The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-09-24
A New Compromise.


sation Of theoshve trade, ~ a test tenet,
into the party creed 1t the Charleston
Couv cntion. is likely to disturb the liars.1
imony Of that body. Tho dread Of COLI
sion between hostile factions has induced
some Southern journals socast about for
a compromise upon whichoadverse views
respecting this emincntly Democratic
measure may be rccor ciled. This is prop
er. The success, perhaps the very exist
ence, of The party may depend upon it,
As planting and propagating negroes ON
soil where they are not indigenous has
become the leading object Of the "Na-
tional Democracy" it seems important
that the supply should equal the demand;
otherwise the party would have to dis
band from sheer want Of the material for
carrying out its principles. Therefore,
if i, cannot raise negroes enough in Amer
lea it must steal the balance 10 Africa.
/ Seeing the dill NINA in which the party
is situated, The Ntn Orleans Crescent has
hit upon happy way Of escape out of
the difficulty. Proceeding logically to
work, it frst stntes the case thus: /.
sly ry politician has his eyes vide
open to the fact that the re-opening of
the slave trade is an issue likely to prove
most woful element of discord in the
Charleston Convention, where very stub
born and influential minority will be pres.
ent to stand on the affirmative, and CON-
bat for the cause of the extremists whom
they represent. E@w
After expressing its fears-somewhat
groundless, we think-that the Northern
Democracy will not at present assent to q
total repeal Of the laws prohibiting tho
traffic. and that the ultra South viii in
sist upon substantial concessions ia that
direction, The Crescent says, "some CON-
| ''promise must be DEVISED" and it sug-
gests the following: .-#.T-ra q. :
'No better expedient may be hit upon
to supply it than to incorporate the sbro-
cation of the treaty which binds the Uni.
ted States to keep up squadron for the
suppression of the slave trade, as the
prime sectional issue Of the contest, in
place of the re-opeuing of the traffic as
the extremists advocate"
Having thus staked out the middle
ground on which the antagonism may
meet, The Crescent tries to coax its Dem.
ocratic friends of both sections of the
Union to stand upon it. And FIRST of
the negro stealers 1t assures them that
its plans will secure to them, immediately,
plenty of the human commodity they
covet, though through rather clandestine
channels, and will prepare the way for
the ultimate fruition Of their fondest
hopes in the Equalization of the traffic
Hear it:
"This compromise. the abrogation Of
the convention which requires the main
tenance of squadron Of slave-catchers
on the African coast, should prove salts.
factory TO the South, for is not such a
step sufficient to gain alrcady--sufiicient
to convince even the extren lists that their
cause is advancing Rome was not built
in day, neither can system of national
policy which has been maintained for
years be subverted but by slow aud steady
approaches TO the end. Appreciatiue
how Injurious to the South will be the
attempt to cngratt the dead weight of
such a violent issue as re-openin: of the
slave trade, they should certainly accept
any compromise which will enable them
still to go onward, and will spare them,
the modification of going backward, or,
what is worse, the injury Of adhering to
a losing game. They can reasonably con
sole themselves, too, with the conviction
that If the liAontinuance Of the blockade
of the African coast is accomplished they
will experience little difficulty in secur-
ing such additions to the slave population
as will NEE, the demands of labor supply"
Presuming that the Southern Denoc-
racy will be satisfied that its scheme Of
removing the bloekading squadron will
cuabe them to kidnap in Congo, Guinea,
and other African slave haunts, and trans
port to New Orleans, Charleston. and 9TH
er American slave markets, all the negroes
which the exigences Of the party and the
planters may demand, Tie Crescent, turn
ing to its Northern allies, disp,sas of their
case 10 the most summary style. 1t
says: Douglas, and his very essential
Northern constituency, could not hest
"tate to place themselves upon this plat
"form. This compromise will, doubtless,
prove Acceptable to the North
Whether this mode of adjusting the
difficulty will be equally acceptable to the
negro stealing Democracy of the South
and their, as yet, reluctant conductors Of
the North, may be doubted. The moral
ity and decency of the plan cannot be
questioned. 1t is Ito cite what would be
an analogous case) simply proposition
from the burglars and thieves Of the Five
Points to their coy confederates dwelling
in cleaner parts of the city, not exactly
to repea! the laws forbidding robbery, lar
ceny, oud shop lifting, but to remove the
nigh. watch and extingnish the gaslights,
so that they could conjointly pick pockets,
break into banks, and rob warehouses
without running the risk Of detection in
the act, or conviction for the offcnse af.
terward We beg pardon Of the Sound
relism of the Five Points for instituting
this comparison between it and man mon
gerns We doubt not it regards negro
stealing in Africa as rather more wicked,
| and pseat deal meaner, than picking