Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-05-18
VOL. VIT.--NO. q.

clafed that ne did not care three jumps of
louise for it. Sir, say the same of anv
opinion which may be reported here from
oar Secretaries oa any bill dependipg be-
tore US, and that III any form in which it
may come from them-whether as unit
or as integers. Roars of laughter
Public Printers T-tersersnca.
Still less do | admit tie right of inter.
vention in our legislative duties by an.
other class of intermeddlers. and who
might not be able to meddle at all with
our business, were it not for the ministra-
ton Of orr btunty / speak of the pub
hc printers, who get their daily bread
land that bUttered on both sides) by our 4
daily printing and who require tie dem-
ocratic members of this House. under tl,, ,
instant penalty of political aamnation. to
give IN taetr adhesion g every bill whicl,
they call administration ana that in ev-
cry change it may undergo-although
more changeahle than the moon. For
that class of Intermediates have no mar
Hamentary law 20 administer. nor any
q'mtatioas from Burke to apply-nothing
bu, little fable to read the value of
which, as in ali good fables. lies in it's
moral 1t is IN French and entitled
" LoRe e son D1ai,rr, which. being done
in English, signifies . The ass and his
master and runs thus
:" An ass took it into his head to scare
his master, and pus on a lions skin. and
went and stood in the path And when
he saw his master coming. he commenced
roaring as he thought, but he only brayed
and the master knew it was his ass so
he went up to him with a cad gel and beat
him nearly to death"
That Is the end Of the fable and the
moral OF it i, caution to all asses to
take care how they undertake to scare
their masters" Prolonged applause and
cries Of good
Mr Chairman. this House will have
fallen far below its constitutional mission.
il it suffers itself to be governed bv au-
thorisy, or dragooned by its own Lirelincs.
am man OF no bargains. bat act open
~ with any man that acts for the public
good and in this spirit offer the right
hand Of political friendship to every mem
ber Of this body that .9ill stand together
70 ylndlcate Its privileges, protect its re-
speetabsltty, and maintain it in that high
place for which 1t was intended tho
marter branch of the American govern
ment.
Missouri Compromise Not Merely Statute.
HE question before us is, to get rid of
The Missouri Compromise line; and. to a
lawyer, that Is an easy question That
compromise is in the form Of statute.
and one statute Is repealed by another
I1at 3 sa9rt . view IS e9on9 ,s tas iisrsas
AID refers the question of It's repeal. not
to law books, but to reasons of state poll
cy-to the circumstances under which it
was enacted, and the consequences which
are to flow from its abrogation This
compromise Of 1870 l. not a mere statute
to las for a day; it was intended for per-
petuity, and declared Itself 1t is an
enactment to settle a controversy-and
did settle it-and cannot be abrorated
Without reviying that controversy.
It has given tho country peace for
above thirty years how many years of
disturbance will its abrogation bring p
That Is the statesmau's question and
without assuming to be much of states
man, | claim 10 be enough 80 to consider
the consequence of breaking settlemeat
which paciGcd continent | remember
the Missouri controversy aud how it de-
strcyed all social feeling and all capacity
for beneficial legislation and merged all
y
about slavery-diyiding the Union into
two parts and drawing up the hslves into
opposite and confronting lines like enc
mics on the field of battle I do pot
wish to see such times again; and, there
fore, am against reyiving them by break
ing Up the settlement which queted them.
The Tires Slavery Compromises
The Missouri Compromise of 1920 was
the partitioning between the free and
slave States of great province. taking
the character of perpetual settlement;
and CHASING with the two great compro-
mises which gave Us the ordinance of Ju-
j. t3. 1877, and the federal constitution
Of September II. Of the same year
There are three slavery compromises in
our history, which connect themselves
with the foundation and preservation Of
this Union First. the territorial parti-
ton ordinance of 1871. with its clause for
the recovery of fugitive slaves secondly, -
the oontemporaDecas constitutional rccog-
milton of siaverT in the States which
chose to have IT, with the fugitive slave
recovery clause in the same instrument;
thirdly, the Missouri partition liue Of
1920. with the same clause annexed for
the recovery or fugitive slaves.
All three Of these compromises are
part and parcel Of the same policy and
neither Of thcm could have been formed
without the fugitive slave recovery clause
Incorporated into it, The anti slavery
cause in the ordinance &C 1877 could not
have been adopted tas was proved 10y the
three years rejeetion) without the fugi-
tive slave recovery clause added to it;
tie constitution conld not have been
formed without its recosniti tion of slavery
in the States which chose il. and the right
70 recover slaves fleeing into the free
States: the Missouri controversy could
not have been settled without partition
of Louisiana between free and slave soil;
and thas partition could not have been
male without the a!aition of the same
clause fsr the recovery Of fugitive slaves
Thus, all three compromises are settle
ments of existing questions. aud are in