The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-05

whether any more slave territory or slave States should
be added TO the Union. The abotonists ana iree
soers fought 1t with desperation not disproportonea
the magnincenoe OF the prize stake See said they,
that almost bouudess region, stretching rom Lakes
Michigan and Superior westward 70 the sunset-ierLea
By It's hundred ryersstudded with It's beautiful lakes
rich its xuriau soil and diversified with its unshad-
owed prairies See your Lowels and Springheldsyour
Rochests aud Buaoes and yonr pttsburghs, springng
up with magic rapdity till the whole Of this vast region
IA covered with keystone and Empire States And, thanks
be TO God Of Freedom the Footprint OF slave shalt
never pollute and curse this modern Eden In reply TO
all this said and justly seid, that ths beanufu
Eden was the property OF ALL and that Tue mag
neence OF the domain furnished no apology Tor is pan
der and unequal appropriation II was furiner
that most Of tho old immortal States who achieved our in
depenenee possessed vacant territory, and all OF them
looked to the right OF outlet and expansion when redun
dancy of population should demand ,nat they entered
the Union es equals present and all future advantages
of it, and that every attempt appropriate any poron OF
the domain to any particular region 70 ne eA
cluson Of another was the very height o. nusuce anu
dishonesty That Ii this domain had not been com
inheritance but acquired in some 2uestionaoe oray
neghboring nation, even In that case tne Awiess
brgand should make fair and honorable division OF inc
scis among all that bore themselves valiany in he ex-
pedition OF rapine and plunder. .a8,.
Such was tho argument What was the decision Of the
great who introduced and carried through the CON-
promise measures Of ls5O2 Did they decide in favor Of
the total exclusion OF the South as demanded by the VIII
mot proyso2 No. they did not and would not Did they
decide In favor OF partial exclusion as demanded by the
Missouri resrction2 No. they did not and would not
Discarding all temporary expedents and knowing that
the aboonss and free-soilers had repudated always
and then repudated and scorned TO abide by the
Missouri Compromise restriction, they fell back on the
constitution that great sheetanchor Of our safety, and
settled down the doctrine Of non-interventon as
the only that could be applied TO every Territory
thereafter applying for admission al all times and under
all circumstances without doing injustice to any portion
of this widespread republic Under this doctrine oil non
intervention solemny established they entered on
the work of organizing the Territories OF Utah and New
Mexico taking away from Congress and leaving 10
the people themselves to decide under the constitution
kuya w
back first principles and rescuing the constitution
from all further mutations and the South from these
otenepeated and lawless inyasons After the organa
ton of the Territories Of Utah and New Mexico under
the doctrine of nonneryention the next application was
for Kansas and Nebraska The bill prepared on joint
consultation between the democrats and southern whigs
1t was prepared strictly the principles OF
tion laid down in the case of Utah and New Mexieo-a
perfect image and reflex of the compromise bills OF 1850
Mr. Douglas reported the BILL leaving 1t as necessary
implication that the total restriction Of the Wilmot pro-
aud the partial OF the Missouri COMPROMISE were
boh rejected and the people left to have slavery or not
under the constitutions just as they might choose Mr.:
Dixon a whig senator from Kentucky, preferred and
moved that the and repeal should be 6y express
acord rather than by implication and SO the amendment
OF this Kansas and Nebraska bill that furnished pre-
text tor new and sudden paroxysm OF fanatcism In
the abolition and free-sol party II was not me cause
but thee prete1t for fresh sgation and disturb
ance lift had never been passed they would have found
something else with which 10 fan the flames OF diScoru
and mischief Unfortunately for the country, simuiia-
bill new party up, it falsely pretended, out
OF the ruins aad corupons of the whg party but which
exhibited of that devotion TO the rights OF the
States which the whg party exhibited either IN sue
cess or disaster In It's wild hunt after Office 1t stops
not look that dark cloud of fanatcism which 10
rapidly moving upon nor will II heed the roar OF tne
thunder that psals from It's bosom II proof be wanting
hs needless disregard the consequences growing out
Of the Of this backrepublican party look at the
proceedings OF the last nothing convention Several
of the c1ncis had expressly ignored the questions
which-were shaking this government to its foundations
The Philadelphia convention did not ignore but esehered
those questions. Ignore and eschewl What patering
with words The signifies TO be ignorant OF the coun
try danger the other signifies to away from It In
ordinary times little shulng of words like this might
not be 50 dangerous put now sore "a ana ara as
and-waier words will do to save her. That convention
should never have adjourned until they had used words
Of solid thought and import that the fifteen STATE, Of ane
twelve hundred millions OF their property destroyed oy
wild and wicked fanaucsm- great army OF aoonuon-
and the constutonsome Of It's chief commanders were
sitting there with the Of the South In council ana
convention They saw them, they beard them oIea.ns
ither own, their native isnd8 They had carried in
ory in the lower house of Congress they bad elected an
abolition Speaker they had appointed abolition commit
tees and thus permitted 10 make nomination OF
President of the United States AT such fearful moment
Of history right was II patriotic for southern
delegates say TO acquiescs in the saying I'VE wi
eschew will fly before the danger which are bring
/ iag upon us7 We will shun, we viii avoid itr How
the South her property How can she keep her
place OF equality when her not only sit in coun-
Gil aud shake bloody agers Of her enemies but ignore
and eschew the subjects which her life and death de-
4 pendH
Bot said Gov Brown they not only sat In council with
them made the aboonists and free soil
by acquescing In the repeal Of the 18th section the
only shield provided In the platform for their protection
Concessions the abotoniss pressed on all sides oy
all sos OF combinations against her Prosecuted a. sne mas
been who could have dared 10 ask Der 70 make
TO the hunters who pursuing her7 But no matter
who has done the fatal deed IL has been done ana men
who draw their first breath her so who rested on her
noble and generous BOSOM and warmed and grew rich In
her genial sunshuemen who have stood around the tomb
Of her Washington Jefferson, Jackson, and Clay paying
homage to their devotion her which at Philadelphia
suicidal deed From the hour when at l2th section was
repealed no southern should have been In that
veuon; like the wings Of the South did on the kansas
and Nebraska b they ought 10 have dissolved all conner
ion with their northern allesformaly and finally dis
| solved II.
That they should have done So look the hnliatng
picture Of the condition Of southern delegates as drawn
by Ford in Of his speeches u say many Of
them DO cay that the repeal Of The ehonored line Ito
rage and Il ought TO be restored say many Of you said
Come up to the confessional or shall without
hesitation ne gentlemen to the convention. AT
length the Hon Kenneth Rayner and said he bad 90
said and took this occasion say that he considered the
repeal Of tho Missouri Compromise wrong and an out
rage which the North ought not 10 submit Gov Neil
g. Brown OF Tennessee said he had stated that II was
wrong and unjust 70 repeal that act but as was passed
he opposed agitation the subject Of renstatng
4 it, Four or fve more, at this point took the floor
once Governor Ford rcmsrking pleasantly, "keep cool
temen about have interesting class