Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1854-07-11
Proceedings or the Members Of Com
gress Opposed to the Nebraska
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WASHINGTON, June 81, 1864.

WIN OppVsSu uo puSsdRe VI iu6 Dill 10 OI'
ganize the Territories Of Nebraska and Kan
'sas, held pursuan. to previous notice, in The
City Of Washington, on the 2Olh day of
June, 1854, the Hon. Solomon Foot of
Vernon. was elected Chairman, and The
Hon. Daniel Mace of Indiana and the Hon.
Reuben E. Fenion Of New York were up.
pointed Secretaries.
A Comniuee appointed the purpose re.
ported an Address 10 The People Of the Uni.
ned Slaies, which having been discussed and
amended, was unanimously adopted, and
ordered 10 be published.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
The eighth section of the Ac, for the ad.
mission Of Missouri into the Union, known
as the Missouri Compromise Law, by which
the Introduction Of Slavery inlo the regions
now known as Kansas and Nebraska was
forever proh!biued, has been repealed. That
law, which in 1920, quieted controversy
which menaced the Union, and upon which
you have SO long reposed, is obliteraled from
the statute book. We had no reason 10 ex.
pee, any such proposition when we assem-
bed here six months ogo, nor did you ex.
pect IL. Nc Stale, no citizen Of any State,
had demanded the repeal .a. sl-4
l,seems duty we owe to the country to
state The grounds upon which we have stead.
fas,ly though Intellectually. opposed this
alarming and dangerous act. ald +.
You need not be told that The Slavery
question lies q, The bottom of 1t, As it was,
the slayeholding power that demanded the
enactment of The Missouri Compromise, so
i, is The same power that has now demanded
i,s abrogation.
African Slavery was regarded and de.
nounced as great evil by the American
colonies, even before the revolution; and
those colonies which are now slavehoding
States, were equally earnes, in such remon.
srances with those which are now free
States Colonial laws, framed 10 preven,
tie increase Of Slavery, were vetoed by the
King Of Grea, Britain. This exercise Of
arbitrary power TO enlarge and perpetuate
system universally regarded as equally
wrongful in itself and injurious TO The colo.
MES, was one Of the causes of the revolution
w hen The war was ended there was an i'm.
perious necessity for the institution Of some
government in the then unoccupied Terri
tories Of the United States. . In 1894, Jei
ferson proposed, and in 1897 the Continental
Congress adopted the ordinance for The gov.
ernmen, Of the territory lying northwest Of
the Ohio, by which il was declared that ,here
shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary
servilude excep, for The punishmentof crime
The great and flourishing States since or
ganized within Iha, territory, on The basis o
that ordinance, are enduring monuments o
the wisdom OF the statesmen of the reyolu
sion. 1 'H
The foreign slave trade was regarded a
shc source Of American slavery, which
was believed would be dried up when ,ha
fountain should be closed. In adopting III
Constitution twas SO universally anticipate
chat the foreign slave trade would be prompt
prohibited, that all parties acquiesced in
stipulation postponing that m easure ill 1905
The foreign slave trade was prohibi,ed.-ihu
the source Of slavery was understood 70 b
dried up, while the introduction OF SLAYER
into. the Territories was prohibited. Th
slavery question, so far as il was a nationt
one, was understood TO be finally sevlec
and OF the same time the States had alread
taken up and were carrying forward syI
tenn Of gradual emancipation. In l80
Louisiana was acquired by purchase frol
France, and included what are now know
as he States of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkal
sas and Iowa. and The Territories known
Kansas and Nebraska. Slavery existed
,he time in New Orleans and at ST, Loui
and so this purchase resulted in bringing Il
slavery question again before Congress.
1879, the region Immediately surounjir
New Orleans applied for admission into II
Union under the name Of estate Of Loui
lana, with constitution .oleraiing SLAYER
and The free States acquiesced. Eight yea
aiierward The region connected with
= Louis demanded admission under the nan
or the State Of Missouri, with constitute
toleraling slavery. The free States rever,
40 the principle Of 1887, and opposed Il
admission Of Missouri unless she won
incorpora,e into her constitution an inhil
aion Of the further introduction Of slave
Into the State. The slaveholding Stat
insisted upon her unqualified admission.
controversy arose which was sectional al
.embiuered, and which we are assured
contemporsneous history seriously imperil
the Union. The statesmen Of that day
Congress settled the controversy by col
promise. BY the terms Of this compton,
ihe free Slotes ossented TO the admission
Missouri with her slavehoding constitute
while the slaveholding States on their p
yielded The exclusion Of slavery in all
residue of the territory which lay north
.36Ideg. 80 min,, constituting the present I
,riloTy Of Kansas and Nebraska. The sla
holding States accepted the compromise
triumph, and the free States have @
since left il undislurbed and unques,ion
Arkansas. part Of the territory oi Louisia
lay south OF So deg. 80 min., in cc
pliance with multiplication which was C
ia,nel In this compromise, was afierw
Admitted as % slaveholding State, and
free States acquiesced. In 1919, Eorid
.slaveholdingproSince Of Spain, was acquil
This province was allerward admined q
s slaveholdng Slaie. The free States az
aequiesced. In l845, Texas, an indepe
ant slaveholding State, was annexed, vii
provision 10 The article Of annexation for
r subdivision OF her territory into five Sta
| The free States. although they regarded
4 annexation, with Ihe probable increase
ihe number Of slave States, with very 6
Il ef dtprov., ,.vov,hola,s oonuioanad anair