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Nor the poor plea that the Missouri was
Intended to apply only 70 the territory then by the
Union avail. f principle Of div son was right in 1890
it was right in is4s Legislation may well change TO
many subjects because the which it a
piled themselves eetng but the principles Of equity
and justice the same and while the relations OF
the parties and the condition Of the property to be divided
continue rule OF division that just win be
forever Legislation is not temporary device for
ing local personal advantages, but permanent system
for the enactment of just and wholesome laws, and the
equitable distribution rights and protection to
whom properly extends But when its policy is changed
with every OCCASION II loses all the respect and dignity
due consistency and when the changes made adj
the interests Of the majority regardless OF the rights
of the minority it sinks to degree OF niquity and
tempt for which the language furnishes no name Every
orny to the wisest principles known at the tme and If
when the subject comes up for revision At later day the
principle which IL NRs settled is superseded in the
Judgment Of W wiser and truer icy tho
revised law conOrFo the improved wisdom Of the egs-
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statutebook long after they sIerseded bya hui
public sentiment should the revIsor Of these laws
hesitate to say they superseded by juster principles or
be foolish enough declare unnecessary repeal thcm
because they thus superseded while they have their
place upon the satute-book
Nothing is than the attempt to make laws
that not in unison harmonic; and nothing seems
more natural than question Of general and even
prevailing through all the Territories. Laws usually
limited to the Territory for which they enaced but If
the condition Of all the Territories in respect abso
lutely the same, then a should be subject to the law
II there is than law upon the same subject the
preference should be given to the WISER and the Others
should be repealed.
It will hardly be denied that the rights Of the southern
States migration with slaves into the Territories
just the same under the constitution, in Nebraska as in
Utah and New Mexico that the constitutional rights
of the people Of those Territories when they form
stitution for admission into the Union are the
Then why should not the laws q the two correspond
Why should the rights OF the South to migration, Of
the people to framing their Fundamental law differ in
the Territories Yet the southern people forbidden
by the Missouri restriction carry their slaves into Ne
braska while law prevents their going into Utah and
New Mexico except the disputed Mexican law abrogatng
slavery in that republic The people of those Territories
their governments with without slavery as they may
prefer while the people who shall settle Nebraska are de
MED that right since slavery is toreeer excluded me
or right is unequal privileges secured TO one
which denied TO the other The principles that prevail
in the Territories contradictory and il the legislation
of 1850 intended settlement Of the principle
which territorial governments should be organized for the
future represented to the southern people howcan
that principle be rejected the first occasion that Of
fcrs for its application? Thus ii that the doc
trne Of npcesson is not absurd it has been repre-
sented nd that the principle Of law may be super
sedcd by fe adoption of just and wholesome rule
in another without the last operating, technically, as
repeal of the first.
Another class OF objections to the bill those which
arise of hostility to the institution of slavery and
show that much Of the opposition to the bill springs out
of that hostility to all that seems Just and kindly to the
South which seems the normal condition Of part Of the
public mind at the North We have been told that the
repeal Of the Missouri restriction would absove the North
from all obligations 10 the South The gentleman from
na Gu Who M, presdes 80 abx over tha de
eratons Of this committee and whose character and dniy
life the admiration Of the old and The model OF the
young have both advanced the idea very boldly From
whom, sir does it come? From the whig party Of the
North from that party which, during the whole Of this
anti-savery excitement has pandered to it, which has
ica sentiment TO the North to crusade against
the South which has voted unanimously all occasions
for the Wimot proviso which gave but three votes for
the fugitiveslave law in this House. and in the
Senate; party which, however few individuals
belonging TO it have acted has shown neither respect
for the feelings regard for the rights of the South. II
the passage of this bill would indnce that party to avow
the full extent cf its hostility towards the South, and
e Ssn s as a amS wSua s
Of the North would the gulf Of bitterness and
strife and dsunion into which the schemes Of political jug
gers and hypocrcal phanhropss were betrayng them,
and recoil in time TO their honor and preserve the
peace of the country But those schemers prudent
Of their fortunes TO beay the whole poverty Of their
political stock in trade and expose the derision OF the
nation that the of their invention, and the scope OF
their policy than to advance themselves at the
risk OF the safety the prosperity and the integrity Of the
Union that list OF their political medicines contains
nothing but slow poisons which prudent refuse TO
keep in their houses and that their eathocon for the dis
Of the State instant hopeless destruction Let The
whig party North these purpoes and am mistaken
If the public mind docs not rccol with horror from such
abominable schemes know they would be separated Tor
from that patriotic body of southern who in times
past have borne the Of whig but who love their
country more than their party
The gentleman from Illinois Mr. YArEs] says that Nthe
effect of slave labor is 10 cheaper, degrade and exclude
free labor while since the charge that slave labor
was the expensive and that free labor cheaper
Now the Is asserted cannot think poorly of
the slave as his northern friends do Labor sotaehng
ehieh cannot dgrad The light Is not darkcned be-
shines upon the eye Of the slave of the criminal
pure air contaminated because they breathe It, Let
the ne2rophists learn their lessons in school Of
phan thropy and declare that the lot Of man Is de-
graded because il is shared by the slave.
The laborng Of the South, sir win compare with
those of section Of the Union in intelligence in self
respect and in the qualities Of head and heart which COM
mand tho respect OF others In portion OF the Union
which am familiar with is the same regard shown Tor
labor in the South Men in the most elevated positions
their fortunes by serving through
the honorable toll and there no bar
riers which the free and cordial intercourse OF men
In all conditions in life The distinction there Is of
color All men Of our who sustain honorable chaInc
,crs are peers there inequalities Of the social
condition except those which merit and services create in
the public esteem.
The nsupcablc distinction Of color amcorates the con-
dtion of the slave and kindness and cordiay shown
him there which exhibited TO the free black Of the
North The is obvious The inferioriiy OF
and living content with his relative position, he has
thought Of changing it. While at The North the s
deuded with the show legal equality at which the pub
lie mind revo and he is put under most stringent social
ban TO force him into that position Of nferory out of
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