Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-02-02
spEECH OF MIR. CLrNenAN.
OF NORTH CAROLINA,
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perfect frankness with no reserve except what para
only the real the impending ev be as
cerained, and remedy suggested Having carefully
@ and e ren Points q e% ahs intend S
opinions seriously and fully as the occasion to
Before speaking directly to the merits of the subject
h I Ra e TesDcDs
BILE for the anti.slayery agitation Of the North retro.
Change .n s of the the
Of 1872 had brought into discred and disgrace with the
ths popular favor ard through the control Of the Covers
ment seized upon the occasion of the application Of Mis-
slavery feeling of the Northern States created
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adopted that slavery should never exist territory west
% HIS was to the
by many regarded dshonorable and unconstuton
in 1885, Texas annexed the Union by the Democrat
party mainly this Missouri line extended through it.
State abolished and prohibited north of the line.
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apply the to it, end extend the line of 6
Toward n by the distinguished Senator from illinois (r
Douglas and others and often rejected by the combined
sOs Of Sg sf Alter Of
gle abandoned, and the principle of Congressional
adopted by the compromise measures OF
other words then established in substance and
effect that the people of the Territories free from oil Con-
legislation on the subject Of should EegH
Constitution of the United States interpreted by the
courts of country. This settlement like the proposition
great body of the Northern Whgs who for the Will
nit proviso and against the extension of slavery in
Missouri line who preferred that system to Congressional
and who still cherished the hope that
might be adopted In the final struggle they reduced
dozen Southern Senators AND thirty representatives. OF
call the attention of Senators another striking fact in
this connection. 1t is charged not only by the Northern
mpcratc party that it is responsible for alleged evils of
Congressional and the disturbances OF So
that 1885, when this system adopted it was sustained
by the of the Southern Wings with the great
already my separation from the organization OF
WING that the Southern Opposition Of
Of ther fellow to abandon the Missouri sup
bsd the last and Of line
were those represented ct the Nashville Convention whose
the South as were in that day uas and
freeaters because OF their not adopting the OF
lue When these facts are remembered will the present
Southern Opposition and its continue to assa the
y and unitedy concurred in Can they take the ground
that right abolish the Missouri line in order tna5
free States should be made south of it, but that should
be to place the South so Of On sa
and Of Democratic party had adopted the principle
Congressional we who hao opposed
guessed the Democratic and Wing Conventions OF 1907
When the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska ad
Sf & O dons Pou
Missouri restriction, order that there be no ne
yentop BY Congress control any The inhabitants
those Territories We're they not do this
the strongest and most emphatic terms by Their plat
E and their late action to the Mexican Terore
while the Wing Opposition Convention had proessed IN
H. its platform acquesced in the principles But
it IS said that both parties had opposed
further agitation of the slavery question 80 they nao
in the Territories the carrying out
ought to have produced agitation whatever and would
Democratic party honoraby avoid doing what it
sh did, and would have been liable to the charge had failed
to do this of shifting its principles from time to tme and
so shaping to favor when Il
Congressional intervention on the other hand when
might thereby prevent the formation OF slayeholding
sion would have been Justly exposed to this charge
E. Their the North however the repeal OF the
showing their friendship for nonnterventon was
pretended and that they had acquesced in the OF
T. 1850 only because they created free State south OF SO deg
80 mn and did not intend the principles to be applied IN
h sy n H'D De the
ols 1854 they regularly and vehementy the
nouv but as soon as it was proposed to repeal
Ds carry out the principle of non
tbs same Missouri line and deplored removal From
the last they showed themselves to be
public territory of the Union While the Kansas bill was
they hire % TD eGoqpE So
by force, constituting, as the Senator from Illinois lMr
d. roEed retaliation and the strife thus occasioned
erred them evidence against the policy OF nonn
have created disorders any of the Unon and might
the with much justice have attempted to discred the prn
ePe OF the State Virginia by some employees
as an argument against the state of society prevailing In In
ana South. ...
and the repeal of the Missouri restriction true and patriot
onists When the Democratic party had the manness
the craftsmanship reform the currency SYSTEM in part
r. leases for time. In the ardaous undertaking
tI to The action of the Federal GOVERNMENT
us had encounter perhaps greater dhcuaes am nc
sure however that would have been as much weakened
During the excitement arising out Of the repeal OF the Mi
ou restriction occurred that singular organzat1o
g called the American party, which carried majority
hey almost every of the Northern States tsevered dGrn
non this period excitement and
amy Democratic party many who would If Us nave
very in the free united with few outside
in formed the present Black @ parry u ior ne
S this recovered its ascendancy in
q the Northern States.
o. But again. Mr. President when the year 1857, Robe
a. J. Walker was made Governor of Kansas, he publicly
sons cared that climate of that Territory fitted only to
@ Constitution should be submitted them. This posit
cen condemned generally in the South as amounting
the citizens of the Territory decide these questions
themselves By way Of defence for Gov MaSsr IT
S1 ion that it would State Every one saw no
ever that Governor Walker had taken the other side
might with even FEASIBILITY have declared that Ks
parallel of latitude which Missouri Kentucky
@ and this position Of his might have been fortified
the any number of declarations OF prominent Ereesoers
of Aboionistis to the effect that under the Kansas sc
var entire almost condemned his posion nerelore
in unfair and uni us exercise OF Exec1uve nnuence IN
paper at the OF government and others supposed
It. represent the views of the President ne
Utmost the entire Democracy the free States, thereto
this ground II dpRar and ssued their fO
liens that people Of Kansas were to have the pi
PEI ,ge Of voting the whole constitution Of the State
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