Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1855-02-23

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Total 81 so .lSg
The above table prove, couclu.l,ely that
zll he articles which lhc Province, export
come ia free of dury, or alI the article, arc
named ln the schedule Of ,hc u,nN, va
q" G-,in, four and hroad.luI, ct sll k.uJs
animal, or 40 k.ud. fresh. smoked, AMI '4',
meats 6,h ct 100 kinds hides. fur,, and
skins: pc.t.. v1ul, cool, .ui frrNuoJ f-h,
o'l, butter. cheese. u'Iuv, manufactured to-
blrro," &c. s.. IuouII pvier lhe EIsu
treaty In none iur ,hc STATE ut Maine, because
Maine has lo buy largely, iur her oan con.
srmn,Ion. sJrh article, a, are eyporlei from
the Provinces. Boil think have proved
cuuclus,r'y that u operate, against the inter.
csi oflhc louel States. as a whole there.
frc, ! ha,r called ,hc attention ct rhc lIou,-
to lhc subject, aal prepared a brll, the pro-
vision. of Which, It carried uul, will result
more aj,an1c,orsl, Co the rnicrc,is uf bath
ruun'rr,, ari place lhe United States on
equal fcu,r. With the Provinces.
The next moycmcu, 10 which | desire ts
call attention Is, the rrrcal of the Missouri
prohibition II slavery from Kansas ard Ne.
brlska. twas a comrac, rrudcrci sacred
by the circumstances under which It wa, rn.
tered into, by time. and by the faithful OBJ
seryauee Of an statesmen Of the past and the
pre,cn, gehera,ion, up to the commencement
Of the presen, Congress.
Atths lls, session II the previous Con.
gress, a bin ~, reportej to this House by
the Committee on Territories, Tor organizing
d roycnmen, there. II made no alluslon 10
the Missouri compromise, lea,lnc it IN mll
force. The question vas publicly asked Of
,he committee, or a member II il, why the
Wlmo, Pfurlso vas no, embodied IN tie
bin The answer was then made 10 the
House, and the country, that slavery had been
excluded hy the Missouri compromise, and
that no repetition uf such exclusion would
render i, more valid. Sir, 40 Democrat, no
whir. then dreamed that this exclusion ui
slavery was unjust or unconstitutional. No
man, al rha, time. dreamed that " popular
sovereignty" Of which We have heard 80
much. consisted in the privilege Of holding a
certain aborinr portion Of the popnlation ot
this country 10 bondaso-iu the power To buy
and sell persons Who happened to be unable
To- dslrnd themselves from such treatment.
The bill passed this body without opposition
O, objection on this point ; ahd When II came
up ia the Senate, the Vice Presiden, declared
his hostility to the bill on accoun, Of the ter
r,inry 10 which II applied being free by rea-
SON Of this Missouri prohibition, bat declared,
tha, 30 Gar as that ohjecti,n was eoorerned,
the bin might a. we'll pass then as at any ia-
,ure day, for that prohibition Of slavery could
nsr,r Je rcpel',d. The Senate heard these
reuarkr. and assenied to their correctness, SO
iar as silence gives eonsent; for not a
member expressed the least doubt OF Their
perfect accuracy. Thoss gave aod reverend
Senators, Who have since reasoned 80 pro-
fuundly upon popular so'sreIgn'y' had
no, then discovered ,ha, it consisted IN the
privilege of owning the bodies Of their lellp"
creatures, born on the same soil children
perhaps, Of the same father 'nd uuTssd' "