New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-04
Nxxun CONGRESS ... Tmsr SESSION.

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" "a S,I, Iisccs silence ouel' TO be maintained
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Il | Tie Ntbrssks hill was thou taken mp
M CHASE moved to almond the fourteenth section OF
A.hn D, striking cut the words which de'laT' ua inc
x,uri Compromisc superseded by the principles ol
-. g 1850 known os the Compromise acts H9
" "a ,, an Tuesday last he had noticed and epeed the
" ccpsl assaults made 10y the Senator nom uno'' no
"A now 70 strike out for the bill an assertion ""0 io
:, - ,,sav 70 demonstrate be historically and in
. a. without foundation lie brought no i'll feeling into
" .ssrs.i,n of tits question He looked at the sub
rs.i hat alone The crowded galleries Tie ihTonged
ihies TIE unusual attendance OF senators was no' ,o
De result II any particular desire TO hear MN cU ID.
wan violence Of she trausccndan oVeFpo"enn "e0Sc
= ,.,eA ON this question. At the commencemeht Oh
L u.s. Con~ess there was enactment no agitation on the
ho, Of slavery In his annual message the President
.,stss the faot-lreads from the message). 10"
= In Concress doubted the accuracy OF 'hS s'"I'
a kment of the President that the compromise Vi
a, klsso would be always regarded as hnai au-
us,mept of the question of Slavery They who doubted
xhis declaration did believe they thought the only per
rsnept adjustment Slavery questions would be by re
. TO the ancient policy OF combining Slavery to the limits
the States where II existed and securing tho rights of
preeo 10 all who within under the jurisdiction
Of the General Government. Bat they who thought thus
N were but small minority by regarded as faconists,
Al nv some as agators, by all mistaken At the com
eneemept Of this session them in the view Of all Others
everything quiet As the eye turned to the heavens
no cloud darkenod the view, mist obscured the bril-
" Hapcy OF the armament, but all at once there was
ehspce rafting thunder heard from the skies tho
sf ,nds were filed with ENras aota9ae ranH
n erJeroue prOeelFs itreUs Aye Sir CTe5T PT0eef's
Of lf,,e,s The south wind thick with storm Who was
rssnonse for this renewal of strife and storm They
who had been denounced factionss had not renewed
ths vexed territorial agitation Who then did renew
,h-bo filed the south wind with storm The factons
Inc ouietists ? the fnalss They who by party
resolutions had declared that the subject was forever
settled; who had declared that they would support no
man for Office who did agree that was finally settled
And why was 1t renewed Il was because Slavery again
wants loom; because Slavery again wants terrsoy be-
,Be Slavery wants more States 1t this great inter
est which had again renewed the agitation and again dis
tubed the quiet of the people And what was that
row demanded 1t that sacred compact should be
- rescinded; that a compact which had endured during
q whole generation Of end has for as long been
= | held as sacred aHl bond of pGghted faith
the constutionaliy Of which, it was true, had been
doubted by some but by which all had resolved to abide
xa now TO be set aside and forever repealed Some pre-
text for this course seemed to be required and that pre-
text had been disclosed by the Senator from Illinois who
in his peech of Tuesday last informed the Senate and the
country for the first time that the Missouri Compromise
had been superseded by the Act Of 1850 Who had be-
fore that time supposed or thought Of or heard OF
tbat idea No man. II had remained for the Senator to
- make known the discovery The Senator had Invoked
the shirt Of the dead sustain him in this idea lie had
TO the statesman who had reported the Compro
1880 but that great statesman in his report IN his
speeches his conversations in out of the committee
had never even that the Missouri Compromise
Superseded Never. Not word or line to that effect
L he anym
the North or the South during the long debate those
acts of 1850 ever aege that they would supersede or
i | repeal the Missouri Compromise Not one The Com
promise passed IN 1880 lhey We're denounced
y AZ the North and denounced the South. Did any de
fender of them either North South put his yindicaon
- | Missouri Compromise Not one. Did any obector TO
Them either at the North the South place his oP2o
sion the ground that they had swept away the Mis-
. | souri Compromisel MOI one No man. either North or
South defender opponent OF the Compromise Of 1850
sped such an idea The question had 80 $1,000
during the last Congress. The Senator from Illinois then
reported bill for Nebraska, with no prov oG on the
subject Slavery and provision declaring the Missouri
l Comprmise superseded by the acts Of 1850 The
, Senator in bis speeches urging the passage Of that
was V% then them we'll understood that the Missouri Com
promise did apply to Nebraska, and no one thought thni
had been repealed by the Compromise Of 1850 Ihe
President of the Senate, in a speech tho last day of
last session. asserted that while he had always dsappoged
of the Missouri Compromisc and had erdep'l Wshgi rs
4 repeal on that occasion used these words: 1T is
"eydcnt that the Missouri Compromise ea4not be re
"pealed SO far that question concerned We might
j as well agree TO the admission of this toyioy as
NEXT wear or FIVE or ten wears hence This authority
he MIR Chase took 10 be the very best showing thai
southern had thought, even then, tht me us
souri, COMPROMISE had been superseded ar yt the sen
ate had heard from the senator from Illinois that Rad
been repealed over three years ago Tho major from
1 Missouri who was deeply interested in the question had
complained that there hope for ho repeal OF me
\ Missouri Compromise and had advised thai It be submit
I'D yet the Senator from Illinois now Informed tAo
a y mate that the Missouri Compromise hnd been re
Il led nearly three before the senator from
= II curl made his speech. The bill then bonding, aud
had also been repcrtd 10y the Senator from Illinois,
y OF contain any provision declaring tie Missouri
promise superseded had any one 1t II any
idea that Il had 0nthe 9th OF January 1854 the Senator
b repo,ted from the Committee a bill ard the Commit
tee did not think then that the Missouri Comprome had
II been repealed. In the report made by the Committee
thew said that persons tho lght that Slavery pro
hbited in Nebraska and taat others asserted the right Of
southern men under the institution TO carry their prop
erv into the territory What in this case do the Commit
1 teebronose TO do Suspend the Missouri Compromise
% No Kepeait No. 1ha, IL has eenrepeei or super
seeded No But they sad that as in isSV 1t was disputed
n wbeihe, ibe Mexican laws prohibited Sayey IN Ne"
b Mexico and Utah, Congress then realheo IN
a or re,ealpy that Mexican law. So now The COMMITTEE
proposed h. CONGRESS should refrain from stunning or
repeanc the Missouri prohibition In thef report tne
u Committee said that neither wse I~F II ID ~
Congress 10 decide way or the oihe:' ana ' ~
n 4 wake I'D this agitation md excitement h.t tf. inc
IS most advisable course was TO r,ain Icu ava
action and leave The MISTER Of tie rgN 10 l.OiI-o
SLAVERY there TO judic.a decision WHO ne Oo nue.
rs reported bill this p7nc % no did not agree tha '-o
oil avoided action by Congress, but s.iu N ~ t =!
one had advanced the doctrine that toe Missouri
promise had been repealed by the acts OF Ae'" -
be 9TH Of January the reported on the 4tA W" iooIu
Tie UodinRton SlH-f,L On The ION Oh JH.g"ly "a