Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-22
Compromise.

The proposition of compromise line, di-
viding the territory between freedom and
slavery, seemed to receive considerable IA
vor at the Union meeting, Wednesday. Mr..
J. Scott Harrison was decidedly in favor of
this remedy. But little while ago we saw
in list of Southern wrongs, in a Demo-
cratic paper of this city, the Missouri Com
promise-line included. II would be curious
to find that the har of the same dog would
cure the same bite.
Some new territorial policy is certainly
required, for ours is total failure. The
Government of the smartest people on earth,
and whose capability for selfgovernment is
the envy of the old world, and causes the
tyrants of Europe to gnaw themselves with
jealousy has established state of hostility
between itself and its Territories. To emil
CRATE to Territory now, is regarded as an
act of hostility to the Government. An
honest, hard-fsted Democrat goes from Ohio
Indiana, or any of the Western States, to
Kansas, and straightway he is, in the eyes
of the Government, metamorphosed into
New England Emigrant Aid Abolitionist,
for whom hanging is only too good.
Alta time like this, when the utmost cau-
ton is required to avoid exasperating the
South, it would not be consistent with the
conservatism of the Press to throw fresh
fiIebrand into the confagration, by claiming
that Republicans who emigrate to the Terri
tories should not be summsrily executed.
But when good Democrats, such as have in
variably composed the majority of the emil
grafton to the new Territories, are made into
enemies by their own Administration,
merely for making pioneers Of themselves,
we can not call it triumphant territorial
policy.
We have all observed what source of
qualification the Kansas famine has been to
the Democratic heart, although 1t is proba-
BILE that more Democratic bowels than any
other have been pinched by it. Fasting is
regarded as a beneficial discipline for sinners
who will emigrate into Territory; and to
urge measures of relief is regarded as quite
incendiary; and if done from the pulpit
would bring it under the classification o.
degraded pulpit which at the Unior
meeting brought down such united applause
as well from dignitaries of the church, a
from those whose knowledge of the pulpi
must be intuitive, if they have any.
Some change is required in our territoria
policy. 1t is not much matter about tn
people of the Territories. But our reputa
ton for capacity for selEgovernment is j
danger. Some policy should be devised b
which DemC crat may emigrate to the Tel
ritories without losing all rights that whit
men are bound 10 respect. Whether tn
restoration of the Missouri Compromise wi
do this is a question. Probably if it shoul
be established, Northern emigrant wh
went over the line would be thought worth
of the reception which they give our cit
Eens now in the South, and which the mar
ayers of the Union-meeting seem to hav
regarded as quite satisfactory, and nC
worthy of mention.
But the pertinent and foreible inquiry I
Mr.. Groesbeck, on the subject Of comprC
misef-"What confidence can be placed
any new compromises when We have viz
lated faith in those we have made PM
only revived a melancholy recollection
the former fate Of the Missouri Compromis
but intimated a resistance to a renewal
broken faith, from party which could pr
vent such settlement, If it should oppose