Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-11
From the Antsavery Standard
RELATIONS OF THE FREE STATES WITH
MISSOURI.

chusetts alone for the admission of Missouri had
been reversed, she would not have been received
into the Union. 1t is true that her reception with
the blight and stain of slavery was contrary TO
The cherished sentiments of those States and the
rectitude of those sentiments and the wisdom of
the opposition have been too well verified
Out of the repugnance which Massachus setts
manifested, thirty-hve years ago. to the formation
OF the Missouri Compact has been concoctcd
principal argument for its recent repudiation
That State, say her "weak hearted enemies" dis.
missed with disgrace the agents who. on her part
agreed to it, and she has since sought to abro-
gate it.
If n sovereign State finds her settled and solemn
convictions derided, and her interests and honor
betrayed by her agents, in transaction Of the
highest Importance and she discards them yet
abides by the agreement they made and faithfully
performs her part of it, does this furnish a reason
why the other party, after receiving the full value
of that performance, should fly off as soon as
benefit was beginning to accrue to her and to the
cause of freedom, by whose inspirations she was
actuated?
Suppose the accusation true, that Massachusetts,
and other free States sought to annul the contract
would this affect the obligations of the other party?
Are not American statesmen, and especially those
of the slave section, now demanding the abrOga-
ton modification of the Central American
Treaty with Great Britain? Is that compact any
the less in force and to remain until altered
or annulled by mutual consent of the contracting
parties?
In point of fact Massachusetts never sought the
abrogation or modification of the Missouri Com
pact. Reluctantly and Indignantly she acuuesced
in it, but stood loyalty by it, Malignels of the
noble old Common wealth, whose enmity does her
honor, have erretted out the fact that some of her
citizens demonstrated against the admission of
Arkansas as slave State and that Mr.. Adams .
voted againstit; but they omit to tell their CON
sttuents that he voted against it not as slave
State for he fully admitted its title to be re-
ceived), but as sovereign State, emascuating /
itself, by an unnatural, ant-republican and in
human provision of its Constitution, of the power
to remove the chains of a slave
In respect to the remOnstrances from Massa-
chusetts that occasion, our answer is ready and
brief few Of the citizens of that State never
did acquiesce in the Missouri Compromise. We
were among them. We prepared II memorial to
Congress against Arkansas slave State, and
procured a hundred and fifty signers, and we feel
pleasure in the retrJspection. The Missouri Com
promise the offspring of intrigue and treachery
1t was fraud upon the free States vol in its
formation as its subversion. But did this resist
ance by argument and entreaty, addressed to both
parties, impair it's obligation? If minority of a i
mercantile firm should propose to repudiate a con-
tract, and majority determine TO stand by it, aud
the whole company continue to perform and to pay
how could this relieve the other party from the
obligation to fulfil their part; BY an upright tr.
bunal the attempt to justify a breach on such
frivolous and addacious 2ret,xt would be deemed
an aggravaton of the injury, and good ground OF
enhancing damages.
sue. oucn wre'cheu suo'erluges are unconscious con
aso"s Vi 'ne ini'ii'"u u''u ue"i's "Eo,@ "ilIcI
was a c0mpact between us and the wrong doers,
"a''a eson '.ieS I uusotu pIpu' 40 my n"otu'"S
.oG ",i ~ W
So h @ Nv, ,h Gdi @i oG "e'o,
attempts to infringe t-an expedent more i'm
moral and dishonorable than the fraud it was in
tended to hide 1t added to bad faith hypocrisy, $
falsahoOd and calnmny e
Va &C thn h,,-, o.,,;tt % l,., s
y. sn1 N0I!n n'.o 0'o" bul'ty VI o'.e "oSI-
atoh iron, tne Mi9s"ur compact ana II Is tne ohIy
que Vi "hch nlssouTr1hS anu thelF coat1"t2rs
nave ~. "oouSeo US. ihci' "'"te was o['Siu"Iiy
rouuueu on tile MooS oy euG nortu anu SCUM
nei "h'ch cuV 5"e MiSSourl AZ itS confluence WIN
1ne h"nsuS, anu e"c',Ieu ul! S"o ht'G Iia''t
n'er regon' Dy the missouri N"mpac' inaV tract
was was cnhsecra'eu forever 10 freedom IN common
W.. an ,io los. - tio ieti"'5 no'tn anu "gS'
NJ AZ eno ~ ~Niissoufi' oItio h''etn years "So tue {
@ iliis eonoeNeu NeSIIe W grasp tiat tract
,Ho .noJ LAY nai al e%uy 'oio .ei'i'oI ''H ,Iuy
os'I o'a'e' an ~, nu''y tn '''io' o' lu'" DIS NAtS
enouuSo.,S. lnetI pp':vl't'nS e"S'r " E'"uy
.ten anu M ~ secure !nei' 'aV"r, SeI 20 WofN 10
os,ad, nosa VI. ~ ui 'ls ie
Pn"'euy % :o'I Vno ''oiy 70 S'Ss 'n"' nc person.
Sy eoiic'eu 'no conseu1 VI N1rtncsh iheinnerS OF
W .u'o ei''et ouY "H.es W eoSter
a Ims no ip
Hn,so NJ p;'r 49, ~ 'o etGoo' =" t"e
I1ouse' MI DrIggstneh ahepreSehta'Ne ana since Il
tho y. 10 IT, nu' lor
tat;o &c ~; 49,; - ..s' " is' l,i e9o
titVe OF M ssoufl priVately entreated t!e Massa-
Unusets iienoer 70 Wi'huraw His Gpposion, rep
Iesen1ng .ha' II was gore Oh lana; w'io ana OF
iil.e Value except 70 missouri ana important to
her oniy as estapnShhS hef boundary on the river
IL was nothing to the Eastern States but would be
regarded as a boon by Missouri Mr.. Briggs, with
misplaced magnanlmty and with that fatal
facility which has cooperated with brutal threats
ana rank corruption to bring things to the present
pass, yielded bis consent and the bill was passed
IL was IN reality bill to abrogate the Missouri
com pact IN respect to more than three thousand
square miles oi the choicest territory Doth Tor soil
ana SITUATION 10 whlch Inc compromise applied.
p I. now forms form, seven Counties according to Mr.: