New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-27
TON.
ON THE STATE OF POLITICS.
A SPEECH nr
delivered At st. Louis on Saturday June q 1856.

upon the stand excited, nsd sueS~e"'
sAid -. ,nexnacted
.hs,.c,.rthat 81 candidate for the GovernoTshp OF
the State OF Missouri was P'sce wn'cs nau n,.
sout b. but which feel bound 70 acceP, u,
- at,o 81 the country--its peace greatly ehnangee9
s ~ hoyas And abroad and the services OF all good
s;t,.s.. !, oured 10 aid in preventing the aouoe
c.,sm;ty of civil and foreign war. Tue nom'oa'l?n
D., s;dent made at Cincinnati encouraged me IN
~. kpe of seeing these caaDi'ies averted ana mas
h;~ay contributed 10 my present cour.e WI assist
The Few President lfor look upon MI Buch4nans
election as ceitain) in doing what am very sule he
I do that is 10 say, all in s power 10 preserve the
resce Of the country at home ana abroad AMI 70 re-
store the fratenai feelings between The oiieeent
actions Of the Union, now so lamentaoy impHueu.
Isbs have to make some speeches but n9 sucd As are
nsnalv made in political canvass Att ,cks upon the
ppoete party or parties usually constitute the ournen
OF such speeches: they are proper In other
but not com nepdable in canvass for the Governor
ship II elected the candidate bee mes the Governor
Of ibe SAFE no. Of party snd should 80 deneau n'
self a. TO give evidence Of an impartial admowtI"uon,
and ASSURANCE Of resp' ctul intercourse WIN an VINO
NAV have occasion or who may feel an incnnatlon 10
cali upou him. Acting upon these principles, sinai
max. no dsparsgiog reference TO the pates opposed
to me. sbal appand my own party the same wnlcn
twenty years ago gave au exanea Uel"cano ~
otherp In standing where have StOod for forty years
in this State, and for all my years Of manhood before
cane TO the State, sufficiently show the preference
which give ~ my own without impugning or dlspar'
sgipg Others merely say that sectional, or oneidea
pSrtIts have always received my opposton-fsr more
than the Wing party which, being national, ana rest
ing on broad foundation, was the same WIN ine
Democratic in the ultimate object--the general good-
though differing about the means of obtaining H. Wtn
these few remarks say nothing more about parties,
nor shall say anything about inyset rely upon
long public life, full of incident to answer every ques
ton that concerns m--merely reminding my leu W.
citizen that am not a man OF chapges-that what
they have known me in the past, am still IN the
psesebt and expect to be in the fu'ure. pro-
of he
troubled and dsordered than have ever KIN own them
Citizens, take for text the farewell words OF the
Father Of his County, addressing his last advice TO the
chidpen over whom ne had watched and guarded, and
from whom be about TO be parted forever. A
father about TO die collects bis children around hlm,
b. stow- bis paternal benedicon upon them; exhots
them TO fraterna affection uters prayer for their
happi esq., and resigns his soul to his Maker Upper
mot In h,s thoughts and deepest in bis heart the
wish for family harmony and for brOherly and ssterly
affection Pace in the family circle is the last ssp'
ration of his ps-tbe last pulsation of his bosom. e
dies praying for peace among his descendants Such
is the last of the natural father, parting from
of bin lcps, but he took to himself whole nation of
beloved and cherished children. He was the Father
of his Country and dying, he initiated the natural
father and left his benedictOn his paternal blessing
his last advice-and bis eternal words TO t1e ni-
tionsl family which be had adopted; whose in
fancy he had protected, and whose future vel
fare and greatness was the supreme object Oh hi5
heart. Peace and harmony was his prayer. oJeal-
ousies or heartbmDingsno sectional divisions or an-
tpathes-Do geographical distinctons-no North-no
Southwas the prayer of his soul and the burden OF
his invocaron and that last and paernal PRAYER has
b. en- granted until lately transient cou dark aud
porte ntous had sometimes threatened to mar the gen.
eral harmony; but and patriotic men, by safe AMI
gentle measures, had always carried off the threatening
storm ard VT peace and sunshine to overspread tue
land. Four Yeas ayo seemed to have attained
the bghest point Of cur harmony aud felicity We were
in the fullest enjoyment Of Wasbiogtons wish The bar
mopy and fraternsl aectioo Of the Union complete
altcfv nf fha IA, hotb
its highest Pres eat was elected with unpar-
sleled ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS States out Of thirty
one voting for the same man, and he a Northern
mar. 1wothros If each House of Congress
conesponded in sentiment with the President
elpwiDg unanimlty in the national councils
never before witnessed at the accession OF
Q new administration. The commencement
Of the session OF Congress, ls5354 was politi ,al
millennium. UDivera bardIoty prevailed. 6rotheriy
feeling peivaded the two Houses. National good WILL
and desire TO do well the public Business was the
temper Of all. Ii seemed that nothing could ruffe, OF
mar the universal good feeling which prevailed. Two
members from The free States tried it. and failed They
delivered their customary ha al cues upon the evils OF
Slavery; their barangues fell d. al upon the hbOr-a1d
were bot repeated. they died under the c)d aud
silent indifference of the House. Abolition agitation
was dead-extDct under pablic opinion, aud the laws
of the land, which had settled 1t everywhere and eft
not an bch Of territory which the question Of Slavery
could be raised. 1t has been circulated that the CON-
pr ,mise Of 1850 settled IT. IL IS mist AXE;
Il wac settled before; and the merit If that ses-ijn
was, TOT tndt VI rtttlinB duys usiloH, pu' euu"
of not disturbing what tue lave had already
settled. Its interference, was non iotefer-
ence with law and the lesson which 1T taught
was tie wise let son TO let the laws alone. There
wac not inch square of territory at that time in tbs
Union on which the Slavery question was not alreaty
setted by law. Look over the map of the Uoion aud
you will il. In the remnant Of the North-west
Ttui'oy above Wisconsin, 1t settled by the orfi
nance u 1887; 10 the former Province of Louisiana 1t
was settled up to the Rocky Mountains and to the
British lin g, by the Missouri Compromise line OF 1885,
In Oregon settled by the gabic Territorial law
of 1913; in New Mexico, Utah aud California 1t was
sett. by the laws of Mexico in the District of Co.
iunba It settled by the laws of the States from
which the District had been acq tired This consti-
tues the entire extent Of the United States territories
at that time-all quiet under the operation OF existing
laws. and no way TO open the Slavery question any
where, except by repeating Of these Laws; and
thar vas thing which the Congres, of 1850 would
not do and did DO Attempts were made 10 repeal
the Mexican Anti,S'avery laws in New Mexico, Utah
aud California; Congress refused 20 do II. Attempts
were made to exienu the Misso an Compromi:a line TO
the Pacific Oct Coz gress refused to extend il.
Attempts were made to eouhrm tue Mexican laws by
the Wiimot proviso; Congress refused to adopt the
proyiso. Ii would pass no new law upon the subject
Of slavery, because, TO do that woHo require the
peal Of rome existing laws and thereby reopen the
havery question. Congress refused to pass the VIII
mot provso because the Mexican laws in the terrho-
ries 10 which 1t was applied had already abolished
Slavery there, and the prcviso while unnecessary IN
itself TO the object Of MS friends pesferous oy
reopening the Slavery agitation. At the sion OF
1850 and before II uced the qucslon OF slavery
beg ation had been foreclos.d throughout the Whole
extent Of territories; forecosed by previous less-
iaiion and Congress refused To reopen the
any way, that previous legislation Tns
was the state Of the Slavery question, aud the
Slavery agitstios when the rst Congress met IN ier
Mr. fierce's Aomnisr son 10 the session Ut ls3J-34
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