The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-07-27

inpleds and the Senator tF0m INDIANA ano my
elf repaired Instantly to this ball, when, in q
hort time, he annonnced his determination TO
Introduce the amsndment which he had pre-
Jared, at the earliest practicable period. Well,
,ir, when the amendment was afterwards actu-
ally introduced, what reception was accOrdee
to ia Why, it was discussed, and opposed,
and denounced And denounced BY whom!
| speak d with oil possib' . rsspect--is was de-
neuuced BY the .hoposable senatoriFOn South
Carolina alrssdyrsferFed.o Here i his speech.
Il vas deelared hy hin not only % be uncons
slitutionai, but pre-sminenIly dangsrcus--as
thing which had been wrong in its inception,
and infinitely more Objectionable then than It
had been originally. Sir, at a subsequent
period ofthe session, when the Missouri COM
promise was again brought before Us as an
amendment, did the honorable Senator from
South Carolina vote for itt Yes, sir; he did
vote for it as an amendment to the Oregon bill,
but then relu- ed to vote for the bill on account
Of the Missouri compromise being incorporated
in il.
And, sir, let me ask now, what on that oc-
CasiOn was the course Of the Senator from Flor.
ida Mr.. Yulee, who sits farIhest over the way,
aud who has the honor at the present time, /
believe, Of being, will not say the most lead-
ing and influential supporter OF the Missouri
compromise, but who is well understood to be
altogether the most Eealous advocate which 1t
has at the present time, either here or else-
wherel Sir, he voted agains. it as an amend
ment. He expressed the strongest opposition
to it; and said that, under no circumstances,
could he be induced to vote for il. The gen.
Il mans tone has nota little changed Of late,
He is the champion Of the Missouri compromise
now. Yes, sir, its earnest advocate, and can
conceive Of nothing else on the ace Of the earth
which the wit Of man could devise half so we'll
calculated as this same compromise for termi-
mating the disuacling scenes through which
we are passing.
will now refer to what was said BY the
honorable Senator from South Carolina, in the
principal speech which he delivered upon th'
Oregon question during the winter Of 1918
We will presently see what he thought Of th'
Missouri compromise:
GA Eter an arduOus struggle Of more than
, year on the questlun whether Missouri shout
come into the Union with OF wutUut TestIiU
tions prohibiting slavery compromise lin
J was adopted between the North and the South
but il was done under circumstances whic
made il nowise obligatory on the latter. IL |
true, il was moved by one Of her distinguishes
ctiEens, Mr.. Clay but. il is equally so, that
, was carried by the almost united vote Of tn
North against the almost united vote Of til
South; and was thus imposed on the latter b
superior numbers, in opposition to her stTenu
Gus efforts. The South has n yer given he
sanction TO it, or asseoted TO the power
1 asserted. She was voted downS and has sim
ply acquesCed in an arrangement which eh
has not had the power to reverse, and whic
: she could not attempt 10 do without tisturbn
/, the peace and harmony IfIhe UnOn-to whic
, she has ever been adverse. Acting on thi
: principle, she permitted the Territory Of low
+ to be formed, and the State to be admitted int
: the Union, uader the compromise, without OF
lection; and that is now quoted by the Senate
, from New York to prove her surrender oil sh
= power he claims or Congress.
"To add to the strength Of this claim, th
I advocates q the power hold up the name {
Jefferson in its favor, and 60 go far as to ca
him the author Of the so-called Wilmot provis
which is but a general expression OF pOwe
3 Of which the Missouri compromise is a cas-
}, Its application. If we may Judge by his OPi
4 ION OF that case, what his opinion was OF Il
principle, instead Of beinr the author OF ii
: proviso, or being in its favor, no one could
,, more deadly hostile TO it, In letter addresst
!. to the elder Adams, in 1919, in answer to OF
= from him, he uses these remarkable expression
?" in reference to the Missouri question:
"The banks, bankrupt law, manufacture
q Spanish treaty, are nothing. These are OF
= rences which, like Q waves In a storm, will pa
6 under the ship. But the Missouri question
i, "a breaker on which we lose the Nilsson
: country by revolt, and what more, God on
j. knows1'
o "To understand the full force Of these e.
It pressions, it must be borne in mind, that Il
n questions enumerated were the great al
:, exciting political questions Of the day, on whiV
=" parties divided. Tne banks and bankrupt la
i had long been so. Manufactures (or what h
e since been called the protective taHf,) was
q the time a subject OF great excitement, as "
: the Spanish treaty; that is, the treaty by whit
% Florida was ceded to the Union, and BY viii
D, the western boundary between Mexico and q
| United States was settled, from the Calf
n Mexico to the Pacific ocean. A II these exc
ing party questions of the day Mr.. LETTERS
- regarded as nothing, compared to the MissoI
D question. He looked on all Of them as, in th'
le nature, fugitive, and, to use his own iorcib
{ expression, 'would pass of under the ship
> State, like waves ia Storm Not so that Ia
70 ques ton. II was a breaker on which il "
ID destined to be stranded: and yet his name
ts quoted by the incendiaries OF the present
/; in support Of. and as the author Of, prov
: which would give indefinite aud universal {
9" tension OF this fatal question TO all the Tel
il tories. It was compromised the next year
the adoption Of the line to which have ref
red. Mr. Holmes, Of Maine, long member
- this body, who voted for the measure, address
40 letter to Mr.. Jefferson, enclosing a copy
~ his speech on the occasion. 1t drew out
il. answer from him which ought TO be ireasu
. up in the heart Of every man W loves
40 country and It's Institutions. II is brief y
send it to the Secretary 10 be read. The y