The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-23

lay contiguous sIayehOldlng states.
der these circumstances il without any resistance
organized and admitted into the Union with its an
Gent laws and customs toerating slavery. St Louis
though destined to acquire great commercial importance
yet an inconsiderabe town, with few slave
holders and slaves. The Mississippi only divided II
from the Northwest Territory which was already con-
secraed TO freedom The best interests OF the country
required and humanity demanded, that the ordinance OF
1887 should be extended across tina Mississippi The
privileged class however took possession OF the region
around st Louis, and made partial settlements lower
down the wet bank of the Mississippi 81. Louis
and its environs matured State In 1919, and demand
ed admission with slavery into the Union, Then, only
thrttwo years after the passage OF the ordinance OF 1884,
aud after its ratification by the American peo-
Pile the privileged class made with the new
slavehodng State and assuming tone at once bold IN
soent and menacng they denied the power OF Congress
although in the Territories il supreme and exclusive
and equally supreme and exclusive in the admission OF new
States egsate all against their privileges in the Ter
ritories TO refuse admission TO new State, on the
ground oil its refusal to surrender or abae those privileges
and they threatened loud voice 10 subver the Union
if Missouri should be rejected The privileged class
backed then by the Senate of the United States they
have been backed all similar occasions since that time
They were met however with hrnness and decision by
the unpvieged class in the House of Representatives and
Missouri failed then to be admitted slave State.
The privileged class esorted TO form OF strategy the
strategy Of compromise. They offered 10 be satisfied II
Missouri only should be admitted slave State, while
Congress should prohibit slavery forever in all the residue
of that part of the Louisiana purchase which lay north OF
the parallel of 80 deg 30 min OF north latitude; the ter
rory lying between the parallel and the province of
Texas and constituting what issnow the State OF Arkan-
being left by implication slavery. This compromise
accepted and thus diplomacy obtained FOR the prvi-
legged class immediate advantages which had been denied
to their camor and passion. This compromise however
could have emily the authority OF repeaabe act of Con-
gress r the prohibition of slavery north of 30 deg
80 min was concerned. Wise and great conryed
raordnary forms to bind the faith of the privileged class
to that perpetual inhibition They gave to the compromise
the and form of contract with mutual equivalents
between the privileged class and the unpriyieged class
which it would be dshonorable and perdous the part
Of the privileged class tany time on any grounds or I'M
dara mil dFa
in question. They proclaimed TO be contract proper
to be submitted to the people themselves fer their rathca
people and ratified by them. BY virtue Of this
promise Missouri came Immediately into the Union os
slave State and Arkansas followed afterward as
slave State while, with the exception of Missouri the
compromise of 1884, by virtue of the compromise
extended the Mississippi along the parallel of
&c deg. 80 min to the Rocky mountains Thus and with
such solemnes the strife of the privileged class of
Shareholders for aggrandizement of territory finally
posed and forever settled.
1t not my purpose to discuss the policy the Justice
of that great sentiment AS in the case of the constu
ton the responsibility for that great measure rests with
generation that has passed away We have to deal with it
only fact and with the state Of affairs that estab
lshed by it,
The occupation of the new region west of the Missssp
p which had thus been saved for Freedom erttay
postponed indefinitely by dedcating il home for the
concentrated but perishng Indian tribes 1t sounds in
favor of the humanity OF the unprvileged class If not OF
their prudence that they neither demonstrated
planned of that dedication.
The of the privileged Glass; in securing TO them
selves immediate possession of Missouri and Arkansas in
exchange for the reversonary interests of the unpryeged
class in the remainder Of the Louisiana purchase smu
lated them to for national purchases of domain
which might yield them further acquisitions Spain
unable to retain longer the sayeloldng provinces OF East
Florida and West Florida which lay adjacent TO the slave
States They fell to the United States by easy purchase
and the privileged class with due diligence procured their
organization State and its admission into the Union
The spell of territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT had fallen the
United States Of America and simultaneously the spell OF
had he I'uip ~
privileged class side of the border entered Texas
tabiishcd slavery there in violation of Mexican laws de-
tached that territory from Mexico, and organized it
independent sovereign State Texas thus independent and
sovereign sought annexation to the United States In the
hour when the virtue OF sufficient number of the
privileged classes giving way TO effect constitutional
annexation of Texas the President of the United States
with Senate not less ubservent to the privileged class
executed coup det by which that State unawfuly and
in defiance of all precedent, came into the Union under
covenant STIMULATING that four slave States might be
created out Of its territory and admitted slave States
while by solemn mockery, an nconsiderable fragment
that lay north of 80 deg 30 min ostentatiousy ded
Gated to freedom. There remained other territory
within the United States and So by this strange partition
Of Texas there third final settlement of the preen
sons of the privileged class and it acquesced in by
the unpriveged class who thought themselves in
the old Northwest Territory by the ordinance Of 1901 and
equally safe in Kansas and Nebraska by the Missouri Com
promise
The public repose that followed the annexation of Texas
of short duration. Mexico resented that offence. A
cnsned and terminated in the transfer of the entire
northern portion of Mexico to the United States The
Mexican municipal laws forbade slavery ywhee and
the possessions under that law. Not whit the
less for that did the privileged class demand either
equal partition that the whole should be opened
their colonization with slaves The House of Representa-
tves resisted these pretensons it had resisted similar
before but the Senate seconded the privileged class
with its accustomed zeal So Congress divided and
failed to organize civil governments for the yacqured
Mexican Territories and they left under martial law
The question raised by the privileged class down
the electors The people promptly filled the House of Rep
resenatives with majority sternly opposed to the extern
sion of slavery the breadth of single square mile They
increased the force of the unprvieged class the Senate
while they called to the presidency General Taylor who
although himself stakeholder committed
intervention on the question in Congress- and to
cute faithfully whatever constitutional laws Congress
New Mexico youthful communities practically free from
slavery and uncorruped by the seductons Of the prv
legged class of its political organs FASTENED 10 establish
constitutions and apply for admission free States while
the eccentric population of Deseret INDUCING atitudna
ran principles equally in matters Of religion and Of politics
prayed TO be received into the Union State Terri
tory and with without slavery Congress should pre-
scribe The privileged class and sedious
movement organized in their behalf in the savehold
ing States to Congress- if possible and naugu
rate revolution if their failed You all know well
the way of that memorable controversy how eminent
yielded TO the without waiting for the
luton and projected and rendered the privileged class
Compromise modelled after the already timehonorod
Compromise Of 1920. You all know how firmly nowith-
standing this detection of leaders honored and beloved
House OF Representatives and the Senate repealed the
Compromise and how firmly the unprvileged class of free
throughout the Union demanded the unqualified and
refused TO aot any further Territories the privileged
class for the extension of the