Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-04-16
Tag RaF TsmAnss JOURNAL.

a SOUTHERN JOURNAL SPEAKING OUT.
Some days since the Richmond (Va.) .ap,eri-
can thus spoke in relation to the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise
ssAll the political troubles, perplexities and
difficulties of every kind, that have taken place
in the settlement of Kansas, and the enactment
and solution of such laws as are essentially
necessary to the good order and well being of
civilized society, are but the natural results
of the iniquitous and dishonest repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. The eagitation and ex-
citement growing out of the question of sla-
very in the Territories of the Union had been
amicably adjusted by the Compromise measure
of 1850, underthe Wing administration of Mil
lard Fillmore, and the whole country was rest
ing in confident security that the vexed qucs-
tion was finally settled, when that unprincfpled
mounfebanh and political denagogHe, Stephen
A. Douglas, under the imbecile, hypocritical
and corrupt administration of Franklin Pierce,
ripped up a settlement made by the Patriots
and Statesmen, mon of lofty intellects and I'M
questioned integrity, and thus re-opened the
slavery agitation, which, if there is any rcli-
anee to be placed in the fears expressed by the
gered the very existence Of the Union ITSELF
For this honest and fearless expression of
the truth, it has been called to q severe account
by the Enquirer, the organ of the Virginia
Democracy, and denounced inviolent terms as
unfaithful and untrue to the South. In reply
to all which the .8rnericGn says
We did assail Douglas, Pierce and all others,
who aided in the ruthless, wanton and unne
cessary repeal of compromise made by states
men and patriots, whose names are recorded
in the political history of our country as among
its brightest ornaments-a compromise that
constitutes the chief glory of the illustrious
Clay-a compromise, upon which Texas was
annexed to this Union as one of the States Of
which it now forms part-a compromise,
which all conservative men had supported for
period of 81 years, during the whole Of which
time the people in all sections of the country
had quietly acquicsced-a compromise so sa-
cred in its principles as to fully justify J. K.
Polk in the estimation of all Southern Loco
Foeos, for signing the Wilmot Proviso in the
Oregon bill, and yet, the Enquirer has the au-
dacity to charge Monroe, Calhoun, Crawford,
Writ, Clay, Lowndes, Pinckney, King, and
large majority of the Southern delegation in
Congress at the time, with having degraded
the South, and to praise Douglas and Pierce,
for having sblotted out the degradation.
If there be anything "degrading to Southern
equality and Southern rights in the Missouri
line, which we utterly deny, then is it ten fold
more degrading, in our opinion, to submit
Southern equality and Southern rights to the
decision of the squatters who may choose to
take possession OF so much Of our territory as
may suit there own purposes, without regard
to .i,eIv color, and to say whether we of
the south are to enjoy our property, or not, in
such territory according to their will. Ifthe
Enquirer can venture to denounce such men
as these, whose names we have mentioned,
We are inclined to think it requires no extra
ordinary degree of boldness to denounce such
trifing creatures as Douglas and Pierce.