Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-06-14


was issued the 10th If August 1891 Ii 9ursh nce o.
the joint resolution Of Congress Of the ID Of March
OF that year; expressly framed To the State from
applying to Congress again, by referring 1t to the
President to proclaim her admission soon a she
assented to the required rurton Of the obnoxious
article The fact is that Congress did not refuse to
admit the State at allon the contrary passed joint
resolution at her frs session of the presentation of
the constitution for ler admission % certain
ditiOn ON compliance with which condition her
admission TO be complete. without further pro-
ceedings the part Of Congress, and was to be so
proclaimed by the President III this appears in the
legislative history of the country. and was auhenti-
cally reced in The Proclamation issued on the occa
sion. This is the Proclamaiioni
Whereas the Congress Of the United States by Joint
resolution of the Cd OF March last entitled Resolution pro-
vding the admission Of the State Of Missouri into the
that Missouri should be admitted into this Union equal
footing with the original States in all respects whatever,
The fundamental condition that the fourth clause Of the
Goth section Of The 81 article of the constitution submitted
the part Of said State Congess shall be
stued 10 al hoze the passage OF any law and that no law
shall be passd cOno nifty thereto by which citizen
OF either Of The States Of this Union shall be exeu ed om
the enjoyment OF any Of the privileges and mmunilies 10
each citizen is entitled under The of the
United States Prorded That the Legislature Of the said
Slate, by solemn public act shall declare the assent of
said State TO The said fundamental coudi and shall trans
NIT the President Of The United States before
rst Monday In November next authentic copy OF said
upon the receipt Whereof the President BY poclama-
shall the fact whereupon without
further proceedings the pact of Cong admission of
the said State into this Unon shall be considered
plete: And chereas by solemn putlc of the Assem-
bly, Of The said State of Missouri passed the 26h Of june
in the present year. entitled solemn pU lie declaring
the of this State the Fundamental condition con-
tanned resolution passed by Congress of United
States providing for the admission of the Stale of Missouri
into the Union certain condition. authentic copy
whereof has been communicated it is soemny and
publicly enacted and declared that that State has assented
and does assent that the 4th of the Goth of
the Sd article of the constitution of said State
be construed TO authorize the passage of law and that
law shall be passed in conformity thereto by which
citizen of either of the United States shall be excluded from
the Enjoyment of of the privileges and mmunities to
which citizens entitled under the constitution of the
United States. Now therefore, l. James Monroe, President
of The United States pursuance Of the resolution Of Con-
aforesaid have issued this proclamation announcing
the fact that the said State of Missouri has assened the
said fundamental condition required by resolution aoIe
said: whereupon the admission of the of Missouri in
to the Union is declared TO be complete.
In testimony whereof have caused the seal of the United
States Of America TO be affixed these Presents and signed
the with my hand Dated at the city of Washington,
10th day of August 1884, aud of the Independence of
The United States of America the 46ih
JAMES MONROE.
By the President,
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Secretary of siate~
Now this proclamation was issued from the cabinet
of which Mr. Calhoun member, and appears to
have been as completely forgotten by him as the
cabinet decisions Of the same year in favor of the
power of Congress to legslate upon the subject of
slavery in territories, and 10 abolish it in territories;
He actually forge,s that Missouri was admitted upon
a Proclamation, issued from the cabinet council of
which he member and goes on 10 substitute
the wanderings Of his Imagination for the legislative
history OF the country, in giving supposed crcum-
stantIal account of what took place between himself
and Mr.. Lowndes, after the second rejection of the
Missouri constitution, ard which led TO the conclu-
sons which, according 10 him, produced the compro-
mise. "T5 back out, compromise, a0aS The ONLY al
Tentative left and the latter eagerly seized upon
10 auoid the disgrace Of the former" So says Mr..
Calhoun and so saying he pospones the compromise
whole year, and couples it with an event to which
it does not belong, and makes it the effect of
which never existed. 1t postponed from the SEES
sion 1920 to the session of 20'21 and it is con-
nected With the final admission of Missouri after she
had become State, instead of being connected with
the preliminary act which authorized her TO form
State constitutions Never was such laundering SEEM
1t is even questionable whether he is not mistaken in
in the statement that he and Mr. Lowndes resided to-
gether at the time that Missouri presented her con-
stitution. He says they did. My impression is to
the contrary-that Mr.. Calhoun lived with his fam-
y at that time (session of '2021 } in street, and
Mr.. Lowndes in boarding house. 1t is also ques-
tonable whether Mr.. Lowndes did much towards
passing the joint resolution under which the State
was admitted. He was in declining health at that
time and although lie spoke once in favor of the adj
mission after the constitution presented, and
spoke with the manly sense and patriotic feeling
which belonged TO him. yet he ceased to attend,
and went abroad for his health. and died. 1t Mr.
Clay who consulted me about the Joint resolution, and
with whom | agreed that it would answer the pur-
pose, and gave my opinion that the State would agree
10 it Immediately; which she did. By that joint re-
solution the question of admission was not to come
before Congress again, and did not and purpose
ly framed 10 avoid second appearance of the State
at the bar OF Congress so that all that history OF
Mr.. Calhoun's, about the manner in which the CON-
/ nro wa IN afforf bo CO.
cond rejection of the constitution is mere Pigment OF
the BRAIN coined for the purpose of getting of the
cabinet council of March 9th, 1920. Far better TO
have confessed what was proved-to have admitted
the truth of Mr. Monroe's and Mr. Adamss disin-
terested testimony-and to have taken the ground oil
a change of opinion since that time. That would
have been the discreetest But, oh the dis
ease of consistency that malady of his mind and
the hard fate of a leader, almost affecting prophet,
and bound, under all circumstances, to maintain his
infallibity in the eyes of his followers under the
awful penalty of losing dominion them.
Some search has been made in the department OF
State for the written opinions of the cabinet without
finding them; but that weighs nothing against the
positive testimony that they put there The
wonder would be to find them after twenty
years. and many changes of clerks and it is to BE-
remembered that of Mr.. Monroe's cabinet ha:
been Secretary Of State since that time, but Mr. Cal
houn.
evidence which convince the human mind. even tn
most unwilling-that Mr.. Calhoun, as a cabinet min
lister under Mr. Monroe, supported the constitutional
lily of The Missouri compromise act. This fact ben;
established. let what that act was /; and tina
will be shown by the title of the act-by the act it
self-and by the actual condition Of the territory il
which it was to operate. This is the title =
Gan act to authorize the people of the Missouri
territory to form constitution and State government
no mi of fa iufo no Trnio
on equal footing with the original States, and
prohibit slduery in certain territories"