Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-08-26

ton. All the then living statesmen, both
North and South, regarded this adjust
ment as final, nor was it believed by any
living man, that any future Congress
would have the presumption to tamper
with it, much less to annul it. Slavery
abided the Compromise a few years, but
became Disseminated, and demanded
further concessions of the free States.
Next, Texas engaged in a war with
Mexico, and won her independence, but
being unwilling to maintain separate
independency, she proposed to come in
to the American Union. The free States
were willing to admit Texas, provided
she came in without slavery. The South
urged that slavery already existed on
the soil of Texas. The North insisted
that slavery had no lawful existence in
Texas by virtue Of any law of Mexico
before her separation, but that slavery
had only recently been forced upon her
soil. Then, again, the South resorted
to the never falling argument ofsuccess;
the dissolution of the Union was declar-
ed to be the alternative, if Texas was de-
MED admission. The North either real
ly felt, or protested great alarm, and
yielded; not, however, before twas un-
derstOod that there was to be no further
agitation, but henceforth the country
should have quiet. But the bargain
turned cut an exceedingly Improbable
one for the North; the country got into
war, and spent vast amount Of treas
ure. The acquisition of Texas with sla-
very, hswever, did not suffice to satisfy
the South only for a short period.
After brief suspension of agitation,
the South became uneasy with being
confined with the peculiar institution
south ofthe Missouri Compromise Line;
more territory open to the introduction
ofslavery was demanded. The boudary
which had been set up and declared per-
petual, must..needs be broken down; ter
ritory north ofthe Compromise Line was
coveted. and the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise was demanded. In vain
did the North insist that the land mark
between freedom and slavery, which had
existed over thirty years, and which had
been regarded by the most eminent of
American statesmen, as among things
to remain undistrbed, could not be re-
moved without the violation of nations
pledge. But the South was determin-
ed; compromises and pledges must not
stand in the way of the march Of slav-
cry; besides, it was insisted that the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise, would
be such finality of the slavery agitation,
as would forever after insure peace to
the nation. The North yielded; con-
sented to take away the barrier which
had hitherto interposed to the spread of
slavery north of a given line. But there
came no promised fnaiity; no quietus to
the slavery agitation. The North. by
yielding to the repeal of the Comprom-
Use line, brought civil war with innumer-
able mischiefs, as consequence. into
Kansas. There is not a sane man who
believes that the question of slavery
would ever have been agitated in Kan
sas, had the Missouri Compromise re-
NAMED unrepealed. Had the line, set
ting bounds to slavery been undisturb-
ed, Kansas would have been as free from
slavery agitation, as was Wisconsin or
Illinois, while in their territorial con-
situations. iH ,ar
1t is evident, therefore, that the sla-
very question can never be settled by
bargains or trusting to compromises
with the South. All agreement as to
the future disposition of the terrific
RES, have thus far proved worthless.
The only safe course to be adopted, is to
make no more bargains-yield not
another inch of territory to the demands
OF the South. This was the under
stood policy of the early trainers of
the Union, and had this policy infex-
IDLY adhered to, slavery to-day would
have been extinct, or confined to the
narrow limit in which it was formed.
when the States first entered into conf
dency. n......
WILL THEY MAKE A PLATFORM p
Some of the democratic papers in this
Congressional district, are indicating
the kind of platform ON which the party
will enter the contest tn the November
election. If the platform is shaped
agreeable to the Douglas theory, it will
assume that the people of the Territor-
les have the right to prohibit slavery if
they prefer SO to do. Butt the platform
is fashioned. according to the doctrines
OF the administration, it will admit no
such right to the people of the Territor-