Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-03

fact the people of this Territory will pay the same taxes
TO- the United States that do without having as we
have voice in their imposition and their Governor ana
all other prominent officers appointed by and amena
BILE to the President of the United States relatively to
them foreign jurisdiction and pretty much the same
system Of colonial vassaage that found to be so on
erous TO foreahers as TO occasion the separation Of
the colonies from the British Crown is continued and per-
petuated in this bill and yet it is called "PopuLAR sovE-
REGsTY" We do wish to be understood as Directing
to judcious and suitable provisions being incorporated
in bills organizing Territorial Governments but we 40
object TO the false given the doctrines embodied
in this bill; and then, because will not advocate the
principles in reference 10 the Presidential cause
that would have made tories in the revolutionary
war, to be stgmatzed enemies Of the right of the
people TO self-goyernment
The means resorted to accomplished in part the pur-
pose intended; but they accomplished something more
the wind HIS been sown the IS yet to be reap
ed The smoudering embers Of the dead fires OF agit-
ton have been revived and rekndied and the omnous
question of slavery in the Territories is again presented
TO the consideration Of the American people as living
and fearful thing that must be encountered and struggled
with The consequence has been that the OF the
country have again been awakened, and the agitation
which lued by the patriotic efforts OF our greatest
and best in 1850 has again been excited and aroused
by President Pierce and his advisers Dscord contu-
son and sectional anmostes threaten again TO harrass
and disturb the Union The end is obscured in the dim
and distant future, and foretel what w BE-
For part indsposed to follow the authors OF
this renewed convulson and prefer to remain where
and the pledges the Baltimore Convention, and oppos-
ed to the disturbing unsetng of ancient and SO be-
nefcent measure as the Missouri compromise
To show the great esteem in which the Missouri com
promise has been regarded by our most eminent
public men, we will quote, from among multitude OF
others, the opinions OF the following:
President Polk said Of it:
In December 1872 application made to Congress by
the people of tho Missouri Territory for admission into the
Union State The discussion of the subject in Congress
involved the question Of slavery and was prosecuted with
patriot in the Union. Bue good genius cancellation wich
presided the birth Of institutions finally prevailed, and
the Hsoar compromise eas adopted The 9Th section Of the
of Congress of 9th March, 1920 o authorize the people
of the Missouri Territory form constitution and State
&C. provides THAT in all that territory coded
France the United States under the name Of Louisiana
which lies north $50 80 north latitude included within
the limits of the State contemplated by this act slavery and
involuntary servude otherwise than in the punishment of
crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted
shall be hereby prohibited Prooided apay
That escaping into the from whom labor or
service is lawfully claimed in any State Territory OF the
United States such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and
conveyed the person claiming his her labor service as
aforesaid
This compromise had the effect Of calming the troubled
AID restoring and good will throughout the States
Of the Union.
the Missouri question had excited intense citation of the
public mind and threatened divide the country into
graphical parties, alternating the feelings Of attachment which
each portion of Union should bear to every other The
compromise aayed the excitement anquzed the popular
mind, and restored confidence and aterna feeling It's
thors haileaas lublic 6eAeactors. = = Ought
to disturb the Missouri compromise? Ought at
this late day. in attempting annu what has been long
established and acquesced excite sectional divisions
and jeaouses to ALLEVIATE the people Of the different portions
of the Union from each other and to endger the existence Of
the Union scff'-(Special Message approving Oregon
Territorial bill, August H. 1913; Cong Globe, vol IS p.
10S1)
Gen. Cass said of
"Thus believing should have been better had the
whole been left it in the bill when first intro
duced by the Senator from Illinois, without any provision
garding the Missouri compromise it report
ed that intended to propose the repeal of that but
it Ny intentions wholly misunderstood.
had design whatever take such STEP and thus
cating from its quetude deed Of Cancellation which had
dene its work, and had done WELL and which haowed
by patriotism by and by its association with great
transferred to history 1t belonged to past gen
GRAFTON; and in the midst of political tempest which appa
led the wses and frme in the land had said the
OF agitation, Peace be still and they became STILL 1t would
have been better, In opinion to disturb its slumber
all useful and practical objects could have been attained
without it, Remarks in U. s. Senate, Feb 1S5f.)
senator DOUGLAS speech to the people Of Illinois,
delivered at Springfield in lS49 speaking Of the Mis-
souri, compromise the following remarkable lam
guage:
The Missouri compromise had then been in practical
ration for about Of century, and had received the
sanction and approba ion all parties in every
ton OF the Union 1t had aayed all sectional jeaoues
rrtaons growing out of this yexed question: and haronized
and tranquized the whole country 1t had given Henry
Clay as its prominent champion the proud of the
Great Paecaor and by that title and for that service his
political friends had repeatedly appealed the people rally
under his standard Presidential candidate as the man
who had exhibited the patriotism and the power suppress
unhoy and reasonable agtaon and the Union
lie was not that party from any section of
the Union had urged objection Mr. Clay that he
was the great champion Of the Missouri compromise On the
contrary the effort made by opponents Of Mr. CLAY
to prove that he titled to the exclusive Of that
great patriotic measure and that the honor equally due
to others as well him for securing its adoption that it
had its origin in the hearts of oil pa tic who desired
TO preserve and perpetuae the blessings of glorious
Unionan origin akin to that Of the Constitution the Unit
ed States conceived in the spirit aterna Affection
and calculated to forever the only danger which
seemed to threaten distant day. the social
bond Of union All the evidences of public opinion at that
day seemed to indicate that this compromise had become
anonzed in the hearts of the American people sacred
thing which no ruthless hand would be reckless enough
to disturb" ''.'0.
And on another OCCASION in the Senate of the United
States, the same gentleman said:
My preference for the Missouri compromise was predcated
on the assumption that the whole people the United States
would be more easily econced to that than any
other mode OF adjustment and this assumption rested upon
the fact that the Missouri had the
an dmicdbtc settlement Of fearful controversy 1921 phch
had been acqaiesced in eheey and coraly for more than
quarter 81 century, and oich all parties and all sections
Of tie Union preessed TO cherish far inst, and honorable
adjustment Reaok IN the u s. Senate December 49, ISL
Cong. Globe col Is, p CT.
Senator ATcHIsoN, now acting Vice President Of the
United States, said oft
euidert that tie Missouri cosome cannot be repealed
SO far that question concerned, might as we'll agree
the admission Of this Territory year.
ten years hence."-Reauks u. s. Seadc Wrck g. 1859
Cong. Globe, col. 26, p. lll3
We might multiply opinions similar to these indefinite.
y but forbear, and viii here introduce letter writ
ten at the time by Charles Pnckney, Of South Carolina
member of the convention that formed the Constitution
Senator Of the United States Minister to Spain under
President Jefferson, and subsequently member Of the
House of Representatives of which body he was mem
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