Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-29
then gave them in spite Of the request Of its inhabta

Thus five times in the beginning Of this y-6ve
different times, and without any distinction between
Northern and Southern membersid Congress rense to
impair the slavery compromise Of 1857, notwiiasand
ing five times asked for by the people Of the Territory
Oh, squater sovereignty where we're you then? II was
for you to have shown your heado have arisen IN
your might, and established your supremacy forever
Ii Of convention Of the sovereigns them
selves; and neither this convention the Congress
had dream of their sovereignty The convention petit
toned Congress ward would lis guardian children
under age would petition their father and Congress an
swered like good guardian or good father, that 1t
would not give them evil although they begged for it.
Benighted times these and infinitely behind the present
age The mares nest had not then been found in which
had been laid the marvellous egg ut of which has been
Matched the nondescrpt fowl yclept "squatter sove-
reignty The ilustrious principle of non-interventon
had not then been invented The gnoramuses Of that
day had never heard of it, though be learned IN
every hornbook and believe, nowhere else but in the
horn. books
Five times in the beginning Of this century did Con-
gress refuse to impair the slavery compromises of and
now in the middle of the century, and after thirty years
of peace under the Missouri compromise the offspring and
continuation of that Of 49, we are called upon merely
to impair for season, but to destroy forever far
greater compromise extending to far territory and
growing out Of necessities far pressing And how
called upon? Not by the inhabitants, not by any one
human being living or expecting to live in the territory
to be affected but upon motion in Congress- silent,
secret mpng, hating creeping, squinting mpish mo-
ton-conceived in the dark midwifed in committee
style in which Guy Fawkes intended to blow uphe Par
lament House, with his five hundred barrels of gunpow
der hid in the cellar under the wood.
My answer to such motion is to be found in the whole
volume of my political life. have stood upon the Mis-
souri, compromise for above thirty years and to
stand upon it to the end Of my life; and, in doing
shall aet not only according to my own cherished convc
tons Of duty but according to the con-
vicons of the General Assembly Of my State. The in
volatility Of that compromise line has often been de-
clared by that General Assembly and late as ls4 in
these words:
Reotred That the peace, permanency and welfare of
our National Union depend upon strict adherence to the
letter and p the eighth section the of Congress Of
the United States entitled An authorize the people of
the Missouri Territory form Constitution aud State Gorer-
"e"t and tor the admission such Stale into The Union
equal footing original States prohibit slaeery in
certain Territories, approved March g. 1870 =
with instruction to the Senator's and request to
the Representatives in Congress to vote accordingly
"The peace, permanency, and welfare of the Union
depend upon strict adherence to the Missouri compro
mise OF 1920" So resolved the General Assembly Of
Missouri as late 1847 believed the Assembly
right then Ibeeve it now; and, SO believing shall adj
here" to the compromise now, then, in spirit and
in letter. .sa.a
should oppose any movement to impair that compro-
mise made in open direct manly manner; much more
shall oppose it if made in covert indirect and un
manly way. The bill or bills before undertake to
compsh their object without protesting it, upon
which contradictory and unfounded in terms which
are ambiguous and inconsistent and by throwing on
others the responsibility Of its act 1t processes not
to interfere with the sovereign right of the people to le
gisate for themselves and the very first line of this
solemn profession throws upon them horseload of law
which they have right to refuse time to read
money to purchase, ability to understand 1t throws
upon them all the laws of the United States which
not locally nappicable and that comprehends all that
are not specially made for other Places Also it gives
them the Constitution Of the United States but without
the privilege OF voting ut Presidential Congressional
elections, or of making their own Judiciary This is
interference with vengeance community to be bu-
red under mountain of strange law, and covered with
constitution under which they not have sin
gle political right Why this circumocuton, this exten-
sion Of mountain of irrelevant law with the exception
Of the only relevant and applicable?
Sir it is the crooked, insidous, and pusanmous way
of eecting the repeal of the Missouri compromise line
1t includes all law for the sake Of leaving out law
and effects repeal by OMISSION and egsates by an
exception. 1t is new way of repeating law and
bungng attempt to smugge slavery into the Territory
and all the country out to the Canada line and up the
Rocky Mountains. The crooked liae of this smuggling
process is this: Abosh the compromise line and
tend the Constitution the country the Constitution
recognises slavery therefore slavery is established
the line is abolished and the Constitution extend
ed and being put there by the Constitution 1t cannot be
legslated out" This is the English Of this smuggling
process and certainly nothing unworthy of legis
ation, more derogatory to legislative body,
attempted to be made into law Sir the Constitution
not made for Territories but for States Its pro-
visions all applicable to States and be put in
operation in Territories They vote for President
or Vice President or members of Congress, elect
ters or administer their laws by their judges,
sher and attorneys and the clause extending the Con-
stitution to them is cheat and illusion and trick to
smugge slavery into the Territory. Nor is it intended
that they shall have any legislative right under the Con-
stituton even in relation to slavery They may admit
it because it is to be there by the Constitution they
not exclude because the Constitution puts there That
is the argument and it is juggle worthy of the trick Of
one egg under three hats at the time, and under
neither ut any time Besides the Constitution is an or
ganic, not an administrative act 1t is code of prn
eples not Of laws. Not clause in be executed
except by virtue of law made under it. not even the
clause for recovering fugitive slaves.
But am not done yet with the beauties Of this mode
OF repeating law by an exception. There is further
consequence to be detected in it. The Missouri compro
mise consists of two distinct parts rst abolition Of
slavery in oil the ancient Louisiana north and west Of
Missouri secondly provision for the recovery of fug-
tive slaves in the territory made free By the omitted
extension of this section both these parts repealed
tract Of country larger than the old thirteen Atlantic
States and bordering thousand miles the British
mnions is made asylum for fugitive slaves There
will be no law to slave from all that vast region
The constitutional provision is limited to States: the
VISION In the act OF 1877 is limited to the Northwest Ter
tory the second part of the Missouri compromise ex-
tended this right to oil the territory north and west
Missour and that being repealed that right of recovery
IS lost object to this the part Of the State Of Mis-
souri, the State to be most injured by converting all the
territory north and west of her. quite out to the British
hne into On asylum for runaway slaves The blunder
cannot be corrected t least the opinion of those who
deny the constitutional power Of Congress to egsae
slavery in Territores) by m act Of Congress.
Then comes the reason for excepting the Missouri
promise from the extension which Is given mass Of
laws which are not there, and denied to itself which is
there II the reason had been because it already
there 1t would have been logical and comprehensive
reason but that is not the assigned and those
which are assigned are actually and curious,