Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-01-05
REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISES

The establishing Of territorial government
over Nebraska, the most important region of the
wild west, now remaining to be settled and
brought within the pale of the Federal Govern
ment, is question which, to all lovers of free
dom, is fast becoming invested with extreme in
terest; for the indications are daily increasing
that it will be made to involve another and no
less startling one than that Of tae abrogation
of the Missouri Compromise A plan for the
organization of this territory, drafted or insti-
gated, doubtless BY that bitter Stakeholder and
Slavery propaganda, Senator Atchinson, and
his supple tool, johnson, who, through mere
mockery of an election, is now at Washington,
claiming his seat as delegate for the territory, is
before the Committee on Territories, who, it is
said, will report III its favor, with clause per-
hitting the introduction of Slavery, or, in other
words, virtually repeating the Missouri Com
promise, which even President Polk respected,
as the settled limit to Slavery on the North, and
which the whole South, over and over again,
have declared to be j. line which the North, (and
if the North so with themselves could not
disturb much short of revolution. And, in
deed, Atchinson's opposition to the organization
Of this territory, last winter, was solely ground
cd on the fact that it was north Of the line in
question. But finding that such an organiza-
ton was not longer to be STAYED of, he has
changed his tactics, and With the uremised er
justly expected assistance OF the South, and
their ready instruments Of the North, is evil
IDENTITY about to venture on the bold step or tear
ing down this old barrier between Slavery and
Freedom, and opening the whole unorganizod
regions Of the West to the curse Of an institu-
ton, which is, at the best,
"Luked with virtue to thousand crimes"
Our only fears are, that this plot against
Freedom will be contaminated under some spe-
cious disguise, whereby the Administration,
in which, on the Slavery question, we have no
confidence, and the Supreme Court, in which
We have less, will contrive to sustain the out
rage. But if the plan is presented openly, and
in all its Deviish proportions of horn, hoof and
tail, we will risk the result Who then will be
responsible for opening the agitation of the
Slavery question, and who with being the first
to break up the settlement claimed to have been
established by the Compromise of 1850! Ii
the South, with all their professions Of peace,
and the wish Of peace, on their own part, and
all their demands on the North to drop the agi-
tation, now open it themselves, with such an
audacious attempt, let them be prepared for the
issue; for even the old parties Of the North, as
abiect as they have shown themselves to the
Slave Power, and so strongly 81 they have bound
themselves by the Baltimore Platforms, would
stand no such operation as that, or if they did,
would soon find they We're parties no longer
We repeat, therefore, let this be done openly,
and nndor the right name, and We will risk the
result, and bid the South welcome to all thew
will make out of it.