Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-03-10
NEW SERIES, VOL. 8, NO. 81.

formed State constitution forbidding unan
imousy the existence of slavery Her rep
rescntativea were in this Capitol. Now,
star. your line Of demarkation and 60 west
ward. The moment you reach the cliffs Of the
Sierra Nevada mountlins, YOU run athwart
your own favorite, omnipotent doctrine, and
you cannot cross California. Can any one
else bat the Fricr Is Of tie Missouri romprom-
ise be inconsistent But supp04e the fri inis
OF that measure dill not wish to extend il.
dles that make it void Is q contract of
t .irty-iour years standing to he broken, be-
cause will not make new ore with you in
rgird to matter entirely different That
contract wus complete and perfect in itself,
depended on no future contingency Can it
be honortbly annulled without the consent OF
both parties, when only one party has receiv.
ed Il consideration know how that i. met
The friends Of the bll say we should never
have moved in this matter but it is free
will Offering from the North, and we cannot
refuse 1t. | pray you here, at the outset,
not to blind yourselves by any such delusion
The North has made no such offer. and no
man has snid, or dare say, that the North has
empowered him to make it. An officer might
just as well say, because he was conmln lndiDg
the forces at West Point, that he made
free-will Offering to England Of all the Revo-
lutiOnary Army, with Washington at its head.
What Chief Magistrate of all thirtv-one
States has recommended this measured " hat
Legislature has instructed its Senators to
support it What convention of the people
has requested their representatives to aid in
its rassagei In what political canvass has
the question been discussed What body Of
men, large or small, has anywhere expressed
themselves in its favor, None, none at all.
Then whore is your authority for saying this
is an Offering from the North You have
none. If you believe the North willing to
make the offering, put it to the test. Let
this bil pass over nine months to the next
sessOniof Congress. There is certainly no such
haste as to forbid this. Bring the question
Of surrender before the people at the next
election of members of Congress. Make that
an issue in the canvass, and see how many
members be returned in support Of it. If
there be majority, then passit next session.
W i'll not magnanimous men, to whose benefit
it is supposed to inure, consent to this delay
If not, pray tell me how you can pretend that
the North makes the offerings
You have, as yet heard but little remon-
STRANGE. The reason is plain. The people
struck dumb by the reckless audacity and
perfdy of the proposition-would not believe
that it had been made, and took refuge in in
credulitv. But derend on it, they will
awake. Pass these bills, and you will rouse
a stronger and more bitter anti-savery feel
ing than has ever existed in this nation You
may declare that slavery cannot 60 there be-
cause of climate and production but will
put it to an honest and practical test. The
Missouri delegation are men of great ability
and integrity they are on the borders, and
can express their own opinion. If any man
representing Missouri Believes that slavery
will go to Kansas on the passage of this bill,
| now invite him to say SO. No denial
Whv should it not 90 there as well as to Mis-
souri, on the same parallel of latitudel Pass
that bill, and the spawn will be deposited in
all the soils, from which is hereafter to spring
race of bond men-of slaves. The fathers
Of our constitutional age believed, that bef)re
this our deliverance from slavery would
come but it would seem as if our province
was only to extend the area of oppression
Is that the deliberate will Of this nation
believe not. If the friends of these bills Sc
ton and jackson so earnestly prayed should
not be done. You will form sectional parties
! You make such party on one side by the
| passage of the bill; you do 1t by banding to-
gether in a solid phalanx on one side Of the
line. Do that, and your example will he
/ followed on the other side. No man, no COM
bination of men--no party, or combination
Of parties--can prevent it; and beg Of you
to remember, that by this act you exhaust
the specific for alaying agitation. If the
Missouri compromise he repealed, honestly
/ bslieve that it is the last compromise that
will ever be made between the Gushing inter-
ests of different sections in this Republic :;
and rs seriously believe it is not the last
compromise that will be rendered null and
void.