Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-09-28
DOUGLAS AND TIE CoNrRoHIsE.

90 IN lN-N the MI$SDuE4 COM ilOlll>- Va
framed as "a sacred compact between the two
sections OF the Union. by virtue OF that
compromise Missouri was admitted as a slave
State, and Arkansas as Slave State and
! thus the tree North. as one party to the COM
/ pact paid down Its price tor the Slavery pro-
. bibition north Of So 3O1 Was Mr. Doug
las ever heard to express any doubt as to the
constitutionalitv of the Missouri compromise
50 long as it served to augment the number
I Of Slave States? 1t was to him, as t. all
others. 90. sacred and inviUlabls compact '--
as sacred and inviolabie as the constitution
itself. and he cursed the "ruthlcs. hand
that would dare to break il down. hen,
after the Mexican war, the territories ac-
ouired for this Union were to BE organized,
he was among the first and rem0st who ado
vocated the extension Of the Missouri line
across the whole continent. w hat would
have been the result of that measure? In
/ the territories acquired from Mexico slavery
was abolished and prohibited by local legs
lation. but the extension OF the Missouri
line was calculated to admit slavery into all
! that part Of it which lies south Of So 30,
! Mark well So long as the Missouri compro-
/ mise served to introduce Slave States, he dld
not dream of its unconstitutOnallty. When
! bv the extension of the Missouri line Tree
/ territory could be converted into Slave terri
tory, he found it so eminenty convenient,
so excellent an arrangement, that he not on"
| " proposed to preserve II IN Its original eX-
tent. but to run it across the whole conu-
nent to the shores of the Pacific Ocean
" But now the time arrives when Free
States are to grow up under the guarantees
! of the same Missouri compromise new
! light dawns upon Judge Douglas. lie rises
IN the Senate chamber and asserts that the
territory north Of the Missouri line can no
LONGER be exempted from slavery, because
the exclusion Of slavery from 1.-THE very
| condition on which Missouri was admitted
a. a Slave Stata-Wasat war with the iunda-
mental principles Of the constitution. The
same man who had cursed as ruthless the
hand that would violate the Missouri com
promise, as long as that compact was benet-
cial to slavery, tore it down with his own
hands as soon as it was to serve the interests
of free labor. And he is the truest "cham-
MON of freedom - How wonderful change
At the time when he proposed the extension
of the Missouri line to the Pacific Ocean, be
was either convinced Of the unconstItuuon-
ality of that compromise, or he was not. ii
he was. how could he conscientiously pro
pose the extension and perpetuauon Oh a
measure which he considered crime against
the constitution ? Were his conscience and
his convictions hushed into silence by the IN
terests Of slavery Or, if be was not, hos
did 1t come to pass that he became 50 snd
denly convinced of that unc0nstituu1naLtI
the very moment that the preservation an'
execution OF that compromise would hay
advanced the interests Ct free labor uJv
did it happen that his convictions, IN al
their prompt and wonderful transformation
ALWAYS conceded 50 admirably with the m
terests Of slavery? This is inded a mos as
t]n.shing coincidence, and leave It to you
sagacity to draw your conclusions.
DOUGLAS AND TIE SETTLERS Oh KANSAS.
"B But Mr.. Douglas is still TIE ''tru
champion of free labor :" for it is assert
ed that the Nebraska bill-the same meas
ure that breaks down the barriers to SLAYER.
will by that very operation introduce ire
: labor into the territories The thing is speed
ily brought to practical test
:" No sooner Is the Nebraska bill enacted
: and the Missouri restriction struck down
D than emigrant aid societies are organized j
the Slave States, especially in Missouri, fc
the purpose of introducing slavery into Kan
sas. Did he not most tendcrly excuse thei
= atrocities on the plea of seltdeicnce, Will
D it was notorious fact that their organizG
! tion had preceded that of the free State me
d And, mark well, that emigration was Pre-
slavery Other emigrant aid societies al
e organized in the Northern States. Larg
l. numbers of men 90 to Kansas. armed, II
1 deed, for self-delence,as every pioneer will b.
but with the bona fde intention Of settlin
down upon the soil of that Territory Us pei
manent inhabitants; and white hurnin
. houses and trails of blood mark the track
!. y the border rufhans, fourishng farms an
- INDUSTRIOUS towns spring up under the han(
" ot the tree State men. Do you remembC
IN how often Judge Douglas empted the via
10 OF Ills wrath, and cast denunciations upo
the heads ct free labor immigration An
* mark well, that immigration was AM
<, Slavery. n Legislature is set un hv = hau
u of lawless invaders-mostly Missouriaus-s
'e up 10y the most atrocious violations of Il
Z. constitutional government that Legislatu,
adopts the slave code of Missouri as the law
of Kansas, and adds 10 them laws 50 ont
ID raseous in their nature that even Northc,
he Democrats quailed under the anprohriun
le Do you remember that Judge Douglas T,
ID cognized that Legislature, although It's GRIN
inal origin was manifest to all, as Il
A. highest law-giying authority Of the Territoi
t, and the laws enacted by them, althoug
,r known to be the offspring of fraud and viz