New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-24
GREAT lNTl-EEBRASKA DEMlESTA,, iias
MEETING OF SOLID MEN OF boston
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Boston, Thursday. Fob % 1853.
An immense gathering of citizens of Boston N,
vicinity Of all shades OF political opinion TOOK pc,
in FGneuil Hall this afternoon and evening to profess
against the passage of the Nebraska bill Hon SAN
UEL A. ELLIOT chosen President Among sh'
Vice. Presidents were the Mayors Of Boston RoxouJ
Cambridge, Charleston, Lynn. Salem and Lowell
also, Messrs ABBOT LAWRENCE, JOSIAH QUINCY
JOHN =. BIGELow and other distinguished gen
tlemen.
Mr.. ELLIOT on taking the chair addressed the meet
ing expressing the pleasure it afforded him to again
address bis fellow etzens after somewhat Of
ton, aud proceeded to state the exigeDces which
called for this meeting protest against the violation
Of pliphted faith and solemn compscts.
The following resolutions were then offered:
Redirect That citizens of Massachusetts declare
our unalterable attachment 10 the Union md the Const
tuition and adherence to the Compromise which the
stepce of Slavery these United States under the Con
stituton has made necessary and we firmly abide by
the compact the time of it, adoption deemed essential
to the preservation OF the Union and acquesced in by the
peOple of the United States the basis Of system by
which the extension Of Slavery should be controlled for.
Resolred That tho propositions now pending in Con-
gress for the abrogatoa Of that Compromise if adopted
would be violation Of the good faith which ought to be
observed between the different portions Of the United
States That they have Justly filed community with
surprise and alarm and call upon brethren at the
South TO pause before they proceed further to disturb the
peace which hoped the Compromise measures Of 1885,
would have made perpetual to consider well, least the
passage of the proposed bill for the organization Of the
Territories of Nebraska and Kansas should be justly
treated by the people OF the North as voluntary and I'M
necessary abandonment by the people Of the South Of
thcr pighed fat and entire release from all the
obligasns Of 1880
Resolced That the people Of Boston and yciry have
in good faith conforned TO and executed that portion Of
the Compromise laws OF 1850, which most obnoxious
TO the sentiment and convictions of the people OF the
North and insisted by the people OF the South
due to them under the Constitution of the United Sises
That this done for the sake Of the peace and pre-
ton Of the Union and call all people to witness that
the redpenng of sectional dis entOns and the renewal Of
Slavery agitation, has not been produced in any degree
by our departure from the spirit of concession and CON
promise which sanctioned by the nRuer e. and made
successful by the exerons of the great and patriotic
Of 1920 and 1850.
ResO1red, That we protest against the measure now
pending before Congress deliberate breach of the
ighted faith of the nation, and tending to weaken tho
claims Of common country upon the confidence ard
affection Of the people
The Hon j. THOMAS SrEvEssoN first addressed the meet
ing in support of the resolutions He wished not spesk
of the horrors and evils OF Slavery the community already
possessed conviction the subject We not hero to
ds those evils We here discuss the points and
merits of a Gpecal act When Missouri WIS admitted
State al the territory north Of 800 80 to be dedicated
to freedom Without this understanding the Territory
would not hsve been admitted The Compromise of 1920
WIGS at last in by the people of the North and
now after thirty four years of settled acquiescence in the
measure we the North startled as by clap OF thun
der from clear sky by proposition to uProot and ag
tate again oil those elements OF strife which the act to
which he alluded had put at rest The common wish OF
our people 60 be spared from questions which cennot be
settled in camness and good faih is now to be frustrated
And what is our duty under the circumstances Ole
seat in The halls of legislation TO whose occupant
accustomed 20 look for advice is nov vacant He is no
longer here TO guide US but there 10 IRE in ls ashes
there IL light in his remembrance Were his le5C form
now 10 appear among us, who does not know that his
voice would be raised in condemnation of the pro.
posed violation of sacred faith and what is duty
Is to wait until the storm breaks until the wrong is
done, and mems passions have become Inemed before
raise voice No, Sir; no For what is the propo
son What but that tho whole interdict the further
extension of Slavery shall be removed and evoked l
advocates claim that the action Of 1850 annled the
pact of 1920 The logic which reaches this conelson ne
could not see and those who the argu en but insult
the intelligence of their hearers. But there is another
reason claimed viz that the laws forever to be in
of no when the time arrives for the same Territories
be admitted States Ii there any honesty in these
word forever cannot be for sustained. Ii he
were asked what would be the probable consequences OF
the bin if passedPerhaps not to cary one single slave 10
eperov enough 10 conquer the 1ilds of rnciviized
regions will not submit to have their tight arm
fettered by this drawback. But he could say that
II would be the commencement of broken oompacts,
of violated faith Can southern men suppose that this act
is to be the be all and the enda here May they not
see that the ingredients of the poisoned ehaloe may be
commended to their own lips Let them remember that
when we Of the north object to the interference OF the
General Government with Slavery in ihe Slave Setes,
II Inv reason of compact between fathers and theirs
and II they now wish TO throw aside compact which we
Of binding force may not we on our part nave
to disregard the old compact and throw the South
into aposiion which they would force upon us North
ern man proposes the bill If passed il a be by the vote
of Northern men May not before it is too late, inter
pose prevent the calamity OF the passage OF the bill =
May not the Southern man say No. gentlemen we refuse
the boom we wish respect paid to rights and to
deserve it by respecting the rights of others
Mr. S HuLIARD was the next speaker He alluded TO
the meeting as one of the kind handed down to by our
fathers who met to express their opinion in Old Faneui
Hall on questions Of public interest A question is
vending before Congress which fills the people of Boston
of Massachusetts the whole North with surprise with
alarm and concern re0peniDg agitation which he had
boped was laid at at least for generation The
Missouri Compromise was the result OF an attempt to
oet the contendng waves of strife which the Statesmen
of that day looked upon with alarm and fear. Neither
party of quite satisfied but both acquieseed
and what we got, and what we paid, we all know ana
understand The bill before Congress conflicts with
the Comm omise of 1920 inasmuch it allows Slavery
north of deg 30 min which the Compromise expressly
forbids He then reviewed the arguments OF those who
claim that the Compromise of 1850 superedes and abohes
the old one of 1920 stating that the arguments used were
hev not expressed by high authority he should style
simply absurd The attempt TO get round the COMPROMISE
of 1850 looked him Ike obtaining goods false pretenses
If the COMPROMISE must be ruled, why not begin
al the beginning and repeal it altogether This would
no the manly wav and way that honest men could un
derstsDd and meet The Compromise as they construed
Il was in violation Of all cOntemporaneOus testimony OF
the united voice of all the great statesmen VINO assisted In
its passage Not only did not the Compromise OF 1850 re
neal that of 1920 but the bill proposed does have that
Eject and let the caamtous consequences be upon the
heads of those who its aiders and abeors We wash
our hands of the whole matter that onus no reproach may
rest The southern man may say nave as good Iigh
To 90 with my property into the common territory OF tne
MIN as Won OF the North have to take yours ms rs
merely begging the question The holding slaves as prop
criy Is nowhere recognized by the common law and the