Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-05-12

tee Of the House; Mr. Randolph was chair
man, and received its answers IN report ID
these words:
"That the rapid population Of the State o.
Ohio sufficiently evinces, in the opinion of
your committee, that the labor Of slaves is not
necessary to promote The growth and set.
tlement of colonies in that region; that this
labor, ,demonsirably the dearest Of any, can
only be employed to advantage in the culliya-
lion Of products more valuable than any
known 10 that quarter Of the United States;
tha, the committee deem il highly dapger-
Gus and inexpedient 10 impsre provision
wisely calculated 10 promote the happiness
and the prosperity Of the Northeastern
countiy, and TO give strength and security to
that extensive frontier. In the salu,ary op-
erat;ons Of this sagacious and benevolent re-
straint il is believed that the inhabitants OF
Indiana will, at no very distant day, find am.
pie remuneration for a temporary privs;ion of
labor and emigration"
This was the answers Of the select COM
mttee; and it became the answer OF the
Iiouse--.of this House Just fifty years ago.
when the South was about as ably REPRESENTED
here as il ever has been since. and when is
relative strength was greater than it has
ever been since.-The answer Is a peremp-
tory refusal to yield TO the petition OF Tho
people of Indiana, even for ten years local
suspension Of this nnti-slavery clause. "High:
Iy dangerous and inexpedieht To ithpate that
provision" Yes to impare! that is the EofHI
and it is a refusal to weaken or lessen, in the
smallest dcgi &C, aUt wivi, the committed
calls "benevoleh; and sagacious actj" and
which they recommend to maintain unim.
paired, because it is Calculated TO increase
the happiness and prosperity Of the North
west and to give strength and security TO its
frontiers" That Congress, and that with;
out division between North and South, would
not impair an act Of SO much future good 10
posterity, not even upon the mistaken appli-
cation of a few present inhabitants.
But this was not the end of the petitions.
| The people Of Indiana were not satisfied with
one repulse. They returned TO the charges
and four times more, in the course Of as many
years, renewed their application for the ten
years suspension of the ordinance. 1t was
rejected each time, and once in the State;
where the North Carolina Senator Mr.. Jesse
Franklin) wGs chairman of the committee
which made the report against it. Five times
in as many years rejected by Congress; and
the rejection the more emphatic in some in
House of favorable report from a commit
tee. And now what inhabitant of Indiana
does not rejoice at the deiyerance which the
frmness Of Congress then gave them 10 spite
Of the request Of its inhabitants fifty years
ago. -
Thus, FIVE times in the beginning Of this
century-fve different times, and without
any distinction between Nofiberi and Soath;
| ,Ha~. 4 af,nn
, pair" the slavery compromise Of 1857, not;
, wtbstanding five times asked for, by the
!. people Of the territories. Oh! squatter sosi
ereignty, where were you then? 1t was d
, case for you to have shown your head 10
have arisen in your might and established
your supremacy forever. 1t was a case Of
convention of the sDvereigns themselves, and
neither this Convention nor the Congress
had dream Of their sovereignty. The con-
yention petltioned Congress as ward would
its guardian or children under age would pc
i tition their father, and Congress answered
! like good guardian or good father, that ii
i would not give them an evil, although they
: begged for it. Benghted times, these, and
4 infinitely behind the present age. The mares
:. nest had not then been found in which has
i been laid the marvellous egg, out Of which
q q has been hatched the nondescrip. fowl
,s ycept Squatter Sovereignty" The illus.
), trous principle of non Intervention bad moi
- then been invented The ignoramuses oi
i that day had never heard of it, though now
!. to be learned in every horn-book; and, be
!. lieve nowhere else but in the horn-b books.
re HOW IT IS PROPOSED TO DISTURB THE coAPRo
IS, MISE OF 1897.
j. Five times in the beginning of this century
e, did Congress refuse to impair the slavery
n compromises of 81; and now. in the middl,
m Of the century, and after thirty years of peac,
,h under the Missouri Compromise, the offspring
m and constitution Of 81, we are called upon
Sc not merely to impair for a season. but to de
= stroy forever far greater compromise, ex
II, tending to far more territory, and growing
IN out of necessities far more pressing. AM
of how called upon? Not by the inhabitant.
de not by any one human being living or ex
es, pecting to live in the territory to be affected
by but upon a motion in Congress- silen
sr- secret. limping, hating creeping, squirting
a impish motioR-conceived in the dark, mid
nd wited in committee room, and sprung upol
m Congress and the country in tho style i
ot which Guy Fawks intended to blow up th
ok Parliament House. with his FIVE hundred bal
he rels of gunpowder hid in the cellar under th
is wood.
RS My answer to such motion is to be foun
ne in the whole volume of my political life.
'r' have stood upon the Missouri Compromise e
az about thirty years. and mean to stand upon
to to The end of my life; /; and, in doing so, shs
1t act, not only according 10 my own cherishe
ut convictions of my duty, but according to II
he often declared convictions Of the General A
- sembly ofmy State. The inviolability Of thi
he compromise line has often been declaraed b
that General Assembly, and as late as ls4
HE in these words,
"Resolved, That the peace, permahehe
cal and welfare of our National Union depot
he upon strict adherence 10 the letter and spii
Of ofthe eighth section of the act of Congress
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