The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-07-13

had msrepresented their and the they
would have the country Its friends were denounced
as having been sold to slavery having hired themselves
out TO the South sIaUecsfcAersp and in many places
great prejudice excited against these But
repeat when the provisions of these compromises
dersoodwhen it known that the question of slavery
be left to the people TO decide for themselves they
were TO be affected by ithen that the furor that
had been raised against them in the nonslaveh0ding
States quoted down And 1t only in few localities
where the people had been aboltonized nnaticis
by the press the pulpit had been ashed into phresy
that any resistance bloodsed and murder occurred in the
execution of the law.
The thing that was done then is now attempted
again Scarcely had this bill the light of day in the
Senate before circulars issued and broadcast
through the land speeches made and sent out the
opposition to the Compromise of 1850 revamped The
provisions of this BILL and its design and its effect mis-
represented for the purpose Of Oresang public opinion
upon it. The papers, the pulpts used
promises Of 1850 And submit 70 the friends of that COM
promise lift be not important inquiry bem How Gar
they will 60 toward the defeat Of this doctrine Of nonncr
venton embraced in this bill the effect Of THAR op
Grafton be not to weaken the principle Of the Compromise
OF 1885, and to open the way for the triumph Of abolition
ism f,if 4tr.G-s ltisa Ia. aE Iif3s 81 ir
repeat again. that do not class all who have intimated
opposition to this bill political aboonss but con-
ure them to look well to the effect which their course
have upon that subject lest the great principles of the
promises of 1850 be rttered away until they will become
imperative - 49,, az 4. . .,,. u,
will be TO establish slavery in these Territories Now, this
bill expressly states that it intends such thing t
did establish it there would not give il support for
tho very reason that now vote for it. You might Just
well say that the compromises Of 1850 established slavery
in New Mexico and Utah, say this bill establishes
slavery in these Territories The acts Of $50 left the Ter
rtores Of New Mexico and Utah without any restriction
upon this subject This bill proposes to leave the Terrific
res Of Nebraska and Kansas without restriction M
am satisfied that this territory will become slave
territory The climate the soil everything about it points
it out better adapted 10 free than slave labor No, sir
organize this Territory throw around those who may 90
there the protecting of this government and you will
find there in n short time three Yankees southern
The southern people not emigrating people
ing its tide of energy and enterprise into tho Northwest
Oregon and CalifOrniawil pour it into the rich valleys
Of the Platte and Kansas and settle forever the question
between free and slave labor to that region The
have scarcely found southern man that supposed 1t
would, and yet gentlemen get up and talk of slavery
tension and desp0tism and in their phrenzied imARna
ons storms and darkness epests and dangers gath
ering in the distance Why, sir these dangers appre
hend, only exist in heated imaginatons,
awism sprtualism, fanaticism, and socialism-hxnd-
maiiens to each other--w do their worst to get the
country excited upon this question They fail TO at
tempt this when opportunity Offers but when the rejecting
the question to whether tho people shall be permitted to
settle this question for themselves whether Congress
shall settle it for them, they will wonder what all this
citement was raised about s i.it't
] am citizen Of free State. I am SO from choice
look upon slavery as it exists in the South, as social
be removed by congressional interference without
usurpaton of power that does not belong that body
believe that the Compromise of 1850 placed that question
where it rightly belonged and believing so shall sup
great principle Of sefgovernment which lies at the very
foundation of national prosperity, and upou which de-
pend the preservation of rights and the pepeuity of
our Union.