The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-13

aave-trade in the District Of Coumbathe Texas bound
airy h-territoria governments for Utah and New Mex
! co--and tho fugtye-saye law What the benefits
accrung the South under these measures We secured
nothing by the admission q California as free Male
nothing by the Congress of the United States undertaking
to hbsrdts slave who was brought into this District
and offered for sale or transported through the District
for the purpose OF sale notwithstanding by running
the line OF 36 deg 80 min. down to 80 degrees III
the Texas-boundary bill-nohing by the fugdyeslaye
law for the eonSon gave us the right to recapture our
slaves before Then what ask did the South get All
she did receive was the recognition by Congress OF the
right of the people of Utah and Mexico when they
TO form their State constitution TO determine for them
selves whether they will admit reject slavery have
sir the act before and these the words used "And
when admitted rs State the said Territory any por-
ton of the same shall be received into the Union with
without slavery their constitution may prescribe at the
time of their admission portion of these two Terrific
ries extends ADORE the Missouri Compromise line and to
that extent abrogaed and repealed it, and settled the
great principle which ought to have been yielded
by the South that the territories of the United States
the property Of all the States and the of the
North and of the South might enter upon them with what
property under the constitution and determine
for themselves whether they would would not have
slavery when they organized State government This
much was granted to us by these acts that the people OF
the Territories should determine for themselves without
the intervention upon the part of Congress- the character
OF their domestic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. nor less.
Man. patriotic in the South dissatisfied with
these measures whole, and many dissatisfied be-
cause they felt tst compromise could be made
with the enemies of slavery which would not be repudia
ted upon the first occasion being offered by which they
could do and tie history of the country since that time
shows that this is true and the future will be the past
peace will ever be enjoyed so long make
sions to this abolition sentiment
To the high state Of public excitement in the southern
States in 1885, and the patriotic devotion of few north
to the constitution of the country indeb
ed for this great principle in the compromise bills of that
day This principle recognised by the national de-
mocracy in 1852 as cardinal doctrine in their political
creed majority of the great whg party did the same
and the country for time seemed to be quiet under this
"fnal adjustment of the much-vexed slavery question
The abolition cloud which for many years had hung
threatenngy the land seemed about to pass away
and every patriotic heart North and South, would have
reoced at such happy termination of our internal dis
cord; but 30 far from it, has gathered strength and
comes with fearful forebodings than it has at
any time before.
ernmens for Nebraska and Kansas bill reported
containing the principle recognised in the Utah and New
Mexican bill of 1850 touching TIE subject of slavery and
which reads as follows
That the constitution and laws of the United States
and effect within the said Territory Of Kansas elsewhere
in the United states except the section no OF o he
proved March 1920 which, being inconsistent with the
principle of ention by Congress with slavery in
the States and Territories recognised by the legislation OF
1850 commonly called the compromise measures is hereby
and void il being the true intent and
meaning of this act not to legsate slavery into Terri
tory or State exclude it herero but to leave the
people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their do
mec institutions in their own way subject only to the con-
stitution of the United States"
And yet Notwithstanding this plain and positive return
TO the constitution and to compromises OF 1850 the
abolition ard freesoil sentiment of the North stands in
open hostility the rights of southern men, and Is pre-
pared drive away with bloody hands, those OF our peo
pie who have entered the Kansas Territory under the
press guarantee of the law which have read and in def
demands the restoration of the Missouri re5tric-
ton, which is law Of Congress putting the Wiaot pro
Vso upon Kansas and Nebraska The day which finds the
people of the South content to submit @ this new agges
sion upon constitution and rights viii find them
ready submit the perpetraton Of any wrong which
the black republicans may desire TO infct upon them
Speaking, sir for myself am prepared to announce here
and before my countrymen at home that shall never be
willing live in this government when its administration
shall have passed into the hands Of that party The regard
which the people of Georgia entertain for the American
Union Is not founded upon moneyconsideraton for If
had been she would long since have ceased her connex
ion with it Your receipts and disbursements of the public
of the country amount to eighty millions of
dollars and although is Of the largest and most
popuous of the southern States che receives comparatively
nothing from your treasury and does not desire to remain
in the Union with view to have millions OF dollars APP
proprated annually for her benefit in violation of all pro-
priety well as the constitution.
But SIR to this demand which is made to pass the Will
mot proviso Kansas and Nebraska the blacrepub
convention which at Philadelphia the follow
\ ing indicative language:
"This convention delegates assembled in pursuance Of
call addressed to the people Of the United States without
posed to repeal Of the Missouri Compromseto the poll
cy Of the present the extension Of slavery
into free terroryn of the admission Of Kansas
free Staeof resisting the action Of the federal govern
ment-to the principles Of Washington and Jefferson
Rosolued That the constitution coners upon Congress
power the Territories Of tho United States for
their and that In the exercise OF this power II
both the right and the imperative duty OF Congress
hbt in the Territories those twin relies Of barbarm poyg
| amy and slavery"
Upon such platform in regard to slavery you purpose
to administer this government Your powers TO regulate
and control 90 beyond your particular States and you
feel capable of settling the affairs of all other people The
day when you shall have this power has not come and
hope may but when IL does and you undertake
carry such measures you will find that resolution and
execution thereof not and the thing the
one is cheaper than the paper upon which II Is written the
other dearer than the ebood Of every black republican
throughout the land Having shown the intention upon
the part of the feeso party, proceed to examine
the present purposes Of the North Americans n reference to
this subject and II they not opposed to the
principle established in $780, the Utah and New Mexican
bills when applied TO Kansas and Nebraska In the Phil
adepha convention Of the last year they did not approve
this principle the whg party in Baltimore did in 1862
\ that party there declared:
"The series OF acts the 3lst Congress- commonly known
the compromise adjustment, (the act for the recovery
ugves from labor ncluded received and ecquesced
in by the wings Of the United States final settlement IN
principle and substances Of the subjects which they relate
i No language could be palmer. settlement in princi-
pie aud substance of the s TO which they relate they
did not confne 1t TO the places but the suecj and yet
In Philadelphia in 1885, although they agreed TO "abide
by existing legislation they refused TO approve endorse
the principle Of the Kansas bill touching slavery. And
not only Mr. Rayner of North Carolina leading and
prominent man. denounced the bill Outrage" EI
Governor Brown Of Tennessee declared that he op
posed to it. The Organ, at Washington declared at the
time that nearly every southern in the national
council who expressed his opinions the subject admit
ted that question Of policy erepeoi the Hssoi Com
promise in 1854 blunder-hst IL demanded
by the South and that II had reopened the agitation Of
question dangerous the peace of the country There
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