The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-22

In this he failed, and therefore did I
support the nominee of the Conventic
Mr. Fierce. He could not, however,
that time, succeed in creating gre
schism in the Democratic party, so gre
had been the calm which the compr
mise measures of 1850 had produce
In 1896 he again went as a delega
from the State of Alabama to the CT
clnnati Convention, with his old ultim
tuna IN his pocket. Contrary to his wish,
and expectations, it was incorporate
into the Cincinnati platform, and bein
mus lett without an excuse, he supper
ed Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency i
the fall of that year. In the meantim
however, that fatal measure, the repe.
OF the Missouri compromise, had bee
consummated. 1t was brought about b
few partisan Democrats of the Nortl
! 1he avowed object of its authors was t
| open to Slavery the territories north q
the Missouri compromise line, notwith
standing the agreement of 1920 that sal
line should forever divide the territorie
~" 'H0 STIFO anu &C CGdUeS. IC I
1920 was unconsfttt}hf55naafe.p t t}h5 naafepanaromjss anaro o
that to the purpose? 1t was most sol
emn compact between the two sections
Of the country, made for the settlement
OF a most perpleXing, question, anc
without any reference to its constitu
tionality, should have been regarded as
an organic law, and observed as sacredly
as the Constitution itself .--
The effect of this measure was great
and rapid, and there can be but little
doubt that it was such as a majority OF
its authors contemplated The result
was the formation OF great party Of the
North opposed to the further extension
of Slavery, and which party very nearly
succeeded in clecting their candidate for
the Presidency, Mr.. Fremont, in 1856.
After the election, this party seemed
to be on the wane, until the anti-Slavery
spirit of the whole North was aroused
to madness, by an attempt on the part
OF Mr.. Buchanan's administration to
force the Lecompton Constitution with
Slavery upon the people of Kansas, in
Opposition to the known and expressed
wish of three-fourths Of them. But for
this most unjustifiable measure the Re-
publican party would undoubtedly have
dwindled dawn to moderate proportions;
and even after this, it is doubtful if they
could have succeeded in the Presidential
election of 1860, if the Secessionists
with Iancy at their head, had not deter
mined that they should succeed. After
Mr.. Yancy and his party had, against
their wishes, succeeded in getting their
ultimatum of non-iutervention incorpo-
rated into the Cincinnati platform, they
went to work to conjure up another to
present to the Charleston Convention.
Abandoning their doctrine of non,inter-
ventlon, they went to the opposite ex-
treme and demanded that the interven-
ton OF Congress- S. for Pr the b protection of
be- comped dd whft6 sh6E a5 nor 9d~ did they K9Pdd ddeqt
that it shoald be. = Their object was
to procure the secession of the delegates
of the cotton States from the Convention,
aald aals itJ|sSHHGgfas, tJ|sSHHGg AGd and rending asunder the
Democratic party, to insure the election
of Mr.. Lincoln, and thereby forge Tor
themselves a grievance which would
seem to Justify them in the execution OF
their long meditated designs of destroy
;ng the Union. All of this they accom-
nlished. and the election of Mr.. Lincoln
was perhaps hailed with greater JOY at
Charleston than at New York. L Will
do them the Justice to state that they
also claimed to have some other grlevan-
ces; among them, that some OF the
Northern States by their statutes CON
structed the execution OF the fugitive
shave law, but the only States that could
complain much on that score, were will
linc to remain in the Union, while South
Carolina. the State which set the ball In
motion, perhaps never lost slave. But
+ must he borne in mind that no act ot
the National Government, constituted
any mart of their grievances. They dc
not pretend that any act OF Congress;
infringed upon their rights, and the de
cisions of the Supreme Court were main
" such as they would themselves hav'
made. Nay, even at the very time o
Lincoln's Inauguration, II the cotto'
States had allowed their Senators an
Representatives to remain, they woul
have bad a decided majority IN bot
| Houses of Congress in favor OF the e.
tension of Slavery, and in opposition
the party which elected him.
The great cause of complaint wa
that a man opposed to the extension
Slavery in the territories had been ele
ted President of the United States a
nb;cb he was sworn to defend ana pr
tent go and who dsclaimed any other tns
constitutional means in the accampils
oon9 nts of his objects. Under such G.
= cumstances it seems that II they haa
. bored under any real grievances, the
= = course was plain. They should ha
! toEen the course of our revolutona
fatbers When the States assembled
= Convention. instead Of proceeding
- onca TO declare their independence
l. for the idea of Secession-Pe0ceoo'II Z,
nf yiaht seems, as Publius says TO NJ
% " eyrloded and given up the gnos
{, sbanId clearly and concisely have sta
do do 1rbat their grievances were, and dem
ne ne Iad Al redress in respectful, yet firm
eG Joa;ded terms. They should have
tu ;r Lansted every Constitutional means
II obtaining guarantees-it any were we're n, n
ort ed-by representation, by remonstra
b;S bv petition: and failing in all these
mo oLonId have done as our revolution
10y s;rps did. /. e., fight in the Union
w w tbe;r RIGHTS until they were driven
are are eG af i Such a course would have
enI snI ~ cnred for us, as it did for our tat
G the the respect, the sympathy and essLsI 81 y,
as of other nations. Instead OF tna
CON. have not a friend IN Europe DuC