Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-10
From the Goshen Democrat.
FROM the dOsheh UomUcFat
THE TERRITORIAL QUEsTI0N - POSITION OF
DUB REPRESENTATIVE AND THE INDIANA
DELEGATION IN CONGRESS

TIKI TERRITORIAL QUEsTI0N POSITION OF
OUR REPRESENTATIVE AND THE INDIANA
DELEGATION IN CONGRESS
Below we give that portion Of recent letter
from our Representative in Congress to the
editor Of this paper relating to the Territorial
question. II will be Of especial interest to our
readers, as serving to show the position OF the
Indiana delegation, and fully explaining that
Of Judge Chamberlain himself upon this now
engrossing topic:
WAsHINGToN, D. c., Feb. 4, 1854.
DEAR SIR: see by the papers, which have
come to hand since the re.openiDg of the flood
gates Of excitement on the Slavery question, in
direct contravention to the letter and spirit OF
the Compromise measures Of 1850, and the
Baltimore platform, by the introduction of Mr..
Douglass Nebraska bill, containing direct
proposition for the repeal of the Missouri Com
PROMISE that this Same mischievous spirit,
Slavery excitement, the food Of ambitious men,
is also to some extent already doing its work
abroad
believe hazard nothing in saying that the
Indiana delegation in the House, at this mo-
ment unanimously disapprove of the bill in its
present form
We have no intimation from the President
either in his inaugural or message, or any other
uocumont uoiOIo SonSI0OD, sH0S .a'o aoPooi "
the Missouri Compromise is an Administration
measure This being the fact, have taken it
for granted that he would not very readily
recognise it as my right, much less as . duty
devolving on me as Representative in Con-
gress, to inquire what his private views US an
individual may be upon the subject. And the
line Of duty before me, as such Representative,
seems very plain.
Every adjustment Of this question by Con-
gress, now for moro than thirty years, inclu-
ding the Missouri Compromise, has been re-
ceived and acquiesced in by the people every
where, and particularly by the Democratic
party, in spirit of patriotic devotion to the
interests Of the whole Union, which has given
it peculiar sanctity Indeed, the degree of
integrity with which the citizen, North or
South, has manifested his devotion to the Com
promises, all of them, has been justly regarded
as the measure Of his patriotism; the great
object being to do strict Justice to each sec
ton of the Union, and to allay and prevent
agitation.
To the faithful performance of this duty, in
this spirit, my mind has uniformly been made
up, and have never, to this hour, doubted that
it was in precise harmony with the views of
my constituents upon the subject.
1t is asserted by the advocates of this meas-
ure-indeed, the declaration is incorporated in
the Nebraska bill itself-that the Compromise
measures of 1850 virtually repeal the Missouri
Compromise. This deny But grant il for
the sake of the argument. What then
Wherefore the necessity Of repeating it over
again. except for the qualification Of . wanton
propensity for the agitation Of this question,
already so much abused, to the ends Of politi-
cal selfaggrandizement
In this view of the case, shall deem it my
I,,ku <1n kot. fbo Tonkh
Congressional District of Indiana, to stand by
the Missouri Compromise, and thereby preserve
the Territory free, leaving to the People there
the undoubted right, when they frame Con-
stitution, to ask for admission into the Union,
with or without Slavery, as they themselves
may decide, when thus assuming their position
in the Union as q sovereign State
IL in these views ! have misoonceved the
sentiments of my constituents, shall expect to
receive from them instructions, emanating from
primary meetings held in relation to it, to vote
for the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
Z. M. CHAMRERLAIN.
Hon. X. Lowry
TELEGRAPH FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO IRE
LANDAU official document addressed to the
Secretary of the Navy, by Lieut. Maury, Civ
ing the results of the deep sea soundings eff
fected by Lieut.. Bergman, from the shores of
Newfoundland to those of Ireland, has been
published These seem to be decisive of the
question as to the practicability of subma-
rine telegraph across the Atlantic ocean, in
that region, the distance between the nearest
points Of the two countries being one thousand
six hundred miles and the bottom of the sea
being plateau the whole distance, singularly
adapted to the purpose Of holding line Of
magnetic telegraph wire. The depth of the
plateau is quite regular, gradually increasing
from the shores Of Newfoundland, where it is
fifteen hundred fathoms, until it reaches two
thousand fathoms when approaching the other
side. This is just suited to the purpose, the
depth being such as to secure the wires against
ali the perils Of icebergs, anchors, &c., and yet
not too deep to be useful. More remarkable
than this is the fact that, upon the admirable
plateau, "the waters of the sea appear as
quiet and as completely at rest as they are at
the bottom of a mill pond;D that there are
no perceptible currents and abrading agents
at work at the bottom of the sea upon this
telegraphic plateau" consequently, tele-
graph wire once lodged there, there il would
accidents OF drift as It would be Ii buried in air
tight cases" Lieut. Maury suggests that q
national prize be offered to the telegraphic
company through whose telegraphic wire the
first photographic message shall be passed across
the Atlantic NORTH american.
FREE NEGROES IN Missouri "A case was
recently brought before one of the Superior
Courts of Missouri, in which il was sought to
expel mulatto from the State under statute
Of 1S47, which declares that no free negro or
muatto shall come to that State under any
pretext whatever. II was contended, in reply,
that this statute was unconstitutional, and that
Missouri was bound by her own solemn COM
pact and agreement, by which she had pledg-
ed herself never to pass any law prohibiting
any citizen Of any one Of the States Of this
Union from emigrating to Missouri, and en-
joying all the privileges of citizens Of like class
in the State The court sustained the motion
and dismissed the nrnceedinQa declaring that