Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-02-28


We have received flaming circular, con-
tanning the proceeding of Union meeting,
recently held in Bradford County, set forth in
large capitals, and with great flourish of tri-
amph Men who have claimed to- be Repub-
Rcans, par excellence figure conSpicuorSIy, and,
no doubt, feel proud Of their position, and espe-
cially of being instrumental in passing reSolu-
tions, eulogizing such men as Bigler, Douglas
and Crittenden If so, we would like to call
their attention to few facts Wm. Blgler,
whom they feel proud now to honor, has been
the most ultra and uncompromsing pro Slavery
man that the North has had in Congress for
the last six years He has been fosted into
prominence by the Administrations making
him its tool and mouth piece in the United
States Senate, in its scheme of forcing Slavery
all over the Republic. He has recently dis
tngushed himself by bringing forward plan
for compromising the present difficulties, and
it is for that, no doubt, that Republicans of
Bradford County feel proud to mention MS
name What is his plan
lst. That Territory now owned, or hereafter
| to be acquired, be divided by the line sc de-
grees 80 minutes, extending to the Pacific.
I'd. la all Territories North of that linef
j.
prohibited and in all Territory South of it,
such as now exists in the Southern States, to
be recognized, and to be sustained by all de-
partments of Territorial Government.
| g. Territory North or South of said line to
be admitted when the population may entitle
| it to a Congressman, with such boundaries as
Congress may prescribe, but with domestic in
stitutions fixed according to this compromise.
There you have 1.-THE whole of Mr.. Big
ler'S conciiatory and Union spirit" He has
proposed this compromise, and stands commit
! ted to it. eau it be possible any Republican
who has fought so long SO arduouSy, and ap,
parently, so successfully against all this, can
now vote in an open public meeting 70: resolu-
tOns in effect endorsing such abominable dog
mas Yet such appears to be the fact. These
men must know that all Territory hereafter to
be acquired will be in Mexico and Central
America-all lying S0uth Of this line. They
ought to know that part of the present seces
sion scheme is to do ont of the Union, what
cannot successfully be dOne in it, viz flIibuster
in those weak and distracted countries. Mr..
Bigler would secure the aYas of such plumber
to the purposes of Slavery aud fix, beyond the
possibility OF change or even reconsideration,
the domestic institutions of the Territories thus
obtained
| Mr. Crittenden is eulogized and for what
True he talks feengly and eIoquently for the
! Union. All Republicans feel as keenly and
patriOtcally upon the subject as be. But what
does he propose His plan is very much like
Biglers The line SO degrees 80 minutes to be
run to the Pacific. The Territory North to
be free-South, Slavery to be acknowledged
and projected by law while a Territory, which
recognizes unqualified property in slaves, the
new aud dangerous proposition, which We have
fought since the Dred Scott decision was an
nouuced. Slavery being thus established in
those Territories, beyond the possibility Of re
versal, he then generously proposes to let them
into the Union, with or without Slavery, as
their Constitutions may provide Every law
yer knows, or ought to know, that slaves are
property under the Constitution of the United
States and are held like other article, of mer
chandize, it is beyond the power Of State,
| or a State Constitution, to cOniSCate it ; and
/ hence the proposition to admit them with or
without Slavery is speclouS, and cannot effect
! the question in the least. And for this, pro-
fesSed Republicans eulogize Mr.. Critteuden
We admire the patriotic desire Of those
Summer Republicans but their self sacrificing
patriotism can avail no more than the detCrmn-
ed and consistent patriotism of those more
radical members Of the party, who are striving
to pseserve the Constitution and the Union in
their purity-who believe that those who have
lived under them and pro>pcred under them,
and eulogized them for the last seventy years
can 90 SO for the seventy years TO come that
to compromise them, and strike cut their life
and vitality, wonld be the death blow of this
Government Hare1ly Adrocats.