Daily American organ., 1856-08-13
WH,aLE NO. $40.

s'on he was by acceptance and ado. 'uon; he We
~ hls CABINET and his administration: HI was dor
- uy lhc presence and counsel of CaIho, ~ tf'
.n.I.u, oi the very idea Of Southern str f
Sono"ucsion and it is understood that tho raaolr
tons came down from the Secretarv of q, ~ IL
was lhr calhoun that ii was his inanance MI
despatched the resolutions TO Texaa f
| On .he iast day OF President Tyers term. and NJ
FOX, though on the spot, did not recall them -
inat resolution declares that all the territorv
sonln. of 30 deg 30 min, whenever Texas sbonij
be divided, shall come into the Union wiz o
without slavery, as the States NAV determine ond
tnat, az such State or States-(I ask gentlemen 10
pear the word Statein mind lin those States which
snah pe formed out OF 80 much of the Texan ter
fitory as lies north of 36 deg. 80 min.--in tho
otateS-tl wish the word to burn itself into their
scared consciences. 1t is the thing which was in
issue m the Missouri struggle Itwas the oalything
which was there disputed. Iis thi,a0 which WAS
decided in the Missouri controversy in favor of tho
south 70 be an unconstitutional limitation on tle
soVere'gn equality Of the States)--in those States
which shall be formed out of the territory north of
That line, slavery and involuntary servitude sAqH
oe prohibited And James Buchanan was one Of
the Democratic majority who advocated and
Time rolled on, and another Territory was tobe
organized. Again, with that remarkable luck
which has followed them-which has msled them
to their deep undoing--they had the majority in
this Hall, they had majority in both branches of
the councils OF the nation, when the Territory cr
oregon was to be organized; and again that ma
| lo1ty adopted that restriction--word for word
.ne ordinance OF 1887. Again Democratic Pres
ident Mr., Polk signed it, and not merely SO signed
but with further declaration, not that he expect.
ed hts TO be the Test of fitnot merely that slavery
was there impossible or mprobable--butup upon the
expectation that IL Mould be again passed 6v that
o. another Congress, adopted and Incorporated
INTO fhe acts for the settlement of the Merican
conqaests es Es
neither affirm the correctness nor the incor.
rectness OF this view simply urge the fact which
Northern Democrats pleaded against Southern
Democrats.
But, said my honorable friends upon the Demo-
cratic side OF this hall, to their Democratic friends
from the North--for there is where Il DETECTION
arose, there is where the strength of the Republi-
can party comes from--out of their own side came
that portentous 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 of Jciug inrou-
SsStent 7oath the Compromise measures of 1850
Those measures have repealed it. All but, said
their Northern Democratic friends continuing
their rcmonstrance, the law which organized the
Territory OF New Mexico, in dealing with the boun-
Diary of Texas declared in so many words that
nothing therein contained should be construed
TO repeal or modify anything contained in that very
clause Of the Texas resolution.
These Northern Democrats still further merci.
essly press their Democratic brethren, as if to
leave my honorable friends on my left no ,scape
from the most awkward Of dlemmas If il be true
that the principle of popular sovereignty was set
tied by the Compromise measures of 1850 low
came il TO be omitted in the legislation of ls53---
since the acts OF 1850 were enacted? The Con
gress in 1858, with great Democratic majority
organized the Territory of Washington out Of ter
ritory over which tho Ordinance of 1887 had been
dy Meat in lS4S,. extended and that Congress, in
the year Of grace 1853, and Of the era of the new
dispensation the Sd, not merely failed to remove
that restriction but declared that the laws of Orc
gon should be in force in the Territory Of Wash
ington chich lars erclded SLAVERY 5y special a.
dctnent, in flagrant conflict with the principle
which they now de clare to have been the very vital
principle embodied in and pervading tho acts OF
1850. You know as well as we do that these
Compromise measures of 1850 have always been
regarded and treated a fnality-the end Of
controversy--that this last compromise this great
Compromise OF 1850, was settled upoal The bases
OF NIL the preceding comproniseS-on the assump-
tion and the concession as stated by Mr.. Webster,
that every foot of territory in the United States
was finally settled by laws irrepeaable, and that
it was only on that supposition that the laws OF
1850 became laws Mt ALL Only last session Won
passed bill creating government over all the
Territory now embraced in the Kansas and Nc
braska act, without opposition, merely by common
consent; ard no man of any party had discovered,
or IT he had discovered revealed still less attempt.
ed to declare the novel dogma of a latent princi.
pie not even expressed in act being effectualto
annu another law enacted on a different princi-
pie. From argument they passed to cntreaty and
pathetic appeal. These thirty years we have lived
under this law. 1t has injured no man. No South
ern State protested against its enactment-none
in 1850 demanded its repeal; many Southern men
pressed its extension to the Pacific No Southern
state now demands IL; no tempest agitates the
popular mind which its repeal can quiet; no great
national necessity compels the statesman in the high
election between opposite evils, to tread this un-
trod path. You say your object is not a new slave
State--thcn let it be as IL is You say the North
eIn tide of emigration will insure ts freedom. Then
why do the nugatory act of repeating law which
changes no result? Why disturb the peace Of the
country by this wound inflicted on the preiudices
OF your Northern brethren? Deliver us not over
into the hands of the Aboltionists. They are
ever watchful to rebel against the overthrow Of
1850. We stood by you then-wH you 5etray us
aao1c rE r
Well, sir, this bill passed. come to the de-
plorable sequel. 1t was an invitation for all the
elements OF strife to concentrate in Kansas. The
executive representing the combined factions Of
both North and South ought to have been douby
careful to have taken some man from the North
or South who was far above the suspicion, strong
to resist solicitations, strong to repel menaces,
magnanimously above private personal and pecu-
mary considerations. He could have taken such
a man as my friend from Oregon, TMr LANE
now in my eye they should have taken a man
with nerve enough not to be frightened by threats
or menaces, and honest enough not TO be moved
by promises; they should have taken man who
knew Of border life, with military experience
enough to set battalion in the field, whose head
would not be dizzy az the fash of steel, who would
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