Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-17

graceful to your State, disgraceful to your party
aud dsgracetul to your cause, under q misrepre.
sentation of the facts, which Misrepresentation
you ought to have been aware Of, and should nev-
er have been made!
Nr. CHASE. Will the Senator from Illinois
permit me TO say a few woFdsl
Mr.. DOUGLAS. Certainly.
Mr.. CHASE. Mr.. President, | certainly regret
that anything has occurred in my State which
could be otherwise than in accordance with the
disposition which trust have ever manifested,
to treat the Senator from Illinois with entire
courtesy. ] do not wish, however, to be under
stood, here or elsewhere, as retracting any state
ment which have made, or being unwilling to
Feassert that statement when it is directly i'm
peached. regard the admission of missouri, and
the facts of the transaction connected with it, as
constituting compact between the two sections
of the country, part of which fulfilled in the ad.
mission OF Missouri, an other parts of which have
been fulfilled in the admission of Iowa, and the
organization of Minnesota, but which yet remains
70 be fulfilled in respect 10 the Territory of Ne
hraska, and which, in my judgment, will be vo-
lated by the repeal Of the Missouri prohibition
That is my judgment. I have no quarrel with
senators, who differ with me; but upon the whole
facts OF the transaction, however, ] have not
changed my opinion at all, in consequence of what
has been said by the honorable Senator from H.
inois. / say, that the facts of the transaction
taken together, and as understood BY the country
for more than thirty years, constitute compact
binding in moral force; though, as have always
said. being embodied in legislative act, it may
be repealed by Congress, if Congress sees fit
Mr.. DOUGLAS Mr. President, | am sorry that
the Senator from Ohio has repeated the state
ment that Missouri came in under the compact
which he says was made by the act of 1920 -
How many times have | to diSprove the state
ment! Does net the vote to which have refer
FED Slow that Gch was not the case! Does not the
IlcI tnai there " as necessity for new cor DR.
mise show it! Have | not proved it three times
over; and Is it possible that the Senator from
Ohio will repeat it in the face of the record, with
the vote staring him in the face, and with the ev-
idsncc which have produced! Does he suppose
he can make his own people believe that his
statement ought to be credited in opposition 10
the solemn record! am amazed that the Sena-
tor should repeat the statement again unsustain-
cd by the fact. by the record and by the evidence
ana overwhelmed by the whole current and
weight Of the testimony which have produced.
The Senator says, also, that he never intended
to do me injustice, and he is sorry that the people
of his State have acted in the manner to which
have referred Sir, did heo0 not say in the same
document to which have already alluded, that
was engaged, with other, in "a criminal be-
trayal OF precious rights" in au "atrocious plotr
Did he not say that and others were guilty of
"ncditated bad faith!" Are not these his exact
wordS' Did he not say that servile demagogues"
might make the people believe ce tain things, or
attempt to do so! Did he not say everything cal
culated to produce and bring upon my head all
the insults to which have been subjected public
" ana priVately-not even excepting the insult
Ing letters which have received from his constit
al
and praying that other and similar calamties may
befali me! All these have resulted from that
Address. expected such consequences when |
hrst saw it. In it he called upon the preachers
Oh the Gospel to prostitute the sacred desk in
stimulating excesses; and then, for fear that the
people would not know who it was that was to be
lnsulted and illuminated, he told them, in post
script, that MIR. Douglas was the author of ali this
lnl9ulsy, and that they ought not to allow their !
rights to be made the hazard of presidential -.
game! After having used such language, he
says ne meant no disrespect-he meant nothing S
enk'nd! He was amazed that said in my open. n
inS speech that there was anything offensive in
this address; and that he could not suffer himself
to use harsh epithets, or to mpugn gentlemon's :
motives! No! not he! After having deliberate. .
y written all these insults, impugnine motive r
ana character, and calling upon our holy religion
70 sanctIly the calumny, he could not think Of To-
''ng hls dignity by bandying eptheis, or using O
4arsh and disrespeCtful terms!
Af' President, expected all that has occurred 4
md more than has come, as the legitimate result Il
1t that Address. The things to which referred n
re the natural consequences Of it. The opv n
eVenge seek is to expose the authors, and "
cave them to bear, as best they may, the just in
Hshation OF an honest community, when the peo-
ne discover how their sympathes and feelings
ave been outraged. by making them the instru-
leh's IN performing such desperate acts Sir,
ven IN Boston have been hung in efigy. | may ol
ny that expected it to occur, even there for the h.
'enator from Massachusetts lives there. He ~
gned his name to that Address, and for fear the III
oston AbolltoniSts would not know that it was VI
e, he signed it "Charles Sumner. Senator from pt
massachusetts, The first outrage was in Ohio h,
mere the address was circulated under the sp- l.,
ature Of of"Salmon P.Chase, Senator from Ohio, W "
he next came from Boston-the same Boston VI
r, which under the direction Of the same lead. CT
a, Closed Fanueil Hall to the immortal Web 70
er in 1850, becauseOf his support of the conpro h
lsc measures OF that year. which all now con- r.
81 have restored peace and harmony to dis ~
acted country, Yes, sir, even Boston, SO glo- IN
GUS in her early history Boston, around whose ST
imc 30 many historical associations cliny to IT.
atty the heart and exalt the pride Of every =:
mericsn, could be led astray by Abolition mis- vi
presentations as to deny hearing to her
'n great man who shed 50 much glory uponMas-
chusetts and her metropolis! | know that
'ston now feels humiIiated and degraded by the at
+. And sir, Undressing himself to Mr. Sum Bi
~ you will remember that when you came into
Senate, and sought opportunity to put forth IN
ur Abolition incendiarism, you appealed to bre
sense ofjustice by the sentiment "Strike, bu, shi
ar me first" But when Mr. Webster went So
OK in 1850 to speak to his constituents in his dig
q seif-defence to tell the truth, you would not NJ
ar him, but you struck .Grsh
Again, sir, even Boston with her FanueiI Hall -.
to liberty, was 50 far led astray by r.
olltonism: that when one of her gallant sons, jou
liant by his own glorious deeds, inheritipp . the
ro'c revolutionary name, had given his life to owe
country, upon the bloody field of Buena Vista, oar
when his remains were brought home, even -
4 Boston. under Abolition IL: l0r