The Portland daily press., 1862-08-13

as north OF SO deg. 30 min. north latitude.
should be free States The people were de-
luded with this idea. 1t was called a compro-
mise. We do not think it was much of COM
promise, seeing the Red River which CORES
ponded nearly with the 34th parallel of north
latitude, was the northern boundary of Texas,
and no part of the northern boundary extend
ed SO far North as the parallel of 80 deg 80
min., by more than one hundred miles. The
free people of the North were to be clothed
with goats wool! They were to have free
States made out OF territory that did not exist! /!
In 1850, the measures were also called COM
promise. The only concession to freedom and
justice that amounted to anything, was the ad-
mission OF California as free State. But this
made no element of compromise. For Cali
fornia, having made her constitution and unan-
imously excluded slavery, was entitled to ad-
mission on the merit of her own case, and
without any regard to other measures. 1t is
true an act was past, prohibiting the importa-
ton of slaves into the District of Columbia for
sale. This amounted to nothing. The nations
capital was still disgraced by slaveholding and
the sales Of slaves; with all the attendant hor-
rors, the same as before.
The repeal of the law which prohibited sla-
very north of So deg. 80 mid. was also called
compromise. The compromise seemed to be
this that free labor should give up its hold on
the territory, and consent to learn the ques-
tion to the first settlers. The people were de-
luded with the idea of sovereignty, in the
squatters as paramount to that of the United
States, who acquired the territory. 1t seemed
as though the question was to be settled by
the sword, and the rifle between the northern
emigrant, and the border ruffian. When out
came the Supreme Court with their opinion in
the case of Dred Scott, and scattered this de-
lusion to the wind. Then the whole people
took the question in hand, and reversed the
opinion of the Court, by the election of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
We think wehave now redeemed our pledge,
and shown that the party represented by the
Argus, has favored all those measures, that
have encouraged the nation to commence this
war.
We have gone farther and shown that they
have no just right to the appellation of "com-
promisers," which they claim. They have been
nothing else than concessionists, mere doe
faces or tools of the shareholders, constantly
yielding all the latter demanded, till they
boldly demanded that the coacessionists should
assist them in overturning the constitution, and
destroying the Union. This Is more than the.
concessionists bargained for. Such men as
Edward Everett, will not do it; although many
ofthem are ready to do it.
The corollary from the whole is, that since
concessionists have been the cause of all The
measures, secondary to the primary cause of
slavery, that have plunged us into this war,
whether they did it for want of foresight, or
with malice of forethought, they are not to be
trusted now in the nations extremity. No
compromiser should be supported for civil Of
flee by the friends of the Union at the present.
If the man claims to be a Republican, SO much
the worse for him. No doe-face should be sup
ported for civil Office no,c, in the nations ex-
tremity, even if he claims to be a republican.
jew.
+. S. In my last, speaking of the nullifica-
ton rebellion In 1888, / wrote, at has often
been said that Jackson did put that rebellion
down." Your compositor altered it, and made
me say, ut has often been denied that Jackson
did put down that rebellion" jew.