The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-11-22

south OF ii, in Texas, only the same right OF option
which. by this BILL is extended from that line up to the
latitude OF AZ degrees These facts show both the con
sstency OF my and the great advantage to Texas
and the South OF the boundary agreed upon.
The opponents OF the Compromises often the case
when arguments are waning-endeavor 10 throw odium
on this Texas branch OF II by an anecdole or slme
have heard il several times II compares this provision
to being met the road and robbed. The robber
demanded all the clothes Of his victim; but finally Il IS
compromised by his taking the coat and leaving the bal
snce and said that in this way The robbed man gets
Oft Just Texas did have several objections to thus
anscdote applicable In the first place, the Texans
WE'LL and ready 10 fight for them, and have
done much Of most people. In the next place.
very agreeable kind OF robbery TO have disputed
disputed This part of the Compromise just, fair
and honorable to all parties II removed the imminent
danger of civil war; il ntemnfed her, in some degree,
for her war OF revolution Tor which We had
paid nothing, though she has proved valuable 10 the
Union California, and more 80 to the South. was
advantageous 10 her and e the South generally by
hereafter, which would not have been the while she
remained encountered by her ten million dollars Of debt
and added nothing e the area Of free soil as have
expressly by the Texas compromise OF 1915
MIR. Soue says in his speech:
is the natural result OF one OF the least doubtful of our
republican principles that the majority must rule and we
acquiesce. Page 20.
And thus. whenever that majority shall have spoken
have known them TO be-, we must bow our heads
in humble and respectful the majority
rule Ay, rule IL u but, says the great Pitt, SO
rule not contradict the common principles that are
common 10 ALL The majority must rule was the dicum
with which British ministers used TO answer the COM
plants of the American colonies. What submit to evil
dent, undeniable wrong' We may endure u! Endrasce
implies not consent But surrender convictions.
sentiments and down in silence before the wrong
doer sinking like aps beneath the pressure OF our suffer-
ingsl Upon my heart and soul, neutr, neper!''
think all will agree with me that did small
paragraph contain many errors OF fact and OF prnci
pie this Almost every word and line is fraugh with
error There are many of them that really my mind
is embarrassed to know which 10 begin with, and have
time and space for only few. though book Of COM
ten on them. Reckless OF the constitution we have
known them TO be- he says in reference to the decision
OF the majority favor OF the Compromise. when it is
well known that all objection on constitutional ground
was expressly given up n the debate on the protest
against The admission OF California does not appear
what rule Pitt was speaking Of Perhaps it was the rule
plicabe, much prefer to rely the American author
tiles OF Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson, all against il,
and shall show afterwards against this British die.
tum.
But this "majority rule is what British ministers an.
swered the colonies with" Where I never heard OF
it before Thought the complaint then was no, that
the majority ruled, but that Parliament ruled in which
the colonies had voice at all. The tea and stamp
duties not wrong in themselves we have since,
almost all civilized nations have done, imposed them
ourselves; but our fathers refused to submit to them
because they not represented in the legislature
which imposed them.
"Not surrender convictions, sentiments to the
constitution and laws of the land This is setting al
defiance all lawplacing ones self above it. and
swerng only to that higher aW conscience a, whose bloody
shrine Mr. Seward delights 10 worship, and which is
now reekng with the blood of murdered citizen Of
Mary Not submit! Well, what will
you do' Dissolve the Union, secede, resist These
are the converse of submission, and see no middle
course for between them, and not how violence
could have been abstaned from long, had this been sd
dressed to more excitabe people. had struck
the public with horror rather than feeling of any
other kind .sNot consent" Is il idea that all
must consent TO laws If So where is the necessity OF
passing them "Heart and SOUL" il seems are in the
matter; let rejoice, my country that there
have been few such in favored land and that as in
the past, so may il ever be in The future
Con Globe OF 1850 p. 1888
fro BE Continued