The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-06-24
The Facts Compactly Stated.

!
ton in Vermont, the Hon. j. Meacham
whose speech on the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise was one of the best made in Con-
gress, transmitted letter to the Conven-
/ ZION in which he recaptulates the facts in
the passage of the Nebraska bill in so clear
manner that we cannot deny ourselves the
| pleasure of laying it before our readers:
WASHINGTON, May 81, 1854.
| feel anxious that some
one of those men, ADLER than myself to de-
scribe the scenes of the Nebraska struggle.
should be in your Convention. And yet, I
know that it is impossible for even an eye
witness to give an exact impression of the
contest. The alienation of hopes and fears
of the phalanx that so long resisted the
needless, and unauthorized, and infamous
violation of plighted faith, can never be
given!
The Missouri Compromise is repealed !
Do you ask how it was done? | will tell
you.
l. Without the request, and against the
wish Of every man who petitioned Congress
on the subject.
9 By crowding out of place all the most
important business of the session, and
crowding IN a measure to which all over
whelming majority of the people were op-
posed.
B. By bringing do not say bribing-to
its support, through Executive influence
and patronage, men who acted against their
own declared judgments, and the known
vii! of their constituents.
4. By trampling under foot the Rules of
the House of Representatives, made in ac-
cordance with the Constitution, and thus
violently depriving the minority of their le-
gal rights and just privileges.
3. By refusing to allow the people to ex-
press their decision on the question, lest-as
Senator Petit of Indiana declared-the peo-
pie should refuse it now, or for years to
come, and perhaps forever.
If the will of the people had been obeyed,
the Act could not haze passed. If it had
taken its legal place in the order of business
1T could not have passed. If the Executive
power had not, nrighteously, interposed its
'infence, it could not have passed. If the
Rules of the House, and the rights of the
minority, had not been crushed, it could not
have passed.
The Missouri Compromise, therefore, was
repealed, not only without authority and
without law, but in known and acknowl-
edged violation of both
The Missouri Compromise being repealed,
the question of Slavery is re-opened in all
the Territories of the Union.
The Baltimore platform being violated by
all parties except Northern Wings, it will
not be expected that that body of men will
any longer be held by the fragments of
broken and abandoned truce
In this posture of affairs, trust that the
Wings of Vermont, holding the first State
Convention since the passage of the Nebras-
ka bill, will take ground wisely and firmly,
that
l. There shall be no more territory ac-
quired by the funds of freemen, unless on the
express condition that Slavery shall be for
eUer excluded from it.
2. That on no condition shall another
slave State be added to the Union
3. That Slavery shall be wiped out ofevery
part of the republic, except where shielded
by positive municipal law.
! hope the Wings of Vermont will take
that position, not only for themselves, but
for their children after them and when they
haze taken it, that they aoiu nail their colors
to the mast
Very truly yours. J. MEACHAM