Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-02-03

ry OF territories to be formed of that portion of
the public domain lying West of the State of Nilsson
RI is likely 10 give rise to great and general excite
meni if not to a renewal of the sectional agitation
which convused the country in 1850. 1t certainly
bids fair to reopen many of the questions supposed
to have been set at rest by the series of measures
then enacted and usually referred to under the gen.
eral name of The Compromise" The difficulty
arises from the fact that this territory is part of that
coded by France to the United States under the name
of louisiana and lies north of the line of Sc degrees
80 minutes above which line slavery is prohibited by
the act of 1920, known the Missouri Cong PROMISE
The following clause being inserted into the bill pro-
vding for the admission of Missouri into the Union
as State:
THAI in all that territory ceded by France to the Unied
States under the of louisiana which lies north Sc
deg 30 min north latitude included within limits of
the State contemplated by this act slavery and involuntary
servtude otherwise than in the punishment of crimes where
Of the parties shall have been duly convicted shall be- and
hereby is, prohibited forever
The first bill introduced in the Senate by Mr.
Douglas, for the organization of one territory
under the name of Nebraska, and providing that at
the proper time it should be admitted into the I'm
ion as State with such constitution the subject
of slavery as its people might choose to adopt To
this it was objected, that by this the Missouri
have the effect of excluding slave property during
the whole time of it's existence as a territory and of
act prohibition against slavery in the for
nation of a State constitution since shareholders
would be virtually excluded from any participation
in the deliberations upon that subject by the exclu-
sion of their property from the territory To meet
this Mr.. Douglas, on the 23d, brought in a new
BILL providing for the organization of two territories
%1nS h. Il
Northern, Nebraska-and declaring the Missouri
Compromise imperative" in the following words,
which declare
That the Constitution laws of the United States
which not locally nappcabe shall have the
and effect within the said territory elsewhere in the
ted States except the eighth section of the preparatory
to the admission of Missouri into the Union approved March
9th 1920 which suspended by the principles of the eg
Nton of 80 commonly called the compromise measures and
is declared imperative"
In which is stated the grSund for declaring the Mis-
souri, Compromise imperative, namely: That it
suspended by the principles of the legislation of
1850, commonly known The Compromise Mea-
sures." And, indeed, if the measures of 1850 pos
sessed any merit at all, in any degree enti-
tied 10 be regarded as final settlement, which the
South could at all accept, which could have any
efficacy in preventing recurrence of the excitement
and bitterness of that stormy period, it have
been in the establishment of the principle with re-
spect to the Territories, that, in all thereafter
the question of slavery slavery should be re-
moved from the halls of Congress and left TO be dis
posed of at the free choice of the people to be affect
ed by it. The extension of the Missouri line to the
Pacific, which the South would willingly have taken
in 1850, rendered impossible by the irregulari-
ties and governmental intgues which forced Califor-
MIA in as one free State, both North and South of
that line, although too large for any due distribution
OF power; and although the Southern portion-had
just and necessary division been made-wouId in all
human probability have been formed into slave State
It cannot now be regarded as in operation. But the
Glowing from the New York Express, allows the
cloven- foot of good many Gerry good compromises
at the North 10 be seen, while, at the same time, il
explains the motives which instgate Free Soism at
the North to insist so camo ously upon the main.
tainance of the Missouri Compromise:
The real practical question is by whom is Nebraska first
be settled Beyond all question " by the slave holding
people of Missouri who in point fact stand ready by
thousands emgate there Congress repeats the
nonntercourse Indian act which fOrbids emigration
and settlement lands occupied by Indians with whom
have treaties have sOme thirty treaties in number
we believe) with the Indians occupying Nebraska
But for these Congress. long ago. the slave emigra
ton OF Missouri would have and occupied the best
United States with the army United States
five past alone prevented them doing it, We have not
that, Nebraska, thrown open, would have 10000
slaves in it from Missouri within year after the of Con
gress generally known Missouri The these
slaves will be the people to make the State Constitution
the State Government, and have any sort
doubt what kind of constitution they would create?
The Mortimer who voted for the Incorporation of New
Mexico and Utah. generally though not ALL voted for it
the rule of the law and, most of them be-
eved the settled law that slavery having been positively
abolished by Mexican here in New Mexico and Utah
1t could not be carried there but by positive enactment
law In point of fact they reasoned, have already
Wilmot proviso-G Missouri restriction act in New Mexico
and Utah, and they will keep slavery that
ton Further was known by the record that the Nor
people of Utah have religious ELECTIONS to slavery
that the holding of slaves against the Mormon Bible
The it is to will be very different Nebraska
after positive repeal of the slavery restriction act of 1920
This New York Express is edited by Mr.. Brooks
who was member of Congress in 1850. and quite
compromiser. He is now of the denouncers o
General Pierce as Free Soiler fair specime
of such denouncers of course Brooks opposes Mr.
Douglas bill.
There is much cry and little wool at the North
Great talk is made about pighted faith and all that
There will be backslding a very extensive scale
among those who have been Wanting their aFectio
for the South but for all that, the bill we think
will pass We think the chances are more that tw
to one that it will pass. The influence of the ad
ninistraton, as we'll of such great lights of tn
party Cass and Douglass, will be cast in its favor
We shall see sights
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out of the profits of the last half year has been de
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