Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-01-11
RICHMOND w HIG.
"a Reminiscence.r

Our contemporary Of the National AaereG yesterda,
paradsd under the above head. wonderful citation from
he Journal Of the House Of Delegates for the session
1857" IN the shape OF resolution" which ther
adopted dsnunciaory OF the Waot Proriso which IL
proposed 10 Incorporate act OF the government II
every bill for the organization Of Territory The Aeri
oaa Aunts with having voted for that resolution anc
thinks guilty of monstous inconsistency aitei
having thus voted 10 maintaining the opinions which ",
now do about the Nebraska Bill aud the 18th Section
But very simple explanation will relieve us from such nj
mputaton aud present the subject in It's proper light In
voting for the aforesaid resolution, did not advocate
the M.-ouri COMPROMISE per s.. We merely recorded
our preference for it the PifmOt Proriso Tor the
question was down choice between the two
measures. The very wording of tho resolution clear!
shows this will be at perceived 10y any one who
reads it, and matter which feel both ,erSon-
al and professional in putting right We will hero
insert the resolution:
"R,.ol.eL That il in disregard of the spirit and pr-
cples OF the OF Congress the admission OF the
State Missouri into the Union, generally knor" as tie
Missouri e, npromse, and of every consideration OF jus
tce constitutional right and faernai ieeng the fearful
issue shall be forced upon the country, which will result
from the adoption and enforcement OF the Wnot ProviSo
n an oi the General Government the people OF Viz
GINA can have difficulty in deciding between the only
alternatives that will then remair OF a9ee submission to
aggression and outrage the one hand, or deerm"e"
resiSacc he other at all hazards and 70 the last e.
trssitV.
Among the ayes recorded tho passage Of this
luton" saws tine 1apcrcan find the names of MessrS
RurWel, Faulkner and Syme :" Well what OF II Was
not the vote which we gave proper vote "nat VIC
had voted the opposite way Would it not have been
concluded that preferred the WthHot PTorso 10 the
Missouri Compromise both in principle aud IN substance
We think it would puzzle the American to death to SHOW
y ANY rational deduct that in deciding between two such
measures which the particular circumstances OF the time,
brought up Tor consideration in the Legislature, We were
passing an original Judgment upon the merits ct that
which tlc necessity OF the compelled Us to embrace.
Wa- A between
can be taken of the affair We had the slightest
ider that ia voting did were endorsing the Mis-
sour Compromise ITSELF aud strange TO Us no"
the american can with the resolution before it, eyes -
papably miscOnceye and violently torture our course
on occasion. The greatest enemy OF the Compromic
might with a consistency and propety have sustained
as dguist TIE ProesO and after having thus sustained
might with equal consistency and prOpuety have ahau-
doned il when under change of circumstances came
in conflict with great national measure ike the Nebraska
act A by tins act all the States OF the Imou are lei l"
ENJOY equally the benefit OF the Constitution, which many
OF them deprived of 10y the Compromise, and would
have been still 30 10y the Wilmot Proviso il 1t had
passed have not he-itaed 10 express at all times AMI
in all cordial sanction OF it, The Constitution
itself provides the only method 10y which it Ice chan
ged IN auV particular The Missouri Compromise worked
"A most important and mischievOus change M It
by process utterly at variance with, and IN
opposition that prescribed aud the repeal OF that Com
promise only restores to the Constitution its original
functions but remedies hagNnt and huge wrong,
which perpctrtci upon the people Ol more thau
dozen States tv it, enactment But bad - that Comprc-
mise was. the Wimo; Provso worse; aud therefore it
was that We gave the which did in lSiS-9 II
our Richmond contemporary can hud nothing more SUBJ
santill with which convict of Inconsistency,
shall be very little troubled hv it, structures and allegation
We are rather thankful to for having attempted To
the resolution has done Tor il affords " opportu
nity OF explaining out of which by strange mis-
apprehension pcrvcrSon, it has sought to make capital
for the anttwclith section expense. Our
friend Burwe i, We see, also hauedover the GOALS along
with our humble -el bv the American. That gentleman
i sufficiently able take cl himself. tie needs
assistance fromus or ANY els in such uncure.
We will, before concluding, Just put small query 70
the american which the moment suggests tsrli:-
What anus, it think of the present Eor OF the Washing
ton Orga in opposing the i2th Section after having voted
publicly for it. Hope don't ntrude - Petersburg
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