Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-24
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THE ULTIMATUM THE MISSOURI C0MPRO
MISE TO BE REPEALED.


We have at last the ultimatum Of the Terri
torial Committee of the Senate, and Of the Ad-
ministration- that is, the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise This is no longer left
to implication.
Yesterday, in the Senate Mr.. Douglas an
nounoed an entire change in his Bill.
To avoid dividing the Cherokee country, he
said, the Committee had agreed to run the
southern boundary Of the Territory on the a7th
degree Of north latitude As the Indian coun-
try 10 expressly excluded by the terms Of the
Bill from the operation Of the Territorial Gov
ernment this change was totally unnecessary.
The real objects Of it are, to avoid recogni-
ton even in name of the Missouri Compromise
line, and to conciliate the support Of those
Southern Senators who have been hostile to the
Bill from alleged considerations respecting the
Indians.
Another change was the division of the Ter
ritory into two portions with Government
for each, to be divided by the parallel of 40
degrees, the portion above that line to be called
the Territory of Nebraska; that below, Kansas
OF course, as Kansas lies along Slave Territory,
the object is to insure its settlement by slave
owners
There were one or two other amendments,
Mr.. Douglas said, that would make the other
provisions Of the Bill upon some delicate
questions little more clear and specific so
as to prevent misunderstanding. We need
hardly say that these amendments embrace the
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise. As now
proposed by Mr.. Douglas, says the organ
the 18th section of the Bill is as follows, the
amendment being printed in brackets
"SEcTIoN IA That the Consultation and
laws Of the United States, which are not locally
inapplicable, shall haze tie same force and effect
icifhin the said Territory as elsetghere w,ihin
the United States, IeIcept The 8th section of the
act preparaoryfo The admission of Missouri into
tie Union, approved Marrh 6, 1920, ichich scds
suspended By The principles Of the legislation Of
1850, COMMONLY called the Compromise Meas
ures, and is hereby declared inopsratiue"
This 9Th section, which the Bill says shall be
IMPERATIVE, is as follows:
"dnd be II further enacted That in all that
Territory ceded by France to the United States
under the name Of Louisiana, which lies north
of SO deg 80 min. north latitude, not included
within the limits Of the State contemplated by
this act, Slavery and involuntary servit,sds, 9th
ertrise than IN the punishment Of crimes whereof
the parties shall haze been drsly convicted, shall
BE- and hereby is PROHIBITED FOREVER
We'll, it is satisfactory to know that the game
of duplicity is at an end The Bill as it stands
has but one face, and that is Pro- Slavery one
Il can deceive nobody. Every Senator, every
Representative who shall vote for il, who shall
support it who shall even indirectly favor any
motion that may promote its passage, viii vote
to annul the Missouri Compromise, to rob the
free States, to convert every foot Of the unor-
gained Territory Of the Union into slave
soil, to subject free labor in our Territories
to the degrading competition OF slave labor
He cannot cloak his aotion-he cannot prevent
the People from seeing its nature and conse-
quences He will stand, manifest, convicted
Covenant-breaker, Slavery-supporter, and a
traitor to God and man. That is not all. He
will vote to falsify the record of Legislation and
the Truth Of History. For this Attn section
falsely asserts that the 9Th section Of the Mis-
souri, act Of is20-the Anti-Slayery Proviso---
" was suspended by The principles Of The iegisia.
ton Of 1850, commonly called the Compromise
Measures" Will the Senate dare, by its vote,
to affirm this utterly false statement? There
is not member Of that body, not member of
the House Of Representatives, not well-in.
formed man in the country, who does not know
that it is false. Ry what act or principle Of AN
act Of 1850 was the 9Th section suspended By
the Fugitive Slave Act? II did not touch the
question Of the Territories. By the law pro-
hibiting slave importation in this District ?
Thnt was Anti-Slavery. By the acts establish
ing Territorial Governments fcr New Mexico
and Utah They applied exclusively by their
terms to the new territory acquired from Mex-
100. By the Texas Boundary Act That re-.
affirmed me printtpie Of the Missouri Comyro.
mise. What then, was IL, that suspended the
sth section Of the Missouri Acti The act was
pre-eminently solemn and imposing. By uni
versal consent Il has always been regarded as
partaking Of the nature of q covenant or com.
pact An ordinary law could not be set aside BY
an Inference. When an act is passed conflict
ing with former acts upon the same subject An
express provision 10 incorporated, that all acts
or parts Of acts repugnant thereto shall be and
hereby are repealed. No one dreamed, in 1850
Of repeating the sth section Of the Missouri
Aet--no ono imagined that anything in the
acts then passed was In conflict with it--and
proposition for repeal would have been secuted
And yet this Territorial Committee Of the Sen.
ate has the hardihood to assert that the prin
ciples Of the legislation Of 1850 suspended the
9Th section Of the Missouri Act Of 1920 The
only part Of this legislation which can be
tortured into affording pretext for this
youndless assertion Is the declaration, that
thereafter any State or States formed ont Of
the Territories ahou1d ho rcca;,oI "a. a. :.