The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-03-08

eleAlk Aeh e01tlnaeu Olt "a us course
towards The Pacific ocssnS vet Texas
did net fsll sithin the description con-
tinsd within the Missouri eampro.
mise. She Mas = fprrign independent
State, incorporated by her free con
seat. spon the principle of q treaty
Then. IN 1850. what had been thur
rsrsenilsd wss distinctly and saeqsi
voesily rePsdiated The prineipI.
spen which ths Legislation Of 1880 sai
fSindsd. being thus disregarded. is i
Net strictly proper 10 say that the prin-
siple that Congress should not inter
ycae In selzfioa To- these matters dis
tlnetls show. esicerssed,. out Of che
acts. ef legislation Of 1850, being di
reefly. Inconsistent with ; the Other
FriRctpie ON .xhich the legislation o.
1880 Was founded. the latter is nope.
rative and ,oidf pray you. sir. Il Il
70 not sfrictiy accurate 20 say thai
this clause Of the ACT Of 1880 is incon,
sisienf with the principle Of non-inter
ssniian bv Congress with slavery in the
SKATES and Territories and that that
PrsaelPIe Ma. recognized by the legis-
larion Of Is50s
Well. u q was. a. 20 my understand.
ing u ifevitlent il Was. | say that the he.
norable chairman could not have adopt.
cd operative words more strictly ac-
sarate and proper than those with which
he has followed this recital. What
are they! lis hereby declared in.
operative and void" IL would not
have been correct or just to the sub.
jeet to say that we hereby repeal'
the Missouri compromise. as il we had
taken new notion now, suddenly, in
regard to il; but il is the true, proper.
and legitimate conclusion, that Con-
gress having. in 1850. adopted prin-
eiple. and grounded its legislative ac-
ton upon il. which is inconsistent with
the principle involved in the eighth
section oi the Missouri law, that eighth
section should be declared imperative
and void. In the court below dat pro-
vision effects repeal; and il is Just
as legitimate a mode Of etiiecting a re-
peal Of law. 60 declare il void, as to
say il is hereby repealed III gen.
} tlemrn will consult the English stat.
pte-book. they will 6nd numerous in.
stances Of repeats BY such words. II
10 peculiarly appropriate to adopt that
iorm in this case. because il il a legal
consequence following out Of The facts
rccitesl. that il ought to be inopcra-
tive and Void" aud IL il therefore de-
clared 20 be SO.
Mr. President, in the view which I
take Of this subject. il seems to me
strange-no, | will not say strange,
but ! a& you if it is not very re-
markable, whether strange or not, that
the honorable Senator from Ohio TMr.
Chase should have ielt such an es.
IRENE asgescy for proper respect be-
ing paid to the Missouri compromise
linz, when. in every instance in which il
was proposed to the consideration Of the
Senate in the year 1850, he constants
~, by his vote, refused to recognize
it! he calls upon US tu % respect the
Missouri compromise, regard piigbted
faith, submit to the exclusion Of your
slaves ip territory lying north Of SO
so, and, in consideration thereof, 1 |
will also exclude your slaves from ter
ritory south Of SO 30." ~ beg you,"
saws he, mot to disregard the terms !
of this compromise. You are men of
honor; sou have agreed to give up the
right of CARRYING your slaves north of
SCI So, and We implieIly agreed that
you might carry them into territory
south ct So so: 1 beg yoa to adhere
TO your surrender north Df So 50'."
And. as the most persuasive argument
10 induce US to do so, he saws: !" feel
bound, by my love Of freedom and re-
gard for the Constitution, to refuse to
lex YOU carry them into territory south
of So s0, that being the equivalent
upon which you made the other sur
render"
This is strange node of enforcing
the observance OF compacts; and it
shows with what facility we perceive
the propTiety Of obliging others, and
how easily we perceive it is not easy to
oblige ourselves by the obligation of
when the question returns,
whether we shall give the consideration
or which the other party contracted.
remember having seen somewhere, /
hat DR.. Perieas, Sho Was at one time
lie Bishop OF London, and man Of no
mail celebrity in his day, had written ,
poem upon the horrors and miseries ,
# war. in which he had given SO vivid |
picture of the dreadful consequences
md aacompaniments Of war, and its !
litter irreconcilability with the princi- ,
lies Of Ghisfiapity, that everybody
Who read the poem was deeply struck
With the fer,id eloquence and impas- /
Toned piety Of the right reverend au- a
hor. II is said that some time after I
Yards, during the prosecution of TO-