The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-03-13

Arkansas were admitted as capital States,
while the labor obtained, rs reservation,
the abridged bat yet comprehensive field
Of Kansas and Nebraska.
Now, when the rs-eenditions.of the
various parts of the Louisiana Territory
are observed, and we SEQ that capital re-
tains undisputed possession Of what it then
obtained while labor is convulsipg the
country with so hard and SO prolonged
struggle to regain the lost equiv lent
which was then guaranteed to il under cir
cumstances Of SO great soemnity, we may
well desira not to be undeceived if the
Missouri Compromso was indeed unneces
sarily accepted by the Free States, infu
enced by eXaggerations Of the dangers Of
Disunion. The Missouri debate disclosed
truths of great moment for ulterior use:
First That it is easy to combine the
capital States in defense Of even external
interests while it is hard to unite the la
Dor States in a common policy.
Second That the labor States have a
natural loyalty to the Union, while the
capital States have a natural facility for
alarming that loyalty by threatening Di-
union.
Third That tho capital States do not
practically distinguish between legitimate
and cons titutional resistance to the exten-
sion of Slavery in the common Territories
of the Union, and unconstitutional aggres-
sion against Slavery established by local
laws in the capital States.
The carly political parties were organ.
lied without reference to Slavery. But
since 1920, European questions have left
us practically unconcencd. There has
been a great increase of invention, mining,
manufacture, and cultivation. Steam on
land and on water has quickcncd com.
mcrce. The press and the telegraph have
attained prodigious activity, and the social
intercourse between the States and their
citizens has been immeasurably increased; ;
and, consequently, their mutual relations
affecting Slavery have been, for many
years, subjects of earnest and often excited
discussion. 1t is in my way only to show
how such disputes have operated on the
course of political ovents-not to re open
them for argment hero. There was n
slave Instruction in Virginia. Virginia
and Kentucky debated, and, to tie great
aoyrow of the Free States, rejected tho
80 y; ,o'"'''y ,ii.t, ','Tg ,;,L oh g,
vor in the capital States. Emancipation
Societies arose in the FREQ States. South
Carolina instituted proceedings to nulily
obnoxious Federal revenue laws. The
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ii,l STATE, seemed +, hgv. b,c,ma ival IN
y Jn,crmination ,Lal The Fedcral Coyarn.
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