Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-15

that the whole North ratified the act If to constitute
it compromise required majority both sections
the acts Of 1850 were not compromises, because majo
ry of Southern voted against receiving Californi,
with free constitution and majority of Northern
voted against the fugitive slave law Those who de
nounce the Missouri compromise do not consider the ac
of 1850 less compromise because the whole North or thu
whole South did not vote for each and every one of h,
FIVE passengers in the omnibus, the compromise mea
sures have been termed
Now sir having shown that the Missouri act was In
the nature of compact, invoke Southern friends
by all the obligations of their plghed faith and by that
high sense Of honor and lofty chivalry for which they
have been distinguished not 10 wrench from free
territory simply because by your unanmiy and the
aid of few Northern politicians you have the power to
do So The gentleman from Georgia says honor ~
Yes, sir, that is the ground put it upon, well
justice and right You have the power to repeal it, but
you have got the consideration, every dollar in your
pockets and repeat it. yonr honor demands that you
shall perform your covenant. would be far from i'm
peaching the honor of the South but ask what opinion
the South would have Of the North If she submit
in silence to the violation of this solemn compact?
sir should despse the North and beautiful as are her
prairies would 90 back to the South, whence came,
rather than have share in the heritage cursed by such
tame and ignominious submission. l believe it is Mr.
Randolph who had the credit Of saying that the South
could calculate Northern politicians easier than South
ern slaves Whether he was right or not do not say
Not So sir with the people of the North they will and
have yielded much for the sake Of union and peace but
planted the right, and when to yield would be
dishonor, you will sooner upheaye the praries of the
West into mountains or level the granite hills Of New
England into plains than drive her from her position
Sir, cannot will not believe that pighted faith is
gossamer thread to be snapped in twain with every
new impulse Of ambition or interest; and cannot be-
lieve tha the tyranny of party is potent, party
drill and domination stringent and eicacous, to
force this bill through this House in violation Of solemn
compact and against every principle of justice, right
4 and humanity.
Mr. Chairman win not leave this branch of the sub
ject without showing the high estimation in which this
compromise has been holden and that it has been re-
garded in the light Of compact Mr. Polk, in assign
ing his for approving the Oregon b refers to
1 the fact that it lies north of $50 30i, and says:
/ "ousht at this late day, in attempting to annu
what has bcen long established and acquieced in to
Of different sections Of the Union from each other and
cndanger the existence Of the Union itselfT'
Now, Mr.. Chairman, will quote the language Of the
Senator from Illinois, (Mr DouGLAs) in his speech in
the Senate March l3th 1850, where be is speaking d
recty of the line of 36o 30l, known the Missouri
compromise" He says:
THAT measure was originally adopted in the bill for the
admission of Missouri by the union of Northern and South
The South has always prossed to be willing to
abide by it, and even to continue it, fair and honorable
| adjustment of veSod and difficult question"
In s45 it adopted in the resolutions for the
ton of Texas by Southern well Northern votes without
the slightest complaint that it unfair to any section of
| tho country" .s.&#- =.
In 1916 it received the support of every Southern
Der of tho House Of Representatives, Wing and Democrat
without exception alternative to the Wnot
provso and again in l4S amendment to the Oregon
bill, my motion, received the vote, if recolect right,
ana do THINK possibly Dc mistaken,
Southern Senator, Wing and Democrat including the
Senator from South Carolina himself Mr. Cilhoun) And yet
told that this only second to the ordinance of
/ 1877 in tho series of aggressions on the South"
| Mr.. Chairman the name of General Houston is a
familiar to my constituents, wish to quote from
his speech two most remarkable for their force
simplicity, and beauty. In his strong argument for pre-
serving the Missouri compromise intact he says
at is compact, solemn compact. The oord Of
'ion cj he Union should be Kept Nth another"
Mr.. Chairman, the gentleman from Kentucky quotes
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Northern change their belief But how have the
opinions Of many Southern men, and Northern too,
sir, undergone changes the subject of slavery? Ac
cordpg to gentleman, when slaves not profit
able and it thought that slavery would die of
ITSELF then the value of it had been ascertaned and
Mr. Mason of Virginia and Washington and Jefferson,
denounced it curse; but now, when it has become
profitable and has interviewer itself with all the great
commercial interests when it makes many bales of
cotton many hogshcads OF rce sugar, and tobacco
aud augments our national exports it has suddenly trans
formed itself into great domestic, social moral, and
national blessing The priceless heritage Of human free
dom in national diplomacy to be estimated by the
calculations or dcfnr1 aud cents Aud cir. when it
the interest Of the South to uphold the Missouri compro
MISE then "men Of all parties in every section Of the
Union" approved it; and now, sir when the South has
got her part OF the bargain- Missouri and Arkansas,
both slave States-and her interest points 10 different
direction, why now, sir it is compromise if
promise, it is unconstitutional, nudatn pactam
if unconstitutional it was superseded in lS4s by the
refusal to extend it to the Pacific il not superseded
then, rendered imperative and void in 1850 And
MIR. Clay who up to this time has been the world
renowned champion of that great is all of sud-
den discovered to have had connexion with it"
What will not gentlemen believe when the interest
| of slavery demands?
Says Hamlet to Polonius s".r ....
you yonder cloud that's almost in the shape of
| camel7 ...-.
Poi. By the mass, and it is like camel, indeed.
Ham. Methnks it is like weasel.
| Poi. 1t is backed like weasel
Ham. Or like whale? ... .# .......-.r r..
| Pot Very like q whale.
Yes, sir, the Missouri compromise is camel, weasel
or whale according to the standpoint from which it
strikes the optic vision of the peculiar institution.
Laughter. .r.
| Mr.. EWING. VIII the gentleman allow meH
Mr.. YATES. very much regret my time will not al
low The gentleman will not find fault with my good
| natured retort on him.
The abored effort Of the gentleman from Kentucky,
(aIr BREoKNRIDGE) yesterday t. classify and de-
nounce all the opponents Of this bill Aboltonsts
his high fame, and it viii detract very much from his
character for sagacty for if to advocate the Missouri
compromise line constitutes Abolitionis then
every from the South who voted for that compromise
in 1920 and who repeated instances, voted to extend
it through other territory is for the very reason,
Aboltonist Why, sir, If this be fair construction,
then prove Senator DOUGLAS the very ors sort of
Abotonist for he voted for it in 1S45 in the Texas
resolutions also, believe, in 1916 also the amend
mcnt the Oregon bill and in S49 he gori6ed it
sacred thing" &c. must apologize to the committee
for answering this msy charge, for the whole country
has already seen through it, and are stamping 1T with
1 proper reprobaton
There several points which would like to present
at length but my time will not permit Did the compro
mise of 1850 supcrsedc the Missouri compromise
Ii is four years since those acts passed. and
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