Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-06-06

impair such right; and there is also sense of res
possibility on the part OF senators and representatives
TO their constituents. But last, though trust in God
the occasion for its exercise will arise there is
that right Of resort aud to make forcbie re-
sis'anee when oppression and tyranny become nsup-
portable
Nor is this great of the South this insti-
tuition OF slavery, The only be affected by the
Tact that 1t IS in minority Is it peculiar to that
interest No, sir. How IS IL with the fishing inter-
est How with the navigating interest. They are
both greatly in the minority How s it with the
man sfacturIng interest Ia the minority. How is
IT with the commercial interest I In the minority.
In short, without continuing the enumeration, every
interest IN this country is IN the minority, except That
great and al-pervading interest of agriculture, which
extends from end of the country 10 the other.
We must be recOncIled to the condition which is in
evItable There Is all reasonable security against
any abuses which may be inflicted in the progress Of
events, which you can no more arrest than You
seize and hold The beams which poured forth from
that great luminary of the system of which COM
pose part or than you stop. its onward course,
the flowing Of the Mississippi river, aud compel it to
turn back TO Its sources in the Rocky and Allegh any
mountains. II is utterly vain to suppose you
quire that equilibrium of which we have heard so
much, between the slaveholding and the non-slave-
holding portions OF the Union. Ii is not necessary
hope; 1t is not necessary believe; but whether 1t
Is or not 1t Is unaanabe by the operation Of
beyond all human or earthly control And 10 oppose
the mmuable and irrevocable laws Of population aud
of Nature is equivalent to demu nd for the severance
Of the Union
| | conclude by repeating that here are FIVE wounds
which, by the committee of compromise are proposed
to be closed. Sir. know what may be said. | know
It will be said that agltators will, after the pas
sage of all these measures. continue agitate that
the two extremes will still cry for their respective
favOre measures that tile WIlmol ProvisO. although
territorial governments will be established, will be
pressed 10 be ndded by supplementary act to be
incorporated IN the constitutions which these Terrific
ries may establish. know it may be urged-indeed,
have heard it stated this hoor-"Pass all your
measures, and we will cry out for repeal" | know
something, | think, of the nature of man. | know
something of the nature of my own connrymen.
speak, aSo with the authority and with the aid of
history At the time of the memorable Missouri
promise, Us at this-and have been unable to deter
mine IN my own mind whether socitude and
anxiety existed then than now-the whole country
was in uproar, the side, for the admission
of Missouri, and, the other, for her exclusion.
Every legislative body throughout the couniry-l be-
lieve there twenty-four then-had denounced or
approved the measure of the admission Of Missouri.
The measure finally carried by small majority
only six in the House of Representatives, where the
great struggle-where the ong-cunnued exerlion
was carried on. And what were the consequent
ces-the tranqulllizlng cOnsequences-whche nsued
! throughout thus distracted country!
J The act was everywhere received with Joy, and
exuliatOn, ana triumph; aud the man who would
have dared TO interrupt the universal and deep-felt,
and all-perVading harmony which prevailed through
out the country, IN consequence of that adjustment,
would have srcOd rebuked. and repudiated. and
preached by the indignant voice of his cOuntrymcn.
And venture To say, if this of compromise
goes 10 the country with all the high sanctions which
IL may carTy-sanciiOns of both houses of Congress.
and the Executive, and of the great body of the Anne
rican People-io country bleeding at every pore
to country imporIng TO settle their difficulties,
and give once more peace and happiness to them
venture to- say that The agitation will be end,
: though few may cruak aDd halloo they please.
e Sir, | am DONE [ would say much more. but
cannot longer trespass upon your time did not ex-
pect 10 have said so much, and my physical powers
> will not permit me to say more.