The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-07-27
[ NUMBER 80.

, must prove The two measures 10 be idenll.
! cal this he has not done or even altsmp.
ted. Instead OF that he has adopted his
usual course Of assuming wha, be is lncsps-
bic Of proving. u IS O very easy way To
reach a CONCLUSION that is deaifed. In THE
100 be has disclosed his wonderful aptitude
10 see what no VI @ ever before saw, or sUs.
pecltd. Heretofore all had supposed that
they were very d.heren, thirgs-thut II
compromise was essential 10 one, While tho
other necessarily excluded n,~-Ihat Quo
pre.supposes conf CT of opinion between
parties, on question Of night OF exp. den
cy, 10 have been adjusted On ground, IN
which neither surrendered ils right OF opin.
ion. The other, on the contrary, PIE sup.
poses positive assertion OF tight, or optn-
ION 10 The exclusion Of oil Compromise
Thus 10 the case of the Missouri Compro-
misc, the north and south differed on The
constitutional question, whether Congress
had Iba night 10 prohibit The nirodociion OF
saves, a. condition OF admitting O State
INTO The Imun. clc contended, that Con
gress had the right TO impose Whatever
condition 1t mtg see proper IN a territory
about 10 become State, aud the other, that
! tt hal no right TO impose any, except pre-
scrbed By the ConeulutIun, that It's gov.
oinment should b. republican. The north
on that case waved the claim Of power. Oh
/ the proposal made by Mr.. Coy, 70 FIX tho
northern Limits OF the territory, into which
slaves might be Introduced, at &c. 90
ih- proposal, although made by Southern
member, WIS lukrn up aud carried by the
vote Of The North, and ihus became, IN fact,
their oftr TO COMPROMISE. The South
acquesced, without. however, yielding her
principles or asserting. or dissenting, as 10
tho power Of Congress, to exclude slavery
from the territories Il was a compromise.
~ which both waived but neither yielded
rs opinions rs TO The power OF Congress.
cry different vas the case 10 reference
to tic Oregon bill, passed q, the session
preceding the last. There the North con.
tended tor the absolute right to exclude
slavery from oil the territories, and ahaoun.
ced their determination TO do so, against
the etiofta Of the South TO compromise the
question, by extending the Missouri Com.
promise line 10 the Pacific Ocean. Tho
offer VAS scoinlully refused, aud the bill
passed without any compromise. IL was
u,ended to be the practical assertion Of tho
uok-d ptuclpc that Congress had the pow.
or TO claim tor u, by the Wtlmoi proviso.
u was the get act OF the kind ever passed,
and was Carried by The deser.lon from your
cause by Col. Eenion cud Gen. Houston.
IL Is 40. surprising that tho former should
be deslfuUs OF cln'oundlng this far more
odlous measure e,lh the Missouri Compro.
mise, much les, odious one IN the hope
OF mitigating your deep Indignation, occa.
stoned ty bus betrayal OF you, on question
So yiia &c lhc South. bu, he had another
motive which will be explained, hereafter,
and which makes it stll more desirable TO
bun that he two ahould te confounded and
REGARDED as identical. When il comes 10
be explained, It vii be seen, that i, was
necessary ,ha, they should be, in order TO
esltcale hun from a very awkward diem.
I'M, U which he has placed himself. Job
exclaimed, " na that nine adversary had
written a book ~ and veil nigh, cSclan,
" ch that my adversary might make
speech His adversary must have beer
very much hko mine. we have never heard
~he,hcf hrs had the folly to accommodate
him as mine has had to accommodate me.
have now elltciunlly repel!ed his pre-,
pos,pro:s charge, that am the aIt,lor oil
the " limo; pfosiso; for il is utterly i'm.
possible tha, he ever can show ,ha, am
the author of the Missouri Compromise, or
that that compromise and the Nilmot Pro.
,,so are the sane. But as he has mode it
the position ftom which 10 assalI me with
The charge Ct t,-nnicn, AID through me
you, including his own constituents, shall
follow hun step by step, through the long
process by which he marks the desperate
, ondcavor to establish his pEepos,er ous
charge, by attempting TO show that have
changed my opinlon, as 10 the powers OF
, Congress over the territories. But my
. purpose Is more TO expose his Inconsistency
, contradictions and absurditiss, than 10 re
+. iulc what no advances &c argument. 1.-The
4 could prove to demonstration that | have
g changed my opiplon, il could have no weigh,
o whatever towards showing that my resolu.
\ ton aimed OF dlsunlon. Nor do | deem /,
If matter oiany Importance, in this counec
o ton, whether my opinion has or has mol
If undergone a change, in the long period o.
o 30 yearo, since tho adoption Of the Missouri
h Compromise. At that time, tho power o.
J, Congress over the territories had received
|. hut ltlle consideration, while for the las
II few years j, has been sublec, Of vital in
If tcres, 10 yoa, and, 10 such, has been thor
oughlJ investigated by myself and others
/. whose duty it has been to defend your rieh,
!. 10 the councils Of the Union, in reference /,
10 II.
T, To substan,ia,o the charge Of a chang
IS of opinion, ho introduced copy of wba
10 purporls TO be draft Of o,ler found anon.
I'd the papers Of Mr.. Monroe. II is said TO b.
cr IN his hand writing, 1t is without date
8. nc, signed, or addressed to any person b.
cd name, but contained expressions which leav
80 no doub, tina, ii was intended for Genera
bv jackson. The paper was found filed ava
on with another endorsed "lnte,rogatories-
IN Missouri. March 3, $780, "ro III
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