The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-22

is personal matter With Mr.. Csss, in obedience,
perhaps, TO his preiudice against the colorsd
race, or 10 it, what he denies, in accordance with
and the direct result of the bred Scott decisionf
1t is very certain that this Administration has
established new rule. Preceding ones-even
that of Mr.. Pierce-granted passports to colored
people, but this refuses, and refuses on princi-
pie. e 7'A }''4
1t is bad enough, mean enough, to deny the
fair demand of . citizen of sovereign State,
because of bis color, but still worse, still mean.
er, to justify the act by misstatemsnt of facts.
TIE SOUTH" UPON KANSAS
The Richmond South evidently does not like
the request of the Senate for . committee of
conference upon its Kansas bill. 1t says:
"Tbe refusal of the House to recede from its
amendment puts stop to any further action
upon the bill to admit Kansas under the LIE.
compton Constitution, unless the Senate 10 pre-
pared to make some degrading concession. To
this we have no idea it will be driven. 1t had
matured Just formula for the admission of
new States. This has been rejected. Any
overtures for accommodation should therefore
come from those who have 20 far done nothing,
but object to everything"
Perhaps the appointment by the House of Q
committee will satisfy the South that the Sen
ate has not Inundated itself, or that may de-
pend entirely upon the final result. But the
South is comforted .. af
"But we must remind those who have struck
this deadly blow at the interests of their Sec
ton, that whilst victory achieved by courage
and conduct is an honor, q conquest achieved
by the desertion and betrayal of q common
banner is an indelible infamy. aa
off this be q contest of principle, then we
have conquered. The Democratic party and
the South have carried all they had coz
tended for. Their opponents have abandoned
all they claimed. The Black Republicans
have abandoned their restrictions upon Sla-
very. They have gone over to the doctrine of
Popular Sovereignty. But what do such enc.
mics care for principlef They wish to divide
the Democracy, and prolong the agitation.
Their object ia attained. They have excluded
Kansas from the Union. They wish to keep
her shivering in uncertainty until the election
of 1860. Kansas cannot recede or advance.
She has already Constitution endorsed by the
President and large majority of the Federal
Senate. They can recognise no other, 90 long
as that subsists. The question will DO still
open. Kansas will still bleed until the cleo
ton of Black Republican shall stop the hem
orrhage, or open it upon some more vital
question"
The closing paragraphs of the leader from
which we quote, indicate that the Disunion
clique are somewhat Respondent Notwith-
standing the refusal of the House to pass the
Lecompton bill, no Southern member has va
Gated his seat, and no Southern State has with.
drawn from the Union. Says the South:
"For ourselves, and those with whom we act,
we have no concessions or compromises to
offer. We have in good faith labored to bring
the controversy to close. We have not been
met ia a corresponding spirit by those who de-
sire to break down the Democratic party at
apx te TIE ssHth oi The We 4vJ
lilionists shall revel in the power from which
they have been long and justly excluded-per-
haps, when slave representation shall be re-
pealed, when the Federal Judiciary shall have
been apportioned according to population, and
all the offices, honors and contracts, of the
Federal Government, shall be bestowed solely
upon those who deny and denounce the South
there may then be found virtue and courage
enough amongst us to strike for our rights, as
our fathers did before US.
But from the indication of six Southern
Representatives abandoning the South in a
dangerous and critical moment, and lending
their aid to the direst enemies, we have fear
for the future. Commanded by sectional fanati.
cism and tyranny, betrayed by sycophants and
spies, perhaps we shall be found, when the day
Of trial arrives, unequal to our duty, and ft
only to be slaves"
The TRACT SoCIETY.-The next annual meet.
ing of this time.honored institution is antici.
pated with great deal of anxiety by its friends.
A great struggle is to take place between the
ProtSlavery and Anti Slavery members. The
latter will not longer consent that the Society
shall refuse to print line against one of the
evils of Slavery ct the South. The test will be
in the appointment of new Publishing Com.
mittee, or the retention of the old Committee.
The Pro Slavery friends Of the Society are Cd
posed to publishing anything against Slavery
or its evils, and both parties are 30 much in
earnest, tina. the prospect is that disupion of
The Society will take place, whatever may be its
action.
A New HoME-The Union announces eff.
cially that Surveyor General Calhoun is to have
3 new home. Owing to the condition of the
Surveyors health, we suppose, the climate of
Nebraska Territory is recommended to him by
he President. He will return-not to Kan.
Ias-but to Nebraska. He Is still to be SURVEY.
,r General of Kansas, it seems, for the Union |
'emarks, " This latter site, being Immediately |
IN the Missouri river, is more acceptable than |
he present location of the Office in the interior
If Kansas" Does the Union mean that "the |
after site is more acceptable to Calhoun, or |
he people of Kansas? And would It not have
'een as well TO give the reason for this strange
which is, that Mr.. Calhoun's conduct
o Kansas has been such, that he is afraid to |
o back among his old neighbors2
AN ExcHANGE.-The Richmond South, which
rites often in favor of q separation of the
'outhern States from the free States of the
Union, has new plan which, if it were adopted,
re presume would pscify the Fire. Eaters, and
hey would remain inside the much-abused
Union. The South proposes that New England
e given up to England, in exchange for Ja-
1aica. 1t says:
No doubt Great Britain will be delighted
D take New England to her embrace, for the
ccession will round off her North American
ossessions in manner to satisfy both the po-
tical and military exigencies Of the empire.
he United States Government may avail itself
this desire on the part of Great Britain for
onnection with New England, to relieve the
,onfederacy, on advantageous terms, of an OBJ
oxious and infectious member. Here il the