New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-05-18

ward in this movement Ogaiul Missouri th I'm Gives
,erward adopted the very same policy oi exclusion
which in her case they would rot tolerate IAiss tood
Missouri ooutroyersy-ior time not less violent and
still mcSt 1ncerous, appar rty, t'n TIE first one
was indeed but an instance ana striking one Oh EAc
truth Of au old pro,cTb which some oi the scnemns
politician Of to-dny will DO vel to bear il mind to
wit tlat It is the last ounce HAT breaks the can;s
back. Tic first Missouri Compromise. in yielding mp
to the Shareholders what considered at iat time
as a!we 81 se only really ,lua5le part of the Lou'iala
cessse 'eSaable for free se.tlcTs-and especially
wbe Notifying consideration wss added, that
it va s-.rroaehery OF a set OF northern doashiaccs
that isd !,eded it up-Lsd iasked the patience of the
North to the utmost yery few Of these doughaces
had succeeded ~ reelection to tie next Congress,
in securiag tho appreciation Of their consti.uen
while several of them had docorously yielded to the
clamor which their course had excited and by rez ~
inc had given place to statr-backed successors In
this sato of feeling, this Introduction Of this free
colorcd prohibition into the constitution Of Missouri
which - another time, might scarcely have attracted
notice "a. not only looked upon BY the northern
membors Of Congress fs deliberate insult aud bravo
DO to Which they could not in honor submit, but by
considerable number of tbem also, az good oppor-
funity for getting rid OF tae unequal compromise as
it was generally regarded st the North, entered into
at tho preceding session. and Of yet securing Missouri
for freedom.
Though not yet admitted 70 his seat as Senator
Mr. Benton present al these debates and proceed
ings. spectator, and must naturally have taken
great interest in them; yet the account which he
gives Of them is not very accurate. Thus, he informs
us that the first resolution introduced into the House
for the admission of Missouri State rejected
by vote Of - TO 20, whereas the vote % to -.
He mentions Henry Shaw of Massachusetts,, Gen.
Bloomfield Of New-Jersey, and Bernard Smith Of New
York the only northern members who voted on this
occasion with the minority and against the prevailing
anti-SlaveTy sentiment of the North thus overlooking
Henry Meigs Of New York, and especially Henry
Baldwin of Penn yvania whose adhesion to the slave
holders, az well at this rs at the former session.
in due season rewarded with q seat the bench of
the Supreme Court Of the United States, Mr.. Benton
proceeds 10 tell that in the Senate the application
"Of the State shared similar fate" But in the very
next sentence be cOnradicts and cOrrects himself by
stating that resolution OF admission passed the
Senate, but failed to obtain the concurrence Of the
House though to facilitate its passage proyso had
gress from anything, "D such heTe te,' contained in
the constitution Of Missouri inconsistent with the Con.
stitution of the United States Mr.. Benton mentions
Chandler aud Holmes OF Maine as the northern SEN
ators voting for admission, overlooking PARROT of
New Hamp shire the two Illinois Senator's and Taylor
of Indiana, who had distinguished himself at the pre-
cedirg session ~ the mover OF the Compromise Pro
viso, on the strength of which it had been finally
O.. al, ri q Il, In fact
from the beginning to the end of be controversy the
Shareholders never had any difficulty in the Senate.
That bo6y WAS always willing it generally has
been from that time to this to concede whatever the
Shareholders chose to ash. From the constitution of
the Senate Senatorial doughlace counts great deal
more in the decision Of any controyered point than
doughface in the House, in which body all the great
battles in tehao freedom have been and always
must be fought Nor is it true as MIR. Benton states,
that the Senate passed second resolution to the same
effect which again rejected by the liousc. That,
indeed, would have been pressing the matter rather
too far. After the rejection OF the Senates reso-
luton. Mr.. Clay. who had taken his seat just
Iefore the action of the House Oh that
measure moved the appointment of a COMMITTEE
of Thirteen. of which he was made Chairman, and to
which tho admission of Missouri was referred; bur IN
spite of some concessions TO the North contained Ia
the resolution reportedb by this Committee, and OF the
great efforts of Mr. Clay to Conciiate support from
both sides it failed TO pass; enoounerng not only
large northern opposition, but small southern one
also composed of few members headed by John
Randolph, who were determined to concede nothing.
OF this frss Committee of Mr.. Cay's Mr. Benton
makes no mention and il is apparently their report
which no represents as second resolution sent down
from the Senate. After the failure of hs Committee
of Thirteen, Clay moved the raising of II Joint Com
mitee upon whose report it was finally agreed to adj
nit Missouri provided her Legislature woald first
give solemn pledge not to construe their Constitution
as authorizing the passage of any act inconsistent with
any rights to which under the Constitution OF the
United States any OF the citizens of any OF the states
might be entitled. As Mr.. Benton Processes 10 be
minute in stating this controversy" little more ac-
curacy might have been expected
There are still other topics Of great historical inter
est on Mir BentOn's account of which We have yet to
remark but which we are constrained to defer to
other day
THK WARD ExCITENENT.-Therc seems Ia be scarcely
my abatement, of the excitement in and about Loufve,
created by the Ward verdict, large and indignant meet