The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1854-03-03

base OF the column that ~perpeiuates his
fame.
And that other proud and dominat-
ing Senator, who, sacrificing himself.
gave the aid without which the Com.
promise of 1850 could not have been
esiabhshed-ihe Statesman of New
England, and the Orator of America
who dare assert here, where his memory
is yet fresh, though his unfctiered spirit
may be wandering in spheres far hence,
that be intended TO ~abrogate, or dream
ed that, 10y virtue Of or in consequence
Of that transaction, the Missouri Com.
promise would or could ever be abro-
gated The portion of the Missouri
Compromise you propose 10 abrogate is
the Ordinance Of 1887 extended to Ne
braska. Hear what DANIEL WEBSTER
said Of that Ordinance itself, in 1880,
in this very, place, in reply to d who
had undervalucd it and its author:
II spoke, Sir, Of the Ordinance of.
1897, which prohibits Slavery. in all
time, northwest Of the Ohio, as a
Of great wisdom and fore
thought, and one which has been attend
ed with highly beneficial and permanent
consequences
And now hear what he said here,
when advocating the Compromise of
1850:
II now say, Sir, as the proposition
upon which | stand this day, and upon
the truth and frmness of which ! in
tend to act until it is oyerthrown, that
there is not at this moment in the Unit
ed States, or any Territory Of the Unit
ed States, one single foot Of land, the
character Of which, in regard to its
being free territory or slave territory,
is not fixed by some law, and some III
HsrEALAntE law, beyond the power Of
the action Of This Government p
What ~irrcpeaiaJle law, or what law
Of any kind, fixed the character Of Ne
rs free or slave territory, except
the Missouri Compromise act?
And now hear what DANIEL WEE
said when vindica,ing the Com
promise of 1850, AT Buffalo, in 1851
MY opinion remains unchanged,
that it was not within the original scope
or design Of the Constitution TO admit
new States out Of fDreign territory and
for one, whatever may be said at the
Convention or any other as
semblage of insane persons, | never
consent, and never have consent
ID, that there should be one foot Of
territory beyond what the old
thirteen States had at the time Of the
OF the Union Never New
err
THE man cauno show this 10 me and
say he can prove that | eve departed
from that doetriue. lie would sneak
aud stink away, or hire a NOR
ccuary press 90 cry out, what an apos-
tate from Liberty DANlEL Webster
has become But he knows himself 10
be a hypocrite and q ialsiher,'
That COMPROMISE was forced upon the
5layeholding States and upon the non
slayeholling State. as a mutual exchange
Of equivalents. The equivalents were
accurately defined AMI carefully scrutin-
izod and weighed hy the respective par
tics through a period of eight months.
The equivalents offered to the non-slaye-
holding States were lst, the admission
Of California "a, the abolition If the
Slave Trade in the District Of
Columbia Thee. aud these only, were
the boon. offered to them and the only
sacrifices which the -~layoholdiug States
required to make. The waiver Of
the Wilmot puyls3 IN the incorporation
Il New Mexico and Utah, and a new
Fugitive Slave law were the only boons
proposed T. the slayeholliug States, and
he only sacrifices eNacted Of the non.
.laycholding Ststes No other question.