The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-08-15
Failure Or ibo Conpromisc.

The ihillre OF the compromise in the Senate
has given'rise to some speculation as To HE
course things will be likely to take now. We
have yet some hope that both houses win adopt
the Missouri compromise line Of Sc deg. 30
min, as the basis Of our adjustment.
True, the Senate, SOM few weeks past, re-
fused to give us that line; but now that the
plan Of the committee of thirteen has failed,
the South will rally with more unanimity on
chat line, and may thus be enabled to carry it
through Congress.
Il is unquestionably the duty Of every true
Southern man to throw his influence, at this
crisis, in favor of that line-true, it is a great
concession on our part, but it is such an one as
we can yield and yet preserve oar holor-it
is o compromise -adduiestsd in by the South
some thirty years ago, and which, on her part,
has been faithfully Carried Ott.
The Nashville convent on took The grohnd,
that the South had the right to dehand abso-
lutte equality in all the territories; that shehad
the sane right with the North to carry Her
property into all of the territorie =; but if this
equality Of right was denied us, that the South
would, IS an extreme concession, consent to a
PARTITION Of the territory by the hne Of 36deg.
80 hiin.
And in this proposed partition of the terri.
tory, the North would have this great advan.
tagA that wtilst slavery is absolutely interdic-
ted above that line, below it, the inhabitants
are TO be left to their discretion, either to es-
tab lish or reject it, All territory north Of it
would be exclusively appropriated to frec-soH,
whilst south Of it, it may be either free Of slave
territory as the inhabitants may desire. By
thds partition the North would get at least
three Gourths Of our recent territorial acquisi-
lions in Mexico; but in a spirit of concession
and compromise, the South has indicated her
Willingness to accept it.
And for making this an ult,matuas, and de-
claring that the South can with honor accent
ao4tiag less, Tie Nashville convention and its
friends have been ~stigmatised as ultras and dis
utSOnEStA by some of the South's own degene.
rate sons. And these same yielding and sue
cnmbing gentry, would regard resistance to
any act OF federal aggression as uHraisns.
Their Institutions about uHraisas and dis
Haton will be spurued by a gallant people ia il
great Struggle for their political rights.
Now that the omnibus bill has failed, it is to
be hoped that all true Southern men will plant
themselves on the Missouri compromise line.
In 1920, that meas ure failed some two or
three times in Congress before It's final passage,
and from this wehaEe ground tohope, notwith-
standing the recent refusal Of the Senate 10
adopt il, that it may yet meet the approval of
Congress. At all events, the South should
plant herselfu upon that position, and announce
her determination to make no further Cences.
sions, be the consequences what they may.z
Whatever those consequences may be, the re-
sponsibility will rest upon the North. Ills
surely time thatevery man in the South should
now be taking hisposition. The platform laid
down BY the Nashville convention is more like
ly than any other 10 unite the South. Those
who oppose it wouldbe likely to oppose any
plan calculated to unite us in resistance to
Northern fanaticism!
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