New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-24

o,roseS This bill hunted down 10 their gray - and As
rnlf1mores traduoed and vlifed. Hyenas feed dsd
bodies but these men feed upon something ~ee;ss
than The body-Dsme motive and reputation In hs mind
there was question or doubt but thar the people sAo
20 tbse territories vested az once with complete sos
eonty over IT, That sovereignty may be held abeysss
for while or una Congress give lie assent os exercc
but that il is all the time held by the people alone cos
not be disputed. The Constitution said nothing u
slaves He denied that Congress by any impiostsa
could draw the power to prohibit slavery IN the Ierne
RES. IL had power in any shape over slavery The
Constitution was not framed with reference to ssyesths
was a Government of freemen. Its liberties were Won
ard ufheld by freemen for freemen and not slaves
Slavery at the time Of the adoption of the Copsitaios
existed in many Of what arc now free Saes Ihs Goa
sttutiOns made no provision respecting African slaves
The freedom those Constitutions provided was for fresaea
and not slaves The most of them gave freedom 10 whites
for wears before they abolished Slavery and before hey
set their slaves free they took TO sell the greater
Of them to Southern States This question of the SOW
reignty of Congress the old issue betwe1
the parties who combatted prerogative against privilege
Madison had written much against and long disputed With
those who favored and held most ronaoayts
ole not expressly given to Congress In 1870 MI Madison
arsued in the House Of Representatives against tho
retnty of the General Government Ii was then decided
In me case of Mr. jaw treaty that the treaty making
power Though underlined, was not unlimited The peops
of the North wore not ayerse TO TINS prnsPe OF popular
soverepntv-hey would not be in arms OF It's recognition
or abortion Some of these Senators who live by agts
ton think the world Is in motion because they ara excited
He well remembered in 1850 hearing the Senrpr iron
acts of that year. and his threatening that though passed.
the time would when the cry would 20 up Of repeal
repeal repesll Those acts adopted and what was
the result The Senator went home few riots and res
cues got up and then all quiet The people Of
the North then and willing to have ihsq aes
the people and ought to be left there Notwithstanding the
Senators loud prophecies in 1850 He after
of the first men who sneaked into political organ
cation which Endorsed every of taose measures
he had so bitterly opposed. The Senate might rest
assured that storm would ever come from that senator
That Senator's thunder not real but sheet iron sad
rbosuborus Another individual who then represented
New Hampshire undertook to tell the ate OF those who
woud vote for those and the result Of the pro-
phecy was he was longer in the Senate His praei
ne of popular sovereignty the great principle for
which the battles of the revolution were fought was
as dear TO the people of the North and at all times
as 10 any Others. They knew that this bill proposed
nothing More than that principethey would approve It,
But they not told this by the speeches OF the oPpo
SCENTS OF this bill The Free Sellers did not truly repre-
sent the people the North They had got in the Senate
by getting up exciements and would 60 out Of a. soon as
tie people could reach them All the south asked was
and New Mexico should DO extended TO other territory
protected by ne flag and sme Constitution The peo
r their power The Senator from Massachusetts
had felsifed the history OF Mes.oces and Arstldes
The proposition Of the former was having undouoted
power they should exercise to do sn act OF injustice
hristides denied the right to do injustice on the solo
ground of power. The South was powcress-the North
Rad the power to act Justly unjustly. The South now
said os 4 did in 1850 You have the power to do right
win You do it The Senator says norasher continue
tn. Injustice There smother story OF minister who
anty he could give that peace would not BIO disturbed re-
Piled Give just peace and will never be broken
SO with the South Let her have just poace-pesce On
some broad national principle snd would be permanent
The North had approved the Missouri Compromise
II hunted down all of its representatives who vo for It.
In 1885, Senator from New Hampshire tainted Senators
with the fate of those northern who voted for the
Missouri Compromise. The Compromise OF 1850 was
adopted on different principle "a and had Teen
party had aerward in convention unanimously declared
Il to be fnay and in the election carried every State
NJ LaI .ra1
the thing but there were sixty six in is convention
who refused IT, They rejected BY the whole people.
North and South who would not trust them The people
had no confidence in such resolving. Many Wings like
himself had therefore turned their backs on them and
Fought peace elsewhere that permanent peace hsd been
found and it was rendered here 70 day by this bill He
did not believe the Senator from New York had spoken
the sentiments Of the people OF his State and he thought
the Senator would lind him correct when he tried an cleo
tion by the people The Senator from Connecticut had
spoken half day about Brigham Young and his forty
wives He vtntured to say that in no instance from the
time of the ordinance OF 1857 now canonizes ny pretended
friends had Government ever nterered with tho people m
the regulation of their domestic he people OF
Utah when about to be admitted into tho Union will have
to regulate their institutions in their way. II
sut them, they the state OF patrarchh
bloasedness they think Atihere no power In Con
gress prohibit themthere provision in the Con
stiuOn that Congress shoud not establish any religion
by law He not prepared to say whether such power
was prohibited TO the Statesbut Congress he'd power
prevent Roman Catholics entering the territores-thad
no power whatever domestic OF the peo
pie This principle OF popular sovereignty was powerful
Il rich the vitality of truth and would live forever
The SeOaOr from Massachusetts, asked if Bingham Young
could carry his forty wives TO Ponnsy Certainly not
The South did not ask 70 carry its slaves TO Penn
syvania or to New York. All il asked, YVES the right
TO carry their slaves everywhere where Slavery was
syIvannia and New YOrknOt by Congress, but. by
the principles of those States. The Senator from
Connecticut told the Senate twice that In 1850 Mr. Web
ster had eompmented him for demonstrating that the
Wimot Provso humbug The compliment seemed to
have thrown away for the Senator every occasion
had voted for his humbug, and Rugged il TO the last
ment of its existence All the opponents Of this bill had
invoked the spirits of the usous dead to Sustain their
opposition. The Senator from Kew York had called on
he spirit of Mr. Clay but the Senator the last man in
the world who would evoke the spirit Of Mr. Clay had he
not known II would at bis bidding twas char
aeterec for those to invoke the spirit Of the dead
who had traduced hs when hvingwho at Syracuse
in defending the Jerry hsd sought 10 dhonor his
memory These Free Solers had fasied history
by calling the Missouri Compromise compact.
IT necessary for them to do h. make up agitation. BY
those means and by the aid oi fanatical strong
minded women bloorler &c, they sought to create in
was no compact. compact Is something agreed upon
by parties competent 20 congress had power TO
make compact bet the North and the South II il
had the North was eyer parry IT, In the House, the
whole North, except sixteen nlsnbers voted against t.
The North had ne,sr approved IL. 10 CONDEMNED all
who voted for t except II rec. Since hon il had
than once cepudiated IT, Hisory, had 10 be
falsiedto make it at compcet and then The position Of
The North has to be fssicd to sustain the fabrication Of
history If compact and the ADHESION Of Mis-
souri, the price given 10 tse South for the prohibition
north Of 50 deg 80 min Their the North repuda,ed by
refusing 20 admit Wisconsin IL 1891 and t. srefore released
the South The pretense in which the North refusedt
sdmit the South was too traing to be- considered IL
was said that rkansns " - part OF the price given
iothe South for sohibon Upon the ssestion Of admit
moved it Eswould move apply tho prohibition o.
Slavery 10 that State. Whgs was Ae. solemn compact
them Did tia North then proclaim lie compact never to