Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-11
SALEM CoLUMB1ANA COUNTY ONO SATURDAY FEBRUARY

! II. The pretext is without foundation. The pro.
hibtion rs It'll now stands in the statute was moved
by Mr.. Thomas oflllinois, on the Sd Fcbuary 1890
rs an amendment TO this Missouri bill, which had
then been tackled by the Senate to the bill for tho
admission of Maine. It was agreed to ON the l7tli
ayes 81, mes 10, by the following vote;
! We omit the names.
Il will be here sent that fourteen Senators from
slave States voted for Mr.. Thomass amendment.
and f,ceHty Senators from free States while eight
from the former voted against it, with two from the
latter.
Whom n sc,orate bill for tho admission Of Mis-
souri, came up from the House. il was amended IN
the Senate, by striking out the clause requiring a
provision in her constitution prohibiting Slavery,
and by inserting Mr.. 1homas's amendment, with
out debatc-the sense Of Senators having been fully
ascertlined by former votes.
it is therefore perfectly clear, That so far as tho
Senate is concerned. where the slave States are.
and always have been strongest, that the South
joined with the North in the prohibition.
In the House, the final vote on concurring in the
amendment for striking out the restriction Of Slave
ry in the State, was ayes 90, noes 81. After this
vote had been taken, il was certain that Missouri
was to be admitted as slave State; aud the only
remaining question was, shall Slavery be prohibit
cd in the residue of the territory north of3G deg 80
min? Tho vote ON concurring in this prohibition
was yeas l5l, nays i2. OF the yeas, NiHl-ciHLl
were from slave, and Hiaeiy-sie from free States.
Ofnays Midy-sereR were from slave States and fec
from free.
It is clear, from the above statement that in The
Senate large majority Of Southern men voted for
the new prohibitions among them Mr.. King Of Ala
boma recently Vice President of the United States.
With these voted the few Northern consentcrs to
the admission Of Missouri with Slavery, as well as
those who insisted on clause in her Constitution
iorbidding Slavery as u condition Of admission.
In the House u number Of Shareholders, for an
4. thn
prohibition. Among them was Lowndcs Of South
Carolina whose vote estimated by the worth and
honor Of the man. outweighs many opposite.
Ii is absolutely certain that without the prolibi-
ton clause. Missouri with slavery could never
have been admitted. The prohibition was :he con
sideration Of the admission. Taken together they
constituted compact not absolutely inyioable, in
deed, for any compact may be yiolatcd-but not to
he broken without dishOuor " IL is true said
Mr. Niles in his Register at The time, the compro-
mise is supported only by the letter Of law re
" spectacle by the authority which enacted it; Jui
" tic circumstances Of Ills case gice 10 is lac
" MORAL FORCE equal 20 Mat eta POSITIVE PROVISION
" or TuE CONSTITUTION; and zee do not hazard any.
l"Hing in saying hatMe CONSTITUTION EXISTS IN ITs
j OBSERVANCE"
Mr. Seward, writing to the same meeting de-
clines any participancy in popular agoitotion, but
says Of the present and the future:
We have only now arrived at new stage in III,
trial Of that appeal. For It is quito clear that
the Slavery laws had not been passed in 1850 TO
the territories acquired from Mexico, there woul'
have been no pretense for extending such SLAYER,
laws now over the territories leiore acquired fron
Louisiana and that if we had maintained ou
ground on tho laws Of Freedom, which then pro
tccted New Mexico and Utah, we should not nov
have been attacked in our stronghold Nebraska
1t is equally evident also that Nebraska is not al
that in TO be saved or lost If we arc driven from
this field, there will yet remain Oregon and Min
nesota, and we who thought only so lately Gs lSls
of securing some portion at least ofthe shore of tho
Gulf Of Mexico and all Of the Pacific Coast to thC
institutions Of Freedom, will be, before 1889, bro'
to doubtful struggle to prevent the extension o.
Slavery to the shore OF the great lakes, and thence
westward TO Pugcts Sound.