Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-09-05

The Missouri COMPROMISE. We
had occasion recently to look over the
volume of Mics Register which con-
tanned the record OF the passage OF the
Missouri Compromise and read with in
terest the following editorial comments
of that journal on the event which hal
Just occurred. Tney show that the
Compromise was regarded as fin lity,
and little less biniiag than proyisiun
OF the Constitution
"Tha votes on tbs question concla-
sive!y prove that large majority in
both houses were Of opinion that Goa
gress holds constitutional right to IN
hibit slavery in the territories OF the
United States, without their original
limits though many, adverse to the re-
striction on Missouri. ma, have thought
II lnexpedient % impose such restriction.
The rritory north of SO IL degrees
north latitude is FOREVER forbidden to
be peoped with slaves, except in the
State OF Missouri. The right, then. to
inhibit slavery in any OF the territories is
clearly and compl etely acknowledged,
and 1t is conditioned as to some OF them
that even when they become >tates slav-
cry shall be forever prohibited in them.
There is no hardship in this; the tcryitJ-
ries belong to the United States, and
the government may ri5htfully prescribe
the terms on which it Will dispose OF the
public lands This great point was
81,
and in the House 1874 to ~, or realty by
1879 to 81 :; and we trust that it is de-
termned forever with respect to the
countries now subject to the legislation
ofthe general government. 1t is true
the Compromise is supported only by
the authority which enacted it: but the
circumstances Of the case give to this
law mural force equal to that Of a posI-
tire provision of III Consultation, and
we do not hazard anything by saying
that the Constitution exists in its observ-
ance."
'Of the forty two gentlemen who voted
against the Compromise IN the House OF Keep
resentatives. Messrs. Adams and Allen o.
New York. did 50 because ,hey were in favor
OF an entire restriction on all the country wes
OF the Mississippi. except in the State OF Lou
isiata; and the thirty-seven others united
with the preceding because opposed to any re-
strIetion whatever"
RuFrIAN Know NoTHINGIsN IN THE ELL
swoRTH CUsToM House WV. ii. CLANCY
the author, or instigator of the outragcs up
on the Catholic Priest Blpst, in Ellsworth
Is now Editor Of a Buchanan paper IN New
Bedford, Mass. He has boasted lately tina
he has obtained about 80 new su bscriber
ior his Buchanan paper from his ''old friends
in Ellsworth These old friends are th'
CUSTOM HOUSE CLIQUE IN ELL
= SWORIH. A correspondent expresses tn
belief that several of these ''old friends il
Ellsworth are the identical pc rsoas uho mo0
ed John Bapst,
This Rufhan CLANCY never had the conf
dence of the Republican Americans in Ella
worth, or in that County while he was there
They always believed he brought reproacl
upon their cause. lie was always askin
for ofhce-the County. Attorneyship, or a
representative to the Legislature, but the
hare ai,odys refused to nominate him. ii
has always been Rufian Know Nothing
disowned by the Republican Americans VIII
ielt relieved when they got rid of him, an
he is now advocating the election of jaime
Buchanan for President, and receiving Sal
and comfort from the Ellsworth CustoI
House, and the very men whom he instigate
70 the mobbing Of Bapst !--Jefersonian
Hon. l.. d. Campbell has been renom
lDataA e.,