Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-07

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| ale. Truly yours RAMBLER.
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
Restoration of the Missouri Com promise.
AS the duties Of statesman are not precisely those
| OF debating club it always tries the patience of
practical men TO effort wasted in discussions from
which nothing possibly result In great and crit
cal conjnnctures especially, statesman win study
70 discover the measures best adapted TO meet %
existing exigencies and he will not lend himself 10
the promotion of any scheme whatever its intrinsic
| excellence may be, for single moment after he is
SATISFIED that ne has no chance OF success Like
wise physician, he will keep himself accurately in
formed Of the progress of the disease and the cond
ton OF the patient and will not insist that medicine
shall be administered to-day, because it would have
prevented the malady bad IL been taken ten days ago
IL IS his business 10 deal with the dsea in its pres
ent stage and if the patient refuse to take the mcd
cine which is beat in ITSELF he must not therefore
suffer him TO die while he is wasting time in vain
effort to conquer his obsnacy If he refuse the best
medicine, he must give him the best he can get him
| to take. i.s.
| We notice that several conservative journals in
the South have lately advocated the restoration of
| the Missouri Compromise as the most suitable reme
dy for the present unhappy and distracted condition
/ OF the country Could the South see the error
which was committed in its repeal, and voluntarily
come forward for its restoration il would at once
end all controversy, but this conceive to be NOR
ally impossible. Therefore we cannot forbear TO
remark that consider the discussion of this ques-
ton at this time as unwse and ill-timed. The sub
preaching Presidential election, and we cannot see
that the restoration of the Missouri Compromise In
q question which the National Executive will ever
in his official capacity, be called 10 consider. The
Missouri Compromise line was established by an act
OF Congress- 1t was repealed by act of Congrs IS;
and If 1t is ever restored it requires act Of Con-
gress to reinsate It, Ii the question of its restora
ton IS OF any Importance in the Presidential election
it must be because there is a likelihood or at least a
possibility that Congress will pass an act for that
purpose, which will be submitted 10 the President
for his approval III 10 is certain beforehand that
such act will ever come before the President the
whole question is frivolous and idle or, at least has
no pertinence TO the Presidential election
Wesuppose twill not be controverted that il Com
gress ever passes an act renstang the Compromise
IL will be prior to The passage of the act admitting
Kansas into the Union State. Subsequent TO that
event its restoration would amount to nothing for
the two-fold reason that Congress has constitu-
tional power to control the domestic institutions of
State, and that even if it possessed the power its ex-
ercise would be either idle impossible; idle if Kan
sas should come in as slave State for the
joriy which admitted her as such would prevent the
restoration. The whole question: then, SO far as il
has any bearing the Presidential election reduces
itself to this Whether there is any possibility that
such an act can be passed before kansas Is rife for
admission a State? If the negative can be demon.
srated, then all agitation of the subject is futile and
unwise. Fl. sgs.
The present Congress- which has rejected bin
proposing the restoration of the Missouri Compro-
mise ine will go out of power on the 4th Of March
nextj Its successor on the 4th of March, 1859 and
the successor of that Congress win commence its
first session three years from the first of next De-
cember. Long before that tine Kansas will either
be IN the Union knocking at the doors of Congress
for admission. If then act for the restoration Of
theE Missouri Compromise is not passed by the pres
ent or the next succeeding Congress- il Ia certain that
will pass no such act for the South has large Dem
ocrac majority The next Congress will nor pass IL
for the rea on that the Democrats will still have the
ascendency IN the Senate Even the most sanguine
of the Republican journals admit tn s. and no man in
that party is exrayagant enough claim that in the
next Congress the Senate II be favorable to their
views. Inc New York Evening Post made an est
mate day before yesterday, in which, after claiming
the election In several States which the Republicans
are likely to lose, it only reckoned the twenty-five
OF the slxtytwo members OF the Senate for Fremont
Burl ngame, In his speech in Boston, two or three
days since, made threat that with a Republican
President and Republican House Of Repr, senta-
tves they would grind the pro-savely Senate of the
next Congress between th upper and the neither
mil stone, thus clearly admitting that they had no
hopes of the Senate.
We may consider it demonstrated therefore that
an act for restoring the Missouri Compromise will
never come before the President for his consideTn-
ton As connected with the Presidential election
the question is perfectly idle mere abstraction un
worthy the consideration of a practical statesman
IL ls unWse to discuss 1t as an element iii the Pres
dental canvass. 1t would be equally unwise ever to
agitate it again in Congress. The Missouri Compro
mise IS like water spilled upon the sand ii can never
be gathered up. Its repeal was great b!under but
70 too hhtc W COTTeCJn Inc attempt 10 restore
at the late session of Congress is delenslbe on the
ground that II well to offer to the Senate op-
portunlty TO reconsider its action But the ComprO-
mise is dead and it would be rational to expect
the termination of any other corpse of this Moth
ing remains but 10 pronounce its eulogy and bury ID
out Of sight.
For more than thirty years the whole country ac-
quiesced in it. and it had acquired a sacredness in
public estimation which it was unwise to disturb
II had settled dangerous controversy which il was
folly, nay, u was Madness to reopen Its repeal as
hr. Fillmore justly remarked in one of his speeches
was the Pandora's box from which has issued ali
our present evils, AS Mr.. Fillmore was opposed at
the time, to its disturbance he has not changed his
opinion that it's repeal was act Of folly. But we
are quite sure do not misrepresent his sentiments
when we say that he does not think il would be wise
TO attempt ITS restoration and that he desires ag-
tatlon having this object either in Congress out
OF IT, He is too sagacous not to perceive that the
question has become obsolete and too wise to pour
water around the roots Of tree which was girdled
two years ago. in the hope OF seeing it again covered
with foliage.
Nothing remains for the Territories but TO see
that by wse legislation, properly enforced the peo-
pie protected in the enjoyment Of peace and ut-
mately in the right Of determining the character of
their own institutions without intimidation by mobs
and without interference from the States The sooner
this doctrine is scquesced in the sooner will that
quiet be restored to the country Of which IL IL 50
greatly in need.
A Fremont Ticket in Virginia.
There is ne mistake this time. A Fremont elect
oral ticket exists in Virginia at laat Elaa,-hara q