The Winchester weekly appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-10-24

and the condition Of the patient, and
will not insist that a medicine shall be
administered to-day because it would
have prevented the malady had it been
taken ten days ago. 1t is his business TO
deal with the disease in its present stage,
ard if the patient refuse to take the med.
icine which is best in itself, he must not,
therefore, suffer him to die while he is
wasting time in vain effort to conquer
his obstinacy. If he refuse the best med.
icine he must give him the best he can
get him to take.
We notice that several conservative
journals in the South have lately advo.
Gated the restoration of the Missouri
Compromise as the most suitable remedy
for the present unhappy and distracted
condition of the country. Could the
South see the error committed in its re.
peal, and voluntarily come forward for
its restoration, it would at once end all
controversy. But this we conceive to be
morally impossible; therefore, we cannot
lorbear to remark that we consider the
discussion of this question at this time as
unwise and i'll timed. The subject which
now absorbs public attention is the ap.
preaching Presidential election and we
cannot see that the restoration of the
Missouri, Compromise is question
which the National Executive will ever,
in his official capacity, be called to con.
slider. The Missouri Compromise line
was established by an act of Congress;
it was repealed by an act of Congress;
and, if it is ever restored, it requires an
act Of Congress to reinstate it. If the
question of its restoration is Of any i'm.
portance in the Presidential election, it
must be because there is likelihood, or
at least a possibility, that Congress will
pass an act for that purpose, which will
be submitted to the President for his APP
proval. If it is certain before hand that
no such act will ever come before the
President, the whole question is frivolous
and idle, or at least has no pertinence to
the Presidential election.
We suppose it will not be controverted
that IT Congress ever passes an act REIN
stating the Compromise, it will be prior
to the passage Of an act admitting Kansas
into the Union as a State. Subsequent
to that event, its restoration would amount
to nothing, for the two.(old reason that
Congress has no constitutional power TO
control the domestic institutions of q
State, and that, even it possessed the
power, its exercise would be either idle
OF impossible-idle if Kansas should
come in as free State--mpossible if she
should come in as a slave State; for the
same ma ority which admitted her as
such would prevent the restoration. The
whole question, then, so far as it has any
bearing on the Presidential election, re.
duces itself to this. Whether there is
any possibility that such an act can be
passed before Kansas is rife for admission
as a State? If the negative can he dem.
onstrated, then all agitation Of the sub.
ect is futile and unwise.
The present Congress, which has re.
ected bill proposing the restoration Of
the Missouri Compromise line, will 90
out Of power on the 4th of March next
its successor on the 4th of March, 1859;
and the successor Of that Congress will
commence its first session three years
from the first of next December. Long
before that time Kansas will either be in
the Union or knocking at the doors of
Congress for admission. If then an act
for the restoration of the Missouri Com.
promise is not passed by the present or
the next succeeding Congress, it is Ger,
tain that it will never be passed at all
The present Congress will pass no such
act, for the South has large Democratic
majority. The next Congress will not
pass it, for the reason that the Democrats
will still have the ascendancy in the
Senate. Even the most sanguine Of the
Republican journals admit this, and no
man in that party is extravagant enough
10 claim that in the next Congress the
Senate will be favorable to their views.-l
The New York Evening Post made an
estimate, day before yesterday, in which,
after claiming the election in several
States which the Republicans are likely
to lose, it only reckoned On 25 of the 62
members of the Senate for Fremont
Burlingame, in his speech in Boston, two
OF three days since, made threat that with
Republican President, and Republic.
an House Of Representatives, they would
grind the pro.slavery Senate of the next
Congress "as between the upper and the
neither mill stone" thus clearly admitting
that they had no hopes of the Senate.
We may consider it demonstrated,
therefore, that an act for restoring the
Missouri Compromise will never come
before the President for his considera-
ton. AS connected with the Presidential
election, the question is perfectly idle
mere abstraction, unworthy the consid.
Grafton of practical statesman. 1t is