The fact is, that paper comprehends the demands of the times; it understands the age and its issues; it wisely sees that slavery and freedom are the great antagonistic forces in the country, and it goes to its own side.
Silver grays and hunkers all understand this.

They are, therefore, rapidly sinking all other questions to nothing, compared with the increasing demands of slavery.

They are collecting, arranging, and consolidating their forces for the accomplishment of their appointed work.
The keystone to the arch of this grand union of the slavery party of the United States, is the compromise of 1850.

In that compromise we have all the objects of our slaveholding policy specified.

It is, sir, favorable to this view of the designs of the slave power, that both the whig and the democratic party bent lower, sunk deeper, and strained harder, in their conventions, preparatory to the late presidential election, to meet the demands of the slavery party than at any previous time in their history.