Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-06-27

i State % the said fundamental condition;
Il land shall transmit tothe President Of The
4 United States, on or before the first Mon
lday in November next, an authentic copy
OF said act; upon the receipt whereof, the
President, by proclamation shall announce
the fact; wheEeupon, and without any fur
ther proceedings on the part of Congress,
the admission of the said State into. this
Union shall be considered cemplete;a2 A md
whereas, by a solemn public act of the As.
sembly of the said State of Missouri, pas
sed on the 26th OF June, in the present
year, entitled "A solemn public act, declar-
ing the assen: Of this State to the funda-
mental condition contained in resolution
passed by the Congress OF the United
States, providing for the admission of the
State Of Missouri into the union on GER
tain condition. an authentic copy whereof
has been communicated to me, it is SOL
emnly and publicly enacted and declared,
that that State has assenled, and does as
sent, that the 4th clause of The 26th Sec
tion of the Sd article of the Constitution Of
said State. shall never be construed 10
authorize the passage Of any law, and that
no law shall be passed in conformity there
to. by which any citizen Of either Of the
United States shall be excluded from the
enjoyment Of any Of the privileges and
immunites to which such citizens are en-
titled under the Constitution of the United
States: Now, therefore. |, James Monroe,
President of The United States, in pursu-
ance of the resolution of Congress afore-
said, have issued this, my proclamation,
announcing the fact, that the said State of
Missouri has assented to the fundamental
condition required by the resolution a(ore-
said: whereupon, the admission Of the State
of Missouri into the Union is declared to
be complete.
''In testimony whereof, | have caused
the seal of the United States of America
to be affixed to these presents and signed
the same with my hand. Done at the city
of Washington. the 10Th day of August,
1921. and Of the independence of the Uni
ted States Of America, the 10th.
.'JAMEs MONROE.
"By the President:
'JoHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Secretary Of Slate"
Now, this proclamation. was issued from
the Cabinet Of which Mr.. Calhoun was
member. and appears TO have been COM
pletely forgotten by him IS were the Cab-
net decisions of the same year in favor of
the power of Congress 10 legislate upon
the subject of slavery in territories, and to
abolish it In territories; for that was the ef-
feet of the compromise act of 1920. He
actually forgets that Missouri was admitted
upon proclamation, issued from the Cab
met Council of which he was a member!
and goes on to substitute the wanderings Of
his imagination for the legislative history
Of the country, in giving a supposed cir
cumstantial accoun. of what took place
between himself and Mr.. Lowndes, after
the second rejection Of the Missouri con-
stitution, and which led to the conclusions
which, according to him. produced the
compromise To back out, or compromise,
was the only alternative left; and The zat-
ter 'cas eagerly seized upon. 10 avoid the
disgraee of the former" So says Mr..
Calhoun; and, sosaying. he postpone's the
compromise whole year, and couples it
with an event TO which it does not belong,
and makes it the effect oil cause which
never existed. It is postponed from the
session of f6l9-'2G TO the session of 1920
81; and it is connected with the final ad-
mission of Missouri, after she had become
a state, instead of being connected with the
preliminary act which authorized her 10
form a State Constitution. Never was
such b1undering seen! 1t is even question
able whether he is not mistaken in the
statement that he and Mr.. Lowndes resided
together at the time that Missouri present.
ed her Constitution. He says they did,
My impression is to the contrary-that Mr..
Calhoun lived with his family at that time,
(session of 1s2O-'21 in d street, and mir.
Lowndes in boarding house. 1t is also
questionable 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
althougb b he spoke once in favor of the ad-'
mission, after the Constitution was presen-
ted, and spoke with the manly sense and
patriotic feeling which belonged to him.
yet he soon ceased to attend, and went
abroad for his health, and died. II was
MFR. Clay who consulted me about the joint
resolution. and with whom agreed that it
would answer The purpose, and gave my
opinion that the state would agree to it i'm
mediately, which she did. By that JOINT
resolution, the question Of admission was
not to come before Congress again, and did
not, and was purposely framed to avoid a
second appearance Of the State at the bar
Of Congress-; so that all this story of Mr..
Calhoun's about the manner in which the
compromise was seized, to avoid disgrace,
after the rejection of the Constitutlon, is
mere fgment of the brain. coined for the
purpose of getting out Of the Cabinet coun-
ell of March 9Th, 1920. Far better to have
confessed what was proper-to have admit-
ted the truth of Mr.. Monroe's and Mr.. Ad-
ANS dIsinterested testimony-and TO have
taken the ground Of change of opinion
since that time. That would have been
the discreetest course. But, oh, the disease
of consistency! that malady Of his mind!
and the hard fate Of leader, almost affec-
ting the prophet, and bound, under all cir
cumstances, to maintain his infallibility in
the eyes of his followers, under the awful
penalt, Of loosing dominion over them.
Some search has been made in the De-
partnent of State for the written opinions