The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-04-15

ator from Ohio present ID here the other day
resoution-he says unintcnonally, and |
take il so--declaring that every senator who
advocated this bill was q traitor to his coun-
try, to humanity, and to God; and even he
seemed to bc shocked AZ the results of his
own advice when it was exposed. Yet lie
did not seem to know what it was, in sub
lance, what he had advised tn his address,
over his own signature, when he called upon
the people to assemble in public meetings
and thunder forth their indignation at the
criminal betrayal Of precious rights when
he appealed to ministers of the gospel to des-
scrate their holy calling, and attempted to
inilamc passions, and fanaticisms, and preju
dice against senators who would consider
themselves very highly complmented by be-
ing called his equals And yet, when the
advice come back upon him, and he presents
them here, and is called to an account for the
indcccncy of the act, he processes his pro-
found regret and surprise that anything
should have occurred which would be deem
cd unkind or disrespectlul to any member
Of this body
Mr.. Sumner. rise merely to correct the
senator in statement in regard to myself,
to the effect that | had said that Missouri
came into The Union under the act of 1920,
instead of tina act of 1921. iorebore to d,s-
ignate any particular act under which Mis-
souri, came into the Union, but simply aSser-
ted as the result of the long controversy
with regard to her admission, and as the end
of the whole transaction, that she was re-
ccived as slave State; and that on being so
received, whether sooner or later, whether
under the acto 1920 oT1 S21, the obligations
Of the compact were iiXcd-irrevocably fixed
so far as the south is concerned
Mr.. Douglas The senator's explanation
docs not help him at all Tie says he did
not state under what act Missouri came in !;
but he did say, as understood him, that the
act Of 1890 was compact, and that, accord
ing to that compact, Missouri was to come
in with slavery, provided slavery should be
prohibited in certain territories, and did come
in in pursuance of the compact. He now
uses the word compact TO what com
pact does he allude. Is it not to the act OF
1902 II he did not, what becomes of his
conclusion that the eighth section of that act
is irrcpcalahlc? He will not venture to de-
nv that his reference was to the act of 1920.
Did he refer to the JOINT resolution OF 1927,
.ndcr which Missouri was admitted? If SO,
we do not propose TO repeal il. we admit
that it was compact, and that its obligations
are irrcvocably fixed. But that joint resolu-
ton does not prohibit slavery in the Terrific.
rics. The Nebraska bill does not propose to
repeal it, impair its obligation in any way
Then, sir, why not take back your correc-
ton, and admit that you did mean the act OF
1920, when you spoke of irrcvocable Oblga-
M 49, tur that
the senator meant what he is now willing
either to admit or deny, even while profess
ing to correct me, that Missouri camr in ur-
der the act of 1920, aver that have pro-
ven that she did not come into the Union I'M
der that act | have proven that she was
refused admission under that alleged com
pact. ! have, therefore, proven incontcstably
that the material statement upon which his
argument rests is wholly without foundation
and uncIuixocally contaradictd by the rec
ord
Sir, believe may say the same of every
speech which has been made against the bill,
upon the ground that it impaired the obliga-
ton Of compacts. There has not been an
argument against the measure, every word
of which in regard to the faith of compacts
is not contradictcd by the public records
What complain of is this The people may
think that a senator, having the laws and
Journals before him, TO which he could refer
would not make statement in contravcn,
ton of those records. They make the pco
pie believe these things, under the dclusior
that they have been wrongcd, and their feel
ings outraged Sir, this address did for
time mislead the whole country 1t mad,
the legislature of New York believe that til,
act of 1920 was n compact which it would b,
.disgraccful to violate; and, acting under tina
delusion, ,thcy framed series Of r, solutions
which, if true and just, convict that State o
an act Of pcrtidy and treachcry unparalleled
in the history of free governments. You Sc,
therefore, the consequences Of these misstate
ments. You degrade your own State. ant
induce people, under the impression tina
they have been injured, to get up volcn
crusade against those whose fidelity au,
truthfulness will in the end command thci
respect and admiration. In consequence o
arousing passions and prcudiccs, am now
to be found in eiiigy, hanging by the neck
in all the towns where you have the inllucnc,
to produce such n result. In all these ex
cesscs, the people are yielding to an homes
impulse, under the impression that gricv
Gus wrong has been perpetratcd You hav,
bad your day of triumph. You have sue
cccdcd in directing upon the heads Of 9th
crs torrent ofinsultand calumny from whicl
even you shrink with horror, when the fac
is exposed that you have become the condu
lis for conveying ii into this hall. Iu YOU
State, sir, addressing Mr.. CHASE, | find tina
am burnt in eiligy in your abolition towns
All this is done because | have proposed, n
it is said, to violate compact! Now, wba
will those poplc think ofyou when they fine
out that You hive stimulated them to thel,
T. acts, which are disgraccful TO our State, dis
graceful to your party, and disgracclnl t.
your cause under Misrepresentation Of the
It facts which Misrepresentation vou ought I,
have been aware il, and should never hav,
been made! .. .......
'1 Mr. Chase. viii the senator from Illinois
permit me to say n few words?
Mr.. Douglas. Certainly.
Mr.. Chase. Mr. President, | C r,aia'y re-
grct that anything has occurred in my STATE
which should be otherwise than in accord.
ancc with the disposition which trust
have ever manifested to treat the senator
from Illinois with entire courtesy. do not
9 wish, however, to be understood, here OF
elsewhere. as retracting any statement which
] have made, or being unwilling to rcassert
that statement when it is directly impcached
regard the admission of Missouri, and Tie
facts of the transaction connected with il, as
constituting compact between the two sec.
tons of the country; part of which was full
filed in the amission of Missouri and other
parts in the admission of Arkansas, and 9th
or parts of which have been fulfilled in tn,
admission of Iowa, and the organization Of
Minnesota, but which yet remains to be ful
filled in respect to the Territory ofNcbraska
and which, in my judgment will be Violate
by the repeal of the Missouri prohibition. -
That is my Judgment. have no quarre
with senator's who differ with me- but upor
the whole facts of the transaction, however
f.. have not changed my opinion at all in con
sequence of what has been said by the hon
orublc senator from Illinois. say that til,
facts of the transaction, taken together, ant
as understood by the country for more thar