The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-02-22
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gress 70 establish a Territorial Govemme
for the Territories Of Kansas and NebrasI
Is one which is causing considerable excit
ment among the people in consequence
thar clause in it whereby it is proposed
repeal the Missouri Compromise. fh
proposition TO repeal that compromise is lh
more starting because. there has appesre
adesiyn on the part Of its author. Senate
Douglass, snd has particular friends in Con
gress, to rush the Bill through before tn
people Of The country shall have time to ex
press their sentiments in regard to it, Ths
in making himself the special advocate @
this measure-io unexpected to the whoi
country--Mr. Douglass, who has obtaine,
BY some means. reputation for great tai
ents which he does not possess, is maxim,
a hold push for the Presidency no one car
doubt; and that his success in that direction
will be equal to his sacrifice OF Democratic
principles, there need be as little doubt
II IS supposed by those well informed on tn,
subject, that this Bill will be passed, and
the Missouri Compromise be thereby re.
pea'el. The principal reason, given by Mr.
Douglass In his defence of the Bill, repeal
ing the Missouri Comromise $50 far as il
applied to the free territory is that it vas
repealed or superseded by the Compromise
act of 1850. Ii this is So no one Of the
great Statesmen who advocated the 'compro.
mise of l050-Cass, Clay, Webster and 9th.
ers-ever found il out. and it has been re-
served for the least # oH Giaats-Senator
Douglass, to make the important discoveryl
Ii the Missouri compromise was repealed in
In 1850, in the name of Heaven why repeal
itagain in 1854? If the Dog has been al
ready killed, why waste powder to shoot him
again?
Whether the Compromise Acts of 1850
repealed or Superseded the Missouri CON-
promise OF not, is a legal question which the
Supreme Court of the United States will be
fully competent to decide whenever the
question is properly there presented. And
surely Slavery would have nething to fear
IN sending such question to be decided by
such Court, the members of which are al
most exclusively Shareholders, who look VI.
Oh slavery as virtue, and upon freedom AS
something to be tolei sled only because there
ia no power to crush it.
But the friends of this Nebraska Bill very
has not been repealed, hence they desire
Congress to decide the legal question of
whether it has been repealed or not by the |
Compromise of 1850, by now repeating it on
express terms. 1t is bold attempt to vio-
late, under the forms of law, solemn com.
pact or agreement, entered into between the
slave and the free States Of the Union, more
than thirty years ago-a compact respect.
ed by all parties from that time to the pres.
ent, and which mas always been looked
upon by the wisest and best of our country
men, as of perpetual obligation and ne.
cessary for the safety and repose of the
Union.
II is said that President PIerGe is in favor
OF this Nebraska Bill, repeating clauses and
all Can 1t be, that he has so poor a cen.
eeptlon of the cause which operated to give
him such an overwhelming vote in the free
States? Can he SO soon have forgotten the
platform on which he was so triumphantly
elected? Or can it be that he has taken a
lesson in peridy from John Tyler? | feel
very loath to believe any of these things can
be so Let us now so back little and ex 4
anime the grounds or which the President !
stands. After the close of the Mexican
war !: became necessary to form soyern-
ments for the vast Territories ceded to us
by that Republic This necessarily brought
up the question of whether slavery should
ever be permitted to extend into those Ter
ritories. The southern people where STA !
very exists claimed the right Of emigratiny q
to those Territories with their slaves and 10 b
there hold them as property. 10 this the '
people Il the north felt the utsaost repug- +
nance, and while they earnestly desired to =,
act justly towards their brethren of the n
south, their adherence of human slavery a
was SO great that they could never consent =
to make themselves responsible for the e. :,
of that institution where il had / f
not before existed This produced so much $
excitement and such state of cxasperated !"
and angry feeling between those two sec. e
lions OF the country, as, in the opinion of te
many good statesmen, to seriously en1an- i.
ger the safety and perpetuity of the b
Union. In the midst of this agitation in e.
$50 Congress to prevent greater evils pass. II
"a the Compromise measures OF that year, nj
Imong which was our present celebr t.ed ii
fugitive slave lava law that was at once ''
net by the the nothern people with one al- D
most unanimous burst of indignant remon. u
trance against its enforcement. This law n
he northern people denomnated rs nsult.
ng 10 them, and in its provisions approach. &c
ng much nearer TO absolute tyranny than W
my law thnt had been enacted by Congress Of
lnce the Alien Sedition laws in the time Of /,
he elder Adams. In many parts of the AZ AZ
rec States the cry was raised that the fugi- S'
i've slave law should not be enforced and "
nu be repealed. Thus the slavery aues.
ion which it had been fondy hoped had "
'een amicably adjusted was found to be as r,
as ever and the Union in as n
much danger frem this disturbing element tie
s before
While this state of things existed the :
Democratic Convention assembled ii Balti-
nore to put in nomination candidate for
he Presidency. That Convention represen.
ed the Democratic party Of the whole +,
Jnon, and after resolving to acquiesce in c,
be compromise measures Of l950-inclu- o
ing the fugitive slave law---as final sel- 3 +
emsnt OF the slavery question, and TO dis T
ountensnce and oppose all attemps. to re- G.
ew,either IN or tof Congress, thu agitation K K
1 that question, they nominated franklin D
Pierce as the Democratic candidate for Pres D
lent. Mr.. Pierce in his acceptance of the p
omination declared his hearty concurrence l.
With the views expressed in the resolutions r
Aonipd hy that Copyaotion -o,,l oA