The daily union., 1854-12-29


and his poseriy live In view of the vast amount
OF foreign Immigration annually pouring into our
country and OF the large majority which the States al
nave over the slave States and of their increased ia
Ses ior from the ssa-board the
nAnAs o the Missouri what who Is not the victim of
some prejudice doubt that both Kansas
anu w be iree Territories and free States Every
southorh ana every northern who expressed opinion
upon the question admitted this II slavery be the evil
which many believe how much proud the
and legislators of Kansas Nebraska feel for having by
their nc, excluded it, than if 1t should be done by the die
on OF body distant three thousand miles in
"t'Sh they have no representation If the people
be oil such government in the States from whence they
remove 1t NJ all probable that the will part with their
intelligence or keen instincts of sencrest crossing the
Aissouri iiver Those who s .atted' in Vafornia did
not nor have the Territories of New Mexico Uah estab
iished slavery as was boserousy predicted by John =.
hale they would do when that prov Of the compromise
measures OF 1850 adopted allowing them to come
the Union with without slavery as they might elecI
Ihsre are many honest nehgent and patriotic gentle
men who, while they admit that the princ Embodied in
the hAnsas and Nebraska bill Is smi1ent and
right regard the repeal OF the "Mssouri rr.rionnso
ced-as inexpedient have differed from all such with
profound respect and ask their attention to of the
reasons In Justification OF my course.
supporter OF every Of the compromise measures
Of 1850 yet announced in the discussion upon them and
in the speech to which you do the honor refer made
upon the Nebraska bi that tere was no indivd
ual more decidedly opposed to slavery than In
ply to Mr. Soule, OF Louisiana, stated that whilst asked
ganic act Of Congress for New Mexico and Utah,
should, nevertheless, were to become resident Of
either o those Territories be opposed to the establish
men Of slavery therein and should with y vote
voice pen and whatsoever other influence might possess
have been the open and avowed advocate of nonnter
yenon by the federal government with slavery in the
States and Territories since have taken any part in poll
ics and always in favor OF the right of the people TO de-
termine the slavery queson-ks all others-for them
selves The act ot 1920 restricting slavery north OF 30
deg 80 iniu and, by fair implication admitting tsouth of
that line, direct ten and the cause, in my opin
lon OF all the excitement and alienation Of feeling which
has grown up since that time between the people Of the
slave and nonslavchoding States Its adoption was in
direct opposition 70 the dying nunctions OF the Father
Of his Country who with prophetic vision, had warned
in his Farewell Address against following the advice of
designing Gsmsgogucs who should seek by appeals to geo.
graphical preudcss to the North against the South
and the East against the West The author of Dec
aation of Independence was sti living when that bold
and audacous attempt made by the Congress Of 1870
to impose shA<ks and conditions upon the rights of the
people of Missouri and to draw arbitrary geographical lines
the fair face of nation which, with the blessings of
Almighty God he and every patriot had hoped would be
one and indvisibe then and forever To Jefferson this
line OF 36 deg 80 min, to his strong figure OF
speech as the rsbe at night arOusing all ms fears
and hopes for the preservation Of the Union
1to, n.huno muJ
cred on Foote'S resolution in 1a30-against Rufus King
and his coautors for the unconstitutional and aggressive
resored to by them to deprive the people Of Ms
Of their inaienabis right segovernment Besides
these looking into the history of the admission OF that
State found it different from what was generally sup
posed There two acs for the admission OF Missouri!
1t not until the dominant majority, composed OF mem
bers from the free States had rejected the bill for her adj
mission they had declared by their act OF s2o
passed eleven months before that she might into the
Union with without slaverythat Mr. Clay performed
bis part the great pacfcato and effected her admission
Dy The law properly called the missouri Compromise
The of 1920 in which slavery restricted north
of Sc deg 80 min had not has been incorrectly repre-
sented of the attributes of Compact about it and
if had its violation by those who enacted it, and their
subsequent total disregard of its last causewhch pro-
yidsd in the language OF the constitution OF the United
States for the rendition Of fugives from service escaping
INTO the country north OF 36 deg 80 mnshould forever
prevent least the great body of its present advocates
from claiming that character for it, The legislatures OF
New York and Vermont influenced by the political
feelings by which they moved to act on this subject
during the past winter declared against the admission OF
Missouri in 1921 in the most emphatic terms notwitf-
standing the compact alleged to have been made the
year before To show that right in this view OF that
law Congress passed act in 1885, by which district OF
country than three times large the State OF Dell
aware lying north of 36 deg 80 min, and adjoining to
our State--known the Platte Purchase'was sur
rendered to Missouri and to slavery Prior to its repeal
no Legislature convention other public assembage Of
the people of any northern State had expressed their
approval of the missouri Compromise in whole or in
part All parties in the free States in 848 opposed
it, especially the abolitioniss The whole South in
Guiding the Nashville convention willing much as
they had ever been opposed to the line OF 3o deg 80 m
that should be adopted in the terms and spirit in which
it originally enacted Their proposal was not only
rejected but in the chaste phraseoogy of the day. pt
upon Douglas Buchanan and number of other north
Union democrats abored zealousy upon the revival
of the slavery agitation in 1896 lSl and lS4a to procure
the adoption of that line but in vain and for their
efforts IN Dclal lines were uraWn
Names and they denounced northern doughaces
and traitors by every abolition and freeso paper in the
country.
With these facts before what had to suppose
that there any party in the State of Iowa in favor OF
the geographical line Of 36 deg 80 MINI None whatever
As far knowledge extends votes for the compro
mise of 1850 approved by the great body of
all parties, the ultra aholitoniss The course OF
Messrs Clay Webster and Fillmore, who supported those
before and after their enactment was approved
by their political friends and proudly referred to when
sometimes the case democratic papers and speakers
Compromise OF 1850 for our party. By those measures
large districts of country north of 80 deg 80 min to
which the Missouri restriction then applied they being
portions OF the Louisiana purchase were given to New
Mexico and tab, and thus brought under the opera
tions Of the laws Of 1850 These laws far as sla-
ton and second the principle that the slavery ques
tion was to be decided by the people interested These
living democratic principles which strongly COM
mended themselves to my Judgment, the adoption and
maintenance Of which thought would operate most hap
PLY for whole country believed that they would
about slavery from the halls of Congrcssdscussions
which have served greatly to ALLEVIATE and render hostile
the brotherhood Of people who should be one in spirit
and in feeling The decision of the question WILL under
the operation of this principle be made by the people
tribunal from which, under our form OF government
there is appeal and all parties will therefore be
strained to acquescc peaccaby in it, AS consistent and
trust honest advocate Of non-nterventon, and q
democrat how could refuse my vote repeal law whose
very and spirit consists of Intervention and espe
caly when that law unequal and unjust in its pro-
visions as to allow the right of segovernment south Of
given line and withhold It north Of that line2
| How could deny privileges to the intelligent and
ks many of them my constituents and friends, which
had been instrumental in extending the New Mexcans