Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-07-01

respectable when there but three four members
there the argeness Of it depending the physical mag
chairman of this meeting must say itmght have been
heraded to the world that the meeting large and
respectable" il else had been there but himself
and the two secretaries.
lis equally matter Of conjecture to the parcu-
lar paternity Of this banting 1t is said to be the ema
nation of committee Who composed that committee I
What their names Where they from +? There
were members Of Congress from the North South East
and West that opposed this bill, yet should hesitate
long before could be brought to the conclusion that
any member from section Of this Union could so far
forget himself to give his sanction and name to such
paper as this.
This, however, is matter that does not concern me
much, and perhaps have right TO inquire into the
secrets of this assembly 1t is enough for that has
the signature an honorable member Of this body the
Senator from Vermont (Ir FooT, and two members of
the other branch Of Congress Ii the paternity is not
theirs they sponsors; they not the drawers
This being the uncertain and unexplained lineage Of
the blnng shall regard the Senator from Vermont as
its author and expect him to make good its
correct its am sorry that he Is not IN his
this morning In reviewing this strange production
shall endeayor to do fairly, with disposition to do
injustice to its author or to deal in Of nnkind
entertain feelings Of great kindness for that Senator
The address opens by announcing TO the country the
astounding fact Of the repeal of the eighth section of
act preparatory to the admission of Missouri State
into the Union, accompanied with the following decla
| ration
"You need not be told the slavery question lies at the
bottom of IT, As 1t was the savehodng power that demand
Cd the enactment Of the Missouri compromise, is the
same power that has now demanded its abrogation"
Now Join issue with the author of this address on
this passage contained in his first paragraph Where
does he find the evidence which he POUNDS the asser
that the slave power demanded the passage OF what
he terms the Missouri compromise? l do not mean to
be captious and win not therefore, cav about the Of
Did the South demand the passage Of what is here called
the Missouri compromise, that being the eighth section
of the act OF 1920 which provided that slavery should
be forever excluded from oil the territories north OF 30
30? This oil Of the act Of 1920 that is repealed by
the Kansas and Nebraska BILL and, of course, this IS
what this address says the South demanded Is there
in this Senate in this Union, there one OF the
opponents Of the Kansas and Nebraska BILL who believes
that the South demanded her exclusion from just and
equal participation in the enjoyment of this common pro-
pery To suppose to concede to the South share OF
selfsacrcng berality to which she does not aspire
and which would not be very compatible with that III
beral and aggressive spirit freely and falsely attributed
to her. No, Mr.. President the South demanded that
Missouri should be admitted into the Union, having COM
piled with all the requirements of the Constitution and
in conformity with the provisions of the treaty BY which
the territory ceded by France to the United States
This is what the South demanded and this is what the
North denied her. and to say that she demanded the en-
actment Of law establishing inequality or nferiory
of rights between the different members OF the Confede
racy is insult to her intelligence and libel on her
| sense Of justice.
The South demanded the admission of Missouri This
demand was met by the North with unreentng obstnacy
The force Of numbers backed by wild political ana
cism, triumphed justice and the Constitution and
wellnigh consigning the Union itself to an early
and premature grave.
In this critical juncture of affairs when the best patr
OTIS the land had almost despaired of the preservation
the Unon when hope had forsaken almost every heart
and when the dark clouds Of dscord and disunion had
overshadowed the political heavens Northern man, Mr.
Thomas or Illinois. proposed this eighth section called
ths Compromise hassooh, with that dssotion TO lib
ertv and the Union hnt has her.
which hope will continue to illustrate her name came
forward and sacrificed her rights on the altar OF he
country the sake of peace and harmony and this &C
of more than generosity is tortured to suit the purposes
of gentlemen into demand for that Think of mans
demanding to be permitted to surrender to another
part Of his rights goods that the other covets
What tribute to nonsense such an argument must oe
So much for this demand The same sentence goes on
to assert so it is the same Chat is the slave power
!. that has now demanded its abrogaton The address
is again at fault in this assumption and the author SHOWS
himself grossly ignorant Of Southern character or else az
has different conceptions of the spirit that prompts the
actions of men communities from those entertain
The South has made demand. 1t is not the part o
wisdom or courage to make any demand without TN
power and determination to enforce it, The South do no
that power and would not have dgraced hersel
by playing the bully and braggart in making any deman
that she did not intend to enforce at the hazard
self mmolaton Does not the chairman Of the meeting
from which this address comes the Senator from Yer
mont know that if every Senator from the South hat
been at home or in his when the vote was taken
the passage Of the Nebraska bill it would have passed
Does he know that the number of Northern Senator
that voted to repeal the eighth section Of the Missoss
compromise equal to the united opposition to tn
bf Aud yet he publishes to the world that the slap
power demands this repeal When the question was pre-
sented and the South invited to participate in orga
mixing Territorial governments for Kansas and Nebraska
when the Missouri restriction to bo considered al
that the South demanded that what done shout
be FULL clear and distinct and If the subject was to b
touched at n the repeal should be full perfect and
mistakable. This the Senator from Kentucky (Mr
Dxos) required and this the North generously and
triotcally conceded.
In paper redundant in and inconsistencie
il is difficult to bring the mind to the contemplation
one Of them where many invite anmadversion. Ii
the second paragraph Of this address find the following
strange declaration:
ain 1908 the foreign slave trade prohibited Thus tn
source of slavery understood be dried up while the in
PRODUCTION Of slavery into the Territories was prohibited Th
slavery question, far 1t under
stood to be finally settled and at the time the State
had already taken up and carrying forward system
gradual emancipation"
The source of slavery dried up because the African
slave trade had been abolished and because slavery
prnhihed in the Territories Does the author Of th
address intend to make tie impression the public mind
limits Of the States? 1t alleges that its introduction into
the Territories prohibited 1t prohibited in the
Territory northwest of the Ohio but in all the other Ter
ritores it not only unrestricted but actually existed
either by the deeds of ceson treaty spuatons The
territory ceded by Georgia and North Carolina embrac
ing the present States Of Tennessee, Alabama and Mis-
sissipp expressly exempted from the slavery re-
to the Northwest Territory In all the territory purchas
ed from France including louisiana Arkansas Missouri
Kansas Nebraska Iowa, and Minnesota slavery existed
and protected by the treaty Of cesson And yet the
assertion is made that il prohibited in the Terrific
res II it was the purpose Of this address to convey
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