M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-01-10
Congregational.
SENATE.
WA.axo1oS, Thursday. Jan. 8.

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lie life ever gave him so much pain
as 10 vote for the resolution. Tie
Committee could rot agree. In ordsr
to see tue real cause of the troubles
We must 90 back Of the late election.
We should assume that whenever
Congress undertook to act upon slave
ry, discoId end agitation was sure
to, follow. When Congress let the
question alone there was peace. lie
referred to the excitement when the
Missouri Compromise was enacted
iHhe fearful agitation OF 1920 was set.
tied by the establishment of the com.
promise line. SO long as that adjust.
nent was carried out there was peace
and quiet. Texas was admitted qui.
city under this rule, thoGgh there was
agreat contrariety Of opinion. But
no one objected because it exte nded
that line. Again, California and New
Mexico were acquired, aud the extsn.
sion OF the line to the Pacific Ocean
MAS demanded.
The records show that be reported,
as chairman Of the Committee on Ter.
ritories, q resolution to extend the line
to the Pacific. This was adopted in
the Senate, but when it was sent to
the House it was rejected by Northern
votes. That opened the dood gates
Of the agitation Of 1S4S, which only
was settled by the compromises of
1850. When we settle this question
ia the Territories then We shall settle
Il entirely. The Abolitionists could
never have brought the Union to the
verge Of ofdissolution but for the ques.
tion in Territories. 1t was this re-
lection ofths extension of the line in
1S4S which opened this agitation.-I
The arguments Of 1919 an1 1920 were
repeated. The positions Of the North
and the South were the same.
The pursst patriots in the land were
alarmed, and Mr.. Clay came back to
the Senate to see if he could not bring
peace. He found no tronble with the
Southern members, but he could find
no support Of this line in the North. ~
The Missouri Line was abandoned
because it's friends said they could not
carry it out III good faith. Then they
turned to sse what was next best
They desired to take the question out
Of Congress and secure the peace OF
the country. At last it was decided
to leave the question to the people of
the Territories themselves. The re.
cords show that be supported both
compromises, and for the same reasons.
Peace followed all over the country.
But III 1853 and 1854 it became neces-
sary to organize the Territories of
Kansas and Nebraska. The Com.
mittee, in forming the bill, determin.
ed to carry out the Compromise Mea.
sures of 1850, though they had all
boen in favor of the Missouri Compro.
mise as long as it could be carried
cut. A hue and cry was immediate.
ly raised that they were violatong a
sacred compromise, but the bill did
not mention the Missouri Cumpro.
mise, but did the people have the
power ofSettling the question for them.
selves, the history OF the Government
might be divided into three.
Before 1920 the Government ad-
mitted many Territories, but all was
peace. After the agitation of1S20 !
was settled all was peace again till
1880. Since then we have had con
tinual controversy, and the result of
the late election has convinced the
South that it was the fixed policy of
the dominant party Of the North to in
wade their constitutional right. The
Senator from Ohio (Wade) admitted
tae existence OF this belieEat the South
but charges it to the Misrepresentation
Of the Northern Democracy. 1t mat
tiers not whether these evils are real or
imaginary, ifthe South were resolved
to rush into the horrors ot disunion and
way rather than suffer them, he was
sorry 10 see the Senator bring it, a
partisan question, here, but as it was
brought he felt bound to defend the
Democracy, No man was better
pleased to learn be had misre presented
the Republican party.
Ho asked the Senator from Ohio if
it was not the policy Of that party to
coDfne slavery within its present lin
it's, by the action of Federal Govern
ments and whether it was not the pol
icy of that party to exclude slavery
from the Territories we now possess or
may hereafter acquire2 whether or not
that party were in favor of returniug
the fugitive slavesl and, in short
whether it was not the policy of that
party to exert all the power ofthe
Federal Government, under the Con-
stitution, according to their interpre-
tation, to restrain and cripple the in
stitution Of slavery, with view to it's
ultimate extinction in the States, old
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