The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-10
Glimpses of the Capitol.

Augusta, EoD. b, 1850.
The reception Of the intelligence that Mis-
souri, had, on the 7th, followed close in the
wake of other States in adopting the consti.
tutional amendment, was yesterday received
in our Legislature with great Joy. That the
States of Maine and Missouri should, on the
same day, sanction this grand advance in the
national scale Of being. was asrnost striking
coincidence. In 1920 these two States came
into the Union together. One was anecessi-
ty to the other in the facle Northern policy
of that day. So strong was the grippe that the
Slave power had upon the throat Of the free
North-more than forty years ago-that free
Maine could not be constituted State, unless
she bore into the Union, upon her herculean
shoulders, slaoe Missouri. This was the behest
OF the austere men of the South in Congress.
They never agreed upon step in advance, to
insure the eternity of human slavery, in which
they did not succeed, until they fired upon
Sumter! or course they succeeded in adding
a Slave State to counterbalance free Maine in
the councils Of the nation. Hence the " Mis-
souri, Compromise" which for more than thir-
ty years was sort Of barrier to the black and
surging wave OF slavery rolling north and west.
But, alas for the princes whose regality lay in
the ownership of human flesh! One of the
prime causes of all their woes arose, when in
their arrogance they said, tive will submit to
these restraints no longer. These barriers
must be swept awayl The lords of this fair
land are not to be hedged in by trammels i'm
posed by our fathers 5itjgce ai-ieo ap4
Never, in all history, was the text more
completely illustrated by public polity, Whom
the Gods would destroy, they first make
mad than in the acts of this infatuated peo-
plei The year 1855 was the year, in Gods
good time, when the surging waves of sin in
this direction, were to be rolled lnupon its
perpetrators, when the Red Sea, into which
they had dashed to seize and bind and enslave
on territory bsfore free, -shoald roll back up
on them, as the raging of Niagara in its an
griest moods, and swallow them aud their
cherished sin in its terrible vortex! sses3
Is it any cause Of wonder, then, when the
news came that Missouri had come up to the
work-with less opposition even than Maine
that shouts should 60 up from the Capt. l.
which made the welkin ring? And on the
same day, tool Think of thatl Shackled to-
gether, as they were, for the aeeursed pur-
poses of making slavery tolerable and sooth.
ing, more than forty years ago, in one day the
chain was broken, and they both 60 whirling
down the track. of time, shouting peans fol
freedom and their great deliverancel sa
The absorbing bill, In business line, hal
reached the Senate IL mean the Bounty bill
for volunteers. For, really, on the bill hang
the facilities Of obtaining our quota. There
were many minds in that body on the subject
In that respect they agree with the House
Quite adebate ensued. The "paper Credits
as they are called, were received with more
favor than in the House. Even the commute
ton system of former days found one to do i
honor, and in Republican Senate
The Bill was passed to be engrossed, will
amendments which, of course, carry it bacl
to the House for concurrence, when it ma,
expect to be further changed FRONT its origina
beauty, ilA .is
The House yesterday got up quite debate
on the question of how the school money du'
the plantations on the St. John should b,
paid; whether it should be retained for taxes
when these French settlers are negligent il
this respect,-and there is no question Blu
they are quite too much so,--or whether the,
should have the money for the schools, and tn,
taxes be collected In the ordinary way Mr.
Weston led the school party in debate, ant
Mr.. Williams those who went for the take
being paid, and no favor to the Frenchman.-
It was smart skirmish, reaching almost to
pitched battle. But the School fund was a
last preserved intact; Mr.. Weston won tn
victory, holding the field with flying colors
while Mr.. Williams submitted to the fortune
of war in his usual graceful manner. For
small matter, it produced an able debate
Common education and the welfare of tn
children prevailed, and carried extra priv
leges to class of disloyal people, who do no
lift so much as their finger to help the countr,
that protects them, in its need. doubt yer,
much the soundness of the action of tn
House. Gov. Williams had the right, but b
lacked men, and sQhe was beaten-a common
event in war, generally success is on the sid
of the heaviest battalion. PELHAM.
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