The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-04
From ,he NewarA Eagle
THE Observation-Disclosures LINE AND THE


s norhern wings and free-solers still keep up theI
aotea cant against the South for her alleged crime Of
LIMO rspudated the Missouri Compromise They per
80 IN the reiteation of this charge although again and
,in reminded Of what nobody has forgotten, that du
inc the long and angry controversy Of 1913 49, and 90
b whole southern representation in Congress repeatedly
kd 10 have that compromise recognised as the basis OF
ement Of the then pending ssueonly TO see their pc
,itop nsultingly res ted by the members from the
North
N ne ceases 10 remember the Clayton committee APP
otd bv the Senate and the bill which that committee
oed for the government of the Territories then recent
T., oouired from Mexico That committee was made ur
IN eaual numbers by northern and southern senators
Dining its prolonged sessions it was proposed to settle th'
question by adopting the compromise line OF 80 deg 50
MIN extending il to the Pacific ocean BY that line l.
square miles Of territory would have been given
the North 100000 to the South yet the northern senator;
rejected the proposition Then they nothing sacred in
the Compromse of 1920 Their purpose vas TO seize thu
whole of our Mexican neutrality-suspicious. made by
the iopt Efforts Of the slayehoding and nonslayehoding
staesand give them up the latter TO the exclusion OF
the former
interesting reference to the action of the Clayton
committee and the position which the North held as re
CARDS the Missouri Compromise are indebted to the Dos
ton Post of the 2st utmo We quote what follows from
that admirable journal
Earnest and anxious was the discussion ID committee on
thi. question OF the adoption Of line IL was agreed,
Mr. Calhoun stated by the southern members OF lhe COM
ne 10 compounds the line of 80 deg 80 mn but our
northern friends would agree that proposition II
was voted down in every way in which the proposition
could be presented One other mode was adopted by The
committee Ii agreed 10 report bill leaving all DO
nestle questions to the local authorities IN the rst IN
stance and the tribunal OF the Supreme Court IN the
last appeal This accordingly reported to the Senate
thus referring the whole question to the constitutional TIL
bunal established by the fathers
This report and bill were long and violently opposed
In the outset Mr. Niles OF Connecticut remarked 80
vocates of slavery here This brought Mr. Calhoun to his
feet and he made the following declaration
aAIr Calhoun win the senator yield for a moment
Ibeg that the senator viii not represent me as an ad-
yocae of slavery That is not the attitude which main
tain We stand here only claiming the rights which be-
long to ne confeaerated members of this Union, and we
are willing rghsup the high ground which
The senator from Delaware has placed Them and where we
nlace them We claim nothing for slaveryHothing at all
We wish this Union preserved and its harmony pre-
served with for it worthy 10 be preserved only on
the principles of harmony.
$50 spoke this splendid and great patriot and
statesman But we proceed with the narrative In the
debate the Missouri line freely discussed and Jared
better from northern members in the Senate than il did
from them in the committee. Thus Mr.. Hamlin, from
Maine declared that he would not vote for the Missouri
Compromise because its spirit not the spirit which
marked the spirit of the trainers Of the constitution Il
would not for arbitrary line even If II took the
southern boundary Of New Mexico and California running
to the coast of the Pacific Establish this line and you
the whole of the continent south to the curse OF STA
very when il shall become a part of Union Other
northern senator's denounced it. ridiculed IL scorned it
As TO the Missouri Compromise said Mr.. Hale which 1t
is said gave peace the country he did not know how
that might be but this he knew it gave peace to those
politicians who voted for it it sent them down to their
political graves where they have since rested in peace
III hoped that coad Be called compromise tcheh gaDs
al the southern latudcS The Of slarey and te 10
he fee Aaiss nothing but tAeis ice and rocks
"The bill rejected AT that time nothing but the
Wilnot proviso would be acceptable to the majority
There nothing bad TO be said against the SO deg
80 min line James Buchanan, in l647 having written
that in his opinion the public good required hat the line
of the Missouri Compromise should b. extended any
territory that might acquire from Mexico, the whole
lower tier ofaboion abuse poured upon him Now
the line with this order OF politicians has TO be
great charter OF reedomW