The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-02

will violate pghted faith There is no member upon this
floor that sustained by the record of the past stand
in his place and point TO any period IN country his
tory any act where the South regardless of her
honor and her patriotism proposed advocated any
voatiye Of her pighted faith, affecting the
domestic institutions of her sister States of the North No
sir Nor can it be done in reference the particular and
important measure now under consideration With regard
to it, the fasty of the charge has been so often exposed
that feel as though were respassng upon the patience
OF the committee to again expose it, II is proper however
that should do SO, nasmuch ms assert It's fasty, and
therefore proceed.
The clause prohibiting slavery north Of SO deg 30 min
originated in the Senate of the United States Upon the
application Of the people Of the Territory Of Missouri
form State constitutions Congress the 9th of March,
1870 provided in the first section OF that act
That the inhabitants of portion of the Missouri Ter
ritory included within the boundaries hereinafter degna-
selves constitution and State and to assume
such name as they shall deem proper and the said State
footing with the original States in all respects whatsoever
The eighth seeuon OF the same act also reads
That in all that territory ceded by France the United
States under the Of louisiana which lies north of SO
deg 30 min north latitude not included within the limits
the State contemplated by this act slavery and involuntary
Sc y, NJ than in the where
hereby, forever prohibited"
The of this latter clause senator from nom
slaveholdng State Mr. Thomas of Illinois This the
compromise or compact choose TO term it. pro-
into law mainly through the numerical superiority in
Congress of the opponents of slavery As has been truly
1 said BY the gentleman from Kentucky Mr.. BREcKIY-
RIDGE (:
to form constitution and be admitted upon an
equal footing Nth the original States all respects ohatso-
benefit of Missouri and, you choose, for the South On
the other hand slavery to be north Of SO
so min, and this was for the benefit of the North"
Such the origin of therestrcton the extension
of slavery How absurd hen is it to charge the
| as originating with the South
But to proceed The people of Missouri formed their
nnn at thu prf
asked admission State into the conederacy bill
for the admission of Missouri State provided in the
first section of the act Of the 9th Of March 1920 upon
equal footing h The original States all respects hao-
eUe passed the Senate with commendable promptness
But Mr. Chairman in the House it rejected by vote
strictly sectional was the North now that repudiaed its
measure while the South in good faith voted for the
admission of Missouri despite the restriction ms to the ex
tension of slavery For this breach of good faith the
part of the North frivolous was made that the
constitution of Missouri prohibited emigration of free
groes to the State Most lame and impotent conclusion
but il came from those who renowned for practising
thing and preaching another Here was the first re-
pudiaon Of the Missouri Compromise as il is termed by
the North After having forced it, it were upon the
South and ngraed upon the statuebooks of the
try by strictly sectional vote the North repudiaed its
own act and violates that sacred compact now so zeal
ously advocated "Wha shadows we are and what
shadows do we pursueF
The Compromise of 1920 thus violated there appeared
for time prospect of Missouri being received
the Union as a State with a constitution embracing repub-
lican principles The excitement caused by this state
and the South The existence of the Union was earuly
threatened and anaticsm if not madness "ruled the
hour" While the public mind was thus agitated Mr..
Clay then member of the House of Representatives
moved the appointment Of joint committee of the two
houses TO inquire whether Missouri should be reanded
to her territorial condition be admitted into the Union
and If the latter upon what terms The committee
raised and from it the 26th February 1921 the follow
ing was reported by Mr.. Clay the condition of adms-
sion
That Missouri shall be admitted into this Union on an
W
upon the fundamental condition that the fourth clause
the twentysxth section of the third article OF the cons
tuition submitted the part of said to Congress shall
be construed 10 authorize the passage of any law and
any citizen of either the States this Union shall be
cuded from the enjoyment of of the privileges and i'm
ton the United States PrOvid That the legislature OF
the said state by solemn public act shall declare the
sent OF the said state to the said fundamental condition. and
shall transmit to the President OF the United States
before the first Monday in November next authentic
Gopy Of the n,d ae upon the receipt whereof the Pres
and without any further proceedings the part Of Congress
the admission of the said State into the Union shall be
sidered as complete"
This condition was adopted by Congress II was ac-
oepted by Missouri and under that State received
into the Union IL not by the compromise of the pre-
yous year. to wit: equal footing foih he original
States being NE eqaicdt Jor he prohibition Of sidpery
north e 36 deg 80 ma but upon he condition that she should
recognise and declare that the constitution OF the State
was not above that Of the United States Briefly then,
sir the facts show that the Missouri Compromise or
solemn compact feengly invoked BY the oppo-
nents Of slavery enacted or framed In 1920 that the
South yioatve twas Of her rights under the consitu-
uon aoquiesced and sustained IT, and that the North un-
bushingly repudiated and condemned it
Mr. Chairman, having shown under rha condition Me-
SoTi uas Yeered into The Union and having already adj
yerted to the which induced the South TO accept the
Missouri Compromise settlement Of the slavery con-
royery shall proceed TO show the further hostility
OF the antslavery party TO this measure whenever occa-
sion presented itself in the legislation Of Congress
In lsi8 shortly after the acquisition of California and
New Mexico the aut-savery excitement again distracted
the country. The question was 70 the disposition OF
those Territories in regard 10 slavery Encouraged
magnoumity Of the South In her course on the annexation
Of Texas, which was oil soreholdiaq but portion
which yielded to bc free territory instead Of being i'm
pressed 10 do justice thereafter the South this anti
slavery party did all within their power TO defeat every
measure recognising what they the established
and unalierable line beyond within which slavery
should not should exist Tho subject was before the
Senate and motion of Mr. CLAYTON of Delaware com
mitiee appointed consisting of four from the
North and four from The South This committee having
assembled Informed, sir that member from s
Sou proposed the extension Of the Missouri Compromise
he to the Pacific The our northern senator's potsa against
the proposiop aud Ue southern is faror We arc
also informed that time and again the proposition was re-
ered BY the southern and rejected by the northern
tors.
Sir, upon that committee was the late lameutcd and
hlusiuous senator from South Carolina John Calhoun
patriot and statesman OF such renown, man Of such
moral worth that the charge only of being dcpoed
southern interests in all his service the country has
received the consideration Of the American people But
we hnd hm here sir profering TO the North tho olive
nranch o peace-ths Compromise tepudated by them
ten WIN scorn but which they " is tho ark of the
eounys salvation Yes sir he so devoted TO the South
was there TO proer accept the Compromise rather
than worse should befa the country Bat before that
committee sacrifices Of avail Every proposiion