Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-11-07
The Missouri Restrictions and the Missouri
Compromise

Compromise.
It Was very common thing while We we're sti IN tie
old Union for partisan writer's oonound the Missouri
Restrictions with tbs Missouri Compromise, although
ths one vas the exact sndpoie Of Ihs other. The
Missouri RESTRICTIONS proposed by Northern ner,
Nth the aToUed object Of preventing the shareholders
CT the Southern 5taes from wing their slaves to any
Of the new Territories; In other words Of monopoiznE
the whole Territory of Louisiana north of tee State Of
shat name, and ali future territory that might be &C..
o7ired by the common treasure Of the whole county
Tas ipiouous scheme 40 peculiarly Yankee in eharac-
Ter and design "a debated Wit she utmost fury for
many weeks in Congress, and seemed, AZ one time, en-
Sue point Of rsldi. the Uliou ssulder. Thomas j. Z
fsrson then alive and ia the u possession OF hs facu-
ties expressed the alarm With ShOh he vas filed by
tie 6ercs aud uuOOmp. omisipg opinions ex-
pressed Ia Congress. IL ssd they sounded to him like
6re-beu 10 the dead Of night. /. WAS when parties
we're in the highest state OF excitement and dissolution
seemed Inevitable that NJ Gay cane forward With hs
proposition usually called the Missouri Compromise the
passage Of Which Immediately soohed tho agitation
It drew a geographical Inns between the eontendng
parties or5aCng that 10 future Al the Territories lyug
north Of So 30 we're DO free, aud al lying south 10 be
ssye territory There can b, no question that but for
tbs Compromise tbe Union would have been then dis
scvsd. The large body Of The Southern members bad
already resolved TO leave O3ngregs soon as the bill
81 restrictions should have been passed. Reverence for
the Union throughout the South amo0ntsd At hat day
70 superstition. Southern statesmen were prepared
70 make grsat sscE055 to preserve IL scd these sacr
6css they did make 20 voting to compyOmso The ques
ton a. ussry az Of them do instead Of insisting upon
r 10 ind fha
Z lion without sn5 other condition than having sufficient
population On their side tire Yalkeel turned out every
za.n vho had voted for the Missouri Compromise, so
determined were they to push mstteTl 20 extremity,
aud so 0 credit cid they attach 70 thsTsteFAted de-
oArstOns Of the South hst the enactment Of these re-
s.tolOGs Ia Law sOuld be the signal for disruption
Of .as Union. Thay believed Ihsu a. they believed at
p.eod iopg sobsq Isnt that 'hs South could not be
Kicked out Of 81 Ullep.'
most uufjFta1sis thing for % Of tbs present
m slsttbs Missouri restrictions tii not pass, and tia
.os Missouri r7mpsonss id Asn Of the present day
link tle Of tbro# ng ss7 burden which they are not
,uss7es prepared to shoulder, upon that patient ami
nal pogtcriJ. Oar predecessors o. ls20-2l, did not
ks TO take up the 6ses which lay at their feet, and
al they aost unanimously let It foz Ca their successors
Wa do not feel 80 grateful to thSm should have
cone had they faced the evil that presented Itself in
their oso day, and cad not turned ' ever to They
uefs muea better prePsra to bear the burden than
ass. To South bosh 10 and money, Waareasivsly
Vea strsugsr, whls the North, in tie same materials
vss relatively rEch weaker, thcn ehes Of them il a.
the pressn, ucmen= Tee North UOuld not have dared
to nssa var on the u:b or if It had would not have
hsen sbe 10 keep ~ ths cootsst sH months. Deay has
ek.f- arA eHrfhfy,
against ~. had no compromise bean made Ss none
would have been made bat for she Saks Of The UniOn,
10 SAsula nov hATs Dssa P'ESful aud PPAssil ma