Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-02-11

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into slavery agitation, disturbed our domes-
! tic peace, aud defeated the Senator of Mlchl-
gan for the Presidency. Who violated l,
then! These very men who now call The
| Missouri compromise a sacred compact, and
who now arraigned him for a want OF faith
| in that SOLEMN compact. II was with oau
grace iha, men who dad themselves proved
| false 10 the sacred compact, could now ar
raign him before the country with doing 'ha'
which was accomplished in 1S4S by their
own faihlessness and ireachery. The Com
| promise OF 1850 established the principle oil
Congressional non-intervention, and sci aside
the geograp phicai line as no longer practicable,
because ii had been Impossible TO MAINTAIN
il. Was not The establishment of this new
principle total abandonment and superse-
dure OF the geographical line. To resist this
inevitable conclusion, these abolition conled-
crates had cited an amendment, proposed by
Senator Mason, 10 the New Mexico bill, that
nothing therein contained should be cons,ruc-
ted as impairing the provisions of the Texas
resolutions By making tina, quotation, by
suppressing facts connected with that ques'
tion, and by falslfying other particulars OF
the history of the transaction, they had
made out plausible case. They had sup.
pressed the fact, that, by the act Of 1850,
fixing The boundaries of Texas, large por-
tion of tha, state lying north Of sc deg. 30
min, and nearly as large as New York and
Pennsylvania, had been cut of, and was
included in the boundaries of New Mexico !;
and that the ac, creating the Territory of
New Mexico expressly declared that the
same should be admitted into the Union
with or without slavery, as lis people might
determine. The New Mexico Territorial act
embraces within lis boundaries this large
portion of what was once Toxas, and declares
that il shall be admitted into the Union with
or without slavery. Ii goes futher. and pro-
yides hat the local legislature Of the Terri.
tory shall have full power and authority TO
lesislate upon all rghtful subjects with no
restrictions whatever except that imposed
by the Constitution OF U. S. Here the local
Legislature is invested with full power 10 leg
isaie upon ali subjects, including slavery
Did not these Abolition confederates know
that these provisions in the New Mexico bill
annullea the Missouri compromise in all that
part of Texas, which precisely being north
of 33 deg. 80 min, was fee ? Il they did
know it, and il was not possible they did not
they had falsely represented 10 the people,
in their address, that The Missouri compro-
mise was not touched Ivy the acts OF 1850 -
They accused him, in their address, in no
gentle terms, with an attempt 10 repeal the
Misssuli compromise Ivy his bill, when they
knew as well as he did, that he had copied
the terms of his hlll from the act Of 1850 II
it repealed The Missouri compromise now,
why did ii not DO i, inlS5o!
These confederales assert that The Com
promise OF 1850 was confined to the territory
acquired from Mexico, and this assertion
! they make in the face of the fact that the
act creating the territory of New Mexico ac-
I tually embraces within It's boundaries part OF
The original State of Texas, and bought from
! Texas by the L. States. A portion of the
old territory of Louisiana ceded 10 the Uni
! ted States by France, was also incuded in
the present organized territory Of New Mex
bounded, was not formed entirely ont OF the
| territory acqsred fIom Mexico. 1t included
! a large and fertile tract of country acquired
! in the cesson of louisiana If the Senators
| 4. Ia l. Ill,
! confederatcs did not know The territory to
which he referred, they should have knows
it before they, with this address, containing
! falsehood, arraigned him before the public
which he said had been included within the
boundaries Of Utah in 1850, because they
then considered geographical lines as having
no longer an arbitrary influence, but that ter
ri,ories were TO be formed from natural ant
appropriate boundaries irrespective Of the
date or manner of acquisition. The grea
principle OF legislative non.nlerveuiion ther
took the place of air lines, and The lerrlorie:
of New Mexico and Utah were formed will
reference to contiguous and appropriate nat
ural divisions aud not with any regard t.
the Time of their acquisition, nor their loca
lion above or below any particular parallel,
He con,eaded that the settlement effected
by the establishment of Utah and New Mex
leo Territories, upon the principle of allowin!
The people TO act for themselves, and guaran
teeing their admission with or without sla
very, as they themselves should determine
was a total abandonment Of all former rule
aud compromises on the subject. The prin
cpIe then adopted was intended 10 apply no
only 10 the other territory then owned by III,
United States, but also TO all which nigh
thereafter be acquired. If il were otherwis
the settlement of 1850 amounted 10 nothing
for the whole question would be opened ever,
time a territorial government was 10 be feim
ed or territory required.
"WmsKERETTsn is The name of the s1itil
John cow.caichers y that some of the girl
wear on their cheeks in the place "wher
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