Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-08-30

OgnI'lOn OF the records oil Otnef states, ana
for the arrest Of fugitiyes from justice, but
, also that Of fugtives from labor.
He did not believe the Fugitive Slave Law
a proper execr tiOn OF that act. lie believed
with Mr.. Webster, that il conferred certain
rights and devolved certain duties on the
States, but gave no authority to Congress to
lcgisIute on that subject Mr.. w. had yielded
against his own convictions TO the Supreme
Court, but lie believed he (Wcbster) was right.
Still. as it was there, let it stand
In 1897 slavery was prohibited IN the North
West Territory, which is now Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois. Wisconsin and Michigan.
This was designed to render permanent
the nscendancy of the free States, ana to
guard against slavery prop0gandism. But,
afterwards, when the slave power came to
feel its strength It began to cast about tor th G
means o! maintaining that power, and then
was silently created a sentiment, that when
ever American liberty should be in pregnant
condition and about to bring forth new States,
that it should have twins, one of them should
be black baby aud the other white baby,
(Laughter.) or that free and slave state
should be admitted at the same time Slrug-
giles followed Louisiana had about 10000
slaves, and was admitted with them. A few
slaves were scattered along up the river--some
at st. Cencvieve--some at st. Louis, and on
tho strength ofihese Missouri claimed to be ad.
nitted as slave State.
BY the concession of some Northern mem.
bers, acting in defiance of the wishes of their
ccnsitue tents, she was admitted But they
yielded because they were obtaining, in the
Compromise liue SO > so MN, something
positive for Notwithstanding so sacred
anG so permanent that it should thenceforth
stand as a part of the Constitution.
He then read from Niles Register, publish
ed in Baltimore about this period, passages
going to show that this Compromise was re-
gar5cd as irrepealable g. as permanent as the
Constitution itself.
AT length we wanted a railroad to the Pa
cifc, and one step toward obtaining it was to
organze and settle the territory through
which it vas to run At that momeEt plot
was found already hatched to give it over to
slavery. It was rot then enough to have a
white baby and a black baby, but all the ba-
bias were to black And this had been dor 2
ON the wretched pretense that slavery would
not be established in that territory. AS
though a neighbor should let down the bars of
your corn field, and say in extenuation that he
knew his hogs loved corn, but he didn't think
they would 60 in, and if they did YOU could
keep them out--and this too, a line fence,
which he had bound himselfto keep up and
project you from depredatons fran his side.
1t had been supposed the people would ,ac-
qulesce in this case they did in the case OF
Utah and New Mexico, and in every other,
and he had perhaps done them wrong in the
appeal that on the passage of the Nebraska
act they had sent forth to the people. He
had penned that appeal more as Gespairng
than a hoping man, and he was rejOiced to
learn that he had no ground for those gloomy
appre tensions. 1t was evident then that the
slave power had entered upon propagandism,
the end of which none toresaw, but to which
it was already evident the people OF the North
must become e vassals.
Cannon had been planted on the north Of
the Capitol to celebrate the passage of the
bill, and were booming as they went, sad and
few, to their homes, on that eventtul night.
But thank God! that cannon, intended to cell
citrate the death of freedom, had woke up the
slumbering reemen olthe North (Applause.) }
Danger to the Union did not lie in manly
oppo, ition 10 lavery, but in submission to
that galing yoke which would become so intol-
cradle tina, it could not be borne. There was
the danger
While others were contending about fl
nance and trade, he had thought chiefly OF
this question, and had regulated his political
Conduct by it. He had never held any other
views on the subject than those lie had here
expressed, and il these made him an Abo
itionist, then were Madison ana Jefferson
Wythe & Pnckney. Henry, and Washington
Aboltiuniats. Il the reproach of Abolition.sm
8 tell Justly, upon these men, then might SO
humble an individual as himself be well con.
, tent to share it,.
, This question was SO important that it hat
shvered all parties The old parties tieC
yielding and yielding, until they had ylelaec
themselves out of existence, and except sc
tar as Executive patronage galvanized, ant
u. gave an appearance OF lite to one of them =
(Appluuse.) ..- -.-.
The Convention that nominated Pierce
s,emmed it, though opposed by Ohio. Thei
>. nominee had succeeded because the Soutl
- thought they could more safely trust FRANKLIN
:. Pierce than Gen. Scott, und he was quit
y, sure their confidence had not been misplaced
As it by magic then grew up the American
, Party, 1t arrayed itself in the ree states OF
), the side OF lreedon--ir the South it could d.
:, nothing but array Itself for slavery. But tn
=, South had not f und their northern 5reth
\, ern quite os yielding in the Convention a
:, Philadelphia as they had found them at Bal
:. tmore. The northern men did not here sa
:. to them, sam | not thine ass, upon whc
thou hast ridden, even unto this day! Was
:. ever wont to do so unto theel" No; but the
exhibited what was sadly wanting in tE
North--lhat was backbone. They cam
-, home and re.erected their platform at Colum
- bus, aud trat they now stood upon and woul
:. fight together, united as brethren. No mat
oI ter by what name they were called, the
A.. would fight out this issue land arrange the Iii
:! tie differences afterwards.
= Like the two knights who when about