The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-15

magnanmity than now, and met upon my part with
equal They only a ask1a ,Ss nsd s sses a'ss
The proposition offered extended the constitution 20 mat
country took them at their word They con.ended
take and hold slaves there would be extended also What
would have been the effect is not for me to determine
but the Judiciary OF the country seems to have settled u
pretty conclusively believed, sir, at the time, that
what the North required was that the condition OF thngsn
New Mexico and California should remain as il was
The South were content with that Upon that we met !;
upon that voted II turns out, sir that the position
which viewed myself as standing in was stronger oae
than il the North had assumed the affirmative and pro-
posed to vote the prohibition into the territories
the which are lead the close Of career
and have already led to the dissatisfaction between the
two extremes Of our republic. He says
But sr If this last chapter In history shall be
written The refecys reader will ask whence proceeded
this hostility OF the North against the Souhi He will find
Immediate Interests engaged with the North ia the unequal
struggle Of the revolution He viii find again that when
South considered il cause war; entered warmly in
% ne n w the haush & % asa % SHINING . M ss
unseen and unheard, toing in the pursuits Of agrcuure
had filled The shipping supplied @ the staple & a o' ian
great Of northern abrcsat she not only paid
for these their fair value In the markets Of the word bn
imposition OF revenue duties And still iur,her. II he seeks
for the Of this hostility AZ last is to be found Ia the
the descendants Of those who mainly purchased from
the people Of the North And this the great
II ever the historian writes that as the cause Of the
difficulty need no stronger proof than produce
from the lips Of the senator from Mississippi himself
that will be manifest injustice to the North He says
in his speech Of January 90
.And that may be understood upon this question, and
that my position may 60 forth the country with this
called compromise here that never will take less
than the Missouri compromise to the Pacific ocean, with
specific admission of the right 70 hold slaves there until
they have been admitted INFO the Union will never
sent 70 proposition-I forbear conclusion that
thought Of making.''
What that conclusion was TO be know not; but we
have heard in both houses OF Congress this conclusion to
such sentments that "the South will submit to such
that she will resist to the last extremity
and at all and every hazard" This has become the
sereoyped conclusion in all the southern portion Of the
country hope this is not the conclusion which the
senator forbore If this Union shall be dissolved and
the republic fall and its history shall be truly written,
that .last chapter will read that the republic fell under
struggle the part Of the South TO ensave that which
was free; while the effort OF the North but TO per-
petuate that liberty which already existed.
II has been often said here that it will be cruel as
well as unjust pen up slavery in space, and
by that means extnguish il by lingering death. An
investigation of the facts will show that the institution
is not much confined at presents and to show this have
prepared the following table,
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