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

ABOLITION DELUsIoNs.-So. 5.
~ Nsbraska 4 I,lia,liln.'- M,souri Con.pronli

The Nebraska 9 faiqaity.r- Missouri Compromise
The repeal Of the Missouri restriction has given new
aud startling impulse TO northern deluson and resulted ID
bringing iuto the next Congress in all probability ths
strangest if tie most absurd body OF Legislators etef
known in our federal history nienbet Of Congttsl
might nationally and consistently oppose the repeal on
the ground that il would, might excite" agitation =
but any man permitting himself to be elected the issue
Of its restoration must be either fool or knase, and
in either case utterly unworthy seat IN the National
councils
The great mass Of the northern people Of course labor
under misconcepon Of this particular measure they
do In regard all other phases of the general question Of
negro slavery and the habit of the democratic press In
styling it the Missouri Compromises, eompieates the
still more for words terms thingn-
deed they constitute the ere substaneethe whole cap
tahe very kboneof the great antslavery enter-
prise.o 1t is abuse OF language msnomer-an abb
surdtyo call any Of domestic legislation OF this
ernment Compromise Transaction or treaty, or ar
rangement of any kind with foreign power might be
called compromise for there parties to 1t but for
the representatives Of the people, who annually assemble at
Washington to transact the public business to call any
particular act of theirs compromise, as II there were
two partes-a dual treble or quadruple, in
stead of single governmentis manifhstly absnrd u III
or was resricton-an irrational, ipydions and, above
ALL an unjust restriconupon the citizens Of large por
ton of the Union and indirectly it struck at the great
foundation principle Of democratic systemthe great
sovereign and American right of selgoyernment Some
thirty odd years ago the State Of Missouri settled main
lily by citizens from the southern States and who, OF
course carried with them their negroes refused adj
mission into the Union unless it would violate tie law Of
nature as we'll as humanity and common sense and de-
clare these negroes white men, entitled to the rights Of
white men.
The men Of New England and the middle States read
British books and forming their opinions after British
models insisted that negroes were exactly like themselves
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same natural rights demanded that Missouri should place
them on the legal level with the whites and there
being majority then in Congress who entertained these
absurd notions that State for considerable time
kept out of the Union
Finally they admitted Missouri with such internal and
domestic regulations the experience Ut its citizens and
the welfare Of its population Of both racesof the inferior
negro well the superior white man-he SLAVE az vel
rs the ENTHUSIASTICALLY needed; but at the time
enacted that in all future time there should be southern
emigration in the territory acquired from France north Of
the parallel of So 80.
Men from New England from the middle States, from
Europe the descendants of Hessans rce negroes
the socaed "coloredn citizens Of Massachusetts, might find
homes in this territory but southern men, the children
and grandchildren of Marion of Sumper, Of Jefferson
even whose sagacious mind and generous patriotism
qured this territory were forever TO DO excluded and IL
they ventured within it. not only their property to BIO
confscaed but they themselves degraded to legal level
with their own servants-to forced and revolving equal
ity with the inferior negro
British and European writers have placed bandage
the American mind theory abstraction scnsclesS
false has been impressed the intellect of the naor
false mental habtude dscreditable to the intellectual
dignity of people faught with danger to the
gress of American repubcansm, aos. universal among
and this veil the Intellectual vision of the
blinds them to the real facts Of this Missouri question but
when it is removed it will be romovcd-when the sense
l. IA
men win look back with infinite astonshment alone
the gross injustice of the of the North hut the
catholic and glorious patriotism of the of the South
Who for the sake of union and national harmony sub
mitted so long to this injustice
ne terrltorcs property States and
Of the whole people. The North has homogeneous popu
ation the South mixed onean inferior race in its midst
which gives popularity to its social life but which in
possible degree manner conflicts with the nrghs' Of
white men in the territories or anywhere else.
Both alike need territories fresh ~.iets for their
rapidly INCREASING populations and for the North to y
to the South that it shall not occupy this terri
tory unless conforms the social standards and hab
tudes Of the North B Of course just absurd and un-
Just would be for the South to hold this language to
the North That is all that is the whole of this terrific
rial question These the facts, and all the facts in
voved in it far rights" concerned; and IT IS
only through wretched deluson, utter absurdy,
senseles vagary that negroes citizens that northern
men have political connection or obligations with south
ern negroes that the facts distorted and thus made
to perver and bewder the sense OF so many at
the North.
Now what arrogant assumption for those men who
admitted Missouri that southern citizens should
be excluded from the territory north of SO 80 and for
ever what contradiction to the letter and spirit of our
institutions What right has Congress to bind an
other even succeeding one and TO bind forever? How
British how European, how monarchca, and how con-
for the blind dupes of the enemies Of republican
ism to cling this dea' Of torever Ito this rule Of the
dead past the living presentto this European and
monarchica veneration for dead generations
But the truth is, the men, most of the men, who
passed this act did relieve themselves from the press
of temporary deusion, and left it like any other
and all other acts Of legislation to be changed, mod
fed, totally botted out Of the statutebook just the
tone of opinion the wisdom of succeeding Congresses
might dictate.
To suppose oherwiseo say that great and glorious
patriot like Henry Clay and other statesmen of the day
who placed this restriction southern citizens designed
it to be perpetualthat they thus designed TO pen up the
populations of the South oreperthat though European
rants Asatics that "free negroes might freely
and find homes in this territory, but that southern
citizens their brothers and sons should alone be
cudea nom it--that, matter what the future condi-
ton-the density of populaton--the limited Of
snbsistencethe South be thus eernally acabined
crbbed and conneda,o charge thus that half of the
citizens of this republic to be thus bound down for
ever By an odious and insulting discrimination that
the statesmen of that day designed desired that this