The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-20

Congress had the right 10 pass law prohibiting III and
that right The North with but few exceptions at that
day. maintained this position, in strict accordance
with the sentiments of that whole section and as con
ssent with the spirit and letter Of the constitution OF the
United States. There was, admit one distinguished
public man. who, in that day OF general gloom and
northern degeneFaey noby took the grSsnd Una. con
Couragng slavery the hand or prohipung on inc
other but maintained that was domestic relation and
stood exactly the other domestic reanonsof husband
and wife of parent and child and guardian and ward
and be regulated the people OF the Territory who
to be affected by II shall determine The entire North
with but few exceptions that time maintained that Com
gress had the constitutional TO prohibit slavery IN
the Territories and that it their duty to do 1T and
with unprecedented unanimity they rallied to the support
Of that measure which consecrated and baptized by
the of Its author the Hon David Wimot OF Penn
syyana The sentiment at the North was so universal in
support Of this that eminent and distinguished
statesmen from that section dsputing TO the
honor of the discovery Even Daniel Webster, TO whom
much for his patriotic efforts in behalf OF the
Union at a later period Of his life in one OF his public
speeches. charged that Mr. Wimot had stolen his thun-
der" The South with equal unaDimi opposed to this
" - bs ooo Thew had Contributed
equal quantity Of blood and treasure to carry on the
war to successful issue The fought and bled as freely
as the North on every battlefield from Pao Alto TO the
city of Mexico and they and felt the injustice OF ma
jority section Of the Unon by the power of numbers
wrestling from them all their portion Of the common acqui
son They had solemny determined to resist this meas
ure any and all hazards and to the last extremity
There was no division at the South this quesion-we
united and acted together as one man and III we
should again have this issue forced upon us we shall
again. trust present the undivided front at the
South in opposition TO any restriction upon cur equal
rights and privileges in the Territories In 1890 when
Missouri applied for admission into the Union as a
State the antsavery of that day sought to deny
her right to admission into the Union unless crippled and
by them was that Missouri had in her constitution pro-
hibted free coloed citizens Of the free States from settling
in that State 1t assumed that this clause OF her
stuon was in violation of the federal compact because II
denied free colored citizens Of the northern States the
rights and privileges OF free white citizens OF all the States
But what commentary this position has been the
ton of the free States many of whom have while under
the control of aboonss passed laws prohibiting all free
coored persons from settlement who came from other
States They have by positive legislative enactment
cuded the free persons of color from other States from
king settlements within their limits and at the same time
have in every possible manner encouraged and aided m
gtive slaves to make permanent homes and settlements
among them Nay the black-republican represent
atves in this House. this session Of Congress have
ted for the admission Of Kansas into the Union as aSat
with the Topeka constitution which provides almost in
the language of the constitution of the State of Missouri
that free of color are not 70 be permitted to make
settlements within the State of Kansas This party not
only recognises revolutionary government formed by
small faction in opposition to the laws of that Territory
but they by their vote thus soemny declare that the
ground assumed for opposing the admission of Missouri
State into the Union was baseless and untenabe
The State of Missouri formed from territory acquired
by purchase from France in 1903, when Louisiana
coded the United States IL slave territory and the
people of that territory had of their free will and
accord determined to recognise it in her constitution
yet the ansavery men OF that day denied her right
to admission into the Union as a saveholdng State
and this unconstitutional assumption of northern repre-
sentatives only senced by the southern members
yielding their assent to provision passed by northern
votes prohibiting slavery in all the territory then belong
ing the United States north of 36 degrees and 80 minutes
north latitude This settlement was objectionable to the
and people of the South They regarded the
assumption of antislayery in violation of the fed
era compact this forced upon the South
against their wishes and in defiance of their opposition
Notwithstanding all this the people of the South for thirty
years continued steadasy and in good faith to abide BY
this restrictive enactment commonly known the Mis-
souri, promise, measure of peace without any
gard to its obnoxious and odious principles. They
had opposed its passage without success 1t had been
forced them against their wishes and in defiance Of
their opposition STILL the general sentiment was that
will abide by it and maintain it az measure adopted by
the law-making power under the constitution, in most
critical and fearful period of history the of
restoring peace and harmony to divided and distracted
country and they faithfully adhered to this patriotic self
sacrificing resolve And AN this day living witness to
the fact that southern continued to- give their sup
port this of compromise when 1t was repu-
dated aud tramped under foot by almost the entire
Norhyes sir assert here this day in my place in the
presence Of this House and the country that all that
class of northern anti-slavery men, who are now
maintaining the ssncty of the Missouri Compromise
line and shedding crocodile tears its repeal then
refused recognise its binding force shall for
get that when the bill organizing territorial government
for Oregon was under consideration MI winthrop from
BILL the language of the ordinance OF 1884, in terms
prohibiting slavery in all the territory coded by the State
of Virginia United States northwest of the Ohio
river Mr. Burt the State of South Carolina moved
to amend this amendment by adding these words becanse
it was north of SO deg 80 min north latitude How many
of the northern ansavery agtators voted with the entire
South for this amendment reference TO the Journal will
show that not OF that class willing to recognise
the obligation to stand by the Missouri Compromise; and
of the few northern men who voted with the South TO
ognise the binding Of the Compromise Of 1920 they
all to-day battling with the people of the South for the
principles Of nonnervenon by Congress on the question
of slavery in the Territories the only remaining mode
of settling and forever this too much agtaed and
tors at the North never regarded the Missouri Compromise
as binding upon them have examined the recorded vote
this amendment and those who represented the North
ut that time with great unanimity soemny resolved that
they would prohibit slavery in Oregon not because such
were the Of the socaed Missouri Compromise but
as they asserted because Congress had the constitutional
rio do IL and they the representatives Of the free
people of free States, would exercise it. How vain and
worse thsn idle Is II for antslayery at tho North
to make appeals to the South to protect nvolae the
Missouri restriction under this state of facts At the close
of the Mexican war acquired large and extensive
tract OF country embraced within the limits Of the
State OF California and the Territories of New Mexico and
Utah The people Of the South and the national
alive men In other sections of the Unon proposed to adopt
the principle of extending the Missouri line OF restriction
through that territory to the Pacific ocean as the basis OF
settling all further controversy this subject The rep
resenatiyes of the South in the convention at Nashville
in May 1850 proposed this basis Of settling this dis
urbing and harassng question In the halls of Congress
and the proposition made In Congress and OF
ali those who singing bosannas to the Missouri
Compromise found TO respond to the proposition OF
the South through its senators and representatives But
ON the contrary, when that distinguished sta esman,
the standard bear,- Of the democratic party James B
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