Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-28

ton. Il was denounced a. 'infamous sir,
over and over again. The official reporters Of
our body, the proprietors Of the Union news
paper, paid by the column, day after day, and
week by week, denounoe the measure as in.
famous and Of course everybody who supports
il is infamous too; and we sit quietly here,
and hear the faith Of our fathers and the
doings Of this Congress- from the earliest mo-
ment up to the present day--no, up TO 1915
denounced Us Infamous and not a word is
said in reply. The great difficulty now is,
how to get rid of this infamy. We are not TO
meet it in the face, but to stife it--put it out
of the way. II is dead, sir, confessedly. All
around CONFESS it to be dead, and the only
thing now is, to bury it out Of sight 50 that it
shall not offend the olfactories Of gentlemen !"
The remarks Of Mr.. Hale, before utteriug
this invective, show that he was speaking Of
the power Of Congress to prohibit Slavery in
the Territories The exercise Of such power
had been denounced as infamous. This was
the provocation to his sarcastic invective just
quoted Not q word had been said about the
Missouri Compromise, and Mr.. Hale had no
reference to it. And yet, the "organ," on the
ground Of this invective, reports Mr.. Hale as
having said that the Ordinance Of 1887, identi-
cal in principle with the Missouri Compromise,
and oil legislation of like character down 70
lS4S, the Missouri Compromise included, had
been denounced as Infamous and not word
was said in reply!0 In other words its own
far fetched, groundless Inference il puts in the
mouth Of John P. Hale
4. The quotation from the speech Of Judge
Douglas is made correctly, so far as It goes
but it gives no countenance to single ASSET
ton contained in the paragraph copied above
from the organ"
We shall have something moro to say Of the
speech Of Mr. Douglas from which this extract
is made.
$. To the record again. Il is folly to trust
to "the organ"
When the California Bill Of Mr.. Douglas was
under consideration in Committee Of the Whole
on the state Of the Union in the House, Mr.
Jones, Of Tennessee, moved, as an amendment
the Omnibus Bill of Mr. Clay, then under dis
cussion in the Senate.
aIn presenting the amendment said he,
shall merely remark that; in my opinion, this
is the only practical proposition which is now,
or which has yet been, before either House OF
Congress. For my own part, ! should be will
ing as an alternative, to take the Missouri
Compromise line. would, however, prefer
this Bill to that proposition; and believe that
to advocate the Missouri Compromise line at
the present time, is in effect to oppose . set
Element Of the agitating question that now
threatens the integrity Of the Union"
The proposition had been several times made
and rejected, to extend the Missouri Compro-
mise line TO the Pacific ocean. In view Of this
fact, and Of the fact that the Omnibus Bill Of
Mr.. Clay proposed the organization Of Terrific
rial Governments in New Mexico and Utah,
without Congressional restriction as to Slavery,
he preferred that Bill, to the extension Of the
Missouri Compromise policy to the new Terri
tories And does this give any countenance to
the ridiculous assertion Of the organ" that
the Missouri Compromise itself was repudia-
teda What nonsense!
8. The only question, be 1t remembered, un-
der discussion then, was, as to the admission
of California, the settlement Of the Texas
boundary, and the organization Of Govern
ments for New Mexico and Utah The extract
given from Mr.. Browne speech proves, not
that he was against the Missouri Compromise,
but against the extension Of its policy to the
new Territories This is still further shown
in another portion Of the same speech, in which
he recognises the application Of the Missouri
Compromise line to Texas, as valid. "By
solemn compact" he says, aas binding in
its forms as q treaty between nations could
make it, and as plain in its terms as our Ian
gusge could express il, we accepted her, and
shaped her policy through all after time on
the subject Of Slavery. Her territory north
OF SO deg. 80 min was to be free, and all
south Of that line was to be slave territory
And yet Mr.. Brown is quoted by "the or
gan" as having, in 1850 repudiated the Mis-
souri, Compromise itself!
You cannot trust the honesty or logic Of
Pros Slavery men.
CONGRESS
In the Senate, to-day, representatives Of the
free States of Psnnsylvsnia and New Jersey