Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-15
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TUESDAY. JANUARY Is. 1856,
rh~ pr..,aep,,. Message, Again.


an abject submission to the slavery influence
and such ,monstrous perversion Of logic Il
bolster up tho pretensions of the slave propa
gandists, that in singing out any particular
portion Of itgor comment, we can hardly de
eide which deserves the seyerest apprehension
But the following choice specimen of the dole
full jeremands overthe danger Of the dissolu
ion Of the Union, Of which the weak backed
doughfaces Of the North, from the President
down, are SO constitutionaIly prone to deliver
themselves, and with which that portion Of
the message abounds, may be quoted to Illus
trate its general tenor =
:. 1t is necessary to speak thus plainly OF
projects the offspring Of that sec ional aSita-
ton now prevailing in some OF me otales'
which are as impractcable as they are uneon-
stitutional, and which, if persevered in, must
and will end calGniito@siy. It is either disun-
son and cira uar, or it is mere idle, angry,
harmless disturbance of public peace and
tranquility. Disunion for what
Such is the language which the President
Of the United States uses concerning the en-.
deavors now made to apply the doctrines Of
Thomas Jefferson, as embodied in the ordi-
nance of 81, to the present time. DisuaiO"
and civl ,car, to be the results of the practical
application of the principles of the Declare
ton OF Independence to the national domain
of the Republic
But to showthe utter hypocricy Of the Pres
ident, in advancing such ideas as these, and
to show that he was fully conscious of their
futile nature, it is necessary onlyto quote from
another paragraph of his message, almost IN
close juxtaposition with the above extract, in
hich the President declares with the utmost
confidence that dissolution of the Union,
under the circumstances, is "1MpossIBLE !"
that "the storm of frenzy and faction [mean-
ing abolitionism must Inevitably dash itself
IN VAIN against the UNsHGKEN rock of the
Constitution" and that he (the President)
KNEW, and should NEVER DOUBT, s'that the
Union is stronger, thousand times, than all
the wild and chimerical schemes of social
change which are generated, one after anoth-
er, in the unstable minds Of visionary sophists
and interested AaIrAToRs."
What more is necessary to show the base
less foundation of all the arguments on the
part-of the Union savers, to induce the free
men of the North to forego the rigid app1ica-
ton of their principles in all their adicalness,
70 the present circumstances of the time.
through any fear OF a disruption of the con-
federacy.
The President shows himselfto be singular
ly at variance with history in saying that the
Missouri Compromise was reluctantly &C.
guessed in by the Southern States as sac
r.jsee to the cause of peace and of the Union,"
and be adduces such a Justification of fact as
an argument in favor of the subsequent repeal
OF that compromise, in order to relieve the
South Of the burden thereby imposed on it! Z
Now, what says the s'voice of history on
this points The Missouri Compromise prop
osition was brought forward in Congress in
---~ssrer from RIEryIanu, anu
urged upon the country by shareholders, and
it was passed in the Senate by the vote of ey-
cry Southern member but two, and against
the votes Of every Northern Senator except
four. In the House, it was welcomed with
JOY by Southern members, and was urged up-
on that body by a committee of conference, a
majority of which consisted of inAexible par
tisans Of the South, appointed by slayehold.
ing presiding officers in both branches of Con-
gress, John Gaillard of South Carolina being
President of the Senate, end Henry Clay
Speaker of the House. This committee, thus
constituted, was unanimous in favor Of the
compromise, and its Recommendation was
adopted in the House by a vote of eighty
seven to eighty-one, the South going almost
in body for it, and the North generally
against it, excepting few doughfaces, enough
to turn the scale, and give the South six ma
jOrity.
Ddes all this look as if the Missouri com
promise was reluctantly acquiesced in by
the South" when it was she who urged it
and gloried over its adoption Hon. Charles
e. Pinckney. OF South Carolina, member Of
Congress, writing home from Washington at
the time when the Missouri compromise was
passed, claimed it as Southern Triumph
He said" 1t will give the South, in short
time, an addition of six, and perhaps eight,
members to the Senate of the United States.
IL is considered here, BY the slaDehoIaing States,
as a great triumph The six Senators have
already been added, and a still larger propor- !,
tionate increase of slaveholding representation
has been made in the House, and vet we
have had the repeal Of that compromise, after
the South had thus reaped all its share of its
fruits, urged upon us by Northern men, before
the North had begun to reap any benefit in
the bargain, as matter of justice to the
South
In order to defend that Unconstitutional and
ubiquitous piece of legislation, the fugitive
slave law, the President is obliged to mt
words in the Constitution which are not there.
and this he does with great sang froid, and
palms them off as the language Of that instru-
ment He says:
I" Like all other local interests Of the sew
efnl States, each State expressly stipulated as
well fef tsrlf az for each aud all Of it's citizens,
and every citizen Of each Stats became SOL
omniy bound BY his allegiance TO the Consti.
tuition, that any person held 10 service or labor
in one State escaping into another, should
not in consequences Of any law or regulation
thereof, be discharged from such service or la.
Dor. bat should be delivered up on claim of
the party 10 whom such service or labor might
be due, By the laws Of his State"
Here the President gives. the exact words
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