The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-07-07

10 remove the Indians home 1t to extend the
existing boundary of the State include triangle be-
tween the existing line and the Missouri river large enough
to counties of the first class and fertile enough
sustain the densest population The difficulties were
th eefod To make st larger State which already
of the largest in the Union To Indians from
possession which had just been assigned to them in perpe
tuity g. To alter the Missouri Compromise line in relation
slave territory and thereby free soil into slave
SOIL The two first difficulties serous-he third Tor
midabe and in the then state of the public mind In rela
ton to slave territory this enlargement OF great slave
State, and by converting free soil into slave and imparng
the Compromise line, almost impossible undertaking.
no way be accomplished without generous coop
Grafton from the members of the free States. They
majority House of Representatives and no act OF Con
gress could pass for altering the Compromise line without
their aid they equal in the Senate, where no treaty
for removal of the Indians could be ratified except by
concurrence two-thrdsand all these difficulties to be
overcome time when Congress inamed with angry
debates upon abolition petitions transmission OF ncendhr
publications imputed designs to abolish avery and the
pearance Of the eliminating article in South Carolina ehed
the Crisis announcing southern convention ana seceS
on if certain northern States did not suppress the abolition
societies within their limits within limited time
the face of all these dsconragng obstacles the two
senator's Mesrs Benton and Linn commenced their
operations The first step to bill for the altera-
ton Compromise line and the extension OF the boundary
it was obtained from the Judiciary Committee reported by
Mr. John NJ. Clayton of Delaware, and passed the Senate
without material opposon went to the House OF Repre-
found there opposition to its pas
sage treaty negotiated with the Sac and Fox Indians
whom the country had been assigned and was ratified by
requisite thirds and this besides doing an act OF
generous Justice the State of Missouri the noble
which northern members gave to the imputed design OF
abohng slavery in the States actually extending It'll and
by addition equal in extent to such States Delaware and
Rhode Island and by fertility equal to OF the third
class of States and this accomplished by the extraordinary
process of altering compromise line intended to be perpet
ua the reconversion of soil which had been slave and
Free back again from free to slaves and all this when
there been the least disposition to impede the
tension of slave State there plausible enough
opposition in the serious objections to enargng
State already the largest in the Unonto removing In
dams again from home to which they had just been removed
under national pledge of removasand to disturb
ing Compromise line of 1920 which the Missouri
ton settled and the line between free and slave
territory fixed for national to remain forever The
author of this view part and parcel of all that transac
well the anxiety of the State to obtain the
extensonher joy obtaining 1.-THE gratitude which all
felt northern members without whose aid could not
have been DONE whose magnanmou assistance under
such trying circumstance he records one OF the
proofs (his work contains many others OF the willing
of the part of the Union to be just and
their avehodng brethren even in disregard OF
cherished preudces and offensive ordinations 1t was the
great proof this effect this identical session. the
ratification of the Georgia Cherokee treaty being the other