New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-28

b. nored landma aud the p'iehted faith of the
South--were nearly ali deserted and cast aside by
their constituents. From the day the great wrong
man to Congress expressly Us lite opponent, and
that man 10 Frapk Bla', Republ can. Mr.. Eth
eredge and .wo or three Others may have been re-
turned in spite Of their condemnation of the Ne.
brasks BILL Mr. Fair alone has been chosen be-
cause Of that condemnation.
Mr. Duer reproduoes, with pomp and c'rcum'
s'ance, the famous pledge signed by several Mem
bers OF Congr,s IS in 1950-l-Mr Clay az tner neaa
binding themselves not to support any mao
there after for President, Vice.President, or any
other political office, Z" who ia not known to be
9. onnosed TO the disturbar CO of the settlement
" aforesaid THAT of 1851, and 10 The rsae,oat, IN
90 ony form, Of agitation upon the subject o. Stau.
eru."-This pledge Mr. Duer says be wrote, aud
WE cannot doubt bis word; since We find him now
hard at work to give the vote of our State for Pres
idept mainly to the mau most immediately and
conspicuously active in renewing that agitation.
He pretepds that the Compromise Of 1885, in spirit
if lot in letter, required the reopeniDg of Kansss
and Nebraska to Slavery; Mr. Duer's audacity is
Lot yet equal to that assertion, though it will
doubtless improve by experience in the Douglas
school, AT present, all be can muster brass to say
is this:
81 think that understand aud appreciate the motives
reasons. naUesces that lac uood Mr. Douglas to
not as /. oten justly said s satLvr The proposition
repeal came from ktDtucty and au sony to say from
the doctrine Of Intevsi founded on natural nsht ADD
resting upon republican incpe. and he rgudd Mssour
irfenl
trnsrsnd doubtless but yet think that the
sy should have ben permitted :, sand DC also SSo
Of 1856 demaueed that the principle OF this: Compfo
over ely sntand the and solemn
pr. miss. b, P s'.snI' nsd eseo ,saos ne sOos
Of the Men eDen prG1Ps osn the Slavery agitation
from the hall. cOnne. and restore eir sOSSrs lt'o1. Of
Win to these reasons PLAUSIBLE but not to my mind IN sc
P Pse The ap sse to Ts e Ss S a rh ~s hsv"
s%s DGass but bin be
obcoreo upon py acted ~itn his patty when
Was there ever such tumble of sophistries
" Mr. Douglas had alSsys supported the doctrine
&" of Non. Iptefventlou." No, be had not; be- voted
to apply the Wilmot Proviso to Oregon, where
there was far less ger of the introduction of
Slavery than in any of our present Territories. He
proposed urged and voted for the extension of the
Missouri line 10 the Psc6c-that is to say, the OK.
clusOn of Slavery by positive act of Congress from
all territory north of the line of $50 30 if it might
thereby be guaranteed tho privilege Of extending
itself South of that line. 1t WAS but last week at
Roche ster that be blamed those who are DOW Re-
publicans for resisting and defeating that PROPOSE
ton. 1t was only after every other device for inn
pcatiDg the Free States in the guilt aud shame OF
exter ding Slave y bad failed that Mr. Dou glas re-
sorted TO the dodge Of No1-Iuterventon.
The reputation of ths Missouri Compact, says
truly Dir. Duer, was proposed by Mr. DiIoa,
Kentucky Wing; and yet Mr.. Douglas is excused
for supporting it by the plea that "upon party
"messure, he acted with his party" The truth
il that BE MADE 1t party measnre-forcsd it on
bs party, against it's better judgment, and against
the earnest Iemonstrances Of macy who we're coo
strained to vote with bin. Mr.. Douglas has fire.
quently boasted that he did not engage fully in the
enterprise of re peaDg the Missouri Com pact until
be had esdent Pierce committed to it 10 writing
80 that be could not back out if he would
Mr. Pierce bad to use all his il fuence and pc
of persuasion TO induce Mr.. Norris, one Of the
Democratic Senators from his IN State, to vote
for that mea,ure, against his avOwed and deep con-
viciOn that it was wrong in prucIp'e aud fatally
iInpotic. From first to las, it was Douglas who
coereed the Democratic psrty-that is, the North
ern wing of it-into the support of the Iniquity
not the party that constrained him, to push on a
scheme which Wing had first formally proposed,
Dzed canon of Democracy.
Mr. Duer says he drafted as well az signed the
famous Congressional Pledge against the renewal
of Slavery sgtation he admits that the proposal
to repudiate the Missouri Compact did renew such
sgitaoD, and that urjusti6aby; yet he is in close
league and fellowship with the authors and con-
trv,rs of that wrong, and is supporting the most
prominent among them for President Trae, he
says be is supporting Bell; but be speaks two
words for Douglas to one for Bell and his Electo
raj Ticket is framed on a like basis We knOp
that the Douglas men on that ticket will vote for
Douglas; we do not kuOw for whom the Osteaslblr
Bell men will vote; even Mr. Duer confesses that
lie does not He talks largely for Bell, but virtu.
ally admits that be expects his Bell Electors to
vote for Douelqs Hear him
"'Bnt how says anxious Republican, how will these
Jon just eOupsss+t to form IN opinion a; am How
them IRON ocirg 40 Yet viii sY that Necessary
nav be asst az uni. Think Ovsh to be
authority W sey that II could b."
So, you see, Mr.. Duer confesses at last that ne
don't know for whom his Electors-for be WAS QUE
Of the foremost in inventiog them-are to vote
Alls lett in the fog. They may vote for Bell; they
may vote for Douglas; they ce tanly will not vote
for Lincoln And that Mr. Duer thiuks, ought to