The daily union., 1854-02-19

restore the parties interest there 10 their statu qso be-
lore the compromise 10 be supplanied estAbished.
First then remand Missouri aud Arkansas back TO Che
unsettled condition IN regard 10 slavery which they held
before the Compromise OF 1870 enacted, and trlws
VIII hear you talk OF resembling that Compromise. You
cannot do this You ought not TO do I'LL you could and
because you cannot and ought not to do H. you cannOt
without violating law justice, equiv. and honor, anlo-
gate The guarantee OF freedom 10 Nebraska. slsss
There ia still another and not less serious di6cay
fon call the slavery laws OF 1850 compromss oetwsen
the slayeholding aud slaveholdng States For the
purposes OF this argument let it be granted that they
were such compromise. II was nevertheless, com
promise concerning slavery in the Territories acquired
IRON Mexico and BY the letter OF the Compromise Ak
tended further Can you now by act which il pot
compromise between the parties, hut 0rdi-
nary law extend the force and obligation of the psinc
plies OF that Compromise of 1850 into regions not odly
excluded from it, but absolutely protected from your fn
tervenon there by solemn Compromise Of thirty yeAks'
duration. and invested with sanc,ty scarcely infsorto
that which hallows the constitution itself Z 1851
Can the Compromise OF 1850, by ordinary a6tof
legislation, be extended beyond the plain, kno~n Axsd
intent and understanding OF the parties al the iims that
contract made, and yet be binding the parties to
H. not merely legally but in honor and conscence Can
you abrogats compromises by passing any law Of lsss
dignity than compromised IL So OF what value 10 any
one or the whole OF the compromises Thus you
that these bills violate both OF the compromsss--not
more that OF 1920 than that Of 1850 sss "a Na&
Will you maintain in argument that Il understood
BY The parties interested throughout the county, or by
either OF them, by any representative Of either. in
either house OF Congress that the principle lbsn estab
lished should extend beyond the limits OF the territories
acquired from Mexico into the territories acquired nearly
fifty years before, from France, and then reosing under
the guarantee OF the Compromise of 1920! know not
how senators may pose. but do know what they will
say. appeal to the honorable senator from Michigan,
MIR. CAss,l than whom none performed more dIstA-
gnlshed part In establishing the Compromise Of 1850,
whether he so intended understood appeal TO the
honorable and distinguished senator the represent-
alive from Tennessee. Mr.. BELL,l who performed
distinguished part also. Did he understand the Com
promise of 1850 Iappeai to that very dislinguished
nay SIT, that expression tails short OF his emnencethat
usous man, the senator from Missouri. who led the
htle mi nj h0
derstand that that Compromise in any way Overreached
or impaired the compromise o 1920! Sir that dieliA-
several laws The subject OF California and the ters-
Iies and slavery together in bill, constitute
compromise, neveTlheless voted for each of those
bills severally and in lbat way, and that way only
they passed Had he known understood that any
one OF them overreached and impaired the Mssoar
Compromise. we all know he would have perished before
he would have given 1t his support. s.*Es@g
Sir 1t was not reverent would dare TO call up the
author OF both the compromises IN question: from his
honored though yet scarcely grass-coveed grave and
challenge any advocate OF this confront that
mperious shade and say that 10 making the Compeomse
OF $780, he intended dreamed that he subvertnG
preparing The way Tor subversion, OF his greaterwok
of 1920 Sir u that eagle spirit liz yet lingering here over
the of his mortal abors, and watching over the
welfare OF the republic he loved so well, his heart is
nov moved with more than human Indignation against
hose who pervertiag his last public from
its legitimate uses, merely snbvsH the cou nu but
10 wrench IRON lis very bed the base OF The column that
And that other proud and dominating senator who.
sacrificing himself the aid without which the Com
promise OF 1850 could not have been estabshed-the
statesman OF New Hgland and the orator Of Amorica-
who dare assert here, where his memory 10 yet fresh,
though his unIeered spirit may be wandering spheres
far hence, that he intended 10 abogale dreamed that,
by virtue Of ia consequence of that Transactions vie
Missouri Compromise would or could BE- ubro-
gated The portion OF the Missouri Compromise you
propose TO ahrogate the ordinance OF 7s7 extended 10
Nebraska Heat wba, Daniel Webster SAID OF that ovdi-
nance ilse in $780, IN lhs very place, in reply to one
who had undervalued it aud its author = mo-
g" spoke sir. Of the ordinance or i7s7 which prohibits
slavery in all future time northwest of Ohio asa nisss-
ure OF great wdom and fofcthongh AID which has
been attended with highly beneficial and permanent
And now hear what he sad here when advocating lie
Compromise OF 1850:
now say, sir the proposition upon which s,aod
tbs day. and upon the ruth and hrmnes oil which ioend
ment in the United States any Territory ofthe United
States single foot, Of land. the character Of which.
Ia regard TO Il, being free territory slave territory, n
fixed by some law, and some IsRKrRaAsLx law beyosd
the power OF the action Of this government" Aa6Iza
What irtpessbls law, or wha, law OF any kind hxsd
the character OF Nebraska free slave territory, ex
cept the Missouri. Compromise acti NA
And now bear what Daniel Webster said when vim
dicatng the Compromise OF 1850 at Buffalo, in 1881:
aMy opinion remains unchanged that as no, within
the original scope design Of the constarion admit
States out Of foreign territory; and one, whatever
may be said Syracuse convention any other AZ
sembags OF insane persons never would con sent ard
oonsented that there should be foot OF
slave territory beyond what the old hir,ecn hsd
the OF the formation OF Union Never, Never
" The IN cannot show hts face M and say he can
prove hat ever departed fom that doctrine He would
sneak away, anu ank hire mercenary pfem 70
cry out, What spostste from Liberty Daniel Websser
has become Bat he knows himselfp be a hypocritc
and a fssiher' 0& p-faf&
That COM Iromise was forced upon the sIaveholdnr
States and upon The slaveholdng States nutual
exchange OF equivalents The equivalents were accu-
raely defined, and carefully scfunizei and weighed BY
the respective parties, through period OF eight monthe
The equivalents offered to the savehoding Stat0H
First, the admission of California; seccnd, The
abolition OF the public slave trade IN the District at 10
lpmbis. These and these only, were the booDs offered
to them, and the only sacrifices which the ravehoidiAk
States required TO make. The saver OF the Will
mot proviso IN the Incorporation oil New Mexico and
Utah, aod new fugiive-siave law were the only boonu
proposed to the sayehoding Safes and the only sacs
hces exacted Of The o-savehoding States No other
questions between them were ayta,ed, except thoAs
which involved 10 the gain loss OF more less
OF fec territory OF slave territory the determination
Of the boundary between Texas and New Mexico, by
line that at last arbitrarily made, expressly saving
even In those Jtrrhoriss TO the respective parties their
respective shares Of Tree soil and slave soil according
the articles OF annexation Of the rspubIic ot Texs-
Again. there alleged 10 be hye open, hleediHG
wounds in the federal ystep and no Ye. which needed
surgery and which the CoBpronlse OF 1850 wAs n b.
n caiapiasm We all know what they Ca iforniA
without n constitution New Mexico IN the xrssr of
military power Uah neglected the Dlstrc OF Colan.
hia dishonored and the rendition OF ug'ives denisd
Nebraska thoaght of 10 this catalogue u
national ills And now, sir. did the Nashville convew-
OF secessionsts understand nal besides the enumef
ated boons offered the sIavehodng States they were
10 have also the obieraoa o' ibe Aiasoun-Compronse
line of 1902 II they did, wbyd1 they REJECT and soosH.
and a the Compromise OF 1902 DID the leaisA.
dFes aud public assemblies The oldng SiAtyS