake the Union
the result We know that the triumph Of the doctrine
that Congress has power and ought exercise the right
to prohibit slavery in the Territories and to exclude
State because of its recognition of slavery lawful would
be the certain downfall of the confederacy Hence
feel that in taking up the gauntlet thrown down by the
abolonists risk the existence Of the best
that the world and yet in view of all this such
is confidence in the fidelity of the people to true
stutiona principles such conviction that the demo
cratic party is capable of triumphing in such conflict
and such anxiety to have final settlement Of this ag
tng question: that prepared to accept the issue
suggested by the Post and to have presidential contest
in which the great absorbing paramount and final que
ton shall be- whether the confederacy to be sacrificed to
crafty the crazy fanatcsm the than crazy ambition
OF the leaders of the republican movement whether the
peace and happiness Of the country shall to be dis
turbed by sectional agitation. 1t is manifest that the ag
tors resolved keeping up their agitation until they
either induce the South to submit amey to their aggres
son until the great popular voice of the nation shall
efecuay write the forehead of every abo
litcnis that the very will be buried under load Of
odum from which all honest men will revolt
We aware that there serious obstacle to the
making up Of the single issue which abotionists cha
lenge national to combat 1t is most lamentable
fact that whilst there time when the union Of
the South essential to the preservation Of the fede
raj Union, there time when there was more
determined purpose exhibited to divide and distract the
South questions altogether mpraccable in their
ture and subordinate in importance to that which must
override and swallow up all oherswe allude of course
to the division existing in the South in regard to the
peculiar doctrines Of the know-nothngs We know that
in the South they claim to be national and sound the
issue rendered by the aboonss but they do not claim
to be any more national any sound than the DEM
ocrats. In every State except two, fair trial Of
strength the popular voice has decided against their pecu
liar views foreigners and Catholics but unfortunate
N the popular decision has resulted in closing up the
southern ranks and presenting the South unit What
do we in the House of Representatives? body
of southern knownothngs protesting to entertain the
views the slavery issue with tho democrats and
therefore, protesting to be in deadly hostility to abolition
ism knowing that the great issue is to be- whether democ
racy black republication shall triumph in the next cleo
ton and yet standing out with open and fixed hostility
to the democratic organization to nbolitonism. We
the determined hostility manifested by their know
nothing constituencies in all the southern States The
suit must be- that the South will enter into the contest Of
1856 with the disadvantage of having her forces distracted
and arraycd against each other subordinate questions
whilst they will be required to meet common foe an
issue which there is really division of sentiment in
the South. But even with this embarrassment in the
South have unbounded confidence in the ability of the
national democracy not only to repel successfully the atr
cdal blows of southern know-nohingsm but to carry
its weight and still achieve most signal victory abo
Htionism and knownothingism at the North combined
From the beginning of tho contest in the South between
the democrats and the know-nohings have
doubted that its only effect would be to produce heart
burnngs and divisions which would inure to the benefit
of their enemy in the great conflict which
have constantly anticipated since the passage Of the
Nebraska bill whether these ancpatons to be real
lied depends upon the policy which southern know
nohngs shall hereafter adopt they have It in their power
10 make the South unit in the coming struggle with abo
onism they greatly embarrass the canvass though
they cannot prevent the democracy from achieving another
glorious victory. Whilst therefore, we shall in nowise
abate in Jealous opposition to the peculiar enets Of
know-nothngism shall look to black republicansm,
combined with northern knownothngism the real foe
which is to contest the field with the democracy in 1856
MISSISSIPPI CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
We have reported and official returns from oil the
gresslona districts in this State AS have before stated
the delegation to the next Congress viii stand four demo-
to know-nothing. The reported defeat of Mr..
Sngeton in the fourth district is thus fully confirmed