The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-06
SHINGTON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST s, 1854.


which slavery existed Mt the time of the acquisition
4 Now what is this Missouri Compromise?
II SEC Ind be further enacted That in all the terri
tory ceded b France to the United States which lies nor
OF hr-sx degrees aud thirty minutes north latitude
included within the limits OF the State contemplated by
this act slavery and involuntary erytude otherwise thar
in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have
been duly convicted shall be- and is hereby forever pro
hibited'
Under the treaty what right had Congress- admitting it
exclusive and absolute right to legslae for the Territories
generally to prohibit the exercise of this privilege right
or immunity, if you please which possessed by the
original citizens ofhe United States which was guar
anted the Territory by the said treaty.
John Quincy Adams is referred to as having given an
opinion while in the cabinet Of President Monroe favor
OF the constituonay of this law But LET refer you
to his speech made afterwards, when member Of Con
gress the admission of the State of Arkansas into
the Union. He says. ~ cannot consistently with my
sense OF my obligations citizen of the United States
and bound w my oath 10 support their constitutional cannot
object to the admission of Arkansas into the Union az
slave State.
She is entitled to admission slave Staeas Lousi-
and Mississippi and Alabama and Missouri have been
admitted into the Unonby virtue that article in the
treaty which the inhabitants of the ceded Terri
tories all the rights privileges and immunities of the
original citizens of the United States and spuates for
their admission conformaby TO that principle into the
| Union. Louisiana purchased as country wherein
slavery the established law Of the land As Congress
have not the power in time Of peace abolish slavery in
original States Of the Unon they equally destitute
of the power in those parts of the territory ceded by France
to the United States by the name of Louisiana where
slavery existed at the time of the acquisition Slavery Isl
in this Union the subject of Internal legislation in tie States
and in peace cognizabe by Congress only as it is tact-
H tolerated and protected where it exists by the consu-
ton Of the United States and mugles in their inter
course with other nations Arkansas, therefore comes
and has the right TO come into the Unon with her slaves
and her slave laws is wrten tie bond and however
may lament that it written must faithfully
perform its obligations content receive her one
of the savehoding States Of this Union Such the
guage Of John Quincy Adams whose disciples many Of the
opponents of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise profess
to be- All the reasoning in regard to Arkansas is equally
good and applicable in the OF the Territories affected
1 by the Missouri Compromise
But says one slavery did exist in that Territory
answer portion Of the Louisiana Territory and
the slave laws of that Territory extended the whole
oft 1t existed legally if not in fact and in the same
condition Arkansas and most of Missouri For proof
that this Territory slave territory prior 10 the
passage of the Missouri Compromise refer to what Mr.
Benton says speaking of the extension of the boundary
the State of Missouri in 1856 He says that it was
comped by the extraordinary process Of altering COM
promise line intended to be perpetual and the
soil wc had been slaee and made free back again from free
/, +. +
If the grounds have taken are tenabe then ask
should the law be rcpeacd2 Should not the repeal Of
any law which unconstitutional be called fr by every
American citizen out of respect to the constitution ITSELF ii
for other reason? Shoud allow law which is ad-
mted TO be in plain and direct violation of that instru-
ment to remain upon The stautebook in tempt OF the
supreme law of the land and leading contention strife
and collision between the different branches of our govern
! ment?
is the
emn compact sacred the constitution ITSELF and
therefore that il was violation Of public faith TO repeat
it, shall attempt TO show that this assertion is utterly
false and the conclusion based it necessarily wthou,
foundations. compact is contract agreement be-
tween parties and the term generally applied to the
agreements between States and nations as treaties and
eonedcraces.
There must necessarily, be than one party to
contract as there can be contract without correatve
parties An individual, State nation cannot enter into
an agreement alone but must act in conjunction with
another distinct party The several States of this Union
entered into compact (he consution) as several dis
nct parcs and by the terms of that compact they or
certain purposes became merged in in
capable Of acting independently or in fact at all except.
ing through the mediums thereby established This
expressly prohibits any State from entering into any
compact with another with oregn powers Now it is
alleged that this act Of 1870 is compact between the
NORTH and Sopth--a compromise by which each yield.
ed ceiin rights Tor the purpose Of securing Others The
North has power under the constitution to enter into
| compact with the South, the South with the Nortl,
upon any subject any than any State Or number Of
States Of the Union have TO enter into ;onpac treaty.
c. confederacy with foreign power 1t matters not what
the subject OF The compact that All the States being
equally divided enter into .he agreement They have al
ready entered into compact which they not at liberty
to violate whereby they have yielded that right The
stitution explicit and every imaginable Sec
ton 10, article ls says 'No State shall enter into an,
treaty alliance, eolfederation This clause is not con
fined to foreign power, but entirely prohibits any Stats
number Of States from entering into compact any
kind with any other State Of States we'll with for
eign powers But suppose that the States had this power
under The constitution is it that they have exercised
il in this particular instance Is it true that the Nortl
and Southor in other words that the non-slayehodinQ
States and the slavehoding Statesever did into
compact clause of which prohbitea slavery in the pres
| ent Territories of Nebraska and Kansas When ask
did the South beeomc party to this Missouri Com
promise Examine the record, and tell when it was
Was it on the passage Of the act We told hy hon
orabe members Of Congress that the South forced upon
Anaddress purporng 10 have been signed by the
tors and majority of the representatives from Ohio says
"In 1920 the SLAVE States said to the free States Admit Mis-
souri, with slavery and refrain from positive exclusion
south of a6 deg 80 nin and wH join you in perpetual
prohibition north Of that line Is this statemen
Of the case We look further and find address OF
rather protest against the Nebraska bill purporng
be issued by the an-Nehraska members of Congress- in
which they say .iAs il was the saveholding power thai
demanded the enactment Missouri Compromise 80 it l.
the power that has demanded It's abrogatc Ano
agsin by the terms this compromise TIE States