Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-19

The Missouri question had excited intense agitation of the
public mind and threatened to divide the country into geo
graphical parties alternating the feelings Of attachment which
each portion of Union should bear to every other The
compromise allayed the excitement anguized the popular
mind and restored confidence and raenal feelings lis
authors were hailed as public bencactors
do not doubt that similar adjustment Of the questions
which now aeate the public mind would produce the
happy results II the legislation Of Congress the subject
Of the other Territories shall be adopted spirit Of
citation and compromise, impossible that the country
be satisfied or that the most disastrous consequences shall fail
TO ensue.
When Texas was admitted into the Union the same spirit
Of compromise which guided predecessors 10 the admission
Of Missouri quarter Of century before, prevailed without
any serious opposition. The joint resolution for anneIing
Texas the United States, approved March the FIRST
thousand eight hundred and forty five provides that such
may be formed Of that portion Of said territory
Lying south Of thirty six degrees thirty minutes north lsi
tpde commonly known the Missouri compromise line,
shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery
the people Of each State asking admission may desire and
in such state States shall be formed out OF said terrific
y north Of the Missouri compromise line slavery nvolun
tary servitude Except for crime) shall be prohibited"
The territory Of Oregon lies far north OF thirty degrees
thirty minutes the Missouri and Texas compromise line. Its
southern boundary the parallel Of 49, leaving the nerme
diae distance be three hundred and thirty geographical
miles.
And is because the provisions Of this bill ncon
ssten with the terms Of the Missouri compromise, extend
ed from tie Rio Grande the Pacific ocean, that have not
felt at liberty withhold my sanction Had II embraced ter
rtoes south Of that compromises, the question presented Tor
my consideration would have been Of far different character
and my action upon must have coresponded with my con.
/ vicons.
Ought disturb the Missouri and Texas compro
misses Ought We this late day, in attempting TO snnul
what has been long established and acquescedin excite
sectional divisions and esoues ALLEVIATE the people OF diff
en portions q the Union from each other, and TO endanger
the existence Of the Union itself
From the adoption Of tho Federal Constitution during
period sixty years. our progress nation has been with
example in the annals Of history Under the protection
Of bounu Prov Jence have advanced with giant strides
in the Of wealth and prosperity We have enjoyed the
blessings OF freedom greater extent than any other peo-
pie ancient MODERN usder Government which has pre-
served order and secured every citizen life liberty and pro-
perry We have now become example for imitation TO
the whole world. The friends Of freedom IN every cline
point with admiration institutions Shall we, them at
the when the people Of Europe dcyong oil their
energies in the attempt to assma,e their institutions TO our