Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-04-16
A SOUTHERN JOURNAL SPEAKING OUT.

SOUTHERN JOURNAL SPEAKING OUT.
Some days since the Richmond (Va.) .7mteri-
can thus spoke in relation to the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise:
eeAll the political troubles, perplexities and
difficulties of every kind, that have taken place
in the settlement of Kansas, and the enactment
and solution of such laws as are essentially
necessary to the good order and well being of
civilized society, are but the natural results
of the iniquitous and dishonest repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. The agitation and ex-
citement growing out Of the question Of sla-
very in the Territories Of the Union had been
amicably adjusted by the Compromise measure
Of 1850, under the Whig administration of Mil
lard Fillmore, and the whole country was rest
ing in confident security that the vexed ques-
tion was finally settled, when that anpriacipEed
mountebGnh and political demagogue, Stephen
A. Douglas, under the imJeciie, hypocritical
and coTrapt administration of Franklin Pierce,
ripped up settlement made by the Patriots
and Statesmen, men of lofty intcllects and I'M
questioned integrity, and thus re-opened the
slavery agitation, which, if there is any ren-
anee to be placed in the fears expressed by the
leaders of the So called Democracy, has endan-
gered the very existence of the Union itself.''
For this honest and fearless expression of
the truth, it has been called to severe account
by the Enquirer, the organ of the Virginia
Democracy, and denounced inviolent terms as
unfaithful and untrue to the South. In reply
to all which the .Hnerican says =
Wedid assail Douglas, Pierce and all others,
who aided in the ruthless, wanton and unne-
cessary repeal of a compromise made by states
men and patriots, whose names are recorded
in the political history of our country as among
its brightest ornaments-a compromise that
constitutes the chief glory of the illustrious
Clay-a compromise, upon which Texas was
annexed to this Union as one of the States of
which it now forms a part-a compromise
which all conservative men had supported for
a period of 81 years, during the whole of which
time the people in all sections of the country
had quietly acquiesced-a compromise so sa-
cred in its principles as to fully justify j. K.
Polk in the estimation of all Southern Loco
Foeos, for signing the Wilrnot Proviso in the
Oregon bill, and yet, the Enquirer has the au-
dacity to charge Monroe, Calhoun Crawford,
VI hlrt, Clay, Lowndes, Pinckney, King, and q
large majority of the Southern delegation in
Congress at the time, with having degraded
the South, and to praise Douglas and Pierce,
for having sblotted out the degradation.
If there be anything ''degrading to Southern
equality and Southern rights in the Missouri
line, which We utterly deny, then is it ten fold
more degrading, in our opinion, to submit
Southern equality and Southern rights to the
decision of the squatters who may choose to
take possession of SO much of our territory as
may suit there own purposes, without regard
to number or color, and to say whether we OF
the south are to enjoy our property, or not, in
such territory according to their will. If the
Enquirer can venture to denounce such men
asfhese, whose names we have mentioned,
we are inclined to think it requires no extra
ordinary degree ofboldness to denounce such
trifing creatures as Douglas and Pierce.