Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-03-09

been IN Tact departed from, overturned and
repudiated. First, sir, l call your attention
: to an amendment moved in the Senate 10
} tic bill to establish the Territorial Govern.
) ment Of Oregon. By reference to the
Journal of August 10th, ls4s, i, will be
: seen:
= "On motion by Mr.. Douglas to amend the
5 bill, section fourteen, line one, by inserting
I after the word "enacted."
"That the line Of 36 deg. 80 min. Of north
latitude, known as the Missouri compro-
mise line, as defined by The eighth section of
5 an act entitled An act to authorise the peo-
5 pie OF Missouri Territory TO form q consti-
tuition and State Government, and for the ad-
mission Of such State into the Union, on an
equal footing with the original States, and
to prohibit slavery in certain territories, ;
. approved March 9th, 1920, be, and the
l same is hereby declared to extend to the Pa
cific ocean; and the said eighth section, TO-
gether with the compromise therein effected.
is hereby revived, and declared 10 be in full
: force and binding for the future organiza-
! tion Of the Territories of the United States.
in the same sense, and with the same Under
standing with which it was originally adop-
ted
In August, lS4S, the honorable Senator
from Illinois asked the Senate to recognise
and apply the principle, the postuIAte, the
fundamental truth, the assumed position up
; on which the resolution of 1920 was based
and to carry it to the Pacific ocean. WELL
sir, it was carried in the Senate. I must
> pause here and say that right things are
y very apt to be carried in the Senate. The
i vote was-yeas 33 nays 81. believe that
every gentleman representing a southern
constituency here voted for that provision.-
Il | find the yeas were:
y "Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Bell, Ben
VI ton, Berrien, Borland, Bright, Butler, CAL
d houn, Cameron, Davis of Mississippi, Dick
;, nson, Douglas, Downs, Fitzgerald, Foote,
Hannegan, Houston, Hunter, johnson OF
, Maryland, johnson Of Louisiana, johnson
of Georgia, King, Lewis, Mangum, Mason,
h Metcaf, Pearce, Sebastian, Spruance, Stur-
geon, Turney and Underwood SO.
It The nays were;
k "Messrs. Allen, Atherton, Baldwin Brad
q bury, Breese, Clarke, Corwin, Davis of Mas
7 sachusetts, Dayton, Dix, Dodge, Felch,
Greene, Hale, Hamln. Miller, Niles, Phelps,
n Upham, Walker and Webster-2l."
: The bill went down 10 the House with
: that amendment. The House refused to
II concur in The amendment. You and both
: know, sir, the long night of pain and suf,
T. fering we passed here for the purpose ol
i considering the question whether that
IS amendment should be insisted upon OF re.
u ceded from, by the Senate. l knew well
: that l sat up here one whole night, knowing
o that the majority of the Senate were re.
q solved 10 recede, and solely for the pur.
Is pose-though l would have lost thousand
j. Oregon bills myself rather than have re.
20 ceded-of maintaining what thought the
Is rights of the majority of this body, in de.
termining what should be done with regarj
V to this amendment, when it was said there
II was an understanding among some gentle.
n men to continue the discussion till there
l. could be no decision on account OF the ex
e pration Of the session, want 10 show tht
u u vote upon recedng. "On the question t,
,t recede from the ,hird amendment OF the Sc
10 nate" which have stated, ''it was deter
IS mined in the afiirmative-yeas %, nays %
Of The yeas were:
~ ~ "Messrs. IN, Baldwin, Benton. Brad
u bury, Breese, Bright, Cameron Clarke, Cor
win, Davis, of Massachusetts, DAYTON
"a Dickinson, Dix, Dodge, Douglass, Felch
le Fitzgerald, Greene, Hale, Hamln, Hanne
as gan, Houston, Miller, Niles Phelps, Spru
T ance, Upham, Walker and Webster 90"
X The nays were:
Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Bell, Berrien
Borland, Butler. Calhoun, Davis of Missis
le sippi, Downs, Foote, Hunter, Johnson O
e, Maryland, johnson of Louisiana, Johnsol
"a of Georgia, Lewis, Mangum, Mason, Met
~ calie, Pearce. Rusk, Sebastian, Turney
Or Underwood, Westcott and Yulee-25."
~ We, of the South, were all united ori
10 ginally, and, believe, with but two excep
=, tions, on the question of receding. w
voted together. We preferred losing tn
bill to losing-what9 This very Missouri
"A compromise line. Sc stood the case il
- l84S.
oe Now, sir, in 1850, we have manifold ev
,e licences that Southern gentlemen upon thi
10 floor desired nothing in the world but tn
II Missouri compromise line. Some Southern
=, gentleman thought the line was a constiiu
:; tionul exercise Of power; others thought
!, was not; but SO anxious were they that th
whole matter should be closed up, and futur
IN agitation avoided, that without reference t
any difference Of opinion upon that subjec
I all we asked was the carrying out the prin
or ciPle established in 1920, by the continue
is tion OF the line through the newly-acquire
. Territories