Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-29

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From the New York Express.
The slavery Excitenent---The stump--
! tN What Makes DOughfacesf
II is often charged against ~ Northmeu---
| and often with too much Truth, we fear-that in
consequence Of our having no stump speaking"
and stump speakers 1--WE are behind the age in
political information. There can be no doubt--that
in all practical matters-in machinery, mechanism,
and the corresponding sciences in the general
diffusion Of knowledge--we are the very best edu-
Gated people in the world--but " Politics"--as
study--as,a science--is not our forte--and never
will be--until our ablest men, in all parties, are
made TO face each other on "the stump"
II we had that species Of training which our
west, we should never see in 30 intelligent news
paper lin the heart Of New England, too,) as the
Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette, such statement rs the
following:
"Who ever knew the South to yield on any
disputed point touching, in the least degree, the
slavery question: No one. What they have failed
to obtain by tact and intrigue, they have acquired
by sounding alarms and utterng indignant threats"
Let us dispassionatey Offset this query;
"Who ever knew the South to yield on slavery"
with fact .5
| /. In 1887, the South yielded" that five hu-
man beings, called slaves should be counted as
only three human beings in the principle Of Fede-
| raj representation
Q. In 1857, the South yielded" that after
1908, Congress- should have power to put stop to
all that species of African immigration, which was
to supply the South with labnr--as the North and
| West have been supplied by labor from European
| immigration
8. In 1920, the South yielded" in dividing by
the line Of $3.50, 1.-THE MissoMri Compromise line,)
with the North, the Louisiana, then slave sol,
which gave US all that territory north of that line
| to be Free" s}s 45tg
| 4. In 1850, the South yielded" to the exclu-
sion of slavery from the whole Pacific Ocean coast,
| by the admission Of that whole Pacific coast in
California as free State, this admission being
an Offset for q compliance on our part with the
Federal Compact " to deliver up on claim" fugi-
| tivcs from labor.
| Now, we are here making no defence of the
South, or of our Northern Senators In Congress-,
in the Kansas Nebraska matter, or in any other
matters. We think Of them just as our Green
field friend does, but are stating simple propo-
sitions in reply to the general one. Without re-
Election even, we are able to show him four great
cases of Southern " yielding" in very important
matters too. Under government like lours,---so
antagonistc and conflicting in it's free and slave
institutions, both North and South must be con-
stanty "yieldng"-lke man and wife-.if they
mean to live together in peace, and in the same
national family.
It is charged upon Northern men in Congress-
constantly, that they become g doughfacesn there.
It Is very true to this extept, that in the main
| they do not maintain, Tor they cannot maintain,
| the principles that often carry them 70 Congress
| If, for example, the Representative in Congress
from the Greenfield District was To advance on the
| floor of Congress the general statement the Ga
zette here lays dowp,-the able men whom the South
constantly sends to Congress, would soon silence
him with facts, hence, never again would the
| Representative be caught in such mistakel and
hcnceforth because OF bis silence, or conviction,
| he would become a |" doughface."
III we Northern men we're thoroughly trained on
the stump or in constitutional aud Legislative lore,
as were such assu, AZ John Quincy Adams and Dan
iel Webster,- -we shosn not b letcf into adsan-
cling wrong propositions r--and thus be sienced, as
we often are. The .'stumpn would thus educate
us,--even IL We would not read. We should be
| sdoughfaces" before we went on the public arena
to grapple with other men, land hence should not
be educated by law and fact, into having our faces
| made Of .doagh." John Quincy Adams was
| man of immense power in reasoning with the South
| ON the floor Of Congress--because he never adj
yanced unconstitutional propositions, or put forth
wrong statements. True AZ steel 70 the North
he admitted the wrong Of excluding State becsuse
of its having its slaveholdng institutions. Claiming
the power Of Congress to abolish slavery In the
District Of Columbia, he would refuse 70 do itas
long as slavery existed In contiguous territory. He
negotiated treaties for the payment Of slaves, and
protected Southern slave property just as any other
species Of property. Ls.a tgS44r0
1 Now--n the resistance Of Kansas into the Union
OF these States resistance, mean to make In
common with the Greenfield GuEette--let that re-
astance be put upon constitutional grounds--the
ground Of fraudulent voting-volent invasion
from Missouri rccklcss disregard Of the interests
and rights Of the bona fds settlers in Kansas. No
other ground OF resistance Is tenable, or available
1 The breaking OF the Missouri Compact was an act
Of bad faith, we know full well (in which, however,
| New England, through her Senators in Congress,
largely participated, and we would remedy tiff
anybody would tell us how 10 do it, under our
| form OF government-but the repeal OF the repeal
Is legal and constitutional impossoility, and we
have never met the first man TO tell US how il could
be brought about Hence, all Tag tationn 70 ef
feet It, Ia, In our Judgment only the pocsy,
romance, and transoendentalism OF Troubadours,
Minns~ingers, and other wandering political min
strels--utterly beneath the bard common sense Of
our plain, practical New England Yankees.
SHOCKING Suicide AT PErrRsBURs, VA.---F. Q.
Stainback, ESQ.,, -four Inspector at Petersburg, Va,
and oue of the rnost active businessmen Of that