The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-26
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1t is part of the policy of Old Liners at this
day. to endeavor to bring the Missouri Com
promise or the sacredness of that compact into
dsrepute, and thus weaken the iniqulty OF us
repeal. This compromise was literally bar
gain between the North and the South Inc
South received its full equivalent when the
bargain was made. The North has received
nothing. The prospect of receiving anything
for her share, has been wiped away by the
Kansas Nebraska bill. This bill, repeating the
Missouri Compromise, is acknowled as the OIL
spring Of Douglas, with Pierce as it godfather
at the christening. We have charged that
from the start, this bill has had as its great OBJ
ject, not the securing Of justice to one section
or another or of justice as an abstract princl-
pie, but the prospering of Douglas chance for
the Presdency-and afterwards for the con-
tinuance another term Of the Pierce Admins
tration. The friends of Douglas have in re-
ply sought to sustain the purity of Douglas
motives They have said in substance, that
regarding the Missouri Compromise as unjust
and unfair in its principles he was instigated
in his movement by simple desire to bring
about right. He was acting as a statesman
not as a politician. Now we re-affirm, that
his introduction of the Kansas Nebraska bill
was the policy of unprincipled demagogueism
smothering any spark of patriotism which may
have fingered in his breast. We say he had
repeatedly stood up for the sacredness Of the
Missouri Compromise, and eulogized its au-
thors.
But before introducing an old, and not very
old either, opinion of Mr.. Douglas on the Mis-
souri, Compromise, we may remark that an eff
fort has been made here to place Henry Clay
in opposition to this Compromise, or at leas
to make the people believe, that if he were
alive, he would now be united with those wht
repealed the sacred compact-and therefor,
that all his old friends should occupy the SAM
position. We now introduce an extract from
speech made by Douglas at Springfield, Ills
in 1849. Let it be read and preserved for as
during this canvass. We intend to bring u
these old documents for the benefit of all par
ties. Honest men do not change their opin
ions on great political measures every fey
years
The Missouri Compromise had been in prac
teal operation for about quarter of contu
ry, and had received the sanction and appro
baton of men of all parties, in every section
Of the Union. 1t had allayed all sectiona
jealouSies and irritations growing out of thi
vexed Question, and harmonized and tranquil
lied the whole country. 1t had given t.
Henry Clay, as its prominent champion, the
the proud soubriquet of the Great Pacifcator
and by that title, and for that service his pc
litical friends had repeatedly appealed to tn
people to rally under his standard as Presi
dental candidate, as man who had exhibited
the power and patriotism to suppress an un
holy and reasonable agitation and presery
the Union. He was not aware that any ma
or any party, from any section Of the Union
had ever urged an objection to Mr.. Clay tina
he was the great champion of the Missoul
Compromise. On the contrary the effort wa
made. by the opponents of Mr.. Clay to prov
that he was not entitled to the exclusive meri
of that great patriotic measure, and that tn
honor was equally due to others as well as t
him, for securing it, adoption, that it had it
origin in the hearts of all patriotic men VIII
desired to preserve and perpetuate the bless
ings of our glorious Union-an origin akin t
that of the constitution Of the United State!
conceived in the same spirit of fraternal aztec
ton, and calculated to remove forever the onl
danger, which seemed to threaten, at som
distant day, to sever the social bonds of unior
All the evidences of public opinion at that day
seemed to indicate that this Compromise ha
become canonized in the hearts of the Amer
can people, as thing which no ruthless han
would ever be reckless enough to disturb.
DISTRICT MASS MEETING