The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-04-08

"i't "''Nu'i 'thtuilHP 10 take step 10 the
right or left, or 10 occupy one inch ofground
which did not bear the footprint Of The abe
l!ton champion. To answer enc, therefore
is to answer tho whole. The statement to
which they seem to attach the most imror.
;ancc, and which they have repeated of nor
perhaps than any other, is that, pending the
compromise measures OF 1850, no man in or
out Of CUp gross ever dreamed of abrogat'ng
the Missouri compronisc; that from t5gf ne.
rlod down TO the pr, &, ut IS on nobody sn,.
posed its validity had been impai,cl oronr.
thing don; wh'"h 7 niured il ol,lig.iorr ~, -
on u 20 NAL 10 cyt,c or AFR: thst
at tie time oi sIynAtting the |, port nd hin
to tlc Senat', On the 4th Of Janu4yy lasi
neither nor any member OF the commit -
ever thought OF such thing; and That We
oon'd nyr b. brought up to the pont Of
abrogatng tlc dghtA saIt,on Of tae Nilsson.
RI act Until ait tao s nator from KeptucI,v y
INTRO III his amcn lmcnt 10 my bill,
MI Pr 81 n, before | prcce d to cxpogo
NE many Iiicepr NJ tons cont in IN
,Hii com cat 1t charg mus. call the a,.
nl!on Il nate 10 0 Glsl issl. which
tls, s,I IN nae Il agorng T. imro. q
upon TIC country, for tl- purl Os Of div II.
ing public attention from tle r.al issu, con.
tined in the bl'. They wish to hav, the
people be " tlat tie aIrcgat.on OF vi at
tAey call the Missouri comp. af,1 Yves III .
man o. Jet an4 aim oftlehiI, AMI that tie
on'y Gu sLon lnyo.vod is, whether the pro-
hioNlcA oi saytry north Of So 3D. sAaitbc
r pea. or no! Int which is IN r. ing'.
=, mt they choos3 TO consid.r the principa'
I"'y nIa.ie war Oh tAe IN ans hy which We
propose to accomp.isAan object, inst ad of
openly ssting tIe ohjuctits4f The min.
,lp!e winch we proqos to carry inloef etLy
the bill is tA's: That Congress snail II itlir
leg sat avtry into any I,r.tory or STATE
nor out Of the sam but the p,ooi, sail bn
LIT iiet to regulate their dom stic ,oac,rns N
their own way, subject on,y t6 the Ccusttr.
ton Of the United Stats
Ia order to carry tAis principle into prae,'.
cal operation, 1t b-C0m. L c. sssry 10 re.
NOV what gal OJstIcl smgatb found
n the way of IL free eX.r.js'. 1t is on'y for
tho pnrros, Of carrying out It's er at fund q.
mental principle ocs 'i.soy rnm, ut, that +, ,
bill r-nd rs tlc cightA s-ct'on OF the Mis-.
sourj act mop rative and voil.
Now. let me ask, willtltss 6 notor; who
have araigned me, or any one Of them, have
the fs3urunce to rise in his place AMI declare
that tls great principle WIS n,v,r t ourAt
Of Or advocat d rs applicable 70 tei7,,oI;. !
bills, in 1850; that, from that session nrfI
the prs nt, nobody tv.r thou LAT Of irc,,.
por&Ung tA.s principle in all " territorial
Organizations; that the Committee en- Toni.
tor-s did not rtcommJud i in their r.rclt:
and that it required the .nIa.rt Of the
5 nator ron h n'ucky to bring US up 10
that point? WIN any one Of nv accuse, .
lar. u make this issl ,qnll,tt'b. t,i.dlv
O'' ft'orI : VA b-GA VITA tic comprc-
,'S VI ! ~ Any h'tJr wLo VIII I he
49,. ',o' - a. eH 'u.i or oirla vi! lind
rort.I from tSn Comr';I1,, ;'' ~ ',,'t y.M ~
Inc arm SION of ttr,s ", iSF!lolts
ernmcnt for Utah, rit.rar rnre,nn7 ~,
for Nv # Xjco, AMI tn, adjustment Of the
I,Xs boundary. Ih,sc bills Iropos 4 to
ave tn people Of Utah and NV II. x o
free to d-yld, the say,ry question for I. M
5 Ives, in tie Ir-,isc language or t.c Nc.
bras.a bill now unICr dis su,s,on. y W
sc Ks ait rwar' the C0mm.tt-e Of Tli.tc,n
took t"os two bills AMI Tut a wafer between
thc'n, ana reported tAcm back 10 the Senate
a. on o il, with some s'ight amcull c IS.
on ol t--s' amenin-nts Yves, that t.c t.r-
IiioraI legislatures should not Icg.s'ate upon
~ get OF NJ icln say,ry' o.jeo. d ia
lA', provision u'on '!e ground t-at 1t "a
V'''e u.c :. c / lrInn''riG 'I : H-+oTluw,n'
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:" -! tiG isi'l'ofH" r"'!Au-r, Oa tn.
lhS, u."'thc > h"t: ltius d to strike il og'
tsu,s ln niy tJI So ait r full d.hat., IN
}, % es' ,o"s., l.'t l"hcip'e as to 'u..