Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-08

excitemen,s alarming To every pa,riot in the
Union. But the GOOD renius of Cancellation
| which nresidpd a, the birih of our insiitution
finally prevailed, and the Missouri compro.
mise was adopted. The eighth section of
the &C, OF Congress Of the 9th of March. 1920
- to authorize the people of Missouri Terri.
tory to form a Constitution and State poy-
eminent" &c. proyides. That in all Thai Ter.
ri,ory coded by France 10 the United States.
under the name of Louisiana, which lies
north of thirty six degrees and thirty minutes
north latitude, not included within the limits
of the State contemplated by this act. slave.
nv and involuntary seryitude, otherwise than
in the punishment of crimes, whereof
the parties shall have been duly CON
yicted, shall be and il hereby forever nro.
hibited prorided 0hpovs. thai anv person
escaping into the same. from whom labor or
service is lawfully claimed in any Sta e or
Territory of the United States, such fugitive
may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed
to the person claiminr his or her services
aforesaid.
This COMPROMISE had the eilec, of calm.
ing the troubled waves, and restoring peare
and good will throughout the States OF the
Union.
The Missouri question had excited intense
aritation of the nullic mind. and threatened
to divide the country into geographical mar
ties, alternating the FEELINGS Of attachment
which each norton of cur Union should hear
10 every other. The compromise aIIayed the
excitement. tranouiIized The popular mind.
a nd restored confidence and fraternal feel
inp. lis authors we're hailed as public hem
eisctors.
do not doubt that a similar adjustment
of the questions which now apitate the pub
lie mind would produce the same happv re-
suits. If the LEGISLATION of Congress- on The
subject of the other Territories shall not be
adopted in a shirt of Cancellation and COM
promise. il is impossible that the country
can be satisfied, or that the most disastrous
consequences shall fail TO ensue.
When Texas was admitted into the Union.
the same shirt of Compromise which cuided
our predecessors in the admission of Missou.
ri, a quarter of a century before. preyailed
without auy serious opposition. The s. Joint
resolution for annexipp Texas TO the United
States approyed March the first. one thousand
eight hundred and forty-6ye. provides that
.ssuch States as NAV he formed out of the
portion of said territory living south of thirty
six degrees thirty minutes moth latitude.
commonly known as the Missouri compro-
mise line, shall be admitted into the Union
with or without slavery, as the people of
each State asking admission NAV desire,
aud in such sta lie or states as shall be formed
out of said territory north of the Missouri
compromise line, slavery or involuntary
Seryitude, (eycept for crimel shall be pro-
hibited."
The territory of Oregon lies far north of
thirty-six degrees thirty minutes, the Missou-
ri and Texas COMPROMISE line. Its southern
boundary is the parallel of ~, leaving the
intermediate distance to be three hundred
and thirty geographical miles.
And il is because the provisions of this
bill are not inconsistent with the terms of
the Missouri COMPROMISE, if extended from
the Rio Grande TO the Pacific ocean, that |
have not felt at liberty 10 Withhold nv sane
ton. Had il embraced territories south of
that compromise; the question presented for
nv consideration would have been of a far
different character, and nv action upon
il must have corIesponded with nv convic-
tons.
Ouoht we now TO disturb the Missouri and
Texas compromise! Ought we at this late
dav in attempting TO annul what has been
so long established and acauiesced in, to ex-
cite sectional divisions and iealousies, TO al
lenate the people of different portions of the
Union from each other, and to endanger the
existence of the Union itself1
From the adoption of the federal cons,i-
tuition, during a period of sixty years, our
progress MS a nation has been without exam
ple in the annals OF history. Under the pro-
lection Of a bounliful Providence, we have
advanced with giant strides in the career OF
wealth and prosperity. We have enjoyed
than any other people, ancient or modern, un.
der a government which has preserved or
der; and secured to every citizen life, liber.
~, and property. We have now become an
example for imitation to the whole world
The friends Of freedom in every cline point
with admiration to our institutions; Shall
we, then, al the moment when the people o
Europe are d~evoung all their energies in the
attempt to assimilaie their institutions 10 oul