The daily union., 1854-02-10

to recommend departure from the course pursued on
that memorable OCCASION either by affirming or repeating
the eighth section OF the Missouri act or by any act de
claa,ory OF the meaning o the constitution IN respect
the legal points In dispute" That Is what that commit
tee though and said about four weeks ago lhey hau,
no doubt deiberated upon that subject; there was ex
pressed in that report the joint wisdom OF the whole com
miliee, far know, Tor no dissent from y mas
been heard. And is il not strange, unaccouhiapiy
strange that these experienced gentlemen, statesmen
and senators here should have entirely changed 'nei
ground out ior entirely different object within less
than twenty days after that report was made anu ye as
sign no reason whatever for that change ihey recon
slider the bill they first reported. but they make no ada
ona report they do not tell why they have changed
their minds do they mention anything extraordinary
that has occurred show that there IS any pfopTeiy
in the change They merely present the bllI' amend
ed TO do the very thing that they saia before
they should carefully refrain from doing They have
mysteriously discovered, in the mean time. thal Inc
Log slaiion OF 1850 did, in some mysterious man
ner, supersede this most stern and stubborn law-hs
Compromise sacred as any that could be made be-
tween conflicting sections OF this Union, concured IN
upon all sides for more than third OF century They
fppany tell that il has been all overturned. all super
seeded, all annued, by the compromise legislation OF
1850; and they nbody in Their new bill, as Inc only ea-
why they ask for its passage that this Old Compfo
mise has been superseded Now, as lawyer, hardly
know what man means when he tells me that an aci
OF the legislature is superseded by principle have
all along thought HAT il took another act o Congress to
rSea supesede to annul to suspend this ac ot 1870
That is what have always supposed. no not under.
stand how you accomplish thai by principle. II
may be that there Is some new means by which stub
born law of Congress- hardly less solemn and binding
than the constitution ITSELF may be annulled, repealed,
and suspended by principle that some geallemen pre-
Tend may be found in particular kind OF legislation,
and kind Of egisiaon too IN which not one principle
can be found as shall soon attempt to show.
Mr. DOUGLAS. Will the honorable gentleman al
low me TO interrupt him
Mr.. WADE Certainly.
MIR DOUGLAS. do not know that the honorable
gentleman understood the idea expressed the other day
in my remarks | will him the difficulty Of labor
ing under msapprebensloa, BY saying that distinctly
t}oy Eotr ittnn
this So far the country covered by the Missouri
COMPROMISE embraced within The limits OF Utah
and New Mexico, SO far those acs rendered the Missouri
Compromise imperative far as Il not embraced
in those Territories, that Compromise superseded by
the principle, the great principle, OF seli-goYefnment
substituted tor geographica line In other words, by
superseded mean rendered inconsistent with the prn-
cp!e OF the Conpr mise OF 1850 II he gentleman pre-
fers the ord 'nconssenl 10 The word 'superseded."
will with great pleasure, adopt that word, which will
avoid aii trouble.
MIR WADE That very simple declaration.
heard The gensfnans speech the other day, and have
marked that poon OF II, aud II is all summed up IN one
idea, as follows
Sic, in order avoid any msconstructon, will
distiocdy what my precise idea Is upon this point
so faras tha Utah and New Mexico bills included the
teftory which had been subject the Missouri Compro-
mise provi-ion that they absolutely aDnulled the
Missouri Conpronse. As the xed territory not
OF Tue CoapIoinise oi 1850 We ali know that the hae
Of tbe oo,psonise OF 1850 establish GER
tain principles which would avoid the slavery agita
tion in ali time 10 come
That sir, is what he said his precise idea upon
the subject; that ia running the line OF eemark
aiion around the Territories oil Utah and New Mexico,
they did, for convenience sake, Otherwise include any
small portion OF the territory eovsfed by the Missouri
Compromise 10 tina, extent the Missouri Compromise was
anBulled and II also repealed or superseded be same
Compromise The OF the territory 10 which il had
been applied That is idea am glad to see the gen
tleman recede iron.
Mr DOUGLAS. | DO not recede from IT.
MIR WADE. He says he does not recede from IL
Thea, what does the gentleman by the word "su-
pefsede p | suppose means ths that II you run a
line with your neghbor bel ween your and his farms and
becomes necessary. from other, 10
that line again. and you afterwards find out that
you have taken into your iarm iie land belonging 10
your negbbor taken IN rod or So The running OF that
line sspeIsedes his title only 10 that rod you may
have included but also TO The balance OF his farm and
therefore you claim title 10 the whole OF his farm
That is the idea OF the gentleman. He he does not
recede from the opinions in the report the opD-
ions the bill amended and no., in the report for in
the report be says he never would do such thing as
the bill undertakes TO accomplish. la the report he
informs that This subject too grave for Congress
10 decide, and much too grave for the committee 10 act
upon they would not do such thing. And yet IN nine
teen days AFTER they in here with what - equiva
lent 10 the total repeal o the Missouri Compromise
Now, | want TO ask IL this Compromise oi so did
supersede that OF 20, II The legislation OF the one was
rendered inconsistent with that OF the otherl want TO
ask II II furnished any good reason, when both sections
OF the country now al peace, when everything ~
progressing satisfactorily TO all when The bitter feeling
between the different sections oil the country has sub
sided why irebrand should We thrown among here at
this time know not from what motive has been done
bu, little ubai IL may have been But the dele
effects of this attempt TO repeal that old Com
promise will be fell, not only now but long after the
present generation shall be In their graves Will not
answer for the consequences of The legislation of this
day But must this be so Can nothing be established
by this government Ia there nothing too sacred TO be
over-hufled for some miserable parry or other pur-
posei
Who were they that bad The management oil this Com.
promise at the time 1t made Was done by states
men Inferior 10 those OF the present generation No. sir
"Tbere were giants in those days." well IA now.
[faus hter There stood John Calhoun in the cabi-
ne, advising upon this subject there MIR Caw-
ford there was Mr.. Adams; and these men, think,
may, with olerab's and propney, be adludged
10 have comprebended the work they doing And
/ would appeal here TO my friends from the South,
who along with me have fought many hard
batle shoulder TO shoslder in principle. though far
distant from each other in residenee-men who have
iriumpbed with OF the North IN mutual triumph,
whose great chief evep whom endeavoret 10 elevate
he deserved TO be elevated, to the highest office in
the world, took part in this Compromise And
tilted that bis here endeayorng TO
blot out the work that his patriotism accomplished He
scarcely cold in his grave before another question has
sprung up that knows him not, knows not what he has
done and pretend 10 say that, In regard 10
Compromise OF 1850 did away with it; that. in conse
quence of that the Compromise OF 1920 not 10 be
lived up 10. Now was not here IN 1850; bot nave
Carefully read the debates OF that ne, aad have
desvored ID inform myself upoa that subject And
tell gentlemen that, Notwithstanding all they may ar
que, and all they may say upon this subject, there
not word, not syllable all tha, debate that goes
to indicate that any then supposed that anj thing that
then done calculated to overthrow THIS time