The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-01

any preex whatever and pledge the faith of the State that
such law should be passed The convention OF Mis-
souri, assened the restriction imposed by the resolution
and complied with the condition. and by subsequent proVs
ion OF the general government she admitted into the
Union without the addition of word syllable IN re-
lation to the subject of slavery.
Where sir permit me to ask you find in all these the
terms of compromise, in law in faet2 Surely there
expressed and would be dangerous to admit one by
implication The first act expressly requires her to establish
republican form of government and positively iorbid the
introduction of slavery into part OF the territory out
of which that State carved north OF certain line OF at
ude And the subsequent resolution OF Congress of 1921
qures Of the convention to expunge from the constitution an
other exceponabe article in relation to free and
muattoes which requiston 1t implicitly complied But,
sir, where win you find act Of concession surrendry
The clear inference to be drawn from careful examination
OF the whole is that Congress did renqulsh her
prerogatye power jurisdiction part of the sub
ect territory The mos that be said OF the subse-
quent Of admission of that State with that excep
onabe clause in her constitution will apprehend amount
ths that the general slept upon its rights
and suffered tho constitution by its culpabe negligence,
(Which be known received the meted rebuke of the
ple to be violated in of its most solemn and sacred pro-
visions.
"Admit this to be compact, and the terms just recited
the articles Of stipulation what connection relation does
had Missouri to make compact compromise which should
act prospectivey new unnhabited and then
veyed wilderness wholly without its boundaries What
right had Missouri to dictate of admission to State
not then in existence Surely if such compromise had been
formed the people of Arkansas would have been at full lib
erty TO dsavow it, 1t could not bind them neither could
the general government This not compromise not even
regards Missouri much less in its operation upon the
rights and immunities of the people Of Arkansas"
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RAILROADS.
The public mind has again been Mortified by the fright
m particulars of another terrible railroad accident With
out of warming without second for preparation
unconscious of danger unadvsed and unrestng upwards
of twenty three human beings have been hurried with
awful apdy into eternity. The number of MANNED and
mangled is thrice large, many of whom must be
numbered with the buchered dead The loss fully equal
TO the number slain and wounded in one of the desperate
sortes of the Russians upon the trenches of the allied
army before Scbastopol Intelligence of this appalling
lamiy has already been conveyed from extremity of
the Union to the other with lightning speed It will be
talked Of the Streets in public places and in the family
circle for few days. Hmay call forth indignant comments
from the press for few weeks. In New York; Philade
pha and Burlington, it may be alluded to in the pulpit
for two sabbaths Gomez but before the expra
called remembrance by repetition of the horrors
upon greater SCALE in other locality of the
Union.
In yesterdays issue gave the statement of Dr. Hanne
gan, whose carelessness the stands the
immediate Of the terrible disaster His statement in
part contradictory and bears the marks of nervousy
anxious desire to shift the whole responsibility from him
self the engineer of the unfortunate train He says
a.. Az
being in sight, he attempted TO dash the track at
the rate of ten miles hour when all of sudden the
reader should remember that there no where the
collision took place for murderous surprse his progress
arrested by train rushing backwards the OF
thirty miles an hour Another account says:
sHad the engineer seen the carriage and attempted
stop, he would have done at the cost of collision for,
when the broken arrested by the obstacles piled
upon the track the other train within hundred feet
the eng then only having succeeded in checking its
course"
If this statement is to be credited and if Dr. Hannegans
testimony be rejected, while the up train moving
backwards at the rate of thirty miles an hour it was
closely pursued by the down ran at the fearful
Of spceda degree of recklessness without parallel in the
history Of the recklessy -managed railroad in the
United States the world The train had only half
mile backwards when the accident occurred and is
OF speed In SucH
short space travelled could have been attained by the eng
neer had he been disposed wantony peril the lives
of the passengers committed to his care
This DR.. flanagan, it appears the cause of SINH
lar collision the road about year ago. which,
fortunately was attended with the fearfny fatal
results in the present instance lie audes somewhat
gatuitousy in his statement to his coisioncausing
rence with the view of showing that he above all other
men, could be guilty of careesness when careessness
likely TO be attended with such irighul consequences
He may be all that he strives to make himself appear but
hereafter passengers by the railroad from Burlington to
Bordenown experience Of security from dam
ger long Dr. Hannegan is permitted TO drive about
the country through which the road passes without license
guardianship.
How much of the fearful responsibility is to be shared
by the engineers of the two trains and whether any
blame is be attached to the management of the road
the investigation before the will determine
Our impression is that the real of the present.
has been of of previous disasters lies not with
nattentve drivers of vehicles reckless engineers crmi
nally careless management but with the wretced life
destroying economy of railroad directors and railroad
stockholders The superintendent of the road which is
now associated with much anguish and misery testified
before the that "wo tracks would have prevented
the accidents" This admission startling it is, is not
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