The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-03

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before the session closed The voice Of Illinois should be
heard. Well sir the voice of Illinois has been heardAt
least the voice Of that portion Of Illinois which my col
league represents but who they somewhat difficult
TO say Has here since assembled has been
cuar one satisfactory to himself doubt and that Ia
something but il be has gone far enough
else too far In chasing The wooy phantos of the hour
TO meet the approval of his party at home for
at their late conyenton which he candidate for
denomination and baloed for he beaten by the worst
abolitionist in Illinois As be is now repudated by the
very who him here is hardly proper 10 say be
expresses their voice Whose voice. then the gentle
man express Certainly not the voice Of the party thar
has cast him aside Certainly not The voice Of the old
line whgs for they bolied and put in nomination better
man Not the democracy for they utter such sent
ments But the voice OF those whom he Processes TO rep
resent has been heard, and what does ii say Ny col
league says that the Missouri restriction proposed BY
an Illinois senator and that that restriction gave peace
and quiet to the country and he further that the
ator and that the repeal has brought division and diff
Guilty. and he would have believe that it has been like
" Achilles wrath to Greeks the direful spring
Ut woes unnnmbered." .0 Va
Now sir take issue with my colleague on both his al
legations deny that his boased prohibition of slavery
IN 1920 brought TO the country and deny that its
repeal has produced legitimate result any trouble
difficulty whatever assert, and challenge and defy
tradcon, that until Rufus King and his federal allies Of
the Fifteenth Congress- attempted TO contract and regulate
the domestic institutions of the people upon the subject OF
slavery there from the adoption Of the consn
ton down TO that hour difficulty among the people Of
was II, when did it occur? No tell My coli
league cannot tell The strife then because Get OF
federal politicians departing from the uniform practice in
the legislation of the country refused admission to the
State OF Missouri because she would not shape her laws
and constitution to suit the views of those who had
right to interfere with them That very act tyrann
cal and revolutionary 1t resisted by Mr. Clay Gen.
eral HARRISON and Mr. Pnckney and the whole body OF
national democratic statesmen then In Congress. STILL the
opposition in the House. then, now, bent party
power refused yield argument and by their force Of
numbers held to their unusabe course and the country
was brought them by these anatca graspers for power
to the verge of disunon The advocates OF this restriction
upon Missouri became alarmed and cast about for some
means of from the storm they had raised Then 1t
that member of the House of Representatives from
New York first proposed the transfer of the restriction
upon the State TO restriction upon the Territory II at
first met with no favor in quarter But the national
men desired to get Missouri into the Union They had
fought the battle bnt oyerpowered by numbers in
the House. The restriction upon the Territory pro-
posed to them terms for their surrender and they
accepted There Of that spirit entering into
the arrangement which could give 1t The character of
compromise II was to use term applied TO it by dis
tinguished soldier and civilian, "capitulation" The
North said If you viii surrender to the territory north
of 36 deg 30 min viii cease warfare upon the
pie and State of Missouri and she may into the
Union without let hndrance. The South said You be
gan this without any just cause have prosecuted
it in violation Of the constitution you propose, men
Of the North to your warfare upon the people of Mis-
souri, and take restriction against slavery
cupied country The treaty of 1903 you shall not do
it The Constitution says you shall not do II But yon
will be content with that and let us alone take it. we viii
opposition surrender upon your terms. We do
it 10 the country and the terms must be kept with
fidelity and honor. Thus the capitulaion agreed
upon
But the very next year. when Missouri came with
stuon in hand and asked TO be admitted the terms
Of the treaty the who made broke their faith
violated their pledge of honor, and renewed the
Then ii thai MIR. Clay proposed his compromise of
1871 which has Dn coniounded with the act of 1890;
and under Mr. ClAys Compromise which had no reference
TO slavery Missouri admitted into the Union. Thus
was this treaty violated the year after its ratification II
violated when Arkansas applied for admission into
the Union; II broken in upon BY the annexation Of
the northern part Of Missouri TO that State and finally dis
regarded overturned and superseded by the legislation Of
1880 Now look upon the agitation Of this country for
the twenty years prior TO passage Of the Kan
Nebraska bill two years ago, and say that there has
been none upon the subject Of slavery If you You
have had mobs and riots and twenty y-hrs rules and VIII
mot provsoe and constant succession of uproar upon
slavery II is true that in the territory covered by the
stricon OF 1890 and Of Missouri you have had
difficulty because legislation has been had concerning
il; but Il is equally true that relation 10 territory about
which legislation has been had since then, in Arkansas
Texss New Mexico Utah, California and Oregon, 10
extent you have had controversy and excitement
say then that ii is not true that the Missouri restriction
brough ht peace and quiet to the country.
The other assertion Of my colleague that Illinois
introduced the for its repeal and that the e
ultimate consequence OF that has been dissensop
and strife Is equally unfounded Can my colleague give
fact sustain that assertion Have
any troubles arisen in Nebraska under the law
exists for Kansas2 And why has il resulted In great
harmony IN Kansas in Nebraska il Is because the abo
onss seeing all hope of further agitation gone BY the
passage OF the bill IL should be left
work its fair results determined get mp upon
the borders Of Missouenst the ympahes Of the North
war; and thus prolong their political lives by feeding
upon the peace and quiet o. the country.
The ink dry upon the signature Of the bin be-
fore the slavery sgitatons commenced plotting 70 pre-
quiet aud peaceabe settlement Of Kansas Comb
nations Of capital formed under the auspices Of the
abolitons carry bodies Of settlers Of their stripe
into that Territory They passed through the State Of
Missouri and there made their threats and boasts that they
the slaves in that State The people Of Missouri living
upon the Immediate border of Kansss attracted lis coil
from their avocatons also pressed into the Territory. S
no difficulties occurred, and the correspondents Of
their papes lauded the kindness Of tho Mssourans Se
Evening Post July Is ls54 This would do; strife
IL the Subsistence OF this kind OF fanstcsm, and STRIFE
be engendered. change Of tactics became nnces
sary The New York Tribune The Post and Times and all
the ng papers OF that sort began 70 threaten and
what their reeaie organization would do with the
Mssourians and the prosavery On the lst Of Au
gust 1854 the Post declared that ss7ery viii be OUad
and smohsrsi by freedom If tto ALREADY FORMED BT
EKRCUTEp.p
Now let Il be borne IN mind that outbreak had
CURED everything going smoothly the Territory
filing up, and ell willing 70 leave future legsla-
ton to fair expression Of the popular wL But here
the ofFArs and "already FORM
I'd which II but ehalf executed TO overlay and
smother cut slavery; by fair exprsssn of the peo
pie but by plans already formed on the the I'd Of Au
gust the print had article headed, 3WHEN AND
HOOD m sHEp showing that there
determination 10 have bloodrbed IN Kansas,
and making prediction with the sole view accomplish
that result Then began the arinr of emiRrantshe
ranizaton OF and lodgesa under the gen.
eral management Of Robinson who II stated in the Tr
bune Of November 30 1854, twas Garrison aboonisL