The Daily Union

The Barnburners' Agitation—their Element—against all Compromise. The barnburner presses of New York are pressing their agitation against the compromise bill in the fiercest spirit. The Albany Atlas calls it "the most monstrous and unnatural scheme that the necessities of slavery ever gave birth to." The Evening Post denounces the measure in language equally strong; and Mr. B. F. Butler, in his speech at the Capitol in Albany, joins in the denunciation. Considering that the whole object of the measure is to refer the whole question in California and New Mexico to the constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Judiciary of the country, this course of the barnburners shows how infuriate their spirit has become, and gives pregnant indication of the great and growing danger of permitting the question to remain longer open. We trust that Congress will heed the warning and still the waves of agitation, by making this great measure of peace between the two sections of our country, the law of the land without delay. Viewed in its effect upon the presidential canvass only, this agitation is certainly doing more harm to General Taylor than to General Cass in the north and in Ohio; because the anti-slavery fanaticism has made rabid more whigs than democrats. But, in fact, it enures only to the gratification of Mr. Van Buren in his ambition of revenge. It behooves the patriotism of both parties to put an end to it, by passing the compromise, and thus taking away the material on which it acts and lives. At all events, it is hoped that Congress will not adjourn until this whole question has been adjusted.