The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-09-23
The Missouri Compromise.

The Missouri Compromise.
CONGRESS HALL, March 2, 1S20-3o'clock at night.
DEAR Sir l hasten to inform you that
this moment we have carried the question
to admit Missouri, and all Louisiana to the
southwark of 36 deg 80 min, free of the
restriction of slavery, and giuc the South,
in short time, sir, and perhaps eight, men,
5ers to the Senate of the United States. ltI
is considered here by the slaveholding States
as great triumph. The votes were close
ninety to eighty six, (the vote was so first
declared produced by the seeding and
absence of few moderate men from the
North. TO the north Of 36 deg. 30 min.
there is to be, by the present law, restric-
ton, which you will see, by the votes, l voted
against But it is at present of no moment
it vast tract inhabited only by savages and
wild beasts, in which not foot of the In
dian claim TO the soil is extingushed, and
in which, according to the ideas prevalent,
no land office will be open for great length
of time.
With respect, your obedient servant,
CHARLES PINCKNEY.
If the reader will closely scrutinize the
above laconic epistle from a very distin-
guished southerner, in Congress at the time,
he will find food for reflection. The south,
even at that day, claimed triumph in the
adoption of the Missouri Compromise. -
The writer says, by the operation, the south
will have in very short time, six, and per-
haps eight, additional senators. They have
had them long since, representing Louisiana,
Arkansas and Missouri. But adds the
writer, north of this line, lies vast tract,
inhabited only by savages and wild beasts,
in which not foot of the Indian claim to
the soil is extinguished no land office will
be opened for great length of time, and
practically the compromise of that day, at
that time, a1aS Of no moment. Now look at
the fraud
Time rolls round: treaties are made for
the extinguishment of the Indian title land
Offices will be opened and what then p
The south, having their share of the COM
pact, make the unreasonable demand of the
north that they yield up theirs, or there be a
dissolution of the Union The territory is
# moment nolD. Then it was of no conse-
quence. The south only yielded for the
time, and now find enough doughfaces in the
north TO back up their demands. Is it pos
sibe that any northern freeman, not bought
with the patronage of a servile administra-
tion, can submit to such an insult, such a
glaring infringement of his rights
Let your voice be heard and your power
be felt through the ballot box. Express your
opinions fearlessly and emphatically. and
hereafter there will be some respect shown
for northern rights.-Zanes. Cour.
MORMON BANDrrrI-It appears that a
very large and daring band of thieves are
perpetrating systematic outrages in northern
Illinois, breaking into houses and taking pro-
visions. money and various other articles.
On Saturday night they broke into the house
OF Mr.. Emery, at Hainesville, carrying off
money, &c. In their hasty flight they left
"a letter, purporting TO be from one of the
gang to his wife, in which the success and
adventures of the company are communica-
ted. 1t states that their rendezvous is 80
miles from Chicago and 80 from Vorce.-
From the fact that Vorce is the name of an
old Mormon settlement near Burlington,
Wisconsin, abandoned some years ago for
Beaver Island, it is conjectured that the
gang is composed of Mormons from that
island, who are thus collecting a store OF
provisions, &c, which are probably brought
to some lake port and shipped.
A LAWYER IN A TrEADMILL.-Mr Garden,
the wealthy lawyer recently convicted in
Ireland of an attempted abduction, was