The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-12-19
The Hoase Committee on the State Of
the Union.

The Speaker Of the House has appointed
the following as Committee of one from each
State, to whom the HoudG ordered a reference
of that part of the Presidents Message re-
ferring to the existing crisis in the Confedera-
cy.
Corwin, Of Ohio, chairman; Millson, of yir-
ginia Adams, of Massachusetts, Winslow,
Of North carolina; Humphrey, of New yark;
Boyce, Of South Carolina; Campbell, CT Penn
sy1yania; Love, Of Georgia Ferry, Of Con-
necticut; Davis, of Maryland; Robinson, 81
| Rhode Island Whitley, of Delaware Tap
pan Of New Hampshire; Stratton, of New
| Jersey; Bristow, Of Kentucky; Morris, al
Virginia; Nelson, of Tennessee; Dunn, Of In
diana; Taylor, OF Louisiana; Davis, of Mis-
sissippi; Houston, of alabama; Morse, of
Maine; Phelps, Of Missouri; Rust, of AFkan-
sas; Howard of Michigan; Hawkins, Of FLOR
ida Hamilton, Of Texas; Washburne, of
Wisconsin; Curtis, of Iowa Bureh, of Cali
fornia; Windom, Of Minnesota; Stout. of
Oregon. -
Tfe o6ect of this motenent is to patch up
another ComRgomise to which to anchor tIa
frail GArque ofthe Union for another orief sea-
SON., But we venture to submit that the game
of Compromise has had its day and is effect
ually played out.
What else have we been doing but compro-
missing for the last forty years {?
The spirit OF Abolition aggression developed
itself when Missouriapplied for admission into
the Union; and its rapacity was appeased for
the time by the missouri Compromise" which
wounded the compact of Union in its vital
part and inflicted stigma upon the institu-
tions of the Southern States The North'il.
lustrated its honor and good faith by insisting
upon the enforcement of that compromise
when It would OF crate to the exclusion of the
South from the Territories and by repudia-
ting it when its observance would have sccur-
ed to her share&Ff those Territories
The repeal of the two-thirds rule was an
ntaer concession y Northern anaticism.-
When that object of Abolition and Of South
ea'sq conservative desire, was attained, we
We're told that peace would spread her gentle
wings cgsr the land.
In 1850, another Compromise" was found
to be necessary to "save the Union.'' Cali
fornia wss admitted with her illegally and IT.
regularly FORMED Constitution because it pro-
hibited slavery from the immense Pacific re-
gion for the purchase of which the South had
contributed n,ore than her due proportion of
blood and treasurc-Tsxas was shora of a
large portion Ct her territory that it might be
dedicated to frcesoil-and a measure was
passed plSsing the institution of slavery under
the ban of the common government in the
form of law prohibiting the selling of slaves
in the neutral grodnd of ;'hc District of Co.
fgmbia where every citizen of the United
States has a right to stand upon footing Of
perfeeEequality. To indemnify ths South
for these yanton and grieyous infections upon
her rights and ifser honor, the fugitive slave
law was passed. measure to which she was
entitled under the Constitution. hut even
the poor boon OF the faithful execution of this
law has been denied to her. Thirtsen nom
slavehol2ing States have absolutely and un-
cor14itionally nuffiied it. and the Southern
man who goes into Northern. States, to re-
cover his snb-cops;pe stolen Save does so at
the periI,of his liEIAH his liberty.
So much for Compromising The South is
at last sick and tired Of the vile business. 1t
is another namegfor Southern submission and
dishonor and for Northern treachery and per-
fidy.
The labors of the above Committee. will re-
result in smoke. The attempt to desise an
other "plan of adjustment" VSu have one
gooG effect. 1t Will convince the basest Union
ist in the South, that nothing wifi appease the
grasping spirit of the Black Republican party,
but complete, surrender Of all the South
holds dear upon the altar of Union that no
longer subserves the purposes Of its creation.
Mississippi is represented on the Committee
by Gen. Reuben Davis. Whatever we may
think of the propriety of formiAg sucha Com
Mite and of enactingsthe farce which it pro-
poses u play, of one thing we are as conf
dent as that the sun iainow shining, that he
will ample under his heel with Indignation
,any proposition which involves aught of wrong
or injustice to his own State. This lhsrpose was
manifested by him in bold and timely speech
which we are advised by telegraph of his hay
ing delivered on the floor of the House on the
11th inst.