The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-31

equally operative upon legislators citizens Of
perpetual obligation would be subversve Of every princ
pie upon which that constitution formed The arir
act Of 1882 passed under very similar circumstances
II regarded sectional question and enacted 10
period OF great excitement and disturbance II obtained
for It's author the title Of The Great Paeifeatorp Yet
you well know when in the descending scale 1t reached
the period Of a duty ii repealedvolaed il
you peaseby the hand of its author and that against
tire and protestaons of southern representatives
Did you gentlemen then denounce this conduct foul
STAIN upon northern honor give in your adherence to
the disunionists of the Southg | think not You then
advocated the lustrous Kentuckian for the presidency
with the same jealous warmth you now proher TO Wn
LLOYD GARRISON
You boast~and think not without reason--of the es-
sental aid you have rendered the whig party To YOU
you assert they indebted for their name yet
now, you will condemn il to untimey end because the
line Of 1920 has been dsregarded and you rush tie
arms 81 NE cery party Which has acknowledged he
dly Of that line, either IN iaV morality Said Mr. Hale
in the Senate speaking in the name Of his abolition con-
sderates never WILL by speech admit sub
nit to anything that may bind the action of egsa-
ton here to make the parallel of $500 the boundary line
between slave and free territory
You doubtless know that the test vote in the Senate
ordering the Missouri bill toa third reading northern
sedtors potd an The aratire Is possible that you hold
did your State regard the obligation? Eight months
after the passage Of the act which you proclaim solemn
compact for the admission of Missouri binding the honor
the States she reiterated her instructions her
10 against her admission the Union tethom making
she prohibition Of siauery therein indispensable condition
Of admission viii you undertake to impose obliga-
ton upon your State which her legislature discaim-
ed and thus ns olive her the disgraceul category
in which you seek to place the South
If you look TO the action of the session of 1921 you will
find 1t equally emphatic upon this subject The report
of Lowndes Sargent and Smith for the admission Of Mis-
souri, was rejected think by the unanimous northern
Other propositions to the effect shared the fate
resolution of Mr. Mallory declaring the prohibition of
slavery condition to the admission received troirds Of
Menorhcrn ro Every effort bring Missouri was pro-
vded for in the act 800 having failed the very close of
the session. the 22d of February Mr. Cays notion
joint committee raised to inquire ,cheher ,ras ca
pedien not 10 make provision for he admission Of Ms
soari into The Union The footing Nth he original
States Here was proceeding al oro Where was then
the solemn compact which stipulated for her admission
and which bound the honor of Congress lis fument?
The ruecompromiseis TO be found in the March, 1921
in its nature compact agreement between this govern-
and the State of Missouri with condition having
reference connexion with the Of 1920 and upon
the acceptance of which Missouri came into the Union
under presidential proclamation. Even this act which
thus terminated the unhappy ISSUE received but
sion from all this TO be legitimate one, that the
admission of Missouri ii effected either by the act
Of 1870 1921, did not impose upon the northern States any
obligation than such ows from ordinary legislation and hat
they acted accordng To gentlemen of your intelligence it
cannot be necessary to add II such obligation
posed upon the NORTH then imposed upon the South
And now gentlemen, it is upon such false assumptions
and illogical deductions that yen propose give your po
tca influence to ultra aboonsm, and TO let loose upon
southern institutions and southern society the unkenneed
fury of its vlest pack You propose elevate the pres
deney man without legal moral restraint for whom
the past has sancty, and the future dread--who
recognises no law but his WILL and God but his pas
sons and all this rather than submit for hour
act of Congress, which neither proposes legsate sla
very into any Territory State TO exclude Mererom
but 10 eape he people heref perfectly free 10 form and regu
late their domestic Institutions IN their ray subject only
70 the constitution Of The United States"
offer comment upon this. leave ii to be made by
those who read these remarks in which truth finds but
an indifferent advocates but pray You to remember that
the constitution of the United States ordained
insure domestic tranquiuy" you need not look for attach
ment or adherence when il shall fail to this end
LOWNDES
WASHINGTON, July ~, 1855.