The daily union., 1856-12-30

the ad0pr0n Of the Constitution il was Immediately
FirsI CongEs Ths rIIs by whieh he Unssd sses held
the territory beyond the Ohio making tue i've States
thai side Of the river Of the precisely
that BY which they acquired louisiana from France
Both rest the Sooung Every essential provision
the IN the TWO gran the one from Virginia and
the other from Francs. shall therefore in all have 70
say Of them the conduct of the United States IN r
these dierent Territories which sy possessed
being precisely the resting on the same principles
and Identical in character.
hat has been ha sfect7 shall hereafter show more
y and Al large why the power Of prohibiting slavery
ia the Territories has been exercised and repeated and
continued By unbroken succession Of acts frOm that
tune up 10 very recent perodwhin the Last ten years
Congress enaced them because the institution Of slavery
which they considered should cease for II il con-
naued il woaid producs social and political condition
Of society incompatible with the great principles they had
adopted Now, Whst has been the progress Of events
has been the result and the fruit OF that
After the First Congress had declared the Territories
which they then owned 20 be eousecrated 70 freedom
after they had fully provided and declared that slavery
should there forsyeras they ended the In
dian difficulties by the treaty Of Grsens and opened up
thai country for peaceabe possession-hen commenced
great OF emigration that great exodus Of civil
life which has astonshed and Commanded the admiration
OF the world Even within nay recollection can remem-
Der almost the very Of that great emgr
The people Of New England and the East, looking
the West commenced the first emigration remember
into Western New York they went on TO the Genesee
and they then went TO the Holland purchase The
passed on 10 Ohio Then they passed the
great lakes Michigan and Illinois and Wisconsin and
borders Of the Atlantic from Pennsylvania New York. and
New Jersey, and North Carolina, snd Virginia you
the boating the Ohio, leaving the much-euIU
gzed institution Of slavery going with the West swell
ths great tde Of emigration and add to the success Of the
great experiment in the cause Of civil liberty.
We bat in this phase in the history Of
the world Nothing like il has been witnessed before
know there bad been rrupens AZ times of passing
from the north Of Europe-the Goshs and Vandals the
Hans and Scythans-to the south but they great
aOrdes Of barbarans marshaed BY ministers and kings
in nf farnigr
Tamerlane Gheugis Khan there 10 AttIla
Of the Huns. II not rrupou visiting the wrath
God the degenerate people No, sir; il the hu-
family led out 70 possess its great patrimony Who
could look with indifference npon experiment Ike this
We saw in il not merely enlargement Of our numbers
and an increase Of population we admired il not merely
because the forest cleared away and farms houses
and dwellings towns and cities churches and school
houses everywhere erected but spread over the
great fertile valleys Of the West its prares and it's eds
and its moantains we saw IN il an enlargement and ex
pansion Of the great theory Of government for which
fathers first landed here which had been easserted in the
Declaration Of Independence which bad been sustained BY
the prohibiting the extension Of slavery.
These people carried with them their household gods
away the foot Of the Rocky mountains and we saw
in il manifestation 10 the world a. large Of the great prn
ciples held dear Every man specially every man In
View England realized thar the best Of his own blood was
beating their vens Every man feIt in duty bound 70
contribute Of his example his cement and bis
THIS experiment in the Of civil liberty and hu-
manity and i any man in New England should with
notd his e1cruous or WITHHOLD his his
would seAvs to the roof Of bis mouth. And yet air in
all this the President nothing but auatcA prop
agaton Of peculiar domestic theories Il was spread
ing the Territories those ameoranu conditions ana
influences spread over New Enxland He think.
thai any man sEd especially any Of sL associate
70 assist IN this experi@ are entitled ,o nothing but
! dla:=rrprooariOu and executive apprehension
fancy, sir that those much-abiSoi members az Con-
gress know Who they were but suppose they were
W both houses-who presumed undertake 70 advance
their aid towards The extension Of this great institution
Z iuTlnw r~a II -ms44wsa
7nfhng but 4abotonEing Kansas that such is all we
nave been doing and that all fathers have ben DO
ing in what they have IAbored and suffered and fought
and bled, Tor these IwO hundred years We are daily
abused for starting theories Of goverumeat new views
Of the constitution and Tery ingenious riddles put out
for Those who view the subisct in anything ike the
Light In which have attempted present sl very much
As II doing great work and stop at tie
suggestion Of Others who do not appreciate il
Vow sir, proceed TO another point wish 70 inquire
why this prohibition Of slavery IN the Territories
acted, and why il has been continued propose in the
next place 10 show who has done iby what authority
has been done ani IN the third plsoe show that
measures hare been taken within the years 70
eTrupt that course for local and sectional purpose and
fer political causes By The southern people which
Occ2sioned the necessity or and called forth The
o. and thus far prompted The erertous Of the republican
party.
ted States govsrnment bad over the Territories r.
Gsey The same IA those vhirh vere derived om Prsno.
and in those which derived from Virginia ~ ~ -
on Of The region bsyoud the Ohio The two grants con-
an diuerence "a they spuiAou and no difference ID
anything Which . essential First advert 70 the
title obtained L0aissnA the President mas opa,.d
from the treaty Of cessiOn In thai treaty declared
The French republic hss title % the Do
main GDd the gossessiou q the sad rsrtoy. Toe Pirt
Consul % the French republic drsirtpE give Uufed
Stzbs strong proof q hs friendship doth hsrsby o~ds q
the United statss in the name q ne PSBoh reyubHo
ever, aHs - Jsa sorersagny, tho SID Territory"
This IL the arst article The seoond zoes on 70 provide
for ssnds d. and tbs delivery up q he muuimenv o.
title The third Is
The inhabitants Of the osdsd territory ha s tpcor,o
rated into the Union of the United 2t-t-s admitted A.
possible, scoording principles o. u. federal
constitution % the ejoynent of al the rights sdrsutsges
and lmmunities of cxens of the Uaited
time they shall be maintained and protected TIE free
thsJ profess" /
The provision in relation the protection of their pror
erty s inserted asafan o5.ila The result would be
the whether IL inserted this article or not u,
no matter for thAtit inserted. What provided
that they should become part of The United Ststs
and bs admitted into the Onion proper tina acror
ing the Of the constitution and Ia the mean while
should Be proeCtsd in their persona property and -e.
sion.
grant to tSs United States aE we'll of so of ursaie
fiOa, upon condition that
The tsritory oded shall Be aid 1ut il States of on
vsniept rEs"-
describing theR-noi srceeding % many o. as near
FhsBsto az circumstances uill admit
"snd that the States formed shall Re dne r-puhISo
States and admitted members u the Unipn having
n. ssns rEst q soVsrsgny, frsedom and independence
The grant made in the year I7s4: and all the in
5Ablaun then In that Territory there the lsw
non under General Clarke established there before
treaty of lT61 II q further provided.