Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-05-10
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Davenport, Thursday, Nay 10, 1855.
xDHuHD BURKE, OF Few 1AAPsuRE.
A daycr twoago, in brief item, we no.
ticed the fact, that Edmund Burke, OF New
Hampshire, had come out in favor of the
Missouri Compromise and against the i'd
ssuisslou of Kansas IS Slave State. The
Concord On. sH.) Reporter, paper under
STOOD to be under the control Of Mr.. Burke,
.~siEss = full account OF his present opinions.
When Mr.. Burke was U. S. Commiss Toner
Of pateats, there was not more rabid Lo-
s~cofoco in all Washington City. He was
he then one Of the editors of the Washington
Uaion, and no writer in that paper was
more distinguished for strong Pro-slarery
sediments. Now, he speaks Of the sbro-
CATION Of the Missouri Compromise and
The proceedings of Douglas and his coad-
TUTORS in terms that could not be excelled
BY William Lloyd Garrison. OF course
there is some strong reason for SO great a
change in such man as Edmund Burke,
and that reason is to be found in the fact
that the New Hampshire Legislature has to
elect a United States Senator. We would
expect such man to act from just such a
anotion.
y But this fact, though il destroys the idea
that Mr.. Burke's conversion can give any
additional moral strength to the good cause,
- b none the less an evidence Of the over
whelming force of that public sentiment
watch is sweeping away even such obstruc-
,sssioas. Where in any of the Free States
can the least lingering hope for the Pierce
Democracy be found, when such New
Hampshire Democrat as Burke, yields to
zthat public sentiment which even in the
Granite State has condemned the present
Administration, and denounces his former
= political associates with all the zeal Of a
new converts If Dir. Burke did no, actual
III. write the article in the Reporter, there
seems to be NJ doubt that it was submitted
to his approval. Itsays-"We look upon
this whole matter Of squa.ter sovereignty as
ridiculous farce. 1t was invented to
make Gen. Cass President. 1t failed in
4 that object, and now it is time tina, the hum
sssbug was dropped" Concerning the con-
stitutional:y ofthe Compromise, it says
.It was maturely considered in the Cabi-
net Of President Monroe, when the bill for
the admission of Missouri was before that
d functionary, and decided unanimously in the
Affirmative; John c. Calhoun, w. II. Craw-
ford and VIM. Writ, three Of the most emf
nent and distinguished Democratic states
men of The South, being members of the
Cabinet. and Of course voting in favor Of its
>. constitufionaiity. And if the Mis-
.ssouri Compromise was unconstitutional,
what necessity was there of its repealt
The Supreme Court, the highest tribunal of
the Union, would have abrogate ed it on the
very FIRST opportunity, if it was unconstitu-
20 ational. We have no doub, on this subject.
60 We believe that Congress has full power to
ss1 enact the restriction against slavery en-
bodied in the Compromise, and, of course,
Thar the porer to restore it,
eassa We are well aware that there is nothing
new in the facts or arguments of the para
graph We have quoted. They have been
..5 often used by the early and true opponents
:. of the Nebraska iniquity. But our readers
remember how Mr.. Douglas, and other ora
tors ofsmaller note, all through this region,
persist emily denied them all.
The Reporter says it was from the first
81 opposed to the violation of the sacred COM
pact between the North and the South, but
this mere lip service was of little avail, Ind
it did not show itself to be in earnest by
breaking party fellowship with those who
were the s.concoctors ofthe scheme" But
- we are considering the present article as
the personal recantation Of Mr. Burke, and
we conclude by quoting its two concluding
paragraphs
aThe measure was passed. and il has
awakened spirit Of deep Indignation
throughout the entire North, which will not
be allsyed, in our judgment, until full and
ample Teparation is made for the wanton
violation Of a sacred compact; and that re-
paraton can only be made by the restore
- tion of the Missouri restriction We believe
moreover, that the northern sentiment viii
demand of its opponents in Congress, that
henceforth the general government shall
wash its hands Of all further connection
Il with the institution Of slavery. We believe
that the North will demand of her represent
stives in Congress, that they shall take the
position that slavery shall be extended nc
IuIlucr IN TIE tesTltO.IeS Oh the = MON, con
"a ceding at the same lime that Congress ha,
81, no right to NEEDLE with the institution il
any Of the States in which il now exists
thus conceding in this very matter the grea
democratic principle Of State rights.
Upon these positions we believe the entr.
North will stand, and stand firmly unc
upon these positions we are willing to stanl
with the North. And we believe that nc
man, nor party, can hereafter stand in the
North, except upon these positions. And
if any thing were wanting to make the
people of theNorth mistaken and immovabls
on this point, it is the wanton frauds which
the people of Missouri have twice perpe
tratcd upon the great right Of popula
sovereignty in Kansas, once in the eleetio,
off delegate to Congress, and recently i,
the election Of the territorial legislature
The Election Official Returns
The oficia! majority for tie prohibitory
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