The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-11-20


Slave Interest, which saw, in its steady growt
an invincible barrier ultimately to its schem
of universal domination. True, it represente
the danger to be one that threatened the ind,
pendence of the South but this is mere
captandumi appeal to Southern PRIDE Ne,
England is constantly losing relatively in pr
litical power in the House of Representatives
but what statesman in that section apprehend
peril to its independence No matter whs
the representation may be in the House G;
Representatives, the sovereignty of each Stat
and each section is pledged for the s0ysEsjgHt
with its one Representative, is as secure again,
despotism in the United States House of Ret
resentatives, as New York, with its thirty.threu
Representatives.
Not danger to the independence of tn,
South, or its institutions, do the champions G.
the Slave Interest apprehend from the growt,
OF the Northern majority in the House. b.;
danger to their audacious schemes of conopes
and domination, of flibustering and annex
ton. Hence their desperate efforts to mair
tain in the Senate what they are pleased t,
call an equilibrium between the free and slav
States, and to control the nomination to tn
Presidency. They got US into war with Mex
leo, for the purpose of obtaining nursery O.
slave States, to prepare for entrance into th,;
Union, pari passu with the new free States.
Failing in their calculation in that adventure
they repealed the Missouri Compromise, 30 a,
to convert portion, at least, of territory con
secrated to Freedom by it, into q slave State.
If they can but drag Kansas in with Slavery,
the equilibrium, as they call it, will be restorec
in the Senate. There will be thirty-two slave
State, and thirty,two free State Senators. This
they hope, will give them enough power to in
terpose a check to the admission of any NOR,
free States, till the new slave State of Ncara
qua is ready for annexation, or something fs
vorable to their views "turn up "'in Cuba O,
Texas, both regarded as nurseries of slave
holding States.
The next four years will witness q tremen
dous struggle on the part of the Disunionists o.
Slavery Propsgandists of the South, for fina
and absolute supremacy, which can be defeated
only by the continued organization and mos
determined action of the Republican Party.
A CORREcTIoN.-In some remarks which W,
offered few days ago upon the "party VIC
lence" Of the day, and in depreciation of th,
bitter luminosity by which in certain quarters
would seem to be characterized, we had oc;
casion to quote illustrative examples of the
evil we deplored, as found both in the North
and in the South. Among similar ebuliticns
of sectional antipathy brought to us. by the
press of the latter, we cited an extract, which.
coming to US in q respectable journal. We had
supposed was fairly quoted from the Virginia
Democratic paper to which we found it credited
The South, Side Democrat, however. of tha,
State, repudiates the extreme sentiments which
have, it seems, been uniustly ascribed to it by,
certain OF its contemporaries, and, in excut
patlng itself from the imputation. remarks;
while this paper is not designated by
name, 1t is well known that the language above
has been attributed to Us. We have before
stigmatized the charge as q base and stupid
Islander, manufactured out Of whole oil,
the New York ~! n 40. We now have to as. y
the editors of the National Lntelligencer, who
we cannot suppose intended to do ps injustice,
to make the proper correction
We are pleased to find that cur~Virpinia
contemporary is able to relieve itself from all
Suspicion OF sharing in language so denuncia,
tory and uncharitable, which, though not quo,
ted by us from the journal which the Democrat
charges with having fabricated it, (nor indeed
had we seen it in that journal we had pre-.
sumed, from its currency in the party press,
without contradiction so far as We had observed,
to be truly ascribed to the journal which now.
very properly repudiates it.-Nat. Lstelligencer.f
The article disclaimed by the Democrat i,
the one beginning, " We have got to hate eve.
rything with the word free pre6xed - free
schools" DC, dc. If the Intelligsseer vii,
turn to the files of the Richmond (va.) Exam
3eer, whose Freedom-hating editor, Mr.. Daniel
was rewarded by General Pierce with a mil.
sion to Turn, he will find in that paper the Of
fensive editorial. But, how ridiculous 70 mako
great stir about such an article, as if it wer,
z strange thing in the South Do the EDITOR
Of the '4nseHigeacsr ever read the Richmont