American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-05-20
The oueslIOu. settled.

The question il settled. The English
Kansss compromise has passed both hoqs-
es. and awaits only the signature OF the
President TO become l-w. The 6nzl vote
Of the house was III TO lo2--nembars
absent or not voting. FL; and ia the SEN
ate 80 to 22--members absent 10. Hav-
ing fully expressed our views upon this al
justment. as a fair anil satisfactory bill, We
may now pass to the INQUIRY. what have
been, what are. and what are likely to be
The net results to the South from this great
Kansas blunder?
Talleyrand has said that among states
men and politicians q blunder is worse
than a crime; and 10 the statesmen aud pol
iticians Of the South this truth has been
most foreibIy illustrated in the net results
Of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
The Southern equality conlrivance Of
that KanssI.Neb'aska bill was attractive,
but. ike the wooden horse which ths fool.
ish Trojans permitted to be introduced
within their gates, il has proved TO be fnll
Of armed enemies. and 10 full cooperation
with the besisging army outside.
The origina Territorial bill introduced
into the Senate by Mr.. Douglas 10 1854.
provided but for one teFritory--Nebraska
and involved not the remotest IDEA Of an
an obliteration OF the Missouri dividing
line between the Territories which that
line conceded to slavery AMI those from
which it excluded slavery. The program
me Of Mr.. DougIas was to let that line
stand untouched. as il had stood thirty odd
years. But, in passing discussion Of the
original Nsbrasks bill. Mr.. Dixon, wlix
Senator from Kentucky, 10 spirit Of mis-
chief, mos. likely. threw out the hint Of
the repeal of the Missouri compromise as
an act Of justice TO the South. and from
that momsut, we dare say. some Of the
Leading Southern fre.eaters resoIved to
make that repeal the shi5boleih Of the dem
ocratic party. ~ sl
Their plan Of operations was sotn ar
ranged. The Nebraska bill was recon-
mitied to the Committee on. Territories =
The Southern uItrss met, together, and be-
Jog. doubtless, assured BY Mr.. Senator
Atehison that il the rich territory Just back
Of Missouri were opan to slavery it could
readily be converted by The Missourisns
into a slave State. it was resolved that the
thing should be done. Il would give the
South two more members OF the Ssnste,
and Mr.. Atchison. as one OF them, would
be amply repaid for the loss Of bis position
in Missouri. Next, the co peration Of MI
Douglas was secured. in view Of the pow.
| er of the South to command the democrat
ic Presidents nomination Of 1856. Mex
il we mistake MT, on quiet Sabbslh af
ternoon, a Southern eommittee of three
waited upon poor Piarce. aud with til,
sams inducements speedily made him al
enthusiastic ally to this new device as
1 party movement and as test Of party al
legiance. --A as
The necessary preliminsries b ing thu
happily arranged. MI, Douglas in lieu G
his original bill f,r the single territory 9
Nebrasks. reported bill for two terrific
ries--Nsbraska and Kansss--involvin.
the repeal Of the Missouri compromis
line. The bill was passed. and thus tn
ioag standing iEterdict against SLAYER
!. : north Of the parallel Of 50 degrees 80 mir
ules was wiped out. The object of tn
: ! act wa, declared to be mot to legisla
slavery into these Territories nor to ei
: clude il therefrom. bat to leave, the pei
: pie thereof perfectly free TO regulate the
domestic institutions in their own wa,
subject only to the constitution OF the [
r;faJ ct.to,
With this invitation. under ordiuar
\ circumst noes, the western tier Of Nilsson
ri slavsholding counties aiukiug The eas
ern side OF Kansas would have been con
/ petent to make Kansas slave State viii
' out the slightest difficulty. But the pal
ties in this movement had not counted uE
on the Tremendous and terrible uprising {
e the North which instantly followed th
: work of repeal. And what we repea
e have been the net results? First. the con
!. pleie overthrow and decentralization Of II
C Northern democracy. Second. the steI
o necessity to the, SDuth Of casting ,bo
4 Douglas and Pierce overheard ia 1876
' and the nomination OF a man whose .anc
o were perfectly clean Of any coRtacs vi
# that Kansas Nebraska BILL. Third. Il
o narrowest possible escape OF the Temna
: Of the national democracy from absolu
aunihiation in the late Presidential ele
election. Fourth, the losl Of Kansas
l. the South. after. the most dreadful al
's desperate struggle for the prize betwe'
/ the contending factions which the histo
: of border rufFitnism, political ferocity
II sectional ianaticism in. any country C
e furnish; no, excepting the fights Of the HI
sav 'ge revolutionary factions Of tho Sou
,s American States for political power Al
: plumber.
/. Nor do these losses to the Sonth ct
;. with the losses Of their Northern allies. u
:. with the general demoralizstion. Of the I
moofacy. nor with the loss OF Kansas. 7
law which has wiped out the Missouri i
BE aud left the Territories on the north 81
8 subject to popular sovereignty has a
q left the Territories on the south side, do
1T to the Mexican boundary, subject to {
70 same laws Of emigration. In . word.
tended to pen the Territories north Of
so to the South has opened the whole
20 organised country south OF that line 10
North. end with all the chances 10 fa'
OF an ultimate Northern occupation, fr'
rat Kansas southweslerly. around to the 6
Nor is this ali. The results Of the x