Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-02-03
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and White hunter. on the occasion Of
dividing the game that had been OBJ
tanned by their united efforts. "You
take the buzzard and I'll take the tur-
key, or I'll take the turkey and you
take the buzzard." were is simple
conditions The Indian could but ut
ter feeble rcmonstrance at having the
buzzard apportioned tohim all the time.
but in the spirit Of compromise he ac-
cepted il as the best he could do. with
out offending his brother. and perhaps
dissoising me union that existed be-
tween them. Whether afterwards,
when the white man needed the quilts
Of the buzzard, he suggests that the
former compromise related only to the
carcasses Of the birds. and not the
feathers. we are not informed. but We
think it likely he did; or he produced
asubscquentcontract thatplainly made
the feathers subject Of negotiation.
and he obtained them also, by COM
promise.
Such is the general history Of COM
promises. Our readers-even our
young readers are aware that when the
state Of Missouri applied for admission
into the Union great objection was
made on account Of its being aslave
holding state. The statesmen OF that
day had seen the blighting influence
Of slavery, and they were reluctant to
encourage its propagation. They
wished even then, -thirty years ago
to say "thus far mayest thou come,
and nofarther." After stormy de-
bate. and the usual threatnings OF q
dissolution of the Union, unless
slavery could receive its demands, -
Henry Clay. then in the prime Of life.
and rising in influence, proposed what
for thirty years was know as the com.
promise-now known as the Missouri
compromise; the later compromise so
overshsdowing it as to claim to be par
excellence THE compromise. And such
compromised At some future time
we may allude to it more in detail than
we have time to now. What did the
South concede to theNorth? Why, lst.,
10 admit free state into the Union!-
Gracious concession this!l And al
ready it appears that most active meas.
ures are on foot to divide California,
and make one slave state at least out
oft. OF course, when the time comes
there will be found margin enough il
the compromise to allow it, or then, ]
not earlier. it will be discovered that the
compromise is not a fnality. Wha
next! Why. that the slave trade should
be moved across the Potomac! nearly
a mile from the capitolll But Congress
is to keep up free bridge, at heavy
expense. to the slave pens. and thu
citizens Of the District may buy ant
sell as usual. How liberal conces
sion!
But we did not sit down to review
this compromise, which is like the on
we alluded to. between the Indian an
his par tner. only more so. but we wis
TO call the attention Of our readers u
the old Missouri compromise, and it
present position.
For thirty odd years the Missouri
compromise has been held up as set
Element of the slavery question in tina
direction. The most ultra souiherne
has not, even in the heat Of the debate
so FAR as we know. ever inumated th'
il was not. They took the turkey. an
have been content Herewith till nov
because they had no use for our POI
ton. Missouri was admitted with i
slavery, on the compromise, that sl'
very should be forever inhibited in a
territory north of So. 80. In the mea
while Iowa and Minnesota, have bee
settled chiefly by northern men, an
their climate and soil being unfriendl
to slave labor. they have been unm'
Tested by slavery propagsndism. b.
n new era has arrived. The rio
grounds west of Missouri offer Undue
ments 10 slave holders to settle. al
many Of them have settled there
ready. with their slaves though.
solemn compact with the Indians,
was 10 be forever theirs; and by
solemn agreement as slave holders CT
make, slavery was to be prohibit
<Lere forever. But slave holders knS
abe trucking character Of northe
nep. and they know that ifthey clal
: . portion or all of that rich territory
the riches: and best portion Of our pu
30 domain. they viii obtain it. A
:. Tsady they have succeeded so far as
isdsce Senator Douglass Of Illinois
bring in a bill organizing two territ
ries and authorizing slavery in BOTH
OF course the bill viii become la
Senator Douglass says that the la
compromise repealed the old compr
misc--in other words that one Of Z