The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-26

an assent by Congress the article In the constitution Of
the said State relating slavery and 10 the aancpatoa 81
slaVss."
Although Arkansas admitted, and this effort was
defeated yet the Of Mr. Adams reesired fyoo
northern roiss including nearly he united cote II Ns0 Eng
landhe New England by which the sanctty OF the
Missouri Compromise is at present loudly asserted
The next violation of Missouri Compromise by north
ern when the Territory Of Oregon was about
TO be organized This in Sat- Mr. Jefferson consd
cred Oregon part of the Louisiana purchase; and the
South seeing that the with Mexico would result in
the acquisition of territory and anticipating that the
North was resolved disregard the sacred COM
promise of s20 by forcing the Wlmot Proyiso upon all
territory including that purchased from France and
covered by the Missouri Compromiseseeing and antici
pang this Mr. Burt of South Carolina, on the 18th OF
January s4 for the purpose of ascerainng whether the
North would abide By This sacred compronise SO far as Ore
gon eoncernedOregon being part OF the Louisiana
purchase amendment to the Wilmot proviso
which had been attached to the territorial BILL in the fol-
lowing words
Inasmuch the whole OF said Territory lies north of sc
deg so mn north latitude known the line of the Missouri
Compromise"
The result is historical Though Oregon part of
the aboonsts exhibited in the debates Of 1854 in the
Congress OF the United States and was therefore, covered
by the SACRED act of ls2o yet this amendment when Of
iered in good faith by southern received but eighty
two votes in the House. while there hundred and
thirteen votes against it, and all these voe eere from the
Northron that North eAich is called upon TO sancty
and 10 eonecrae the Missouri Compromised The only north
ern men who voted then recognise the Compromise"
Z, had hy he I1O.gfaS
Robert Smith, of Illinois, Cunningham and Parish, of
Ohio Charles j. Ingersol of Pennsylvania; and last
ings of Iowa These all democrats and those who
survive are all Nebraska men
But Oregon was not admitted in ls47. Another trial
was made in ls4s Mr. Douglas of Illinois, then in the
Senate offered the Missouri line amendment to the
Oregon BILL and proposed TO extend this SACRED covenant
to the Pacific ocean The Senate adopted it, The House
rejected it by vote of eighty-wo to one hundred and
| twenty -one--the latter a solid northern COTE
| The Oregon bill passed with the Wilmot rroTiso,
and President Polk signed with distinct reputation of
the power of Congress to ax any such condition to new
territory
Nor is this ALL After the acquisition of Mexican terri
tory the South repeatedly proposed the Missouri Compro-
mise The North repeatedly rejected the offer On the
18th day of June 1850 the following provso was offered
in the House of Representatives
" Procde hocerer, That it shall be objection to the
admission the Union of any State which may hereafter
formed of the territory lying south of the parallel of
latitude of Sc deg 80 min that the constitution of said State
| may authorize establish African slavery therein"
This proviso rejected in Committee of the Whole
upon count of teersayes Ss, 80. eas TIE last
the proposition offered Congress Afterwards
the exciting of 1850, ending in the compro
mise measures The Missouri Compromise had been killed
in the House of its own friends and lay rotten and
offensive before the country till it decenty
buried in 1854 by the Nebraska bill.
Having shown the very late and very emphatic proofs of
the reputation of this compromise by the who
attempt to cheat the people of the North into the
idea that they its exclusive friends, it is scarcely
necessary that should 60 back spread before
countrymen in detail the evidences of northern hostil
/ iy to the same compromise from the period of the
admission of Missouri into the Union The north
ern rule Of action has been unbroken Of
exceponless hostility to that line Not only those who
voted for it in 1920 but those who venured to suggest its
recognition in ls47 1885, and 1850, have been raduced
in of measureess insult and severity The Missouri
restriction violated by the North adhered by the
South and repudated after It had become dead letter
statute-books 1t will not do for those who perpe
traed the outrage in the first to forward with
eevenh-hour regrets their VICTIM simply because the
grave hides it from the sight of men,