Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-05-06
OPINIONS OF TIE PRESS.


The bin proposed By the Csmmitts Of Conference,
and which passed, for the admission Of Kansas
meets with almost universal favor atthe South. The
Petersburg South side Dsnocrat, regarded as ex-
IRENE upon the Southern question, says that it was
With such unCOnquerabe repugnance thst it regard.
ed all ideas of compromise and concession that it
had disPaired Of anything it could sanction from
this Committee, and adds:
With such emotions predominant. we took up
the compromise report But for two facts We should
have thrown il away with scorn and contempt, when
We found that it was not the Senate bill pure and
SIMPLE Those facts we're these: lst That Senator
Hunter had signed and urged the report: and ID
That the Black Republicans, horse, foot and dra-
goons, had wheeled into solid column against it.
These alone appealed to instinct stronger than
any prejudice, and to which even the mature con-
elusion Of our own deliberate judgment, had we
formed. it. might well yield q revision. And SO
poised between prejudice and the instict of self
preservation, which led Us to look some where else
than among the vindiotive and treaeherous enemies
OF our people for The true ground of the South
solved 70 weigh the subject In the balance of our own
mature and deliberate rehection-carefuIy to compare
the Senate bill with The report on the hand, and
with the House amendment the other, and see
how far it conficteG with either 1t was our firm
resolve, that come what might, we would oppose it
TO the bitter end, if it sacrificed one principle
treated one inch from the bold position on which
the Democracy and the South had planted them
selves.
The conclusion to which we arrived was, that
The b Is better for the South and better for the country
than tie Senate 5izl"
The Charleston Mercury, the able organ Of the
advocates for disuniOn, speaks less disprovingly
than we anticipated. says:
Senator Pugh, in the debate on the late Confer
bill was fair and honest compromise between the
Senate bill and the House bill" Every compromise
implies that something is yielded; and if this BILL
now thellRW Of Congress, is compromise il must
be inferred that the South has not got all she con-
tended for. But what she has got, and what she
has yielded, or whether she has,yelded anything is
matter Of disputation, concerning which there is
g great variety Of opinion. II the matter was now
open for consultation and determination it would be
worth our while, and right, to enter at large into
the discussion, In order that we might contribute
our aid, however feeble, to the proper maintenance
Of the rights and interests Of the South But it is
already settled and has been settled by the voice of
an almost unanimous South. Whether settled wisely
or in consistency with the principles for which the
South, at the opening Of Congress, commended it is
useless now TO discuss. Time, We think, will prove
that this, ike all the compromises which have pre-.
ceded 1t on the slavery question, will only streng-
then the enemies Of the South at the North 1t will
not alay agitation; and those who think that the
Union is to be preserved by such instrumentalities
will only add another proof Of the vanity of their
timid and shOrt-sighted policy. The Kansas agita-
ton did not and does not, look to Kansas alone Il
looks to the next Presidential election Il looks to
the final mastery to be obtained by the anti-slavery
North over the slaveholding South. On every issue
the past agitation it has left the North more united
against the South. And now the Douglas detection
will most probably snnihilste at the next Fall cleo
tions, the Democratic adherens Of the South in the
North, and present, in the popular branch Of the
next Congress, an almost united anti Southern sec
Gonal majority against u.s. Having not the least
faith in the efficacy Of this compromise to ally agi-
tation at the North and destroy Aboitionism to
save the tOerng Union, or to enforce the rights of
the South, we yet deem it highly inexpedient to
keep up any renewed discussion concerning it.