Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-05-18

vision between North and Sou,h-woald no; i'm
pair act of much future good 10 posterity,
not even upon the mistaken application of few
present inhabitants.
But this was not the end of the petitions The
people OF Indiana were not satisfied with
pulse They returned to the charge, and four
times more, in the course of any years, renew
ed their application for ten years suspension of
the ordinance. Ii rejected each time, and
once IN the Senate, where the North Carolina
Senator (Mr. jesse Frankin) was chairman of
the committee which made the report against it.
Five times. in many years rejected in Congress
and the rejection the more emphatic in some in
stances because it was the reversal by the House
of favorable report from a committee And
now what inhabtant of Indiana does not rejoice
as the deliverance which the firmness of Congress
then gave tn EN-, in spite of the request of its in
habitants fifty years ago7
Thus, five times in the beginning of this ceitu-
ry-hve different times. without any distinction
! between northern and southern members-did
Congress refuse to impair the slavery cornpro-
mise of 1897, notwithstanding five times asked
for by the people of the territory. Oh, squatter
sovereignty! where you then 1t a
case for you to have shown your head-to have
ari in your might-and established your
/ premacy for ever 1t was a case OF a convention
! of the sovereigns themselves, and neither this
convention nor the Congress had a dream of their
sovereignty The convention peritioned Congress
ward would its guardian, children under
age would petition their farther and Congress
severed Ike good guardian good father,
that II would not give them evil although they
begged for it Benighted times these and infinite
ly behind the present age. The mares nest had
not then been found in which has been laid the
marvellous egg out of which has been Matched the
nondeScript fowl. yelept, "squatter sovereignty"
/ (Laughier) The iluStrous principle OF non.
intervention had not then been invented. The il.
| of hal hear ri pf
though TO be learned in every horn book
and believe where else but in the horn books.
Renewed meriment)
How il is Proposed to Dispute the Compromise.
Five times In the beginning of this century did
Congress refuse to impair the slavery compromise
OF 81: and now in the middle of the century
and after thirty years OF peace under the Missou-
ri COMPROMISE, the offspring and continuation of
that OF o'-we are called upon not merely to
impair for season, bnt to destroy forever a far
greater ompromise-extending 10 far more ter
rltory, and growing out of necessities far more
pressing. And how called upon! Not by the
| lnhabtans-not by any one human being living
or expecting to live the territory to be affected
but upon motion IN Congress--a silent, secret
lImpIng, hating, creeping, squirting, mpish mo-
tIon-concelved in the dark, Undivided in a COM
mIttee room, and sprung upon Congress and the
country in the style in which Guy Fawkes in.
tended to blow up the Parliament House. with his
i've hundred barrels OF gunpowder 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 Missouri Compromise for above
thirty years, and mean to stand upon it to the end
OF my life, and, la doing so, shall act not only
according to MP own cherished convictions of
duty, bat according 10 the oiten-decIared convic.
tons of the General Assembly of NV own State
The inviolablIty of that compromise lire has oft
en- been declared by the General Assembly; and
as late as lS47, in these words:
| Resolved, That the peace, pernuait5acv, and
welfare of national Union depend upon :.
strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the
eighth section of the act of Congress of the Uni
ted states, entitled An act 10 authorize the peo-
pie of the Missouri territory 10 form constitu-
ton and State government, and for admission of
such State into the Union on equal footing
with the original States, ard 10 prohibit slavery
in certain territories approved March 9th,
| 1920"
with an instruction to the Senator's, and re-
| accordingly.
The peace, permanency, and welfare of the
| Union depend upon strict adherence TO the Mis-.
souri, Compromise of 1920" So resolved the
General Assembly of Missouri as late as 1916 |
believe the Assembly was right then; believe it
now-and so believing. shall adhere to the COM
promise now, as then, "in spirit ard in truth,
! should oppose any movement to impair that
compromise. made in an open, direct, manly man
ner much more shall expose ii if made in
covert, indirect, and unmanly way. The bill or
bills before us undertake to accomplish their OBJ
| jet without protesting it-upon reasons which
are contradictory and uniounded--in terms which
are ambiguous and Unconstitutional by throw
ing others the responsibility of its own acts
To be Continued.