Smyrna times., 1855-07-25
rhe Seward ti.Slavery Alliance,
and their Humbug of the Restora.
ti0n of the Missouri Line.


The New York Herald says, that the new
Northern Anti-Slavery Alliance. which. in
formal State Convention in Ohio, have lust
been christened "the republican party" have
invested their stock in trade in the Kansas and
Nebraska bill. Upon this subject they have
resolved--
lst. That the Missouri restriction of 1920.
prohibiting slavery north of the geographical
line of 36 degrees 80 minutes, shall be re-
stored and they appear to be directing their
efforts mainly to this consummation.
I'd. That whether the Kansas Nebraska bill
be or not be repealed, no slave State shall be
admitted into the Union from any territory
north of the said Missouri line.
Sd. That no more slave States shall be ad.
mltted into the Union from any territory inside
or outside of our present limits, on either side
OF the aforesaid geographical line.
This covers the whole ground. These three
resolutions are equivalent to the three ad pted
at a meeting of.the early Puritan fathers of
Observation-Disclosures: Resolved that the earth
is the Lords, and the fulncss thereof; second.
that the saints shall inherit the earth; third.
that We are the saints. The third resolution
absorbs he merits of the whole question. But
the. first avowed object of our agitators and
demagogucs Of this piebald republican party,
of which Seward is the anonted head. and
Joshua r. Giddings the whisking tail, is the
repeal of the Kansas Nebraska bill, and the
reSfora tinn of tho Miesour; l;no r. xxy.I
OF Massachusetts, Col. Ford of Ohio. Gov.
Johnston Of Pennsylvania, and all the anti
slavery organs, pipelayers, demagogues, fsna-
tics, and old women, all agree upon this point
with w. II. Seward, that the Missouri restric-
ton must be restored, that, in the Territories
OF Kansas and Nebraska 4" there shall be neitb-
er slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in
the punishment of crime" This restriction is
to be restored by Congress. Its advocates as
sume that that they have secured the necessary
majority in the House of Representatives al.
ready, not only to do the work, but to coerce
the concurrence of the Senate
Their plan is somewhat fierce and revolution.
ary; but as violent diseases require violent
remedies, our leading igger-worshlppers as.
sure us that the South will have to grin and
bear it. They simply propose to pass through
the House their bill restoring the Missouri
line, aud to WITHHOLD all bills Of supplies for the
necessary expenses of the government until the
Senate shall come to their senses and concur
In the bill of Kansas and Nebraska. That such
scheme as this, if persisted in, can result in
anything else than an abrubt revolutionary dis
solution OF Congress, no rational man, we pre-
sumo. is prepared to believe. That it will be
persisted in, is scarcely probable--that bill to
restore the Missouri line can be passed by the
next House of Representatives is exceedingly
doubtful; that it will be passed we do not be-
lIeve; and as for the restoration of the Mis-
souri, line, or hereafter, it is about as likely
as the restoration of the alien and sedition laws
of the elder Adams. or the restoration of Texas
or California to Mexico.
Since the passage of the Kansas Nebraska
bill, and under that constitutional provision of
the act, which leaves the domestic institutions
OF those Territories to be settled by the people
from the Southern States have settled in Kan.
sas with their slaves. They are there, and
Congress cannot touch them in any act wanton.
ly contiscatlng their property. The slaves held
by settlers in Kansas, in the event of change
in the organic law prohibiting slavery there,
must be paid for, or their masters must be in.
Identified for all losses consequent upon their
from the Territory. Tho questions of
the restoration of the-Mssouri line now, and
the abolition of slavery in the District of Co
lumbia, are in principle the same thing. We
conclude, therefore, that this agitation of the
Of the Missouri restriction is a hum
bug, deluslon, and a snare to catch silly negro
worshppers, upon he false pretence of imme.
late and practical anti-slavery legislation.
But the followers Of our ant-savery dema-
gogues ought to know better, for they are well
lware that it is no part of the policy of our
abolition and free-soIl phlanthropsts, in anv
case, to indemnify the STAKEHOLDER for the loss
IF his slave property. 1t is their policy to rob
lim of his slaves, and to excite them to fight.
10 murder, and insurrecton, as the occasion
nay require. Their object is not SO much the
blessing OF freedom to the Southern negro. as
he malicious spoliation of his master; we NAV.
therefore,, rest assured that as the restoration
# the Missouri line must involve a bill of in
lemnities to the slaveholding settlers in Kan
as, there will be no serious effort in Congress
y our negro worshippers to carry the measure.
All this threatening and clustering then, of
he mouthing orators and organs of the anti
Slavery Holy Alliance, concerning the restora-
ION of the Missouri black line, is all mere rant,
ant, and deception. The Kansas and Nebraska
lw will stand. The question of slavery in
hose Territories will continue to rest with the
eople thereof; and when they shall assume
he functions of State, and ask for admission
nto tho Union, with or without slavery. thew l.