Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-05-23
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LEW lSBURG CHRONICLE.

fugitive slaves, and passed lava flor the accomplish
Of that end, subversve al once OF State sove
reignty. and of the established safeguards OF cIv,l
freedom. Then the country again had FEST. Weariei
with its efforts, content with their success the
slaveholding interest proclaimed truce.
When Franklin Pierce, Oh the 4th of March, l-.iS
became President Of the United States no controversy
growing out OF Slavery agItating the country
Established laws OF them enac ted with unusual
soleTnity and under circumstances which made them
OF more than ordinary obligation, had fixed the char
acter Of all the States and ended the contest
ing the Territories Sixteen States Free States
and fifteen States were Slave States BY the Missouri,
Compromise Of 1890 Slavery forever prohibited
from all the Louisiana Territory yng north Of the line
OF SO deg. 80 mIn. while that Territory lying
south OF that line, and the Territories Il New
Mexico and Deserer, no such prohibition had been
tended The whole country feposeh upon tins arrange
ment All sections and all interests. whether approving
II or not, seemed 10 quiesee terI-. The slave
holding interest, through all its oroans, and especially
through the General tso7efHment proclaimed that TIN.
was final and rfePeaable ad usnent Of the struggle
between Freedom and Slavery Tor political power
that It had been affected BY mutual concessions and
the spirit Of coInpromise- and that It should be
during the Union and sacred the COnstiiutio
itself. Both political parties gave ii their sanction
their National Conventions-the whole country
sented irs validity, and President Pierce IN hlz
first Official message 10 Congress, pledged himself Ia
use all the power of his position To prevent 1t from
being disturbed
But all these protestaiOn proved deusve and The
acquiesenee ami conentment which they produced
afforded the opportunity not only for aggressions
on the part oi Slavery, but for the reputation OF
gagements into which is agents had solemnly entered
| Less than year had elapsed before these pledges
were broken and the advantages which they secured
10 Freedom Withdrawn by the saveholdlng power.
REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
a lime he nau snt
popuation that portion of the Louisiana Territory,
lying west OF the Mississippi River and north Of the
line Of 3G deg. 30 mn., TO lie desired for
patton; and the oath of May, 1854, an act was
passed erecting upon 1t the two Territories Of Kansas
| and Nebraska, and organizing governments for them
both. From this whole region the sav vehoding inte-
rest thrtytour years before had agreed that "Savery
and involuntary servtude otherwise than the pun
lshment OF CRIME, should be forever prohibited, and
had received, the price Of this agreement the ad-
mission OF Missouri, and subsequently the admission
Of Arkansas, into the Union BY the Kansas and Ne
braska bill, this prohibition declared 10 be Z" IN
operatipe and Uoid." and the intent and meaning OF
the bill was further declared 10 be- not TO egisate
Slavery INTO any Territory State, TO eIciude
ii heretrOm but 10 leave the people thereof per-
iecty free 70 form and regulate their domestic ns
tutions IN their own way subject only 10 the Const
| tuition OF the United States" Thus, without single
petition for such action from any quarter of the Unon
but against the earnest remOnstances of thousands of
cltizens-against the settled and profound convic-
lions of the great hodv of the neone IN aye,v noo
of the country and m wan,on disrepar Of The pblg,
tons of justice and Of good faith the Missouri Com
nromise of 1soD was renes led and tho se,I which b
Guaranteed freedom IN ,ba, vast Terr;,orv which ha
| United States had purchased from France was
/ snatched from the bond. Oregon Washington, New
Mexico, Deserei, and the State acquired from
Texas north of 80 deg 30 min. by conpact were ali
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