American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-10-11

formed out Of so much Of the Texan terrific
| ry as lies north of sc deg. 30 min.--n thOs
Stdies-U wish the word TO burn itself into
their scared consciences,) # is the thin,
which was in issue in the Missouri struggle
1t was the only thing which was there dispu
ted. II is The thing which was decided il
the Missouri controversy in favor Of theSoull
to be an unconstitutional limitation on tn,
sovereign equality Of The States)-in ,hos,
States which shall be formed out of the ter
ritory north of that line, slavery and invol
untary serviiude shall be prohibited. Ant
James Buchanan was one OF the Democrat,
majority who advocated and sed it
Time rolled on, and another Territory wa,
TO be organized. Again, with that remark.
able luck which has followed them--whlch
| has misled them to their deep undoing-
they had the majority i'm this Hall, they had
a majority in both branches of the councils
o! the nation, when the Territory of Oregon
was 10 be organized ; and again that ma
Jorliy adopted that restrictions. word fu]
word, the Ordinance of 1887. Again Dem.
ocratic President, Mr.. Polk, signed il, and
not merely so signed but with further
declaration, not that he expected this to b.
The last Of h-not merely that slavery wa,
there impossible or improbable por
the expectation that il toould be again passed
| 6y that or another Congress, adopted or incor
poratcd into the acts for The settlement of th,
Merican conqtests
| neither affirm The correctness nor the
incorrectness of this view simply urge
the fact which Northern d ,mocrats pleaded
against Southern Democrats
But, said my honorable friends upon the
| Democratic side Of this hall, TO their Demo.
Irr rni fri ha IL. IL
where the detection se.--there is where
the strength of the Republican party comes
from--ou, Of their own side came that por.
tentious creation whence comes this sin and
all our woe into our happy world--we say
that we have reversed all that, and those
laws and compromises are void. by reason oil
| beihg inconsistent 1rih the Compromise mea
sures OF 1850. Those measures have repeal.
ed ii. All but said their Nortbern Demo
| cratic friends, continuing their relmonstrance,
the law which organized the territory of New
Mexico. in dealing with the boundary OF
Texas, declared in so many words that no
| thing therein contained should be cons trued
to repeal or modify anything contained in
that very clause of the Texas resolution.
These Northern Democrats still further
mercilessly press their Democratic brethren,
os i TO leave my honorable friends on ms
lett no escape from the most awkward Of di.
emmas. II il be true that the principle OF
popular sovereignty was settled by the Com.
promise measures Of 1850, how came it to
be omitted Ia the legislation of 1853 since
the acts of 1850 were enacted ! The Con.
gress in 1853, with great Democratic ma,
jorty, organized the Territory Of Washing
ton ont of Territory over which the Ordi
nance of 1887 had been, by Them, in 1913
extended and that Congress, i'm the year oil
grace 1888, and OF the era of The new dis
| pensation the 3D., not merely failed to re.
move that restriction, but declared that the
laws OF Oregon should be in force in The
Territory of Washington phich lars erclu
ded slauery by special enactment, in flagrant
conflict with the principle which they now
declare to have been the very vital princi
pie embodied in and pervading the acts oil
| 1850. You know as well as we do thai
these Compromise measures OF 1850 have
always been regarded and treated as final
| ity-the end Of controvcrsy--that this last
COMPROMISE, this great Compromise of 1850
was settled upon The bases Of all the preceding
compromises The assumption and the
concession, as stated by Mr.. Webster. ,ha
every foot OF territory in the United States
was finally settled by laws irrepeala BILE ,and
that it was only on that supposition that the
laws OF 1850 became laws at all. Onlv las
session you passed bill creating govern
ment over all the Territory now embraced
IN the Kansas and Nebraska act, wthou
| opposition, merely By common consent; anC
no man of any party had discovered, or il
| ne had discovered revealed still less at
tempted to declare, the novel dogma of a la
tent principle not even expressed in an act
being eiiectual TO annul another law enact
ed on different principle. From argu
ment they passed to ensteaty and pathetic
appeal. These thirty years we have LIVED
under the law. 1t has injured no man. NJ
Southern State protested against its enact
ment-none in 1850 demanded its repeal
many Southern men pressed its extension t
the Pacific. No Southern State now demands
It no tempest agitates the popular mnt
which Its repeal can quiet no great notion
al necessity compes the statesman, in tn,
hish election between opposite evils, t
tread this untrod path. You say your obiec
is not new slave State--then let i, be as /
is. You say the Northern tide of emigra
ton will insure its freedom. Then why d,
the nugatory act Of repeating law whicl
changes no result? Why disturb the peac
OF the country by this wound inflicted oi
The prejudices Of your Northern brethren
Deliver us not over into the hands of tb,
Abolillonists. They are ever walchful t
rebel against the overthrow Of 1850. w
stood by you then--will you bctray US now
Well, sir, this bill passed come to tn
deplorable sequel. 1t wos.an invitation 70
all the elements of strife TO concentrate il
Kansas. The executive representing .h
combined factions of both North and Soutl
ought to have been doubly careful to hav
taken some man from tho North or Sout
wfio was far above the suspicion, strong I
resist solicilations, strong TO repel menaces
magnan mously above private, personal, an
pecuniary considerations. He could hav
taken such aman ss my friend from Oregon
! MI LANE. nov in my eye they shoul
have taken man with nerve enough not {
be frightened by threats or menacos, an
homes, enough not 10 be moved by promis
es; they should have taken man VIII
knew. OF border life, with military cxper
ence enough TO set battalion in The felt