Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-09

We stated IN the article referred TO in the
Record, that we had no intention Of discussing
the priaeipies contained in the Jackson Resolu-
tions, Che subject not seeming TO be Of sufficient
Eimportancey but, as the Editor Of lhe Record
seem, TO have taken up the idea that we favor
all the positions laid down in the Resolutions,
we win briefly review them as it's somewhat
disagreeablc 10 be so entirely misunderstood.
The first resolution declares that Congress has
no power to legislate on the subject Of slavery
so as to affect the institution in the States, the
District Of Columbia, or the Territories. We
ftaiy concur in The opinion that Congress has
iao power to legisIate upon the subject within
! the statess but with regard to the District Of
Columbia and the Territories, we must confess
the questions are too gbstrusc and complicated
for our limited knowledge. That the Wilmot
lProyiso as urged in the second resolution,
would be 2 calculated to ALLEVIATE one portion Of
ihs Union from another, and tend ultimately 10
disunion," we presume will hardly be denied at
this stage Of our national experience. The third
resolution was a fair and honorable offer. The
famous Fifth Resolution, the one oil the fuss is
about, reads as follows: i4
s. That in the event of the passage Of any
act by Congress conflicting with the principles
herein expressed, Missouri will be found in
hearty cooperation with the slaveholding States
IN such measures as may be deemed necessary
Tor our mutual protection against the encroach-
ments Of Northern fanaticism.
As remarked by the Record, the resolution is
" uncertain and indefinite in lis character :" We
therefore feel at liberty 10 give it such a con
,truetion as we think will show that it ought to
remain unrepealed; y Congress might pass the
Wilmot Provso; if this had been done il would
have been in opposition to the wishes of the
entire South; by many considered one Of a
series of encroachments TO which it would be
di.hOnorable and dangerous longer to. submit
the originators of the resolutions contemplated
the passage OF the Wilmot Proviso and legisla-
tion upon slavery in The District of Columbia, as
eneroachments on Southern rights. They might
entertain that opinion without lessening the
force Of the warning they uttered 1t was
better that this expression Of opinion, supported
and endorsed as it was by the Democracy, be-
fore ,Benton's appeal -7thon as now the majority
of the State--should come before than after the
passage Of the measures against which they
were directed. Then let them remain as a
warming, for the danger is not past, and will not
be till the South turns her attention to Coloni-
cation as substitute for, extension of territory.
Nor do we on our part hesitate to express the
fear that the Wilmot Provso might be followed
at some future Time, when the North may have
become much stronger, by an attempt to abolish
slavery in the States; and then indeed must the
South come to her feet, for the General Gov
eminent will have started out of its sphere on a
course woful to the South and woful 10 the
whole country Viewing the question as above
set forth, we agree with the Legislature when
it virtually says;-We must protect our country
against such disastrous laws; no Southern State
cando it singly; therefore we must "eo-operate'
with each other in &c such measures as may be
deemed necessary, '.'&c. Now ought not Mis-
souri, 10 " cooperate - with her sister States Of
the South, on the slavery question, so long as
they keep themselves within constitutional
bounds But, some say, South Carolina was
secession and notification, and this
cooperation was pledged TO her, We beg these
gentlemen to recollect that South Carolina is not
the 'South," bya jugfull. Besides, these jack
son Resolutions were in response to certain
sent to our Legislature by Virginia
and Florida. If those resolutions contained any
notification or secession sentiments, we pre-
sumo the Virginia and Florida resolutions
would have been long ago and often paraded
before the public By Col. Benton and the Benton
papers, TO show the reasonable nature of the
- cooperation asked Of Missouri, and to
which she had responded aye,