A Gleam Of Light

rnim Un N, Kw, Tost, publican,) Pub. 21. Iu the moaDtime, however, there is ono consderation to whioh wc should not bc I inatteutivc. There is a largc proportiou of friends to the Union in all the northern slave States, and even in Louisiana and Texas - frienda to the Union as it i íb, perfectly willing to live uuder the Federal constitutiou aud Federal laws as they now stand -jet who will be obliged to raaintain a hard, and perhaps, in some of the States, a dubious, struggle with tlie i secessiouists and thosa whoni, by their niisrepreseutatious, they have made their followcrs. These frionds of the Union ask of us tn adopt some mcasure which j may enablo them to meet tho miarepresentatious of theïr adversarles with a prouf of tho friondly feeliug of the northcrh States - some measures whieh they can make the watehword nf the Uniou party, and will reuder their victory certaiu aud oasy - somediiug which will give those who have been seduced by the ! ists and are now williug to return to the Union party a plausible reason for doing so. ThiB deroaud eertainlv deserves cousideration, aud, if we eau satisfy it by adopting any mcasure short of saerifioing our priueiplcs, it should certainly be i done. It has been proposod, as one way of complying with this demand, that the Missouri compromiso should be restored, and the stato of the country, as respects slavery, put back to where it stood iu 1850. If that will content tho real fricuds of tho Union - uot the ambitious, like Mr. Guthrio, who does not represent public opinión in Kentucky, or the doetrinaires of slavery, like Mr. Tyler, who wants to make the best bargain lic oan for himself and Virginia - but such men as Millson of Virginia, and Ethcridgo cf Tennessee, and their constituenta, we do not sco what possible objoction there can be to adopting that course. The woes of Greeee, sung by Homer, did not more certainly proceed from tho wrath of Achillos than the present exasperation of the quarrcl between the two divisions of the Union proceeded frjm the repeal of the Missouri compromise. If the i ration of the Missouri compromise should not be thoaght to answer the purpose, the proposition of Mr. Adams to ereet New Mexico and Arizona into a State, and thus take the question of slavery iu tho Territorios out of the cognizanco of the ! Federal gocernment, deserves to be i fully weighed and considered. Wo j not say that we are wholly satisfied with this moasure ; it is not one which we ehould propose ; yet, taken simply and by itself, without any unöerstanding that the región to whieh a State governiaent is granted shall be surrenderod to slavery, it is diffieult for us to parceivo what the causo of freedom is likcly to lose by it, or how it scriously conflicts with the principies of our party : and if it be adopted with that condition we do not see how we could denounce thoso who might agree to it as faithleas to the cause of humau liberty.