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

cause Of the free-negro clause alone.
Mr.. SEWARD. No, sir. if ., Ers.s tg,
Mr.. DoueIAs. Now will proceed to prove
that the north did not object, solely on account
Tof the free-negro clause; but that in the House
OF Representatives at that time, the north object
ed as well because Of slavery as in regard to free
negroes. Here is the evidence. In the House
Of Representatives, on the 18th Of February,
1921, MIR. Mallory, of Vermont, moved to amend
the Senate joint resolution for the admission Of
Missouri, as follows: sa .t"a
"To amend the said amendment. by striking
out all thereof alter the word reSpectS and insert
lug the following: Whenever the people Of the
said State, by a convention, appointed according
to the manner provided by the act to authorize
the people Of Missouri to form constitution and
State government, and for the admission of such
State into the Union on an equal footing with the
original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain
territories, approved March 6, 1920, adopt a con-
stitution contormaby to the provisions of said
act, and shall, IN addition TO said provision, fur
her prouide, in and By said constitution, that Meth
slavery nor inuoluntary servitude shall euer be al.
otoed in said STATE of Missouri unless inflicted as
punishment for crimes committed against the
laws OF said State, whereofthe party accused shall
be duly convicted: Provided, That the civil con-
ditlon of those persous who now are held to SER
vice in Missouri shall not be affected by this last
provision"
Here show, then, that the proposition was
made that Missouri should not come in unless, in
addition to complying with the Missouri compro-
mise, 50 called, she would 60 further, and prohib-
it slavery within the limits Of the State.
Mr.. SEWARD. Now, then, for the vote.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. The vote was taken by yeas
and nays / hold it in my hand. Sixty-one
northern men voted for that amendment and
irtv 'hnS fh.,D h,,
Of nearly two to one, expressly repudiated SOL
emn compact upon the very matter in controver-
sy, to wit: that slavery should not be prohibited
in the State OF Missouri
Mr.. WELLER. Let the senator from New
York answer that.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. / should like to hear his an
swer. E. S.. ..s.. ...... -
Mr.. SEWARD. desire, if shall be obtrusve
by speaking in this way, that senators will at
once SIGNIFY, or that any senator will at once sig
nifty that am obtrusive But make these ex-
plantations in this way, for the reason that de-
sire TO give the honorable senator from Illinois
the privilege Of hearing my answer to him as he
goes along. 1t is simply this: That this doctrine
OF compromises, is as it had been held, that if So
many northern men shall 20 with so many south
ern men as to fix the law, then it binds the north
and south alike. / therefore have but one an
swer to make; than the vote for the restriction
was less than the northern vote which was given
against the whole compromise
Mr.. DOUGLAS. Well now we come to this
point: We have been told during this debate,
that you must judge of the north by the minority,
but by her majority. You have been told that
the minority, who stood by the Constitution and
rights OF the south, were dough-faces
Mr. SEWARD. ! have not said So. will not
say so. -..
Mr.. DOUGLAS. You have all said so in your
speeches, and you have asked Us to take the ma.
jority Of the north.
Mr.. SEWARD. spoke of the practical fact.
never said anything about dough-faces.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. You have asked US to take the
majority instead of the minority.
Mr.. SEWARD. The majority of the country.
Mr. DOUGLAS. am talking otthe majority Of
the northern vote. ... ... ,...
No. SEwERD. No, sir. ...
Mr. DOUGLAS. | hope that the senator will
hear me- wish to recall him 10 the issue. |
stated that the north in the house of Representa-
tives voted against admitting Missouri into the
union undtr the act of 1920, and caused the de-
feat Of that measure; and he said that they voted
against it on the ground of the iree-negro clause
in her constitution, and not upon the ground Of
the free negro clause in her constitution, and not
upon the ground Of slavery. Now, have shown
by the evidence that it was upon the ground OF
slavery, as well as up on the other ground; and
that majority of the north required not only
that Missouri should comply with the compact OF
1920 SO called but that she should go further, and
give up the whole consideration which the sena-
tor says the south received from the north for the
Missouri Compromise. The compact. re says,
was that in consideration OF slavery being permit
ted in Missouri, it should be prohibited in the ter
rtories After having procured the prohibition in
the Territories, the North, by majority OF her
votes refused to admit Missouri as slaVeholding
State, and, in violation Of the alleged compact,
required her to prohibit slavery us further con-
dition of her admission. This reputation Of the
alleged compact by the north is recorded by yeas
and nays sixty-one to thirty-threc, and entered
upon the Journal, as an imperishable evidence be-
fure us, against whom should the charge OF peril
dy be preferred! .ta
Sir, this was a compact,what must be thought
of those who violated it almost Immediately after
it was formed! | say twas calumny upon the
north to say that it was a compact. | should feel
q flush of shame upon my cheek, as a northern
man, il were to say that it was compact, and
that the section OF the country to which belong
received the consideration, and the repudlated
the obligation in eleven months after it was en-
tered into. | deny that it was compact in any
sense OF the term. BIT if it was, the record proves
that faith was not observed; that the contract was
never carried into effect; that after the nurth had
procured the passage OF the act prohibiting slave
ry in the Territories with majority in the House
large enough to prevent its repeal, Missouri was
refused admission into the Union as a slavehold-
ing State, in conformity with the act OF March g.,
1920. 1.-THE proposition be correct, as contend
ed for by the opponents OF this bill that there was
a solemn compact between the. north and south
thet, in consideration oil the prohibition of slave
ry in The Territories, Missouri was to be admitted
into the Union m conformity with the act ofls20,
that compact was repudated by the north and
rescinded by the joint action OF the two parties
withintwelve months fromits date. Missouri was
never admitted under the act OF the 9th Of March,
1850. She was refused admission under that act.
She Wns voted out oil the Union hv northern votes.