Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-01-18
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Libel upOn the Great Dead.

restoration Of peace and the UNio" Is 70 Or
aoconpHshsd-frst thN uneVnditio"ol sur
vendor Of The leaders and the Abandonment
Of iAe rebellion or second, the conttnr'd
poqress and conquests NJ our arms until h'
MILITARY po,ocr of Ge CoRIederocgis .:broken
and the heart Of the rebellion Is crushed,
Al inicrmediate plans or seAeTes ms's
~palHahtesr that LisE OUR coNrRoNtsES OF
THE PAsr FIFTY YEARS Will ONLY sE"Vt TO
= nocRAsrisArR FxisriSG Nus
Governor Bpouau may be assumed TO 10
reasonably couvcrsant with tho political bis
tory Of this county, and to mean what hs
language expresses. What we're ''the com
propises oJte last ffy years a.. scrred
10 proorasnnate eri'iiRg eas,' aud ohat
perS those eUiis7
Tho only erompronisos Of national impor
tAuco mnde within that period, we're three
First The Missouri Compromise Of 1920
Second, The compromise OF the null,fer
ton difficulty in 1898, by tho repeal of the
Tariff aot of 1925.
Third, Tho compromise measures Of 1850
What existing evil" did these compro-
misos "procrastinNte"1 They prose. 'ed the
peace Of The country and tho federal Union.
They secured tho prosperity Of tho people
aud Tho statehood of the Statca. The annals,
oi the world may he ser-ched in vain for the
record Of "A progress more honorable 70 man
kind than that which was achieved by the
people of the United Strtss within the "ity
ycnrs" preceding the accession Of the an
slavery party N power. No Olcmentof modern
civilization remained inert. Every tnstru.
mentality by which national greatness was Pre-
NOTED, and individual welfare was secured, wr3
exerted with an energy aud intelligence that
attracted tho attention, and challenged The
admiration OF the civilized world. WHAT then
WAS tho evil that was 'procrGsGndicd'?-
Z Everybody knows that Mr.. BnouGH mems
p SLAVERY
But what developments Of this much abusod
' institution demonstrated tie evil tendeneies'
z 1t hid supplied \ material that laid The fouI-
, dation OF tho manufacturing prosperity ofNeW
y Enclsnd, end carried the Of tho
United States 10 MI nations, savage as we'll
, as civifzed--thus at once opening tho way 10
the en- qhtenment of ne henthon, and in
J %creasiug the substantial comforts Of mani nd
r IL had furnished n market for the staple pro
y. duets of The West and had sent in exchange
for them, the most valuable commodities, but
/ which a northern cllmnte would not produce
: thus promoting an active and mutually
profitable intercourse between the North and
South Whilst thus serving these great nat
IL rial purposes, it was not regardless Of he
phyalcal and moral welfare OF the race which
lhe avarice OF n former age had bequeathod
= a. a possession to The white people Of this
continent No lnboring population in the
world, es a general fact, was better cared for
or happier and II church organization ia b. be
regarded as an evidence Of spiritual progress,
they bad been advanced from the very lowest
deptha Of heather bnrhaT qm to the ligh and
j. liberty of the gospel.
10 What then were the roadlts that meda slp.
vory such an evil that the compromises which
y permitted its "procrdStRahjon' ere to be 80
d dcprocntcd2 Ii had neither retarded the ma.
%tionRl prosperity nor diminished the happiness
Of the people.
But Il Mr.. Brough desires to nnathema,ize
the compromises that procrastinated the e,il
Of slavcty, why limit himself to a period Of
fifty years2 Why not go TO the convention
y that framed the Constitution Of the Unit
" States in 1882 He cannot be ignorant oil
= the fact that n provision was made in that
instrument, which "procrastinated, not merely
ii slavery, but which JorJid the prohibition Of
Il the foreign alave trade, tho actual seizure and
importation of negroes from Africa, until the
yoar lS0S-a period Of twenty years, that
Z the slsve-dealing ancestors of the ab1li
tionists Of New England might have
IL ample time to save or change their
IS Investments Nor can he be ignorant of the
provision which provided for the redelivety Of
fugitive slaves to their masters, and to thai
other compromise by which in fixing the ratio
so Of representation, the slaves were countod al
tbree-ihhs of their actual number II WI tC
theso compromises upon the slavery question
: together with other compromises upon other
N material questions Of controversy, that tho
Constitution of the United States owed its ex
]istence. 1t was the very child of compromis,
and THAI is the reason why New EnglanC
re ADoftionism has for years been denouncing i
as " n covenant with death and a league will
w hell" George Washington the President o
y, the Convention that framed it, in submitting /
TO the consideration of Congress, says VI 4
: the result OF a spirit of dmiij and Of mutua
10 Difference and concession phich The peculiar
10 iy o CoiT political situation rendered iniis
b, Pensabte,'
!" We have designated the extract from Gov
OF ernor Brough's message which forms tho sub
ject of these observations, "a libel upon tn
great dead II the compromises Of the pas
III fifty years are 10 be denounced, how must "
regard the names and memory of Washington
Hamilton, Madison, aud the other founders O
. the Republic, who embodied the very first an
u most important Of all compromises upon IN
he slavery question, in the Constitution itself