Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-06-19

sed earnestly and with diligence. New
ertheless, have always preferred the
compromises of the constitution. and
have wanted no other. | feared all 9TH
ers. This was leading principle of the
great statesmen of the south, Mr. CAL
houn.) Said he'll see my way in the con-
Istitution cannot in compromise
A compromise is but an act Of congress.
1t may be ov errnled at any time. 1t
gives no security. But the constitution
is statute. It is a rock on which we
can stand, and on which we can meet
our friends from the non-slaveholding
states. It is firm and stable ground,
on which we can getter in opposition to
Ifanaticism than on the shifting sands of
compromise. Let US be done with com
promises. Let us go back and stand up
on the constitution. | stood upon this
ground in 1850, defending freedom up
on it as Calhoun defended slavery.
was overrulea thsa, nd | have visited
since without proposing to abrogate any
compromises. Il has been no opposi-
ton of mine now to abrcgate them =
but the proposition has come from anoth-
er quarter from an adverse one. II
is about 10 prevail. The shift ting sands
Of compromise are passing from under
my feet, and they are now, without agen-
cy of my own, taking hold on the con-
|stitution. 1t shall be no fault Of mine
if they do not remain firm. This seems
to me suspicious of better days and wi
ser legislation. Through all the dark
ness and gloom of the present hour,
bright stars are breaking that inspire
me with hope and incite me to persever-
ance. They show that the day of COM
promises has passed forever, and that
henceforth all great questions between
freedom and slavery legitimately COM
ing here-and none other can come
shall be decided as they ought to be de-
cided as they ought to be, upon their
merits, by fair exercise of legislative
power, and not Of doubtful morality.-
The house Of representative has, and
always will have, an increasing majority
of members from the free states. On
this occasion that house has not been al
together faithless to interests of the free
states; for although it has taken away
the charter of freedom from Kansas and
Nebraska, it is at the same time told this
proud body, in language which compels
acquisecence, that in submitting She ques-
ton of its restoration, it would submit
il not meYely to interested citizens, but
to the sufrages of the alien inhabitants
of the territories also.
So the great interests of Humanity
are after ali, thanks be to The House Of
Representatives and thanks to God sub
mitted TO the voice of human natul e
Sir, see one more sign of hope. The
great support of Slavery in the South
has been its alliance with the Democrat
ic party of the North. BY means of
that alliance, it obtained paramount in
fuence in this Government about tie
year 1900, with from that time to this,
with but few and slight Interruptions, it
has maintained. While Democracy in
the North has thus been supporting Sla-
very in the South, the people of the
North have been learning more profound
ily the principles of republicanism and of
free government. 1t is an extraordina-
Try circumstance, which you, Sir, the
present occupant Of the Chair { Mr.. Stu
art) am sure will not gainsay, that at
this moment, when there seems to be a
more complete divergence Of the Fede-
raj Government in favor of Slavery than
ever before, the sentiment of universal
Liberty is stronger in all the Free States
than it ever was before. With that
principle the present Democratic party
must now come into a closer contest
Their prestige Of Democracy is fast wa
ming by reason Of the hard service which
their alliance with their slaveholding
brethren imposed upon them. | see in
that circumstance, and in the fact that
they are brought, by supporting the in
terests of the slave labor Of the South
in the new Territories, in opposition to
the free laborers of the North in the
new Territories and States, that they
are losing, and are destined to lose, by
lperseyering in that policy, the power
which they have held SO firmly and so
iohS' hat power VIII Hot coiEe pach
TO them again until the principle estab-
lished here now shall be reversed, and a
Constitution shall be given, not only TO
Kansas and Nebraska, but also to every
Iother national territory, which will not
be tabula rasa, but Constitution Sc
curing equal, universal and perpetual
Freedom.
Southern Wisconsin Railroads.&c.
were pleased to learn last evening, just
as we were going to press, that arrange
ments between the Directors of the Mil
waukee & Mississippi and Southern