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rhe Missouri Compromise, and the Proposed Adjust
We perceive that most OF the members Of Congress,
rom the southern States. who oppose the adjustment
brought forward by the Committee OF Thirteen seem to
be entirely willing to compose the present difficulties by
extending the Missouri compromise line to the Pacific.
We have always regarded the Missouri arrangement as
violation Of the constitution because it compromised
constitutional principle, and had the effect Of an amend
men 10 the constitution, adopted by body which that
instrument expressly forbids to make any amendment
whatever But il adopted for the purpose Of avert
ing great and imminent peril; and, nasmuch as il has
been acquescad in by the people for than quarter
OF century, and because il was calculated again 10
restore peace to distracted country we have been
always willing-nay. anxious-to see its principle ex-
tended to the Territories acquired from Mexico, by
continuing the compromise line 10 the shores Of
the Pacific However. it is now conceded on all
sides that under present circumstances, the compro.
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to look around us for other method Of adjustment
We find that adjustment in the bills reported by the Com
mittee Of Thirteen and, without meaning to assa the
Missouri compromise, or those who sustain it, we beg
leave 10 compare with the proposed adjustment for the
purpose Of showing that those who are willing 10 adopt
il cannot consistently object to the proposed plan OF adj
iustment.
The Missouri compromise was adopted because Of the
Missouri controversy. The North contended that Con-
gress could rghtfuy refuse to admit State into the
Union if il recognised slavery in its constitution, and in
sisted that the right ought to be exercised The South
contended that every State Empowered to have its
own Institutions and that Congress not authorized
to look to the subject Of slavery could do no more
than to that those institutions were republican in
other words the South commended for nonneryention on
the subject Of slavery The Missouri compromise was the
result Of that dangerous collision whereby Missouri was
admitted into the Union, and the further provision was
made that, in all time TO come, slavery OF involuntary SER
vtude except for crme should be inhibited and forbid
den north Of SO deg. 30 min. north latitude, and
the inhabitants of the Territories south Of that line
should be permitted to determine the question of slavery
for themselves, when they framed their institutions. pre-
paratoy to admttaace into the Union Such is the Mis-
souri, COMPROMISED and we hazard nothing in saying that
those who opposed it at the South would have been filed
with joy, had they been able to obtain
is secured by the proposed method OF adjustment
II would have obyiated the objections urged in 1870 to
the Missouri compromise and the power wrongfully
claimed Congress the esrctonsts would have been
We will now proceed institute the CON-
parson we have mentioned, and in doing so we will
6rst speak Of California.
One objection TO the admission OF California is that il
has passed through the territorial condition and
another is, that it has been induced by execu-
tive usurpation TO form State government under
circumstances which prevented the STAKEHOLDER from
going there with his slaves, and using his influ-
ence to obtain recognition Of slavery in the State
constitution. We omit consideration OF the first
objection, because il does affect the matter in hand
As to the second objection, say, with all Difference
that we cannot see how the adoption OF the Missouri
compromise line would mend the natter so far as the
honor or the safety of the South is concerned II the
Missouri line adopted to-day, the executive usurpa
ton would be unrebuked, and California, north of
SO deg 30 min. would be at once admitted into the
Unon under her present constitution forbidding slavery
and who advocates the extension Of the Missouri
compromise line could consistently oppose that admission
Those who contend that the proposed adjustment
excludes them from California would be forced to admit
the justice Of the exclusion down 80 deg 80 min; and
thus the only part OF California which any OF the SOUTH
people think would afford profitable field for slavery
would be forever closed to that institution That portion
Of California which lies south Of 80 deg 30 min has no
very abundant mineral riches, and affords such in
ducemen for the introduction Of slavery Indeed as far
advised, il produces nothing which would JUS
y the STAKEHOLDER for mourning even fraction OF the
expenses necessary TO transport his slaves to the country
south of Monterey His slaves, il carried there without
cost. would be worth less than in louisiana Virginia.
Maryland and he might afford to pay for their transpor
taton back TO the Atlantic Gulf coast II is inevitable
therefore, that the extension Of the Missouri compromise
line to the Pacific would have the effect OF making in time
two States Of the present Territory Of California both
Of which would inevitably be non slavehoding States
Now, il should be remembered that they who oppose
the scheme OF adjustment proposed by the COMMITTEES Of
Thirteen the same men who look with apprehension
and alarm to the probability that the North having the
control Of the House Of Representatives may also obtain
the control OF the Senate. Some Of them the who
wish to see the constitution amended in order that
provision may be framed which will restore the equilibrium
between the two sections Of the Union II seems to us,
therefore. passing strange, and not 10 be satisfactorily
accounted for, thai they willing to make two free
States on the Pacific instead Of one and admit four sena
tors instead OF two II IL clear ms that the Missouri
compromise judged BY its proper merits would as