The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-07


probably be ahAed under the operation Of fhs common
q progress and decline but which win certainly hnd
grave the Of the democratic party operated
upon by motives Of sefPreseryation You are right In
saying that asquatter sovereignty AbsQrdy and
trAry 70 the FIRST principles Of all legal order" The idea
that every whom accident happens 10 land poverty
ic detAin n Tsrrtory Ike EnsAs Is 70 be regarded
unqualified and absolute osseasor Of all the rgh
joyed BY citizen Of Inc States monsrosty fAtherless
and childlsss without model and without shadow,
having neither eollAterals opportunity for rercaa
naked sufferer from every political wind that blows In
an article which we February, 1854 land which,
believe the FIRST lengthy article written in defence
Of the Nebraska bi,l used the following language
aThe discussions Of this sube in and out Of Congress
have in The main been characterized BY singular species
Of logic The great object with many leading presses as
with many talented politicians appears 10 be the Adoption
Of Of policy in reference 10 this matter winch sAa
e0npromlse any ezzezf the coNsScncy 4mnseaA
a1iesmsn riaepss seems in many cases % have been
sacrificed and completely thrown INTO Inc snaae ~ INC
agonizug effort TO prevent politicians rom AppeAlng
wrong on tie records We have read scores
of speeches and hundreds Of editorials and thousands OF
resolutions all designed to prove that public men may De-
have been and ought not 70 be nconssent eVaencs
has been furnished in such quantities a. 10 excite nausea
that public men are unfreqaeniy the authors Oh pubhe
ana that there is great danger Of thsir dong some
thinr which VIA contradict Whah uhoer o'n0i
stances they have done before
\ "a - -. h,Iieye enough has been said, and enough
written upon this branch OF the subject to SATISFY a. n
,asouabe men the country There are features Oh VIA
nport In this question which should no longer De over
- he Desperate strife preserve the consistency OF
~a II is not for to denounce nor TO defend
alsunguisnsa US merits Or asm h.a ~. We
have nothing to do. Il is sufficient 10 s-y---
handed down fathersthAt it has been sup
ported by many Of the purest patriots and most enght
ened statesmen that ever redthat finally IL is rscog
missed by the constitution and Laws of the country. We
may be pleased with dsquisiton in favor Of universal
freedom but dispeased and startled At every at
4 violate doctrine sovereignty The
States
Ii is exceedingly dcult for the serious or
position which u made to the bill Of Mr. Douglas by those
who endorsed the compromise measures of 1850 That the
abolition and ee-sol strength should combine
defeat the proposition to organize the Nebraska Territory
according tbs method Suggested, is natural The lead
es Of these factions opposed TO any proposition the OBJ
ject of which Is settlement of The ve1ed question of
slavery They opposed the Missouri Compromise because
they believed ii would tend TO quiet agitation; they at
tempted apply the Wot provso to the newly acquired
Territories knowing its successful imposition upon the in
hahians would lay the groundwork Of endless dscord
they bitterly opposed the Compromise Of 1850 for the
that they we'll understood il to be designed
absolute and final adjustment Of the slavery question
They pretend that they willing to abide by the
measures Of 1850 while they unwilling scquiesce In
one OF their obvious and necessary consequences"
No DOCTRINE BUT THAT OF sos HrERTEsTos WILL EVER
4 LIE FTSALrTT IN THIS coUsTRr.p~
The great and valuable feature of the
is the repeal of the Missouri Compromise compromse
which had grown hateful ard haggsrd with age-Aways
imperative in practice, but still existing incumbent per.
petray suggestive OF contentious fathers There
were really for preserving than might
have been urged against the destruction Of the Base in
Paris This ancient castle had been the prison-house for
four hundred years of the most glorious chivay and the
most lustrious democratic blood of France Within its
gloomy walls awful night Of sorrow regned neither
the the the could penetrate the
dark where from age age the stout heart of the
patriot broken upon the altar of despots and the life
blood of the innocent perpetual offering to
apng the image of God and bearing the human FORM What
thrill OF Joy inspired the peoples of Europe the keepers
of this living grave fell under the gttering fte and the
grim walls themselves crubled before the storring col
Of the fierce republicans of sol And what spectacle
upon esrs theatre magnificent that of the pre-
siding genius Of the French democracy pausing
after her first achievements TO put the robe of Csar
drink the iehor that best mmortas she'd summon from
the awful womb of universal history for her con-
duct and Inspiration for her heroes and then camly with
the devotion Of RgGia invite ali the despots of the world
to becoe joint partners against her upon the Rhine the
Danube and the Pc, in Athe pomp and circumstance o.
glorious war;
Sir revolution l. not only thing of terror but O
beauty IT has It's dead and its graves but il hal
also its sunlight and its loneliness 1t is written upon
the mountain and in the valley, upon every sand in th
sea, and upon every cloud in the heavens It's path
way sometimes lies through the sanguinary food bu
its promises a higher estate for man Hap
PLY for as OF this favored land, revolutions arr
peaceful; sueh step took two years ago Woult
have shaken its very foundations any government bu
our own. The Missouri Compromise like the Bastile hat
its admirers; twas regarded In quarters as
SACRED thing Its violation even denounced b,
some who without any credentials to support their
giant preensons claimed to be ministers psnipotentary
from the court of Heaven, monster niauiyn and tn
wrath that destroyed the settles of pain was invoked
upon the country of Washington No congressional pro
hibon of slavery operative in its character
peculiar institution" recognised in Illinois, and TO
greater less extent in all the States formed from th
territory Of the Northwest The question OF slavery Wa
settled in any portion of this region until tn
State constitutions adopted The ordinance of 49,
simply dead letter upon the records OF the country
The compromise line of 1870 limitation upon Amer
lean berality it practically divided the Union and sep
arated brother from brother and father from SON mad
enemies of whose interests had been declared one By
the constitution; it was in fact open outrage upon TIL
plain letter Of organic instrument and formal repu
daon OF the doctrine of the equality Of the States
Judge Douglas and bis friends opened the batteries
upon this the only existing barrier to
progress the Missouri restriction repealed, and ou
territories declared tree the descendants
Washington well to those Of Adams No such doc
rne that Of squater sovereignty be found in tn
Kansas Nebraska That declares in the precs
language of the comp oise Of 1850 ahat wher
admitted State the said Territory any portion
the same shall be received into the Union with or withou
slavery their combinations raav prescribe he time
Their a1sson This is the doctrine which f we are no
very much mtaken has been ably and eloauently de
Tended during the last three years in the editorial columns