The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-10-27
The Poor Missouri Compromise.


last man in congress that voted in good faith
to sustain the Missouri Compromise, and our
belief is the distinction will always rem in
his "Soltary and alone" in the |. 5.
last on the rec ri in favor Of that now
dcSpiscd and discarded line. II is true, when
the Nebraska bill was before Congress, and
FOR year Afterwards, every politician who
set himself up against that measure, pre-
tended to be Tor the Missouri line; but as
they had diSregardcd and secuted it for
twenty years before, so nowj they have
abandoned their fcigncd indignation at its
repeal, and ridicule the proposition Of its
restoration. 1--WE can do better" says
Greeley, and all New England, New York
and western fusionism ch....es in. In Illinois
and Indiana feeble cry was still kept up
ar.ong the unnitatcd in favor of the resto-
ration, and the little county and precinct
conventions followed the dictation Of the
Know Nothing State Council and inserted il,
in their platforms; but latterly even Codding
has dropped it, and taken up the new lights
from the East. Instead oil restoring the
Missouri hne' the platform now reads, as
adopted III Massachusetts,, New York, and
Ohio, thus
"Hesolcej That the repeal of the Mis-.
So,'i' .on'i'o'i'1o l'ua l'aseu cue EcoSrnph',
domain n Lattlc.oround between rrcoJn, ,,c md
Slavery. It makes the addition of every
new State a conflict between freedom and
S.''e's' ine Issue mus 'o'ccd upon us
We "'',P'
80 thcn, tins IS the new ritual OF the re.
publican fusion party. Instead of a resto-
ration IF thc olious r.orronbic,I limo u,c
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"'"' Nv '''''N ''"'' ''''''s' i"'
agreement to admit three slave States, TO
be carved out of Texas, is to be broken and
repudiatcd, and fierce war opcncd on the
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oil loN"o'''S a ""''""'' inSIon party on the
issue Of restoring the Missouri line is thrown
aside. and tlr rurpo.c j. orcuIv ,voyy,d 4,
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Iie'e Is Il pre''y ""'' l'r hdnoi' iuS'ouiSm
and the resolutions Of the state X. y, Coun.
cili What ,ayyou 10 this. Mr. D9uruLg,,r
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N"''" 10 W" "'"P '"' ''''"'"''"' ana
20 this higher degree Of scrtioualism; The
Illinois JDUrHuI the X. y fusion orgon .,
S,,ircG,Id ,,,.. alarm, o., ,l., ;,,,,.,,.,;'...
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'o''' N'o"' III '''' '"'''' He"' TINS ihue'
pendent organ. Says the journal
The so.callcd Republican marty recently
inauguratcd in some ofthc Eastern m States
is beginning to manifest an ultrai.m and sec.
tionasm, which viii open the ewes Of many
of our contemporaries in this State. Here.
totore the raliyiug cry Of that organization
has been the restoration Of the Missouri;
Compromise; and conservative and com.
promise loving men Of all parties, believing
in the sincerity of the professions. have IN
some instances expressed a willingness so
far forth to act with them. But / we NAV
Judge by what ha, lust taken Mace in MAJ.
achuSetts and New York, this love for the
Missouri Compromise on the part Of such
Journals as the New York Tribune was a
mere sham, intended only as a bait to catch
the uususpecting and to be cast aside As
soon as it had answered It's purpose.
The Republicans in the States we have
mentioned, have at last cast Off all DISCUSSES
and Ignoring entirely the Missouri Compro-
mise aN wei, as all other compromises, now
o",,', Wv. "",''y AGAINST tnc admission oil
conditions ire i..nc ,Gcy ",oLn .'o', W. "rS
and entirely scctjoual-as ultra on The
Northern extreme OF politics as the free-eat
n s'a' u! 'H'e'S.oiiS,' on 'fIe G'her' lhgy
ical end which can newer he IN! 1h ~ " nro
National party.
y single glance at the subject is sufficient
~ h aT"M t p.n ,iInprae,'Gao,Iy OF me issue
not onlv as we have iust stated brcaL ,ha
Compromise of 1880 but would violate the
solemn compact of lai5, with Tcxas,--a
u'a'y ny "n'Vs We agreed 10 ADMIT three
"'Y,L ''a'o ''''ya ''o"' leAah territory
:. Ho"'' ,tV''e 'a'i,o' VI seCtlohal ieeling,
:" s',s '',',.' "'u soG';'' 'he Uhc OF "h'ch
ny ,v oe'o'' oICurea u, our pomtcal history.
=, We o,'""o' put t,i'hh our Nhlg friends
t,'ose VINO opposed 'hc repeal OF the Missouri
because II reopened danger
Gus ou" ~" pause pciore thcy cut loose
en'"e'y from 'hc'r o'u landmarks, and yield
up e,tly';."g, even 'hclr name, to par
y ~" s''e'nen ny nu' single idea
ana 'ha' OF inc most 'ihpractcable kind.
But the editor of the Illinois X. y. organ
is not the only whig fusionist tina, scouts the
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