New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-10

Of whisky and rifles like Missouri ipesd n cn,;v.,ad
fslds, farms, aud railroads, Ike Ohio GAppl.u,eI
That Ia what the Soutb propose. 1t is a conte-t worth
our gfappe; there is something for us to do Let me
ask you Or question further Who vas il tba, spruog
this measure upon usl Who called for IN I am pl.3
TO tel you tLst i was not the people Applsus-J Aud
wiz give The South the credit they deserve, when
ssy they old not dream Of asking such thing. Who
then cd spiDg 1t upon US II you search the papers
at Washipgttn to find the petitions 70. that iufa nou.
enactment venture 10 say they could all be put in
aoy portfolio aid carried to school, while If you will
gamer up the remot ots,rances against 1t they will
loom up In buk to the magnitude Of a Connect.
cut hay stack lApplausel. Senators desks grosned
with the weight Of these remonstrances; and
when that one, sIgntd by the three thousand clei-
gyneD Of New-Ergland, wss presented lapplause
1t was not because it was signed by clergymen but be-
cause was understood to be the embo Iiment ,f the
great moral and religious sentiment Of the North tbs.
they arr auted certain limbeI-bscked Senator who
preseLted it Laugbterl. 1t was because it was the
embodiment Of Northern sentiment that the authors
Ct this scbemeke certain Gadarines in sncien, times
cried out, why hast thou torment us before
our timel' Great laugbteil Bot who it that
demanded this measure / will tell you II was
three political demagoeuss. don't want TO name
them 1t is not polite in q great assembly to cal
LANES. But viii give yon their hsbtatiohs. One is
a man that regrers his name at the west end Of Lake
Erie at Detiot-s Sheezy, fat old horse that they
crowded off the racein advance ILaughteTj Another
is that came from the white hills Of New. Hsmp-
shire and the prospect is that be will 20 back TO tle
place wbepce be came and take his entire Cab
met with him; and he will not be the first that
went back. taking with him seven spirits worse than
the frt Laughter and applau'e. The third, aud
by means the least Of the THO, il man who was
born near the foot Of the Green Mountains, but left
bis Iatve home very early and moved to the West.
And les, you should not know whom / mean, l will
tell you that one Of his Dames bears close affinity
do bis heart and soul to that Of the who in 1879
made proposition to beray the fortress Of West Point
to the British Appsuse. Where are these three men
now Laughter.
when shall we three meet again,
In thunder, lightning or In rain" daughter
All crowded othe course, and put the track in
their places whose only recommendations are negative
qualities Appause. As they said of of the heather
detes, bis great merit consists in the fact that he is
great bundle of Degations That is the kind OF man that
has superseded all tbese nmbe fellows that played this
game so artfuy. Now let me ask you another qles.
tiOp What it that startled the North and aroused
this universal Indignation 1t was an infraction
Of a cOmpac.-a compact that had been solicited by
the South and reluctantly granted by the North. And
so odiOus was the people Of the North that every
statesman who took par. in it failed to maintain him
self with his constituents and bad to walk out Of the
political field; But when we entered the compact,
when had put our hand and seal to it, we had too
much honor to back out from it, Aud when that
measure passed, how was it carried through finally?
1t called to its aid the giants of the South. have
their names now in my mlnd, who came in at last to
not least, Henry Clay Great applausel. These men
were called for. They carried the matter through.
Ard where the men that put their hand to 1t
j
the passage of the Said he: Last night we
"carried the through. 1t will very soon give
"the South six or eight more Senators" These all
came along. "But," said he, "we agreed to prohibit
SLAVERY North of certain line. We did that
"o quiet agitation the subject 1t is rutess and
barren donation to the North. Long years must roll
Ground before the sound of civilized man Will be heard
"North of that line But tell you fellow citizens,
the tread of the AngloSaxon man is firm and rapid!
When Freedom, with melting eye and yearning
heart, was looking over that broad TerItority, when
we of the North were about to step in and take
our part Of the compact it was suddenly discovered
that the bargain was bad one-that it was uncon-
stitutional-that il must be dssevered-that 1t must
be broken down and trampled under foot want to
say one word more [Go on go on would like to
draw a contrast and l wish l had power OF
imagination adequate to the task You hear
o certain class Of men saying: -" These settlers
in Kansas broke the laws of the Territory. There
laws there, and they ought to have been obeyed
would like to get one of those glassy-eyed Loco
Focos who say such things, lgfeat laughter, ana
ask him the question, What would they telnk IL ths
picture should be reversed suppose, IN ioDi n,b,
had Glanced among the many things that might
have b, en- that William II. Seward had been Presi'
dent of the United States Great and enthusiastic ap-
pausel. Suppose that at this time there hai Deen an
Abolition majority in Congress, and that in mo net
unlocked for that eccentrc man, senator Wsde ol
Ohio [great aPpausel-he knows how 10 pun VIZ
ger, and that is good dealmgIenu M Spp' tran uopn
Congress and the country by proposing lnM
the act of 1920, which introduced Missouri
as a Slave State into the tnoh, DC iePealou ou,i
thinking there would be little stl about It, should
hive taken care in his blu to make provision that the
bona fde sett ers should have right to discuss ana
vote upon the question de moro, whether Ihty win
have slavery in the Territory of Missouri But sup
nose that, when the day of election comes, three
thousand Buckeye votes, under Joshua r. Gidilng''
Ianul,use should come from Ohio two thousand more
smokers of Illinois under Trumbul, Applause hi,een
hundred more from Mssouri-ano tnen, auuou ~
these. there should be a thousand Kadicas unuer
Lloyd Garrison laughter suppose that these sep,
ali banded together, hover round the c9hnnes
of Missouri, ard on the night before eie.lohs
tbey go over fife and drum, with banner displayed'
ev,rv man armed with pistol rife aud dirk ana,
marching To the polls, give every man tive inmates 10
comply with tier request or De sao., aHu ~, ~
deysstate the entire confines OF Miss ouri' eiec'
q majority of men residing IN ono III athan'
sss in Pennsylvania, in New-York. What 90
yop think such Legislature would De hkely
10 do They would know what they were eiectedioi,
and they would do it, They would aecife to' s 'nen
first act that aDy that fit to discuss the qur
tion whether Slavery exist in Missouri sh1i DC
branded criminal, and have seven years IN 'ne i
tentiary Don't you think, fellow lnas lo az
this there would be somewhat OF rushng down oouu
Wopld there not be an alarm Would not the ehtHe
sentiment of the world re up and protest against sucn
a coursel Suppose if the whole people OF tns' o.ato
should send a memorial to President Seward, COM
nlsning of their wrongs and he should say TO them:
& You Shall have justice done to you-l never me ant
"apytbipg wrong-I will call new Governor, IL
"you are not satisfied" and he summons
Fred. Douglass to go ana oe uovero, m al ponanI.
Suppose Fred Douglass goes there ana on me counes
of Missouri makes a great fpeech-he able 10 10 II
I.rest applau.e since Henry Clay died mere Is
baroy man in this country who can do II better tnAh
Fred Douglass lGreat and enthu, asc spplansel sup
pose Fred Douglass says that he has come to carry o1t
the laws Of the Legislature, and VOWS MS az
besion to the cause, declaring that he
will stand by it. Let me ask you 80
bt,ly-and here come to point over which humanity
might wter-would not those fields be drenched win
bleed bef,re cIe.haf that l have narrated should