The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-08-29
rag sLAvERg qgEsmoN sErTLED.

We can see no present necessity for any
continued agitation oil ,ae slavery question
on the part II the snuih. TIE lSet i, iii,
agitation never was designed IL do any good
10 any human being, and neser did d. aar,
except to politicians. They haze mide i;
" pay !" bur IL has never benefited ans otter
class Of persons; especially has II never
benefited the Snuth. SlWery. as il exists
IL the Southern States OF tins Cpnfederecy.
is this ,lay stronger IN every respect than il
was, and stronger Than all the powers af
earth combined against II. Nothing eau 10
jIre The institution, except IT be the insen.
safe agitation ~ the question. II let alone,
&c not impcrilled by artificial excitrmeni..
slavery will extend itself TO is full capacity.
aud wall protect itself To-. The only ,erinus
danger tobe apprehende in regard to slave
~ exrension to regions where il would prob.
ably prove profitable i. thlt. BY getting up
an ex itement among politicians, lhs Nurth
j. urged 70 push her popllltipn INTO natural
slave re- IONS. she hayiaS ] greater surplus u
migratory people than We haze.
What = hi, day the actual 5ldiuy. the ex
i-ting condition. II slatery-ihe il,r nf IL
being-in tire States. the Territories, Tie
Federal district. tie duck yards, &c, 30 idr
y the Federal Gaxcrnmcut u concerned
BY the .nprpni,c measures OF 1850, which
scarcely any one ,,ppnriril ~ All parts. but
which we're acqnmsced - b. both The great
national parties, the qge.lion wa. settled, -
Ear Al related t. 81 the tcrrltors acquired
frum Mexico. California was admitted into
the Union as sovereign state, her people
prohibiting slavery AZ theF had right g. do,
when forming their constitution. Utah and
New Mexiru we're organized a. frrfiturirs,
the Congressional prohibition, 30 strenuou.ly
insisted On by The North, 10 pefsislently re,
sisted BY the Snatli--that oiious prphibtiuD,
/ fastened on the Territories by lie Drno.
cratic party, aud never by any other party
having been laugi,t nut. killed and abapllpn.
ed. fhe bill. also guaranteed 10 iha,e Ter.
tories tie right q admission a. Statrs INTO
tie Union, with or without slavery, a. their
constitutions prescribed. Two point. we're
thus a. definitely settled as human power
could settle them--nou- intervention by TIM.
K Rress IL establish or prohibit slavery. and alb.
soluts tight 70 admission as either free or
slave States when theifpopnlsiion was sulli
cient. No one proposes todo any thing sure.
liz wnh california, and where ia the South
i. there a man not satisfied with the eondi.
ZION II the question IN Utah and New Mex.
leo:
4 new and more eflieient fugitive slave
law was alsn part Of the adjustment Of
1850. 10 those measures. taken as whole.
JOHN Bell and Edward Everett. aud the
whole Constitutional Union party. stand
pledged, ss " final settlement, il principle
and SUBSTANCE" ai the subject.mattets ~.
VOWED. who proposes TO unsettle that adj.
iBstmenti Surely nos the Breckinri,lge,
Bill. Or Douglas parties. aud therefore those
parties must feel satisfied 10 rest the matter
where thDse measures left it.
Subsequently the Territories Of Nebraska
and Kansas we're organized, the restriction
was removed Iron them. aud the right Of al.
mission guafaniied 10 them whenever their
! population was Sufficient, either IS free or
slave States. Many wise and patriotic men
doubted the policy u The measure, and MANY
Others feared that syme u its provisions
we're tDtfrtly INTENDED ~ ~ Hs harm -,