Compromise

The slaveholders secms disposed to concede that if Texas can be anneed with only half oí lier territory eiirsed by Slnvery, the remainder may be made intö freê States. Mr. Clay bas expressed lis anüeipation that sneu will bc the result in case Texia slull be adrnitted: and we find the same opinión reiierated by Col. Een'on, in his late speech in favor of hUbill for Anne.xatiou. "He proposed to settlc the slavery question as we wentaKmg. Jle was lor pe..ce. union, coinpiuniisi'. Ilewould divide the territory iutotwo cqual jjans. aiul give the graimgrawing and raziag región to noa-slavelwldmg States. andihe cotton and sugur regiou to men who workej with slaves. He would neutralize the question of poliiical power, and keep it in equilibriam. He hated the lanaticism oí slavery as mucli as that of antislavery," Thus Slavery Ivas becomo exaltedinto n national insiitution, and boldly comes forward. and claims doniination over one half of all our doBains, however extensivo iliey may become, and our most able siaiesmen nre for granting this insolent demand. Slavery and Liberty are to be keptia "equilibrium"!