Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-15

may be In the general proposition OF submitting 20 o
peope of the Territories decide whether they w nave
slavery or not IL does not apply to this Terrory Tor
that question has already been decided, 30 ar 10 nis
Territory is concerned 1t is already free Tne quesuons
not whether the people are capable :,
by the Territory or by Congress- after has peen
made free by the Missouri compromise nay colleague
(Mr. JAMES AIIEs asked with emphasis may not tne
nteceu citizen Of illinois, who may go to that Terrific
ry he trusted TO decide whether they will have slavery
not tell him, sir that the intelligent citizens OF Hi
nos would prefer to go to that Territory 1t is now
nee and they win not ask for the right to make it slave
ybev viii not ask him to repeal the solemn compact for
freedom and authorize the Thousand or less persons
who may be there TO doom these delightful regions to
nsk Mr. Chairman, what practical good is to come
Vf this new agitation How ridiculous it was, sir, in
1880 to chant the praises of the compromise acts and
in 1852 to declare them by resolutions of Congress-
naty and every where to gorify that nality; and in
1854 to open wide and broad the avalanche of agitation
by an attempt repeal that compact (which had done
Its work WE'LL when practical good was to follow and
most dangerous sectional strife was to be the inevitable
result How monstrous to exalt to the very skies the
of Mcssrs Webster and Clay the mastersprts
who queled the storm and yet almost before the nsg-
mia mourning removed from these halls long before
the pangs grief are assuaged throughout the land the
fnay which their efforts secured is rampedi the dust
as upholy thing and rank agitation let loose to run
riot throughout the land The passage OF this bill will
shake the confidence Of the North in Southern faith and
will deep and nextinguishable sentiment Of op
position slavery. and who will say the North has not
right to be aroused Did you not say the compromise
settlement OF the whole question? Not
satisfied with the passage of these measures did you
require Congress repeatedly endorse them compro
mise measures? Did not President Fillmore proclaim
them a fnalty? Did not President Pierce pledge the
power Of the Government against renewal of agitation
Did both the conventions at Baltimore make the set
clement Of this question tho very basis of the last Pres
dental canvass
however solemn, is binding, and that antsavery sen
ment but lately passive will be aroused, and the fires Of
sectional strife will be lit up without the hope Of exn
gushment; for when you propose settlement the an
sWor will be- there can be no settlement which will be
broken II will be then to sing the siren song of
peace there is peace. Faitless view 1t to your
obligations oversteppng the boundaries in which you
agreed conne slavery and avang yourself Of North
ern detection with the curtain of slavery Ter
ritory whereon slave has trod and which you,
for consideration received pledged to perpetual free
dom the only OF the North except base CUB
mission, will be to
"Hang out her banners the outward wallis"
and planting herself the rock to oppose the extension
Of slavery one inch further into American SOIL
Pass this bill sir and the standard of repeal will be
erected and from Maine Minnesota the watchword will
be borne along the lines, and politicians, seeming the
breeze aar off will seize upon this passport to Office and
the very next Congress will witness from the an al
most unanimous delegation in favor of repeal and pledged
oppose the admission Of any State in the Union with
slavery in its constitution, whether it be north south
of S60 S0 for the Of this bill will ohterato for
such line Yes; say to the South, in al Kindness
if you pass this bill your friends in the North who have
considered the Aboonsts the aggressors and have vim
dicated your cause will consider you tho aggressors
They will laugh at your himsy apology, that you take
the forbidden fruit because it is offered you by North
ern hand They will consider it yandal march terri
tory which by your hands by universal consent and
long acquiescence by patriot sires by solemn compact
and pghted faith has been consecrated to freedom and
tramplng tho dust the ties of party, they will rise
one man to oppose and put it down.
The North has already walked up Deaf to the sounds
Of the ever-movng world around him must be he who
mt henr tha voice oft Nav York
Ohio, Maine, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and New Hamp
shire and other States have already spoken the words
Of doom to this measure. &
And it is my opinion that majority of the people of
the State Of Illinois will repudate this measure nowth-
standing it goes them with the prestige of such high
names the Senator and my colleague, both OF whom
share largely the confidence and consideration of the
people of that State The passage Of resolutions through
the Legislature favorable to the bill has been heraded as
great triumph but when properly understood they will
be regarded in the light Of most signal defeat In fact
sir, stronger evidence Of the popular odium of this
be presented from any section Of the
try than is evnced by the action Of the Illinois Legisa
ture There are one hundred members in both Houses,
and only ortyfvenota majority Of the whole number
voted for the resolutions or fifty four Democratic mem
bers in the House, only twentyseven voted forust one
haHand Of twentysone Democrats in the Senate, only
fourteen voted for the resolution Of the seyentyye De-
mocratic members in both Houses thirty either
voted against the bill lodged the question And yet
sir this is called victory in that Legislature, com
posed Of the personal and political friends Of the Senator
and my colleague, with whom their influence upon all
Of party and policy has been almost omnpoen
such is the fearful falling Off is it not ominous of deep
and strong condemnation Of the measure by the people,
upon whom the stringent appliances Of party domination
and discipline cannot be brought to bear?
This will be party measure The great enormty Of
its introduction into national councils is thatt tends
to make two parties divided heretofore, but by
geographical lines-a Northern party and o Southern
party This is the fearful aspect Of the This
is what Washington in his Farewell Address, warned his
countrJmen to guard against and discounenance Who
foresee the and bitterness of the strife which
is to ensue! Who can fortell its termination?
The gentleman from Georgia. referring to the imagined
wrongs Of the South and the position which she occupied
before the compromise Of 1885, says when pressed to the
wall by Northern aggression she accepted the gauntlet of
the North, and exclaimed in the language Of Macbeth
LAY on, Macduf
And damn'd be him that frst cries, hold, enough"
The gentleman said the North whipped then, and
would be again, and he boasted Of the victory. Her
former victories the North have sharpened her de-
sire for further conquest; and emboldened by former
Northern suppancy and by present Northern aid she
presents boder front. But, sir tell him, fthis
compromise is repealed we for compromises
And tell him. too that the bold and defiant Macbeth,
"whose castles strength to laugh siege to scorn
and who himself was not to fall
"Til Birnam forest came to Dunsinane," !"
did his proud castle fall and did the Brnam woods
move Dunsinane, and he fell in his bad beneath
the power and strong arm of his injured foe.
Mr. Chairman, if l have spoken with warmth, have
doneit in unknd spirit allied to the slave States
by the strongest ties Born in slave State there is the
home Of my childhood the of my early youth the
forests in which roamed, the hills Ger which sported,
the streams in which bahed and there is the grave of
my mother. meet the South not enemy, bat as
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