Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-06-14
Joint Resolution in relation 10 the
Missouri COMPROMISE Act of 1920.

"elIdle oI OUT naNondi union uepeHu upon
strict adherence to the letter and spirit OF
The 9Th section OF the act OF Congress Of the
United States, entitled can act to author |
ize the people OF the Missouri Territory to
form a Constitution and State Government
for the admission OF such State into the |
Union on an equal footing with the original
States and TO prohibit Slavery IN certain Ter
ritories. approved March 9Th, 1920.
"RaSolUed, That our Senators in the |
Congress OF The United States are hereby in
structed, and our Representatives requested
TO vote in accordance with the provisions
and the spirit OF the said eighth section OF the
said act, in all the questions which may
come before them in relation to the organs
cation Of new territories or States out OF
The Territory now belonging to the United
States, or which hereafter may be acquired
either by purchase, by treaty, or by con-
quest"
These resolves passed the General
Asse mbly of Missouri on the 18th day
of February, lS47--just four days be-
fore Calhoun brought into the Senate
of the United States, his fire brand res.
olulions, which l denounced upon the
spot-which have been adopted by the
Missouri Legislature at the last session,
and from which now appeal TO the
State-the whole State. How differ
ent-how irreconcIeably hostile to
each other--the two sets OF resolutions!
One makes the peace, permanency. and
welfare Of our national Union, Deepen.
dent upon strict adherence to the spirit
and terms of the Missouri Compromise
in its application to new territory--that
is to say, upon the constitutional right,
and the equitable exercise of that RICH,
to legislate upon slavery in the new
Territory, and to admit it in part, and
prevent it in part: the other makes the
dissolution of the Union dependent upon
the same platform of fact and principle
denying the right of Congress to ad-
nit, or prohibit, slavery in Territory
asserting its prohibition to be vio-
lation of the Constitution Of the United
Sta,es--an insult to the sovereignty Of
the Slates--and tending to the disso.
luton Of the Union. Sad contra
diction this when the same remedy
is both to cure and to kill! and although
the political doctors may prescribe
both, yet, surely, the political patient
who has taken one, has the right TO talk
little with the doctors before he swal-
lows the other.
Yes, citizens! Congress has the power
to legislate upon slavery in territories,
and TO admit, or prohibit, its existence,
in fact to compromise it. She has the
constitutional power, but can never
hereafter exercise it. The new dogma
of, no power in Congress to legislate on
the subject, has killed all compromise.
Those who deny the power cannot
vote for it: it would be breach of
their oath; those who want no slavery
in the new Territories will not vote for
compromise, and thus extremes meet
combine against the middle-and defeat
all compromise. The resolutions of Mr..
Calhoun have done this: and to talk
about compromise now, is to propose
to call Methusalem from his tomb. The
effect, if not the design, of his new
dogma, was 10 kill, compromise, and
dead it is. The constitution will not
permit him and his followers to vote
for any compromise line, opposition to
the extension of slavery will not permit
northern men to do il: and thus there
is no chance for any line. Principle
cannot be compromised. The Missouri
compromise was not of principle, but
of interests after the principle was es.
tablished. The first question put by Mr..
Monroe to his Cabinet was as to the
constitutional power of Congress over
the subject. That being established in
the affirmative, the application of the
principle was matter of detail and of
expediency.
have shewn that Mr.. Calhoun sup.
ported the abolition Of slavery in the
Territory of Louisiana; have now TO
show that he did the same thing in a
State-in the State of Texas. The
case was this; In the session of 1914
AS, two resolutions were adopted for
The admission of the State Of Texas,
one, single and absolute, with the Mis-
souri, compromise in il: the other au-
lhorizing negotiations with Texas for
her admission on an equal footing with
the original States. The Senator from
South Carolina was then Secretary OF
State, and virtual President of the
United States; and in that capacity he
seized upon the absolute resolution, Sc
lected il, and applied it to the State o.
Texas, and thus ran the Missouri com
promise line through that State, there
by abolishing slavery in State-in 6
part of State-making one part O.
the same State free soil, and one par
slave soil, and so it stands at this day
Before that act of Mr.. Calhoun, the
whole State of Texas was slave SOIL
made SO by the laws and constitution
of Texas. The question with our Con
gress was, how TO admit her consist