Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-04

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any discrimination in her favor from your hands, AN
that South secured by those resolutions so far as the
character Of the States is concerned simply that they
should be admitted at proper time either with or
without slavery, as the people may determine AS to
the number of States that is different question So
that If you should repeal that so-caed guarantee for
SLAVE States by extending this bill to that country, you
would only to fill again with the same words We
ask discrimination in favor and all ask Of you,
Of the North, is that you make in your
And why should you? Why should you even have the
desire to do it? Why should you not be willing to
this question forever from Congress and leave it to
the people Of the Territories according TO the compro
mise of 1852 You have greatly the advantage Of in
population. The white population OF the United States
is twenty millions. OF this number the free
States have than two to one compared with the
South. There only little over three millions Of
| slaves.
] If immigration into the Territories then should be
assumed to 90 the ratio of population must sup
pose that there would be white persons to
slave least and Of these two from the free States
to from the South This without taking into esti
nation the immense foreign immigration. With such an
advantage you afraid to trust this question with your
own people, reared under the influence Of your
boasted superior institutions With all the preudces of
birth and education against US, you afraid to let them
judge for themselves Are your '"es-born" sons who
never breathed the tainted air of slavery" such min
compoops that they cannot be trusted out without their
mothers leave" 1t must be So else another inference
legitimate and clear and that is that Notwithstanding
all your denunciaons Of the hated and accursed inst
tutons you have inward consciousness that it is not
so bad after all and that the only can keep WISE
Intelligent and christian men, from New England
ITSELF from adopting it, is to set yourselves up self
constituted guardians and lawmakers for them. con-
slider your policy and the enacy with which you hold to
it, the fullest and amplest yindicaton Of the insttu
tons Of the South against all your misrepresentation
| abuse, and billingsgate about them.
think, SIR have shown conclusively that the line of
36o 30 known as the Missouri compromise line never
compact in any proper of that term. And,
if it was that it has been disregarded broken and
trampled under foot by the parties who have lately
signalized themselves its champions and defenders
have shown that while the South opposed to the
policy by which it adopted and took it disagree
able alternative yet she offered to disturb it, but
willing to abide by it for the sake of peace and har
mony have shown also that the present measure is
breach ota" but that its object is to carry and
give effect to the great territorial principle established
| in 1850. .t
1t remains for me now to say something upon the last
part of the speech of the gentleman from Vermont and
that is the great excitement that this is likely
to produce The country was in peace and quiet, says
the gentleman, until this bill introduced. Well sir,
who raises any excitement now Whence does the oppo
stion come? And what the reasons for it? The
North, it is said, is to be excited And excited about
what? Why, because Congress- when this bill passes,
will have recognised the territorial principle established
in 1850 and declared all antecedent legislation the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska with that
principle imperative and void And what is the harm
mischief to be done? Why, nothing, but extending to
the reemen of Kansas and Nebraska that privilege which
ought be the brhrght of every American citizento
have voice in forming the institutions and passing the
laws under which he is to live That is all Who then,
is to be agated at this monstrous outrage? Why,
body but those who wish to impose restriction
upon reeman's franchise no body but those who deny
to portion of their ellowcitizens fitness capacity
for republican No body but those who would
maintain the policy the part of the General Gov
towards the people Of the Territories which Lord
North and his Tory confederate the part of England
held towards the colonies That there may be, and that
there such bodies do not doubt. But who
they and what is their orce They nothing but the
fragments Of the old Wmo provso," Freesoil" and
Abolition phalanx," attempting to rally their broken
and routed columns by this hypocrcal cry about the
sacredness of compacts Whoever expected to the
New York Tribune and the Evening Post and such
papers, pouring forth their invocaons in behalf of the
sanctity of the Missouri COMPROMISED The men who
thus cry aloud now the very same who denounced
every at the North who voted to maintain that line,
while the question open, as dough-face" and
traitor They thought then that they had the world
Not satisfied to have the Wmot" fixed upon all terrific
north Of $50 30 they determined to have it fixed up
the whole of the public domain With this spirit they
went into the contest And, far from getting it fixed
where it not they out of the contest with the
establishment of principle which took off where it
fixed before. Like the that failed properly to
his talent, they had taken away from them that
which they had" They went 'wooling," and came
back thoroughly "feeced y themselves; hence their des
peraton That such men may rail- and rave, and rage,
may be expected. Let them rage Had they and
men of like opinions before them, never thrust their
just and ant-repubcan territorial policy in the halls Of
Congress- there would have been sectional strife
within these walls. Whatever of party conflicts might
have had growing out of questions OF legislation for
vast country is, with all its complicated and di
versfed interests should have been saved from this
lamentable quarrelDg about STATE institutions, which
threatened such fearful consequences in 1850.
But, sir told that discord once regned in Hea-
The evil spirit of pride and ambition craving pow
and prerogaves not proper legitimate entered the
breasts Of those admitted the presence of the Nest
High jealousy, envy, and hate produced only words
but blows between archangels minstering around His
throne. ....r, ..
! "Long time scale
| Tho battle hung"
These unholy conflicts unsuited to that place,
composed until Heavens First Born clothed in the
majesty of divine power and hurled the factious
hosts from the empyrean battements to the botomess
pit below: .., .' ~.
| "Nnc days fell; COMPOUNDED chaos rosrcd
! And felt tenfold confusion in their fall!
| Through his wild anarchy: huge
+ Encumberd him with ruin. Hell, 1T last
Yawning, received them whole, and on th0m closed
Hell, their fit habitaton, raugit with fire
Unqucncllabe, the house of
Disburdend Heaven rejnced, and repaired
| Her mural breach, returning whence IL rolled
From that profound deep, below which there was no
lower deep they still sent up much cursing, waling,
bowling, and kissing.
So, sir in these halls sacred to national purposes and
those objects for which the Government formed
have had cedesroying feuds and unseemly conflicts
engendered and instigated by the fell demon Of Re
striction, or "Wimot proviso, which salked with
insoen brow in very midst. These scenes lasted
until the genius Of country in its might the
18th of june 1885, armed with the great American prn
cple of self government which had borne fathers
through the struggle of tho Revolution, and drove the
hdcous monster with oil his impious from the Ca
ptol, cast them out, and hurled them downwards to
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