Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-12-01


Mr.. Bernard Smith of New Jersey. In
the Senate, the application of the State shar-
ed similar fate. The constitution was re-
ferred TO a committee of three, Messrs.
Judge VIM. Smith, of South Carolina, Mr..
James Burrill, Of Rhode Island, and Mr..
Macon, of North Carolina, n majority of
whom being from slave States, resolution
of admission was reported, and passed the
Senate Messrs. Chandler and Holmes, of
Maine, voting with the friends of admis-
sion; but was rejected in the House of Rep
rescntatives. A second resolution 10 the
same effect passed the Senate, and was
again rejected in the House, A motion
was then made in the House by Mr.. CLAY to
raise committee to act Jointly with any
committee which might be appointed by the
Senate, "to consider and report TO the SEN
ate and the House respectively, whether it
be expedient or moi, to make provision for
the admission Of Missouri into the Union
on the same footing as the original States,
and for the due execution of the laws Of
the United States within Missouri, and if
not, whether any other, and what provision
adapted to her actual condition ought to be
made by law" This motion was adopted
by majority of nearly two to one--10l TO
55--which shows large vote in its favor
from the non-slavholding States. Twenty
three, being number of the States were
then appointed on the part of the House,
and We're: Messrs. Clay; Thomas w. Cobb,
of Georgia; Mark Langdon Hill, of Massa-
chusctts; Philip P. Barbour, of Virginia;
Henry R. Storrs, of New York; John
Cooke, of Tennessee; Christopher Rankin,
Of Mississippi; VIM, s. Archer of Virginia;
VIM. Brown, of Kentucky; Samuel Eddy,
from Rhode Island; VIM. d. Ford, of New
York; VIM. Culbreth, Aaron Hacl ley, of
New York; Samuel Moore, of Pennsylva-
MIA; James Stevens, OF Connecticut; Tho.
mas j. Rogers. from pennsylvania; Henry
Southland, Of New Jersey; John Randolph;
James S. Smith, of North Carolina; VIM.
Darlington, of Pennsylvania; N. Pitcher Of
New York; ]. Sloan, Of Ohio; and Henry
Baldwin, of Pennsylvania. The Senate, by
= vote almost unanimous-29 TO 7-agreed
10 the joint committee proposed BY the House
of Representatives, and Messrs. John
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Holmes, Of Maine James Barbour, of Va;
jonathan Roberts, Of Pennsylvania; David
L. Morrill,, of New Hampshire; Samuel L.
Southland Of n. Jersey; Colonel Richard NJ.
Johnson, Of Kentucky, and Rufus King, Of
New York, to be committee on its part
TIE Joint committee acted, and soon report
ed resolution in fay or of the admission Of
The State upon the condition that her legis-
lature should first declare that the clause in
her constitution relative TO the free coorcd
emigration into the State, should never be
, construed TO authorize the passage of any
act by which any citizen of either of the
States of the Union should be excluded from
the enjoyment Of any privilege to which he
may Re entitled under the Constitution Of
the United States; and the President Of the
United States, being furnished with copy
of said oc', should, by proclamation, de-
clare the State TO be admitted. This reso-
luton was passed in the House by a close
voie-S6 TO So. several members from
non-slaveholding States voting for it. In
The Senate il was passed two TO one--2S TO
IA; and the required declaration having
been soon made by the General Assembly Of
Missouri, and communicated to the prcsi-
dent, his proclamation was issued accord
ingly, and the State admitted. And tllus
ended the missouri controversy" or that
form Of the slavery question which under
took to restrict State from having slaves if
she chose. The question itself, under other
forms, has survived and still survives, but
not under the formidable aspect which It
wore during that controversy, when it di-
yiled Congress geographically, and upon the
slave line.
The real struggle was political, and for
The balance Of powcr,as frankly declared by
Mr., Rufus King, who disdained dissimula-
lion and in that struggle the uon-slavchold-
ing States, though defeated in the State Of
Missouri, were successful in producing the
"compromise," conceived and passed as q
Southern measure. The resistance made
10 the admission Of the State on account Of
the clause in relation to free people of col
or, was only mask TO the real cause of op
position, and has since shownto be so by the
facility with which many States, then vot
ing in body against the admission of Mis-
souri, on that account, now exclude the whole
class Of the free colored eaigrant popula
ton from their borders, and without cues
ton, by statutej or by constitutional amend
ment, For while this formidable Mis-