The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1854-03-03

on the bdffen coasts OF Greenland and
Labrador :
Sir, If the Missouri Compromise, mel.
Their in its spirit moi by its letter. OK
tended the line Of 30 deg. 30 min be-
yond the confines Of Louisiana, or be-
yond the then confines Of the United
States, for the terms are equivalent. then
It was no violation Of the Missouri Com
promise in lSIs to refuse to extend it
To the subsequently acquired possessions
Of Texas, New Mexico and California.
But suppose we did refuse to extend
it how did that refusal work a forfeit
IRE Of our vested rights under it? /
desire to know that.
Again +: If this forfeiture of Nebraska
occurred in lSiS, as the Senator charges.
how does it happen that he not only fail
ed in 1880, when the parties were in
court here. adjusting their mutual claims.
to demand Judgment against the Free
States, but, on the contrary. even urged
that the same old Missouri COMPROMISE
line yet held valid and sacred should be
extended through TO the Pacific Ocean Z
come now TO the chief ground of the
defence Of thi. extraordinary measure.
which Is, that il abolishes a geographical
line of division between the proper folds
OF fee labor and slave labor. and refers
The claim between them to the people Of
the Territories. Even il this great change
Of policy was actually wise aud neccssa-
~, | have shown that it is not necessary
TO make it now in regard to the Terrific
~ Of Nebraska. II it woull be lust
elsewhere, il would be unjust in regard
to Nebraska, simply because, for ample
and adequate equivalents, fully received,
you have contracted in effect not to abol-
ish that line there.
But why is this change of policy wise
or necessary; II must be because ei-
ther that extension Of Slavery is no evil.
or because you have not the power to
prevent it AT all, or because the main
tenance Of "a geographical line is no lon
ger practicable.
know that the opinion is sometimes
advanced, here and elsewhere, that the
extension Of slavery, a~bstractly consid-
cred, is not an evil; but our laws pro-
hibitiug the African slave trade are still
standing on the statute book, and ex-
press the contrary Judgment of the
American Congress and Of the Ameri-
can people. | pass on, therefore, from
that point.
Sir, do not like. more than others,
a geographical line between Freedom
and Slavery. But It is because | would
have, if it were possible, all our terrific
ry free. Since that cannot be-, a line Of
diversion is indispensable and any line
is a geographical line.
The honorable aud very acute Sena-
tor from North Carolina, Mr.. Badger,
has wooed us most |persuasiyely 10 waive
our objection to the new principle.
as It is called, Of non-iuierveution, By
assuring US that the STAKEHOLDER can
only use slave labor where the soil
and climates favor the culture Of
tobacco, cotton, rice and sugar. None
of them find these congeuial soils or
climates at the sources Of the Mississip-
pi, or in the valley Of the Rocky Noun
Why. then, does he want 10 re-
move the inhibition there But again,
that Senator %reproduces a pleasing fc-
ton Of the character of Slavery from
the Jewish history, and asks; Why not
allow the modern Pairiarchs To 60 into
new regions with their slaves as their
prototypes did to make them
more comfortable and happy And he
tells rs a. The same time that this indul-
gcnce viii not increase the number Of
/ rcply by asking first whether
Slavery has gained or lost strength boy
the diffusion Of it over a larger surfacc
than il formally covered; VIII the
Senator answer hiatt Secondly, | quite
admire the simplicity Of the patriarchal
,imes-bui they nevertheless exhibited
some peculiar institutions quite incon-
gruous with modern r~cpublicanism, not
TO say christian, namely That Of a lat