The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-06-25

an, as proposed in his "Harvest Home let
Ter" then prevailed--lhe same policy which
| advocated in the law of 184s-there woult
have been an end to this sectional controver
sy forever. Who is responsible for the de-
feat of the proposition to extend that line IA
the Pacific? Certainly not James Buchanan
certainly moi myself-certainly not the
Democratic party. The men who were re-
sponsible for that were the Abolitionists, the
Free Sollers, the present Anti-Nebraska men
of The country. ............ ... Cd
They then told us that the Missouri law
| was an Infamous measure; said that if sla-
| very was right on the south side of the line,
| il was right on the north side. Thy said il
it was right 10 leave the people do as they
pleased on the south side of $3.50, 1t was
right 10 grant them the same privilege north
OF $500. They said they would agree to any
measure but that infamous measure, the Mis-
sou:i Compromise. By the defeat of the ex.
preston of the Missouri Compromise line in
1913, as proposed by Mr.. Buchanan in his
Harvest Home letter, as proposed by myself
in The Senate of the Unied States, The coun-
try was plunged into whirlpool of dangers
OF sectional agitation and sectional conirover.
sy which was The result of the defeat of the
proposition TO extend The Missouri Compro-
mise line as proposed BY Mr.. Buchanan, and
Introduced by myself.
In 1850 the controversy had ragged 10 such
an extent that The best men in the land lrem
bled on the fate Of The Republic. Even The
immortal Clay, who, after a long life of pa
triotlc public services, he had retired 10 the
shades of Ashland, TO prepare himself 'for
another and happier existence. There in
his retirement he heard the mu,terings of the
approaching slorm-heard the angry voices
of discord breathing sectional hatred and sec.
tional strife, until he felt bound 10 come out
from his retirement into the Senate of the
United States, The scene of his greatest tri-
umphs, and proudest services, to see, if he,
bv his age, his experience, his counsel, could
moi do something 10 calm The troubled wa
lers, and restore peace and quiet to distract.
ed country.
From the moment when Clay appeared in
the Senate, all party strife was hushed, pa.
triotic feelings subdued factous resistance
Clay became the leader of all the Union
men of The country. He had the great, the
immortal Cass, whom you have heard to-
night, for his right hand man, and the god
like Webster for the left and there ranged
around him all The patriotic upinns mon
Wings and Democrats united by common
object, animated by common spirit, ant
and that was 10 restore peace 10 The country
10 quell the sectional strife that abolitionism
and free.soilism had produced, in conse
quence of defeating The proposition of Mr.
Buchanan 10 extend the Missouri line 10 The
Pacific ocean. For five long months we as
sembled in the Council room each morning
to plan the operations for that day--to heat
off faction--to suppress combination agains
the institutions of The country; and there W,
arranged step by step tine propositions unit
they resulted in the adoption of the measures
known as the Compromise Measures o
1850.
You all remember with what shouts and
rejoicing the passage of those measures wa
recei' ed throughout the country. You al
recollec, the great meeting you then helt
here in Philadelphia, composed of Whig
and Demonstration men of all parties
who approved Of the settlement which wal
made by those measures of that vexed ques
lion: and now let me remind you my friends
that among the proudest productions of tina
meeting herein fact the chief ornament @
that meelng--is the letter OF James Buchan
an 10 the meeting congratulatng the countr.
upon the restoration of peace by the es!ab
lishmenl Of the great principles of the Com
promise measures of 1850.
Thus we find that Mr.. Buchanan was a
mong the first 10 approve of those measures
He had been for The Missouri lne-so ha
!. We tried 10 carry il out and were vote
down. Failing in that we took the next bes
measure and succeeded in that, and, forum
ately for the country, that measure was re
turn to the true principles ofthe Copstituto
of the United States, as the great Washing
ton, Madison, Hamilton and Franklin an
other sages formed it in the Hall. From 1856
having returned to the Constitution, hayn
abandoned all of these patchwork compro
mises, which were outside of the Conslilu
ton, James Buchanan has stood firm an
immovable by those principles.
In 1854, i, became my duty TO report bill
to organize Kansas and Nebraska, or th
, principles laid down in 1850, endorsed b
a the Wings; endorsed by the Democracy
> sanctioned by Mr. Bachanan's letter 10 III
: Philadelphia Ratification meeting; and
brought in the Nebraska bill in the fort
S That il now stands, from the Statute book :
1 (Cheers.) That bill passed the Senate BY
3 majority Of the Wing party then in the body
i also by majority of the Democratic Sent
, tors receiving the votes Of a majority of th
i Southern Senators, and also of a majority
n all the Northern Senators; and yet we al
: told that the county was betrayed in d
y passage of that bill, Ga voice-"no sue
II tbing,") betrayed BY whom Betrayed b
1t a majority Of the North2 Betrayed by Ii
= whole Soulha Betrayed by majority
!. the Democrats? Betrayed by majority
Q the Whigs--and that, too, In carving out