Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-02-17
THE missouri COMPROMISE.
From the N. Y. Eve. Post

FROM the N. Eve oSt'
A southern print says that, if the SEN
ale agree with the House Of Represents.
tives in regard to the question of slavery
in the territories, the Union is at an end,
and counses meeting of all the southern
members of both houses Of Congress 10
strengthen each others hands in the unal-
terable determination not to submit to the
abandonment of the Missouri compromise.
We are not aware, for our part, Of any
disposition on the part OF the northern
members to abandon the Missouri comrro-
mise That measure referred 10 the do
main which was ..ceded by France TO the
United States under the name Of louisa
MAJ These are its very words. There
was no compromise in regard to any other
territory, and nobody pre,ends that Callior
MIA or New Mexico was included in the
sale of Louisiana to the United States. To
the compromise within the limits 10 which
il was limited, by the act of ls2O,ihe north
is willing to adhere, but if any new terri
tory is acquired there must be OF necessity
a new arrangement.
Hstrikes Us, however, tina; the Souhe
members have not always shown themselves
so jealous for extending the Missouri COM
promise to newly acquired territory as they
now are. The whole extent of Texas, both
moth and south Of the line Of compromise,
has been admitted into the Union with
constitution not only sanct!onng slavery,
but placing certain difficulties in the way OF
abFoga,ing it. The compromise which
these people hold as so SACRED has been
treated with utter contempt in the case of
that state.
This compromise, by an express resolu-
ton of the two Houses, abou; two years
since, was soemnly extended to Texas.
'rba! state was as much brought within the
compriinise as any part OF the country ce.
ded to lis by France, not because the act oil
1920 included i! by any fair construction,
bu, because the resolution providing Tor
The annexation Of Texas TO the Union, de-
Glazed that slavery should no, exist in Tex
as north Of the parallel of thirty six degrees
and thirty minutes.
Yet when The legislators ofTexas framed
their constitution, they made slavery leg III
mate throughout the state up TO the forty
second derine of latitude. Texas was ad-
m tied INFO the Union under that constlu-
ton, and the compromise which had been
agreed upon with SO much lormalily, was
brushed away SO easily and quietly that
very few pers.ns even knew that II was
done. The compromise, so far as it rela.
ted TO Texas, was repealed by the act OF
Congress slncton;ng the constitution OF
the new state.
If the Interests Of the slave holding states
had been in question, would the south have
allowed self to be circumvented In this
manner? If any measure hid been be
fore Congress, tie effect of which would
have been TO rlierdict slavery on tie river
Bmzos, as the effect Of the admlss on Of
Texas under ler constitutions, WIS to legit
mate i, in the northern part OF the prov
ince, would 10; the viglani south have rails
ed clamor about northern perfdy aud VIC
lated faith, and would they not have held
us TO the conpac, so newly made, under
The penalty Of perpetual disg race, and sep
a, at on Of the southern states from those Of
the moth?