The daily union., 1854-02-11

these compromise measures lhe New Mexico aud Utah
bills, through the two houses OF Congress, which ii is
said were inended 10 carry with them this principle
rule TO be applied Ieospectyely 10 this territory
there is the slightest auson 10 the Territory OF Ne
bIaska, which so ylgiant senator the chairman OF
the Committee on Territories must have had strongly
on his mind. IL Il not an impossiby that al that time,
when measures Were gong through Congress that pro-
posed as is said, TO apply TO this whole county, that
the Nebraska Territory which had been before Congress
for nve or SIX years not brought forward to receive
The application OF that principle II was not named as
know OF lt entirely ignored, far as am
AZ any rate, no attempt was made at that lime TO pass
Nebraska bill containing the provisions Of the bills for
Uiah and New Mexico.
Those compromise measures were passed during the
first session OF the list Congress During the next Con
gress Nebraska bill was brought in by member from
the State OF Missouri MIR HALL in The other House.
and passed that body by majority OF more than two TO
one u was contested upon the ground OF injustice 10
The Indians, and, so far am aware, nothing next
10 nothing, was said upon the subject OF slavery AT any
rate, no attempt wasmade to incorporate into that bill
the povisos that subject contained in the bill your
la6ie-he bill OF lso2-'53 That bill came here. was
referred 10 and reported by the Committee Territories
and brought forward at the close of The session Ga
that occasion II contested the ground in
The other house but not word said in reference 10
this proviso upon the subject of slavery Now, is it pos
sbe that ii, at that time, the understanding that
you were enactlng principle or precedent an any
hing IN yonr New Mexico and Utah bills that would
carry with rule covering this case, allusion should
have beer made 10 II on that occasona
iconclude, therefore, that the compromise of
1850 ended where they began--wiih the Territories OF
Utah and New Mexico, TO which they specifically re-
ier al any aie that they establish principle which
was TO govern any other case that they were TO have
no prospective action III the organization OF Territories in
future time, think The report says, aud certainly
retrospective action upon territory subject the esc
lion OF 1920 ion which slavery was excluded by the
positive enactment which il is now proposed declare
imperative and void.
trust nothing which have said will be taken in
derogation oil the compromise acts OF 1920. adhere to
them, stand by them. | do so for many reasons One
respect Tor the memory OF the great the authors
OF them, lights and ornaments not OF this body alone
but OF the country They have been taken from its
vice, and would not so soon if il were in my power,
undo their work, il there were other But, be-
sides this. sir, am OF those--and not ashamed
to ayow it-who believed then, and who sill believe
that at that time the Union OF these States in great
Danger and that the adoption of hese compromise
contributed materially to avert that danger And
therefore, say well out OF respect to the memory of
the great who were the authors OF them 10 the
healing eject OF the measures themselves, would ad
here 10 them. They are not perfect. Nobody, sup
pose North South. thinks that they perfect They
contained provisions satisfactory to the South
and other provisions contrary 10 the public sentiment OF
the North But believe that. at The time, they we're the
wisesi, the hes and the effective that at
The time, and under the circumstances could be adopted
But you do not strengthen hem you 'do not adhere TO
them, you do not show your respect for them, by attempt
ing TO give to them application which they were never
intended TO bear
Before take my seat will say few words in a ie
suory manner upon one or two statements made by the
chairman OF the Committee Territories He sad, II
understood him, that the North the example of vio-
atipg the faith of the Missouri Compromise and find
that out OF doors considerable importance is attached 10
this idea, that The Missouri Compromise violated by
the North and that The repeal of the Missouri Compromise
at lha time is but just reto upon The North for having
on some former occasion, broken faith on that subject
do not think that this correctly stated The Tefeence
the legislation OF 1913, when the -slavehoding States
refused 10 extend The line Of SO degrees 80 minutes 10
The Pacific ocean and, was stated by the senator,
der the influence oil "northefn with free soil pro-
clives, expression OF that kind. think that
The senator Goes not show his usual justice, perhaps
may SAT his usual charity this occasion The trans
ac hp nm
promise OF 1885, and that Compromise has been com.
monty considered, if IT was nothing else, AT least sell
liement OF old scores up TO that Time But what the
iaet' Ihs was not measure carried by northern
voters with free-soh procyities" Far from il. II
have rghtly read the record the amendment which the
gentleman moved IN the Senate 10 incorporate the Missouri
Compromise line IN the territorial bill izng the Terri
tory OF Oregon opposed by twenty votes in this
body Among these tweny-one voters was every voter OF
New England There the from Massachuse ts
MIR. Webster There was the late,y ydeceased senator
from New Aamrshre,. Nh. AheIton.l There were
elth votes from OHIO, Mr. Allen giving oae OF them
Both votes from Wisconsin were given against the M
sour Compromise line Mr.. Cal6onn voted in svor OF
H. the amendment OF the senator from Illinois and If
am no, in error, when the question next came up on
the engrossmen of the bill amended voted side BY
side with those tweny-one entirely precludng the desg
nation OF the senator from Illinois, Mr. DoUGLksl In
the House OF Representatives, The stood il remem.
Der The figures, l2i 10 s2a majority OF 3sa larger
orily than is usually given contested measures
There was, suppose, nearly The whole vote OF the
tire slaveholdng delegation That surely ought no, TO
be said 10 be brought about by "norihern voters with
lree-soi procvltes" using those words in the accepa
lion commonly given 10 them, which suppose the sena
Tor wishes 10 do. No, cir that vote was given in con-
formity with the ancenl, universal, and raditionsry
opinion and feeling OF the on.savehodlng States which
forbids citizen OF those States TO do ANYTHING yolun-
arly except in o the sternest necessity such as
preserving the Union OF these Staes( and really would
do almost ything TO effect that obiect)-whch would
aid in carrying slavery into territory where ii did not
previously exist II was the same feeling which, in the
Revolutionary crisis, was universal throughout the land
for the anti slavery feeling of that tme take TO have
been rather political sentiment than moral or a re-
gious one. Ii the feeling which in 1877 lei
the whole Congress OF the confederation to unIle In
the ordinance OF I7s7 Mr. Jefferson in l7s4, as the
is aware had proposed the prohibition OF
slavery with reference all the territory possessed or
10 be possessed by the United States even far down
the 3lst parallel which al that time their south.
ern boundary. IL the feeling which led some
respectable southern members OF Congress late 1870
To for the restriction OF slavery in the State Of Mis-
sour. And il is feeling, believe IN my conscience,
which, instead OF being created, stimulated favor.
cd BY the Systematic agitation OF the subject is power
fully repressed and discouraged by that very agitation
II this bill now upon your tables should pass the Senate
proving rs il WILL that that feeling not so strong now
in 1920, the change, 10 my judgment, will be
sttribuabe manly to The Tecoil Of the conservative
mind OF the non-slavehodlng States from this harassing
and disastrous agitation.
single word in reference 10 this supposed principle
OF non.Gtevenon The part Of Congress in the action
Of The Territories upon the subject OF slavery therein.
surprised confess, 10 hod that il has been stated
with so much confidence TO be established principle
OF the government aware that ind yldualsOf high