The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-11

sR. BUCHANAN AND TIE MISSOURI COMPRo-
MIsE.-ID the extract from Mr.. Bnchansn's let
ter 10 Senator Slidell, lately published in the
newspapers, the distinguished Pennsylvania
rays Of the Missouri compromise line =" 1t
is well known how labored, in company with
Southern men, to have THE line extended to
the Pacific Ocean"
Yes, we ore conversapt with the case-we
remember il well; and the reasons for the co
operation of the whole South in the movement
indicated we're of the most convincing kind.
By running the Missouri compromise line to
the Pacific Ocean there would have been an
end Of the controversy; the South would have
secured the southern half Of California not
the gold mines, but . fine territory adapted to
Gotten, tobacco, the olive and the vine. This
would have given the South, also, an Offset to
the free State of California in the Senate,
which to Southern men was the vital issue;
but all motions to this end were over and over
again rejected. Furthermore, the Missouri
line as boundary between the two sections
would hawe given Kansas, Nebraska, and
vast empire besides, to the North, without fur
ther dispute, while to the South it would have
secured all future annexations from Mexico
Q consideration which was not overlooked ct
Washington. But the democratic party was
divided. The popular sovereignty doctrine
upon which they had fought the battle for
Gen. Cass two years before, proved also the
stronger side. And so the South were borne
down upon the admission Of California-the
Missouri compromise was declared humbug
and none were more active in kicking it out OF
Congress than Seward and his free soil Co
laborers in both houses Now the South and
Mr.. Buchanan insist that as Seward and the
whole North would have it 90 in 1850, they
should stand by the same principle Of repeal
as embodied in the subsequent Kansas-Nebras
Ia bill.
While upon this subject we have had our at
tention called to the files of the New YORK HE-
RAID Of 1854, and to the following extract Of q
letter from our London correspondent, publish
ed in our Sunday issue Of June Is, Of that year.
The extract is as follows, and we are satisfied
that the authority for it was Mr.. Buchanan
himself
LONDON, May 80, 1854.
Considerable has been said about Mr.. Bachanans OPT
nj the Nebraska bill. 1t may be condensed into
to frend-"I do not see what earthly good It can 90
the South it passes; and had been consuited upon it,
against the expectancy Of naoducng anything that
would, by any possibility give se to discussion the
subject Of slavery, and By doing disturb the peacs q
North and South, without good to either ye
were in the Senate that the bill Is introduced, and
making much trouble should vote for 1t. AT the
viii smbtter the feelings Of enc section Of tie country
against the other" These sentiments Mr.. B. has fully
subject.
If we are not mistaken, General Cass held
the same opinions in the outset, as to the ex
pediency of the measure. The administration
certainly did, if the columns Of the Washing.
ton Union may be cited as evidence. But TIE
free soil necessities of Mr.. Pierce were para
mount, and hence the bold plunge OF the Kan
eas- Nebraska bill. It would clear him of his
free soil associations in New York; but they
are with him still, and where is he?
A VoTE OF THANKS TO SENATOR SIcKLEs.-
Our fellow citizens of this metropolis who
prefer law and order to anarchy and ruffian-
ism, who prefer our present police system to
the system of barefaced corruption from which
we have 80 narrowly escaped, owe vote of
thanks to Senator Sickles for his effective
agency in the defeat Of that notorious bill.
He killed it by killing time, upon repeated
motions and ten minute speeches; and never
did any public agent better devote his time to
the solid interests of his constituents.
We have escaped the plumber jobbers and
the short boys for the present; and if Cover
nor Clark sticks to his word we are free for
twelvemonth, at least, from their threatened
scheme of rowdyi.m and spoliation. But is
the Governor reliable? We spprehend that
the appliances brought to bear upon his amt
able, weak and vascillsting mind will shake
his fortitude upon the only conspicuouslJ
creditable act Of his official career, aud til 1t
the danger is that the unsatiated spoilsmen
that cluster about him will induce him yet to
call an extra session. We admonish him to
beware The people are satisfied with the
position he has taken, and want no extra ses
sion. A hundred days out Of three hundred
and sixty-fve is margin enough for the law
tinkering required at Albany.
MISS KMBERIY's READING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
poem was read Wednesday evening, 1t Hope Chapel,
for the second time, by Miss Kimberly. Fren the
ber Of public readings which have already besu give o.
Hawaths in this and other cities and the with
which it has been generally received it would be
Of the most popular productions which have been
published recently in this country This, hewever Is
just criterion Of it's popularity and s after all bat poo
1t its merits. The reading Of 1t in private is very
different thing and makes rather dull and prosy affair
Wednesday night, We understand, Miss Kimbsry's
eirhth reading vii read sp.in this evaniuc