New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-16

Ing OF Gil tne IerflW1es " unc Oms0~ o~0'
slsv, holding was still an sudsctS nos YET dreamed
of-st that time when il wAs yet thought necessary
70 ,how some respect to the sentiment Of the North
in favor Of Freedom AID some regard for tho faltn
of solemn compsct-st that time, when the Demo
cratic party, not Yet become . Missouri slave
bcders' p,rty. had still some vestiaes lett OF the
ideas ot Jrffers"n-ihis extension OF the Missouri
Conprcnise line, was, according to Governor
Wise. the very best thing for the slsve-bree1ers
tha, could have been DONE Mr. Calhoun himself
went fnr IL, and even "wrnt further north,
% Governor Wise expresses 1t, ethan
"Mr. Buchanan went" "Mr. Buchanan,
with the whole South at his back
with pyself," adds Governor Vie, "smoag
" otberr,- aud no one here or elsewhere will say
"tbst am On Anti Slavery m.n-wen; to make
"tbe Missouri line fixed fact To the Pacidc.'
They of the North already reached the Pacific on
"the Nor,b.west We wanted territory 10 the
"South. west to preserve The equilibrium OF Slave
power in the Union This territory We had sc-
quired by anneXaiim"-the " we" here includes
hot N. rely " us, the slsveholders, but the whole
people Of the United Ststes as we'll, whom, indeed,
Mr.. Wiee is accustomed 70 SPEAK Of and regart -
mere sppurtenances to the slaveholders-" aud its
Pro Slavery phsse"-by which the Governor
ue an, the dedication of this newly y-acquired ter
rtoiy to slsvehOldins-" would have been pre-
9 served by running the Mirsouri Compromise
4" line II the Pacific. Mr. Polk cOntended it did
So extend-rverybody else except Mr. Col.
g bnnp'-,t will be seen that Gov. Wise counts 40
nobody the entire mass Of Northern freein.n who
opposed and defeated this extension Of the Missouri
lio.-"so ccntended." "On this point Mr.. Calhoun
"wept further north than Mr.. Buchanan went.
He submitted b. amendment proposing that the
"cluuse against involuntary Slavery should be the
"law porth Of that line, if no question should be
"movtd sgsinst Slavery norsh of that line."
"He made it'-i. O., the Missouri Compromise
line-"a geographical line applying only to terri.
"tory acquired from France and Spain. Mr..
"Buct anan and Mr.. Polk and myself and all
"oths,s'-Northern freemen with a majority in
Congress sufficient to defeat this Slavery.extend-
ing scheme are here again reckoped rs nobody
"urged it ss climstsry line aud that it did al.
"resdy run to the Pacific. To cOncede otherwise
twas to put our head in the lions mouth of ma:
iorit,-was to cOncede that we had not the
"6xed fact Of line TO the Pacific, and was to
g. leave us to the mercy of majority agaiost U.s..
Horrible thing, this. and totally contrary to the
DO icy Of this so.called Democratic party, this be-
ing left to the mercy Of majority 1t is the law
of that party that by hook or BY crook every thing
thull be divided by small minority of slsvehod-
era. Hence the two.thirds rule in Presiden.
tial nominations, and hence the sudaciOus
means resorted TO to make Kansas .
Slave Safe in spite of the wishes Of majority
II the people of the Union, and Of a minority Of
the set lers in Knnras ittelf We were in mi
norl,y," continues the Governor, " and would bo
"voted down without that admission. Yet, In
".pts Of friend or foe, Mr.. Calhoun offered his
"smerdwept to the Oregon bill, which conceded
",bat it did not 81 extend, and he-not Jauss Blu
" chaban-l,st the value Of the extension to the
g South. The cost Of not rum ing that line to tho
Pacific msy be valued thus to Virgins: We
"Dow get 81 900 for sound slave; we would
" ,hen have gotten from $4,000 70 $5,O0O for an
Operative in the gold mines Of California; AGO. 900
multiplied by 5000, or even by 5000, will show
CuI lUutQee lOtts Ouc uiiiiou VI uVAoAo VV"Au
"not compensate Virginia for her loss in not run.
"nrg the line on to the Pacific. The North had
fixed the line."
This 10 one of the Governors hpbitusl falsi6.
cations of history. The Missouri Compromise
line was fxed by Southern votes, with the
aid of q few Northern doughfaces. "They
"haa the advantage Of it until annexation" An.
other falsehood. The South had the advant-
age Of it in the admission as States of
Missouri in 1870 and Arkansas in 1886, against the
single State Of Iowa, not admitted till 1916. at
was then our turn, and we did not take it. That
Eva. not Mr.. Buchanap's fault" but, according
u Governor Vice, the fault partly of CahOun's re.
fuss to join Polk, Wise and Buchanan in their plot
70 force upon the Missouri Compromiss false and
fraudulent Interpretation by the came process BY
which similar false and fraudulent interpretations
infvor Of Slavery have been forced upon the Fede-
raj Constitution, and partly the fault of "ths
"pbsrisees aid bypocri'es who are now bowling
cover the Iepsal Of the Missouri Compromise"-
by which petite phrase the Governor Of Virginia
dtsigbates the great body Of the Northern peoplo,
whom be charges wish "bypOcrisy" because,
while they would not agree to extend the Missouri
Coupronire to newly acquired territory, they still
insist that it was breach Of faith and violation
Of their rights to set il aide to the territory to
which it actually applied. If this is hypocrisy on
the part of the friends o! Freedom, what we should
like 10 know, r the proper epihet to bs applied to
the conduct Of the slave-beeders in nrst imposing
the Missouri Compromise line on the North, next
ptstipg upon its extension ~ the Pacific and then