Daily national era., 1854-06-07

| gentlemen, whose kaowiedge Of idac was not
/ equal 10 their cauhoa.n 1 may may not endorse
this equiyocal compliment to Northern members.
IL remains yet TO be asceriained who is the better
lawyer My present opinion is, that the Northern
commentary on that particular chapter of the
| political sayings and remarkable doings of Judge
Badger will prove the correct one, and that the
South loses, by the proyso, about all il is offered
by the repeal of the act OF 1920. But why should
| Northern members have exhibited this strange
caution, il they were honestly and in good faith
| in favor OF "a repeal of the Missouri Compromise Z
II they We're for the repeal, they should have de-
clared themselves ready for the responsibility and
the consequences. But Northern votes were
needed, and they could be had ii some plausible
pretext We're offered by which they might be able
| to turn that vote to II good account at home and
that pretext was furnished by this Badger proyi-
so, which, in the South, is 10 be construed
meaness, and signiiying nothing" while in the
| free States it is to be regarded annuiing the
natural and legal consequences which would re-
1 suit from plain repeal Of the act OF 1920.
must hurry that feature in the bill
! which confers on the first Legislature, that con-
venes in the Territory, the power g to form and
regulate their domestic institutions in their own
way and under which slaves will be excluded
! from the Territories, before they are formed into
| States. This, sir, is not the rule or the princi-
| pie for which the slave States have contended,
but the opposite The position of the South in
| l84S, l849 and 1850, was, that shareholders had
right to carry their slaves into the organized
Territories and that Slavery could not be exclu-
ded theretrom, by any power in any manner,
but by such constitution of Sdfe Government as
might be adopted by the people Of the Territories,
preparatory to being admitted into the Union
These positions abandoned by this bill and
the South, while it is to be charmed by the re-
| peal of the Missouri Compromise, is handed over
to the tender mercies of what gentlemen are
| pleased to term "Squatter Sovereignty al
though that Sovereignty may be made up
of unnaturalized adventures from all parts Of the
world. Bnt promised not to examine the details
of the bill will proceed to the consideration
OF an inquiry, the answer to which, in my judg-
ment, should readily indicate the course of n
| statesman ! ask, sir, what good what practical
good, is to result to the stakeholder, the South,
or the Union, as a consideration or compensation
for the excitement, fraterna strife, and sectional
discord, through which we passing, and
which, fear, will increase in extent and violence
| when the deed is done2
The South, Notwithstanding the efforts of poll
iticians to produce an excitement there, has been
composed and quiet, during the whole contest.
/ Why this apathy and Indifference in that quarter
| Let the opinions of the authors and advocates
of this bill, of the wisdom and utility ofthis
ure, be submitted to the world, and the uncon-
cern of the people of the sayehodng States will
not matter OF aSlOnlSnMeHl- W Illle the Dill
was under discussion in the Senate, almost every
Senator friendly to the bill expressed his views
as TO the practical results and consequences of
the measure, and ALL II believe, admitted that it
would not result in any good to the shareholders
or the South Some of them announced in effect,
and with becoming gravity and marked smplici-
ty of language, that they were contending for
GREAT PRINCIPLE, achich had nothing IN 1t, which
| left the South IN The same condition no matter how
IL IL rl-a1,l In
announcements were made, say, with great de-
cornm and becoming gravity.
Mr.. DouGLAs said;
81 do not believe there is n man in Congress who
thinks it could be, permanently, slaveholdng coun
try ! haUe no idsa ttat II co"fa'
Mr.. BADGER said;
81 have no more idea OF seeing slave population
in either of them, than have OF se0ing it in Massa
chusetts- not whit
Mr.. BUTLER said
"As far as am concerned, must say that do
expect that this bill IL to give us OF the South
anything. but merely to accommodate something
like the sentiment OF the South"
Mr.. HUNTER said
81 Does any man believe that you viii have slave
| holding State in Kansas and Nebraska i confess
that for a moment permitted such an 'HHaoR to
rest on my mind
Mr.. JAMES c. JoSEs said
vi
alone. As told tho honorable chairman of the Com
mittee on Territories. and as have expressed my.
self everywhere, when have given my opinion, upon
this subject content to let this matter stand
| IL was because, in my judgment, THERE WAS MOTH.
| ING PRACTICAL IN lr.
| These, sir, are specimens Of the opinions OF the
advocates OF this measure, and cannot but re-
| gard them as very remarkable, coming, as they
do, from those who hold the position, and, de-
| servedly, enjoy the reputation Of statesmen. ],
sir am not surprised at any opinion of the polit-
! cal mendicant who snbsists upon the bounty Of
his official master, but do insist that grave
Senator, holding the highest and most honorable
Legislative Office in the world, is not excusable IN
wading through "THE AGITATION, THE SECTIONAL
STRIFE, AND THE FEARFUL STRUGGLE, or 1850
when no beneficial or practical results are prom
ised or expected, and when that agitation, strife,
and struggle, may terminate disastrously to the
Union of these States
| cannot readily comprehend the force Of the
reasoning Of those who admit that the passage
of this bill will rckndle the fires Of domestic dis
cord, which burned 80 intensely in 1850 and
who further admit that il will not affect the rela-
tive power or numbers Of the free and slavehod-
ing States aud yet are exhibiting 50 much anxi-
ETY. 10 unchain the Slavery agitation, which had
been subdned by the compromise measures pass
| ed four years ago.
Ii was believe, during the reign of Charles II
and while the Bill of Exclusion was being dis
cussed in the House OF Commons, that member
Of Parliament made suggestion, which applies
with great force TO our proposed action or rather
to the action Of those who entertain such opinions
as are held -by the Senators | have mentioned
He expressed himself favorably TO the bill and to
excluding the Duke OF York from the throne al
together, rather than resort TO cpedients against
Popery, after u Catholic king should have been
invested with power, and turned loose, with all
his bitter hostility against the Established Church
The speaker said, in support Of his position, that
any other course tcoad be az sbange ds II there
,cerc q hon ia Me loJJy, and re should pofe: THAT
4 WE would RATHER SECURE OURSELVES ny LETTING
HIM IN AND CLAIMING nm, THAN gY KEEPING MN
| OUT"
This remark was afterwards SO versi6ed as to
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