New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-24
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

The Delegates representing the Republican
Party of this State will assemble at Syracuse on
Wednesday, to set forth the principles which
that party is organized to uphold, and nominate
candidates who will faithfully reflect those
principles. We confidently anticipate results
which will strengthen and animate the advocates
Of Universal Freedom.
There are some outside of the new organize
tiOn, but very few even pretending to favor it,
who talk of restoration Of the Missouri Com
promise line as its great object. We know no
reason why that line should be reestablished.
In it's origin, it was forced upon the Free States
against their deepest convictions and energetic
struggles, by combination Of the all bat unani-
nous South with a few DOughfaces from the
North. The Free States rose in their might to
forbid the admission of Missouri with her ultra
Slave Constitution. She refused to make it Re-
publican, and for two years she was kept out of
the Union by the Representatives of the North.
At length, she was admitted By the caying-in of
a few Northern Members, ON the condition stip-
ulated by the south, that all States there
after TO be formed to the North and West
Of Missouri should inhexibly be Free,
while the others should be Free or Slave
as their inhabitants should decide Ga
this express condition, Missouri was admitted. The
stipulation referred to the TERRITORY then belonging
10 the United States, and made no alluson to any
other Under its operation, Arkansas and Florida
have been admitted Slave states and there is no
more Territory from which Slave States can be
made except that on which the Creeks, ChOctaws,
and other Indians have been settled, and which is
solemnly guaranteed to them forever. The South
has received her full share of the considerah hon
stipulated in the Missouri Compact is now our
turn. That compact prescrbes that Kansas, Ne
braska, and all the Territory west of them ,o!ieh
belonged to the United States ia lS2l, shall in due
time come into the Union as Free States and not
otherwise We demand the fulfllment of this
compact-not its extension. The South has re-
pestedly offered to make similar bargain
with respect to the Territory acquired,
or which may hereafter be acquired, of Mexico
or Spain; but the North has always refused to
make any such bargain. We have fairly bought
and paid for the positive exclusion OF Slavery
from all the territory already defined; we de.
evasion, reputation, or any sort OF decker
whatever. As TO any new compromise or bar
gain to LET Slavery colOnize and possess so much
OF Mexico, Central America, and the West
Indies IS she may hereafter grab, We are utterly
opposed 10 il, and so, We believe, are the peO-
pie of the Free States. Let il be eyermors
understood, then, that.wha; we seek is the full
film emit of an old bargain, not the contraction of
new one. The Missouri Restriction forbid
ding Slavery in all United States Territory of
l52l north of &c 800 We insist on; but no bar
gain exists, or will hereafter exist, under the
compact of lS2c-l, affecting Territory south Of
that line.
In view Of the immir ent peril Of the cause
Of Freedom in Kansas, We trust the State Con-
yehton will keep as close to the practical issue
Id may be. The Fugitive Slave Law, and many
other bad laws, viii require attention in time;
but let " hTst secure Freedom in Kansas, ald
thereby settle tine future Of NebrAsba, New.
Mexico and Utah. With Kansas Free, IL will be
morally impofsible 70 amugge blAv9ry into any
State North or West Of her. for tho slaves will
be freed BY their trhnsi, across her soil Kansas
Ia The NAlAbOn ol this struggle. aud must be
he'd at any coat
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our Wing state Ofhcefs whose terms nov
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