The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-31
NO MORE STATES BUT ABOLITION STATES.--IM.
PORTANT OPINION


commence he revolution in which the principles of the
constitution be overthrown That question is
Of the batteries from which the citadel of the public safety
is be assaed aud destroyed The power which
command result like the restoration of the Missouri Com
promise may and believe WILL be able
the other designs of the extended and extending abolition
conspiracy in the free States.
First among these designs is the declaration of nearly
every State legislature elected by the knownothings within
The last year against admitting any States which reeog
Mise the institution of slavery This is the question upon
which the hordes of abolitionism united The
restoration OF the Missouri Compromise is auxil-
iary this and is chiefly useful because it de-
ceive Others who would not be willing go the
ta extreme OF refusing TO admit State with slavery
in its constitution. No matter how clear the rght-no
how sacred the injunction of the constitution in the
premises--there in the North who openly
espouse the principle of resisting the introduction
of every State into the American Union that may
hereafter apply with clause in its constitution toll
Grating the institution of slavery. Some of the leaders
have hesated but the voice of the majority of the abo
ossts and their allies resolute and shall be disap
pointed if in the very next Congress- Mr. Seward does not
declare their two great watchwords for the future to
be the restoration Of the Missouri Compromise and no
slave States The events Of years have been hasten
ing TO this conclusion. This is doctrine We saw
it asserted in 1921 when in defiance OF their vauned
compact the northern voted to exclude Missouri
the alone that she slave State, no matter
what the preext that set up the time In 1885
ytour northern placed themselves in the
CORY, in the House Of Representatives when Arkansas
asked to be admitted. During the Compromise con-
fc in 1850 the abotonists boldly asserted their deerm
nation pursue the whenever the contingency
should arise In 1854 the Kansas and Nebraska legisl
ton threw open the territories to the people, and
pealed all congressional the contrary and at
this day, august 1850 have the same men who for
thirty years refused to carry what they
en declare to have been solemn compac now when the
suggestion of State asking admission into the Union
with slavery in her constitution is made violently and
reckessiy setting at naught this naenabe and
egn right if the constitution of the United States had
not in language too distinct be controversial asserted
the great fundamental doctrine of the equality of all the
States Of the conederacy.
We astounded that the in the North who pirate Of
the restoration OF the Missouri Compromise line even while
they conveniently forget that they yet respected
that line, and who talk of the violence and theaenngs
the prosavery population in Kansas while they refuse
to aude the longprpared designs of abolition Massa-
chuses people that Territory with her fanatics
astoundod that such these do anticipate
the peris into which they rapidly drifting Can they
that in very short space of time they will be
med doctrine the practical result of which must be
civil war But the people whom they mislcad with
their mpassoned defamation in favor the restoration of
the Missouri Compromise will fail to pun
ISL the politicians who take this method of impeing pub
JIG opinion into the channel Of revolution and of disunon
The present exigency of affairs has induced make
examination into the opinions Of the statesmen
of both parties the important question Of the equality
of the States under the constitution. Among Others that
which follows has deeply impressed us. We copy it
from the debate in the Senate the admission of Ar
kansas in 1886 The speaker at that time senator
in Congress from Ohio and known for his strong anti
slavery preudices we'll for his upright and candid
character. We aude to the Hon. Thomas Morris AT the
present moment when the abotonists of Ohio under the
lead of Chase and Gddings banded together in
tempt mslead the people of that State and commit
them the dangerous doctrines clearly defined and SO
calmy efned by Mr. Morris these views cannot be too
warmly laid heart We copy from the Congressional De-
bates and from the speech of Hon. Thomas Norris the
United States Senate April A. 1885, the bill for the
mission of Arkansas:
Mr. Morris said Before record my vote in favor of the
passage of the bill under confederation ask the
diligence Of the Senate for moment while offer few of
the which govern in the shall give Being
the representatives Of State believing slave
ny be wrong in principle and mschievous practice
wish to be clearly the subject both and
BY those have the honor to represent have objections
to the constitution of Arkansas the ground that slavery
is recognised in that constitution and settled
fundamental principle in her government / object to
the existence of this prnciph forming part the organic
law in any State and would against the of
Arkansas member sf this Union If believed had the
power to do The wrong in moral with which
view slavery would be sufficient for do this did
consider my political obg cations, and tho duty
Der Of this body to the constitution under which
now act clearly require of me the vote I shall give
bold that any portion of American citizens who may
reside portion Of the territory Of the United States
whenever their numbers shall that which would
cnttc them to representation in the House of Repre-
senaves in Congress- has the right to provide for
selves constitution and State government, and be
admitted into the Union whenever they shall so apply ;
and they bound wait the action of Congress the
first instance except there compact agreement
quiring them do place this right upon the broad
and, consider indispuabe ground that all persons living
within the jurisdiction of the United States entitled to
equal privileges and 1t ought to be matter Of high gaf
cation to here that in every portion most re-
high privilege at early day possible 1t furnishes
proof that the Union is highly and has its ounda
ton deep in the hearts of our fellow citizens.
BY the constitution of the United States power IL given To
Congress to admit States the Union 1t in tho
character of State that any portion of citizens nbs
ing part OF the territory Of the United States a
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