The Daily Spy

THE FREE SOIL QUESTION.

The Lowell American, speaking of the action of the present Congress, says:

It is evident that the Southern members—the whole batch, with trifling exceptions—are determined to make one more grand attempt to intimidate the North and frighten off the Wilmot Proviso, by threats and bluster about the Dissolution of the Union. This is their old game, and in most instances it has been successful. It is likely to be again. It may be confidently expected that the tempest will become so overpowering that Northern members will begin to waver; the letter-writers will begin to shudder; Mr. Winthrop and Mr. McDowell will begin to shed tears; the patronage of the administration will be used to aid the tremors of the Doughfaces, and finally some compromise or other will be proposed and supported by the whole South, and get enough Northern votes to make it successful. This will all be effected by the omnipotent power of Bluster. The Southern members have not the remotest thought of dissolving the Union; they could not effect a dissolution if they were all in favor of it; but they pretend to be in favor it, in order to scare the Northern men out of their convictions. The proper way to counteract all this, is for the members who feel that Slavery ought not to be extended, to fight the Slavery men with their own weapons. Let them hold a Northern Convention: let them bluster: let them threaten to dissolve the Union if Slavery is extended. If bluster and bombast is more powerful than reason, let these agencies be used on the right side, and made to give victory to Liberty, and not forever be used to give the triumph to Tyranny. But this cannot be done.—The Southern Whigs and Democrats will drop their party prejudices and fight for dear Slavery—but the Northern Whig hates a Northern Democrat, and the Northern Democrat hates a Northern Whig so much worse than he hates a slaveholder of his own party, that no union on the part of the North can be effected. "Divide and Conquer," is the motto of the slavepower—under it they have always succeeded, and they will succeed hereafter.