The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-02-25

prompt to maintain his country's rights Glorousy did
he vindcse the countTy's honor
Ii is occasionally said by opponents that some OF
their once tayons measures 70 which have alluded, are
" obsolete IDEAS = that the projects OF bank aud pro-
ectiye tarlh now abandoned Let no one De decev
cd by such siren songs These measure are obsolete
only in eeconeerlng professions Practical experience
of their mschevous tendencies, and the successful trial
OF the opposite policy, have made them Justly obnoxious
II avowed. they would hang like msiones around the
necks Of asPlrans Tor political power Hence Is a..
want issues But federalism, like the Bourbon kings,
learns nothing and ogets nothing Be assured that lis
old still it's cherished idols It's insePaaby Joined 70
them and il wise shall let il alone" Place
the party OF federalism once more IN power with both
houses OF Congress at its command and again, as in
ls4o. the attempt would DC made 70 impose upon The
tariff internal improvements. abolition OF the veto power
bankrupt law, and all This is no random declaration
II is warranted by reason, and verified by the experience
In New Hampshire is the first of the series Of State
elections which precedc the presidential contest in Novem
ber She leads of in the great campaign Inns cons,a
progress will be watched with anxious solictude through
out the Union The success OF the democracy VIII be
hailed by our brethren in other States with 10y and con-
CALCULATIONS II will be fruitful OF present benefit. and
suspicious for the future. Il will place New
Hampshire still frmer in her proud position OF the stand
ard bearer OF the democracy OF the Union Oar defeat
while il depresses friends would elevate the hopes
and inspire the energies OF our enemies II would arm
them With fresh courage in their onset Tor the continued
possession Of executive power l. would be greeted %,,
cannon would herald it through the land.
The foregoing considerations as conceive, indicate the
issues really involved in thus election They are ques
lions which our opponents dare not and cannot meet.
They have been Too often and too disastrousy routed IN
former attempts not 10 be aware OF their inability openly
to maintain Them before the people, Hence 1t IS that
these issues are avoided and new ones attempted be
raised For this the slavery agitation is sought TO
be revived and again dragged into the arena as an element
OF political dsorganZaon-a stalking horse OF dema-
gogusn and faisehood.
The compromise measures of the last Congress
adopted as settlement of the dangerous sectional con-
iroyersy which had long distracted the country They
were supported by the democratic delegates in Congress
from New Hampshire and have been approved by Inc
democracy OF that State in common with vast majority
of the people OF the country But the oroTn hope OF
factous agitation must have some hook to hang upon.
The compromise have been selected as the most
eligible subjects for that purpose.
II the expedency OF this scheme OF adjustment might
ever have been regarded doubtful that question is
settled Ii is past and decided issue. Most OF the pro,
visions of the Compromise from their nature final
and rrepealable They right in and OF themselves
California cannot now be egislated out of the Union,
of which she is component part Her Stale consli'u-
ton prohibits slavery.
The people of New Mexico and OF Utah cannot be de-
prved of the territorial governments established there.
| They are both free Territories.
The boundary line of Texas and New Mexico was d
question between Texas and the United States, whose
territory New Mexico and is II has been reed upon
and settled by the concurrent action OF the only parties
competent TO act upon 1.-THE government OF the United
States and OF Texas Congress has power now to
disturb it, if it would; in my judgment. ought not to dis
turb IT., if il could. IL was controversy which IN
volved doubtful and dangerous question OF title. lts
continuance mmnently threatened collision and civil
war; Had such conflict once begun il might, and prob
ably would, that excited tme have furnished nucleus
and gathering point for general sectional encounter
which would have deluged the land IN iraerna blood
II surely can constitute objection in the minds OF
northern men that il relieved large extent OF country
from the asserted JURISDICTION OF IexasIa slaveholdng
Sta,e-and added il TO New Mexico which IS and al
ways has been, free Territory. !,
The prohibition Of the slave trade in the District OF
Columbia was another Of these much-vilhed and much
misunderstood measures II is to be supposed that no
man. certainly opposed 10 slavery would seek to
| revive that traffic .
Ii is equally clear that the fugitives law, another
cannot now be properly abIogaed 1t was enacted to
carry PLAIN and explicit provision OF the consttu-
ton. which is in The following Words mo person
HELD TO service labor in one State under the laws
thereof escaping into another shall in consequence oil
any law regulation therein, be discharged from such
or labor but shall be delivered up on claim OF the
person to whom such service or labor may be due
This constitution is the supreme law OF the land IL Is
the great bond Of union, by virtue OF which these States
one free and happy people To i we all owe ale
glance Its provisions bound by an oath 10 obey
and il the high duty OF every to obey them with
out OATH The makers OF the fugltive-slay law
meant 10 frame act which should fairly give elect 10
that clause OF the constitutions not one containing pro-
visions which they knew could not be enforced, and
which would render the law and the constitution nul.
lily. III oil the compromise measures, WITHOUT All
OF which none could have been adopted. In one oil
its provisions is il stringent than the iugltvesave
law OF I792, which introduced by northern man
passed without opposition in Congress, approved by
Washington, and has continued I'LL thcpresent time ior
il is not repealed That law had no trial by jury
and provisions respecting the writ oil habeds corpus
"a right which neither law wthhods) different from
the present statute Under this law OF 1892, most OF The
present generation OF have been born and lived. Nc
i excitement has been raised about IT, Many fugitive
slaves have been returned 10 Their masters by virtue
Npa lunfhr nv
edge, has ever warned us OF It's enormy. or anathe
maiized those who concerned In its enactment
That law imposed certain duties in the extradihon oil
slaves upon officers holding their commissions unde
Il State governments The Supreme Court oil the United
States years ago, upon case raised, decided ina
this feature OF the law could not be constulioRaly en-
forced that il optional with State officers whether
they would act in such cases not The legislatures o.
many of the northern States ihereupon refused the use Of
their jals aud forbade State officers under heavy penal
ties, from acting in the delivering up OF slaves. Henc,
arose the necessity for the act OF ls4S, which imposed
these duties upon the officers OF the United States nsleaa
OF the States This is the main and essential dfsrenc'
between the two enacments
Il The compromise measures now the laws oil ths
land Between one and two years they have been before
the people OF the country. They have been scrutnzee
and made the subject OF discussion everywhere, in ever,
shape and form AT the North they have been assaile'
are denounced as yielding too much TO the North. Tit
good OF the great of the people OF both sections
has repudated each OF these denunciatons To say tina
these laws are perfect would be assuming quality be
longing 10 ordinances oil man, and which pertains
the DEGREES OF the Great Lawgiver alone Like other set
Elements OF mutual claims and mutual differences, the,
have entirely satisfied neither of the contending parties