Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-04


ord have before among the very few from the
With who did then stand up for the right against the
huN clamor that raised against them the Of
baiagn from Pennsylvania; Holmes, Of Massachusetts,
anu o'osrs,f New York aud Southland, of New Jersey
where dia Soe4hard find his grave MIR. Baldwin was
one OF judges Of the Supreme Court Of the
uhi'e ca STATES Mr.4olmes, when Maine was admitted
was the Senate, and held that highly
honorable post Tor oug know as long he wanted it.
Mr. Storrs who a of great talents never lost
the confidence Of his constitutes Had he not been cut
boh,v ueah q. an early age he might and most pro-
try not excepting the Chief Magistracy itself These
statesmen found political graves where many If those
VINO now ran 50 merely would doubtless be very willing
to md theirs But of those who espoused the side Of the
Restrcionists at that time do not see the name of
single man who ever attained high political distinction in
this country Their very mmories in most instances
have passed away and their grsyes if thew have anv
would be about as hard to Ind as that Of Moses in the
wilderness"
SO much, then, for these treats. Tbev arc bnt tho
cravings" and howlngs;" aid "hissngs,, ~ tho baot
and routed ranks Of the faconists and maoontent
They the wangs Of the politically condemnad corn
ing up from the bottom of that dep pit where thew have
been hurled by patriotic people 10 the good the peace
quiet and harmony OF the whole costry We need not
expect to silence them the friends aid advocates IF the
compromise of 1859 did expect ook for that At the
time That would have been fororn, ops and though
many Of the enemies of the compromise the North who
beaten in the great battle Of 1852 i've since SEEM
and begged quarters defending be
ready acquiesce be permitted to this occa
sion without wish to push mysefin the York con-
test have very little confidence in the ntesisy of their
professions They fought the compromise Ing MS there
any prospect of making any thing by thting it.
When whipped routed, and BEATEN then like taven and
mercenary captves they turned to power to if any
thing could be made there by subservency AIN sycc-
phancy. have faith in their conversion, new have
had any. Warmed into life again by the genial rasof
Executive patronage, have always thought, andstN
think, that they will only become the formidAle
henever the occasion offers for their real principleso
anifest themselves Hydrophobia can never be cured
It will break out the changes of the moon. And 81
with the disease of aegro-moq Sir the viper will hiss
and sting the bosom that nurtures and fosters it.
Whether right in this anticipation, whether this
Administration is right in its present policy we shall see
But who stood by the compromise of 1850, and in
tend to stand by it and carry it out in good faith are
not to be moved by camor got up by its old enemies
to be shaken in purpose by any mistaken
appeals in behalf of the sanctity of compacts, coming
from source respectable that of the National
Inellgencer That paper in late article, to con-
slider the line of see 30f almost binding the Consti
tuition the bare suggestion for departure from which
should the friends of the Constitution every where
If SO, why did not that paper raise the alarm in 1885,
when Mr. Adams in this House, backed by ffty-two
Northern votes made something more than sugges-
tom to depart from it?
In 1916, when majority Of the North voted against
the annexation of Texas with this line in it, why not
its voice again raised? In lS47 and 184s when it was
completely naught and ramped upon by the North
as have shown, why was it not then rased Then the
contest fierce and hot between those who stood by
that line and those who for its total obiteraton
For three long years. when this contest ragged why did
the Intelgencer one word in behalf OF Its main
enance and preservation? That certainly the time
for any who regarded it imbued with sanctity"
and sacredness" to speak. 1t is too late now The
old principle in territorial policy has passed away and
have in its stead one. We are not therefore,
be shaken in purpose to carry out this new prnc
pie by any such clamor appeals Our purpose is fixed
and is onward What little agitation may be
got up in Congress out Of it. while this debate lasts
will speedily subside this principle Is once
IN Wrangung
here about slavery and freedom in Utah ana New Mexico
Because, by this principle the irritating cause was
of Congress and turned to the people, who
are most capable of disposng of it for themselves Pass
this blthe the beterand the same result will
ensue. This shows the wisdom and craftsmanship OF
those by whom this principle was adopted as our settled
policy this subject in 1850. cinder in the eye will
rritate and iname it until you get OUT thorn in the
flesh will do the thing. The best remedy is to re-
move it Immediately That is just what the compromise
of 1850 proposes do with this slavery question in the
Territories whenever it arises Cast it of Congress
and leave it to the people, to whom very properly and
rightfully belongs.
In behalf of this principle, Mr.. Chairman, would to-
day address this House, not as parsans, neither as
Wings Democrats, but Americans. / do not know
what you call me- how you class me, whether as Wing
Democrat in your political vocabulary do care
Principles should characterize parties and not names
call myself Republican, and would invoke you one
and ALL to up and sustain this great republican and
American policy established in 1860, for the permanent
peace, progress, and glory of common country II
any of you convinced of its propety and
but afraid that your constituents not equally
vineed follow the example Of Mr. Webster after his eth
Of March speech, when the doors of Faneuil Hall
closed against him. Meet your constituents il need be,
in the open air, an face to face, tell them they
wrong and you right think, sir, that great man
occasion of his life appeared to greater advan
tage in the display of those moral qualities which mark
those entitled lasting fame than he did in the speech
he made in open barouche before the Revere House,
in Boston, to three thousand people who had assembled
to hear what reason he had give for his in the
Senate He stood Burke before the people of Bristol
Aristides before the people of Athens when he told
them above all things, to be jus" In that speech
Mr.. Webster told the people Of Boston, You have
quered an inhospitable climate you have conquered
sterile and barren so you have conquered the ocean
that washes your shores you have fought your way to
the respect and esteem of mankind but you have yet to
conquer your prejudices" That indeed Speaking
" pro gatis And that scene for the painter
sculptor perpetuate the in the exhibition OF his
nobest qualities far worthy than the occasion Of his
reply Mr. Hayne, his great 9TH of March speech.
Initiate his examples lose the consciousness that
!" Truth is mighty and will ultimately prevail" The
great truth" to the right principle of disposng OF
this slavery question in the Territories first pro-
claimed by the Congress of the United States in 1901
1t oil upon the waters 1t gave quiet and repose
distracted country Let it be the pride OF as all IN
this Congress to rearm the principles make it ooexten-
make ii broad as your constitutions proclaim every
where that the people of the Territories OF she
Union, wherever the flag floats shall have the right to
form such republican institutions as they please Let
this be our pride; and them with feeling in
the memories and glores Of the past can all from
every State section and Territory, look with hopeful
antcpatons that bright prospect in the future which