American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1856-02-07

man. woman and child including tho no,
grOes, Irish and Dutch. akuOwlsdgs thai
the Missouri Compromise" aud "WilmoI
PFoyiso' were unconstitutional.
Yes, this party. which in every South.
ern State has declared hat Il would dis.
solve the Union unless everybody submits
to the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
line, anl which has in every northern
State declared either In favor Of the rsst,.
ration Of the Missouri line, or that slavery
shall not extend by virtue Of its repeal, OF
tina. the principle Of squatter sovereignty
is established by the bill. and henceforth
all Territories are to be free-composed as
it is Of such incongruous material-of men
holding directly opposite opinions. Of dis
unionists, of d~emagogues, andof ~agilators,
standing side by side upon a mere meas
ure, and sustaining a mar for Speaker
whom the Southern wing represent ia
their constituents as denying the constitu'
tlouality of the missouri Compromise
and of the "Wilmot Proyiso," and whom
the Northern wing represent to be a firm,
unwavering and unyieldIng advocate of the
'squatter sovereignty principle /; yes, this
party is pr%oclaiming, day after day. thro'
its venal press, to the South. that its in
stitniions are in dangers that the "aggres-
sOrs'' of the North are preparing to wage
a war of determination upon it and its in-
situations. and that ere long civil wal will
devastate its fields. depopulate its cities,
and free its negroes. and that the great
implements of warfare are to be the resto.
ration of the Missouri Compromise" line,
and the acknowledgment of the constitu-
tionality Of the "Wilmot Pfoviso."
Yet its leaders, in time past, voted for
the Missouri Compromise. Mr.. Stephens
declared he would submit to nothing else
but a geographical division; Mr.. Clingman
declared that the true intent and meaning
Of the Constitution could not otherwise b.
expressed. Messrs. Cobb, G. S. Houston,
A. w. Jones, and Douglas voted for thu
"Wilmot Ptoviso :" Messrs. Stephens
Cobb, Clingman, Slidsll. Lumpkin, IAcot
Thompson, Toombs, Buchanan, htchi
son, Colquitt, McDufie, Bagby, Rhett
and Reid, void for the Douglas-'Texas pro
hibition, which applied not to Territories
but to Estate or States" And now these
same self-styled patriots. or rather those
Of them Yet sit1mering upon the surface
Of the political e~auldron. these rampan,
protectors of the South, those Union dis
s~olvers, these civil wa prognostica.ors
these Unconstitutional "Wilmot Provi.
soists." are voting for Richardson fol
Speaker, who, during the first session Of
the 3lst Congress, Congressional Globe.
Ala. vol. 22, held the following opinions
al have sought In vain 10 hear some rea.
son for the passage Of the Wilmo. Proviso
7nsre Is necessity 10 abolish or prohiJi
staUeryin Territories There il erists. With
this view the ordinance Of 1887 was pas
sed. 1t had application to territory where
slavery did exist, by operation of the law,
OF Virginia, to which the Northwestern
Territory belonged. The Missouri com.
promise also abolished slavery north Of Sc
deg. 81 min. That compromise was pas
sed, not to keep tie territory free north o
that latitude. but because the laws ofLou
%isiana, when We acquired il. Recognised
slavery and carried it, consequently. lin
less repealed, to all the territory. But
maintain. sir. that slavery Is the trsatar,
of municipal Tao, and does not and cannot
exist n momen without it. II TERRITORY
is free. there is no necessity to pass ahy
law--it will remain so.
THE people of the non acknowledging
States believe that the territory we acqui.
red from Mexico. by the treaty Of peace.
brought with it the laws no consistent
with our Constitution, and that those law.
excluded slavery. Ii there is any Repre-.
sentative from the non-slaveholding State:
that denies either of these propositions, ]
ask him to rise in his place and say So
There are none who can or dare deny il.
"This is a universal sentiment at the
North. and | might refer to all the speech.
es that have been made at this session O
Congress and the last. to show that every
one from the non-slaveholding States, Free
Sellers and all, hold that the Territories
are now flee. II this Is true what more
can you do? They are free now and viii
ever remain so; they are free by the law.
Of nations. they are free by the laws Of ma
ture, they will remain free, from the eau
ses TO which | have already referred, for
ever. This should satisfy all, in my judg
ment. who are opposed to the extension o
slavery.
"The position Is SO dnanswerable, tina
the distinguished Senator from Kentucky
Mr.. Clay, says 1t is 'incontestible truth
"Why, then, l ask, as this proyiso urg
ed with SO riucli zeal and peftinacity p
It can do no good.
"Thefe is one thing that 1 wish, in this
connection, Mr.. Chairman to say to the
gentlemen from the South, and the North.
ern Wings; If the bill for territorial gov.
%efnrhents. silent upon the subject of slave