Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-05-12

pcct from this tlIi! NcrtaIn'y tucy expect
the extension of slave power, and slave
population. That may prove failacious
expectation. The question of slavery in
these Territories, if thrown open to terri
toriai action, will be question Of numbers
"A question of the nlajprity for or a,,ains,
siavery ami hat chance would the slave
holders have N such contest? No chance
at all. Tas slave ,mierants viii be out
numbered, srd compelled to play at most
unequal game. not only in point Of numbers
but also Iu point of stakes. The slave
holder st.hss bis property and has to run
it off, "r loose it, If ou;yoted at the polls
l see nothing which shareholders are to
gain under this Ui!i-noihng hu, all rne-
qnai and vexatlpur contest, IN which they
are 10 b. l"ser-. deprecato such con
test, aud lid my part to keep it out of the
State of Missouri when her constitution
was formed. WAS not member Of the
convention, but was cbief promoter Of
of the clause winch forbid the Legislature
30 emsncipate slaves without the consent
of their owners. | promoted that clause
for the sake Of peace-for the sake Of
keeping the slavery question out of our
elections and legis.ation-for tue sake of
preventing perpetual strife among the peo-
Pile. What | did for Missouri, | would do
for the Territories and if it was AL open
question would vote one way or the other
te settle it; but i: is no. An open question !!
and can not he opened without breach Of
faith, and the destruction IF the peace Of
the cuuntry.
Sir, the question mas been decided. The
free States are against this bill; and it Is
al ill return for their past generous con-
duct to endeavor to force it upon them.
They have been not only just, but mag
Unanimous to the slave States. What was
the condition Of the slave States thirty
years ago in relation To the Use Of the soil
within their limits? Dcbarred Of great
part of its use; All Indian population COW
ering more or less of almost every slave
State, and preventing the expansion Of its
population. What is it now al relieved.
The Indians all gone; their lands all
brought under the dominion of the white
man and the area Of slave population, and
of slave cultivation, greatly increased-to
she extent of third or fourth cf its soil
in some of the States. How Was this done
Certainly by the bel p Of free State votes,
(for it could not have been done without
them y by the help If their votes in pro-
curing the appropriations, and ratify;ng the
treaties which the removal Of the Indians
required. Missouri got her fine southwest
quarter relieved by these means. The
same votes gave US the Platte country
seven fine counties added to the State and
that by altering the compromise line to in
clude it, and actually converting that fine
region from free soil to slave soil Nor
thern votes enabled it to be done northern
votes altered above an hundred miles of
the compromise line for our benefit, upon
our request; and | will ne, er be migrate
full to the North for it, nor requite 1t BY a
breach of the line to their prejudice. And
how did We obtain the northern votes which
we're necessary for all these measures-the
appropriations and treaties for all these
Indian removals, and for that alteration Of
the COMPROMISE line which gave US the
beautiful Platte country! How did the
Missouri delegation Of that day-.he most
amiable and talented DIR. Linn and myself,
in the Senate, and General Ashley, i'll the
House-how did We obtain that great boon
for our State? Did We get these votes BY
belching abolitionism against the North !
No! no! We got them b. appealing to the
Justice, aud the fra.ernal feelings Of our
northern brethcrn, and TO which We never
appealed once in vain-who, in the last
hard trial to get the Cherokees out Of
Georgia, gave US fourteen affirmative votes
to balance seven negatives from the South,
and saved the treaty by one vote. And l,
who was part of all these transactions, &C
customed to solicit northern votes, and ex
press thanks for them, will not now return
them evil for good by attempting to deprive
them of their share Of . compromise which
We imposed upon them.
1t is now four months since this move
ment for the abrogation Of the Missouri
compromise commenced in this Congress
1, began without a memorial, without a
petition, without request, from human
being. l, has laborcd long and hard in
these Halls, and to this hour there is not
a petition for is from the class of States
for whose benefit the movement Processes
10 have been made not a word in its
favor from the smallest public meeting or
private sssemblage of any slave State.
This is the response Of the South to this
boon rendered to it by northern members
under a northern President. 1t is the
response of si!eDce-more emphatic than
vords-and worthy of especial note in this