Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-04-20
NO. 8.

loaded wagons, from the frontier Of Mis-
souri, to California. agreed with him aS
to the propriety Of the provisions, and told
him l had thought of providing for preeemp.
tion rights, and concluded the conversation
by requesting him to furnish me such
provision upon these subjects as would Sc
cure the object, and would add them to
the bill. This he did, and after some
change in the two or three sections furnish
ed by him | appended them TO the bill-and
they are sent to your for publication as part
of the bill introduced by me. This is the
groundwork Of the honorable gentleman's
fancy sketch Of abolition coalition, &c., and
from it his constituents will doubtless do
him the justice to award him all the merit
of eXuberant fancy and most vivid inagina-
ton. But the honorable gentleman says he
is opposed to it (the bill) all over opposed
to the preemption rights secured to settlers
in the Territory,and opposed to the construc-
ton of good wagon road from the frontier
OF Missouri TO the boundary Of California.
Mark his language: II am opposed to it all
over;'; opposed to preemptions, wagon road
and all. Again, the honorable gentleman
says the Missouri Compromise is an act Of
Congress prohibiting slavery in a described
Territory He who believes that abolition
law constitutional, and upholds it is with
the abolitiOnists."
I will very briefly call attention to the
gentleman's course while member Of the
House in l84S, and while the Oregon bill
was pending. An amendment was added
to that bill by the Senate, in the following
words: That the line Of thirty-six degrees
thirty minutes of north latitude, known as
the Missouri Compromise line, as defined
| by the eighth secten Of an act entitled IAN
act TO authorize the people Of Missouri Ter
ritroy to form a constitution and State gov
ernment, and for the admission Of such State
into the Union on an equal footing with the
original States, and to prohibit slavery in
certain Territories, approved March 9th,
1920, and the same is hereby declared to
extend to the Pacific ocean; and the said
eighth section, together with the comprom-
Use therein effected is hereby revived and
declared 10 be in full force, and binding for
the future organization Of the Territories of
the United States, in the same sense and
with the same understanding with which it
was originally adopted
The vote was taken in the House by yeas
, and nays upon concurrlng with the Senate's
amendment, and upon that vote Mr.. Phep
name is recorded in favor OF an amendment.
The honorable gentleman says, ..he who be-
leves that abolition law constitutional, and
uphoids it is with abolitionists." BY his
recorded vote, he falls under his own SEN
tence Of condemnation, for BY that vote he
declared that act to be lin full force, and
binding for the future organization Of the
: Territories of the United States" Now
r ,he gentleman declares the Missouri Act to
be unconstitutional: and he was sworn &c
support the constitution, and yet by his vote
= he declared it TO be in full force and binding
lor the future organization of Territories. -
E He who upholds that Missouri act, saws
the gentleman, sis with the Aboltionists. -
He voted 10 uphold it in l84S, and by hi.
own showing, was with the Abolition,
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