The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-07-04
THE UNION.

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ing their interests into the misshapen chaos Of fair
seeming forms and mischefs manifold which constitutes
this extraordinary scheme OF compromise and ADJUST
ment
The scheme has enxrossed the Senate six months, to
shall reach the House Of Representatives its most aus
picous promise there is rejection, 10 be followed by a
final disagreement between the TWO houses And this
ill be the sum OF the history Of The first session q he
hiry-6rs Congress-lhe history OF attempt 10 break,
10 compact and twisted bundle fagots strong and
gnared thai they could hardly be snapped singy-an at
emptto oyecome reason, passion and prejudice ALTO
gether, instead oil engaging reason alone, stt tN
We were driven and harassed into this strange pro-
ceedng by alarms Of danger TO the republic. Well. sir.
California. New Mexico, Utah. the District Of Columbia,
rckety ark, through disrust OF the customary vehicles
of legislation, TO weather out the dark and dangerous
storm, than the storm passed away like a cloud ~
autumn. The omnous Kalends OF June have come, and
with them the extra constitutional assembling al Nash
ville but not its invading fleets and hostile armies SO
also the crisis in the House OF Representatives has come,
without disclosing the steep ruin which was appre-
hended The political elements have subsidized from their
wild uproar. Why not now let California resume the
voyage in her own separate vessel. and following the
The answer \. that the COMMONWEALTH Is Iaboring Of
wounds which threaten its safety II cannot be improper
to apply to each Of them tent that will search TO the
bottom. a 5f'sB66
The first Of them is the alleged neglect TO surrender
fugitive slaves This wound bIeels afesh at every
turn Of Congress to the Capitol:
Thammuz came next behind
sit Whose annual wound la Lebanon allnrod
The Syrian danseis 10 lament his fate,
In amorousd itties all a summers day. gty
Sir il is not proved here that three fngiyes year
withheld against lawful demand nay, think il is
not proved that even one ID so withheld The value OF
what IL called slave property because the laws OF slave
States make u property, is not impaired one dollar
Strength beauty and youth bring their accustomed prices
What then, is the evil The people of the free States
hesitate at the execution Of the act Of 1893 among hem
without adequate provision for distinguishing between
the real fugitive and the free ctzenbetween surrender
ing the unhappy slave and kidnapping the still more
happy freeman And what is your remedy To give
the form OF trial. after the surrender, in the State 70
which the alleged fugitive is conveyed Sir, this will
emily aggravate the exaggerated evil Are you, then, pre-
pared 10 confess that this proud republic approaches its
downfall because slave sometimes finds refuge under
il, in spite OF its laws
in the District Of Columbia There only thousand
slaves here all told The people OF the free States
monsrate against their being held IN hopeless bondage
but they wait patiently, until the mind Of the nation
be moved to abolish IL What answer does this bill give
to these Inconsistencies! proposes remove the slave
shables across the Potomac and in return for that con-
cesson. exacts guaranty OF the continuance OF slavery
until Maryland shall consent to its abolition Sir. this
healing the wound By plunging deeper into it the knife
that made il. Shall We then. authorize the newy-re
turned Minister from Russia to give to his imperial
ter the gratifying intelligence that this republic the only
equpose OF his despotism, hasens TO s fall BY cause
inadequate and inglorious the bare possibility that
one tnOubdnd may, some twenty
hence, be redeemed from bondage
The next Of these evils is the encroachment OF Texas
upon New Mexico. Well, sir. will leave the Terri
tory OF New Mexico in the keeping OF the President and
her free institutions to the OF her people until
she can come here as State and demand admission into
the Union.
The fourth of these disasters is the solitude Of 10000
Momons in the basin of the Salt Lake But this soil
tude is OF their choice They could not live under
our governments any OF States II is, therefore,
solitude sweeened BY independence The remedy pro-
like those from which they fled. Sir, the Mormonr,
when they shall have gathered population adequate to
sustain Stale government. can establish one; and. in
the time. they will be living under the protection OF
our arms, and enjoying the only laws they yet pre-
pared TO endure.
There is. then. only one real wound upon the body
politic--the suspense OF California This is a wound
whose pain is not relieved by anguish in any other part
and this the very which, with exquisite surgery The
President proposes to as TO heal Immediately, and by ITSELF
alone
the country is nevertheless rrtaed excited and distract
ed Sir, the country TO neither excited dis
iracted. II is worried by own delay, and has become
impatient enough ye e approve this Pill
is all.
Still il is replied that the slavery question must be
settled. That question cannot be settled by this bill
Slavery and freedom conflicting systems, brought
together by the union OF the States not neurazed nor
even harmonized. Their aniagonsm is radical, and
therefore perpetual Compromise continues conflict,
ana cOnHict Involves QhdfOcdDly, Oh
national inierestquesions Of revenue, Of internal i'm
provemen OF industry Of commerce, OF political rivalry.
and even all questions OF peace and OF In entering
the career OF conquest you have knded 10 ercer heat
the fires you seek TO extnguish, because you have
thrown into them the fuel OF propagandism We have
the propagandsm OF slavery TO enlarge the slave Market
and 70 increase slave representation IN Congress and in
the electoral coegesfor the brambe seeks power,
though the olive, the fig and the vine refuse it, and
have the propagandsm OF freedom 10 counerac those
purposes. Nor this propagandlsm be arrested on
either side The is full Of exiles, and they
from Polynesia even. from The free States and from the
slave States, goes on, and must go on and will go on,
in obedience TO laws which, should say, were higher
than the constitution, II any such laws were acknow
lodged here And may be allowed here 10 refer those
who have been scandazed by the alluslon TO snchlaws
err the side OF superstition OF tyranny " II Il be
said that every nation ought in this TO follow their own
constitutions al end oil controversies; for
they ought not 10 be followed unless they rightly
made; they cannot be rightly made il they contrary
to the universal law OF God and Nature" (Dsconrses
on Government. by Algernou Sidney; chap LIST, p 4s)
! spoke of emigrants; and wherever those eni
grants go--whflhcr they 60 from necessity OF
OF choce-they form continuous uDbroken, stream.
ing OF colonisis, founders OF States build
ers OF nations. And when colonies are planted,
States founded nations built labor there The first
aud indispensable element and begins aud prosecuics
TO the end It's stne for freedom and power While the
sovereignty OF the Territories remains here, the strife
will come up here 10 be composed Yon may say the
Wmot Pfoviso in the Senate chamber and bury Il be-
meath The Capitol io-dayihe dead corsc, IN complete
Steel will haunt your legislative halls to morrow
When The strife is ended in the Territories you pos
sess IL will be renewed fields North as well ~
South to ory advantages gained, TO retrieve losses in
CURED for both OF the parties well know that there is
" Yet in that word Hereafter"