Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-02

which declares the Missouri Compromise line
unconstitutional, admitted It's consiitutionality
by voting for it, In 1848 these Southern men
demanded the extension of the Missouri Com
promise line. On the amendment to the Ore
gon bill in the Senate, embracing the Missouri
Compromise, which was offered by Senator
Douglas we find the following gentlemen re-
corded in the affirmative: Messrs. Mason,
Hunter, Davis, Butler, Calhoun, Douglas, and
Bright. Since, all excepting Calhoun and Da-
Wis, have voted to abrogate the Missouri line.
Mr. Cobb voted for the Douglas prohibition
in the Texas annexation resolutions, for the
"Wilmot Proviso" in the Oregon bill, and for
Missouri Compromise. Now he stands upon
the "squatter sovereignty" principle, which
assumes all these measures for which he voted
to be unconstitutional; and, moreover, in his
Georgia platform he refuses to hold political
communion with all who refuse to subscribe
to his new Interpretation of the constitution,
while at the same time he is leader of the
Irish Brigade, which has adopted measure
instead of principle, which measure is con-
strued by Richardson and Douglas to mean
freedom" by Orr, Brooks, and others to mean
the opposite.
These are facts from the record, and exhibit
most garingly the gross Inconsistencies Of the
presentlesde of party which has planted itself
upona zone idea platform, viz: of agitation and
sectional strife. What they have demanded in
former years as the only just basis of settle
ment of the sectional differences, they repudi-
ate to-day, and characterize it as an Outrage
upon the constitutional rights of their con-
stituents. That which they have voted for in
former years, they now declare to be unconsti-
tutional, that which they have proposed as a
basis of settlement they denounce as unjust
and illiberal IL the institutions OF the South
have been warred upon, who struck the first
blow? Was not Douglass the author of the
Texas prohibition, and did not Cobb, Cling
man, Thompson, Of Mississippi, Stephens, Reid,
quit vote for it? The "Wilmot Proviso was
odious to the South" and did net Messrs.
Howell Cobb, George S. Houston, George w.
Jones, Andrew johnson, Jacob Thompson,
Reid and Lumpkin vote for it in the Oregon
billp If the Missouri Compromise was uncon-
stitutional, and an assault upon the institution
of the South, did not Messrs. Mason, Hunter,
Davis, of Mississippi Calhoun, Douglas and
Butler vote for it? What Northern man has
ever gone so far as to declare that
G In such State or States as shall be formed out
of said Territory, slavery involuntary servitude,
Except for crime,) shall be prohibited?"
None other but Douglas, not even the most
ultra Northern men pretend to deny to State
the right and power to establish or prohibit
the institution. Douglas did deny the right
and power to estate or States" and with
him voted Messrs. Cobb, Stephens, Clingman,
Slidell, Jacob Thompson, Buchanan, Atchison
and others. Now portion of these men are
threatening to dissolve the Union, if the doctrine
which originated with them be enforced, and
another portion is seeking Office, and basing
their claims to Office on the ground that the
South is in danger, because of the principle
which they established and sustained. Will
the South never understand who its true friends
arc?