The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-09-07
ADDRESS OF
HON, J, A, BASS

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madge OF New York POINTED to Con
gress slave driver With his sla.es
mnacled and chained ana ready for
the auction block. who We're passing
under the windows of the capitol
John H. Thomas. also OF New York,
oinrd in the debate, and the house
passed the bill admitting Missouri
only as a free state The agreement
with France was of no avail, the
fact that slavery was recognized by
the constitution counted for nothing,
the issue Was Joined, between slave
and free, and the house OF repre-
sentatiyes irreNoclbly took the stand
/ tina. no new states should be admit
ted that allowed slavery The bill
went 10 the senate and Was sent back
TO the house with an amendment al
lowing slavery in the new states. The
house refused 70 ratify or adopt the
amendment and congress adjourned
with Missouri sdll a territory
from this time onward states were
admitted Jointly. slave and free. un-
dl 1886 when Arkansas and Iowa
were admitted there was no more
territory out OF which to make
slave state
The next twenty years were re.
sarded as years OF peace and prosper.
iu and development
About this time there appeared a
cloud in the skies no larger than
q mans hand. The Mexican province |
Of Texas had thrown of the Mexican |
woke and was nation, recognized |.
by all the powers OF the earth. She |
applied for admission into the Union |.
as state After years Of waiting, I
one Of the last acts of Tyler's ad- |
ministration was to sign a bill admit |
ting Texas as a state. Mexico again |
sought TO make Texas a part OF the |
Republic OF Mexico
History has never explained why /.
it was right and proper for New |.
England to recognize the doctrine of |
secession as sound and to offer to
secede when Jefferson was about to I.
be elected, or when the war of 1872 |
was in progress for the Hartford con
venticn to pass resolutions of So
ceSsion as the best way out of a
bad dilemma, or for William LLOYD Z
Garrison ~ offer a resolution looking
TO the secession Of Massachusetts as
the solution of the slavery question
so far as Massachusetts was con.
cerned, but vet when the South was
threatened with Confiscation of all
her personal property. when it was
dreaded that the scenes in Hayt .
and San Domingo would be repeated |
in case the slaves were liberated. that |
secession on her part was revolution. |
anarchy and sedtion. Neither has II .
ever satisfactorily explained whit
the entire nation regarded the prin
ciple OF secession as A solution of any
~ q state might have until the step
was taken, and was called traitorous
and reasonable and worthy OF death.
While trade was TO he preserved in
New England even at the cost of
the Union, secession was holy COW
enant, when it was really brought
abou, to save the property of the
South. it was an agreement with
death and covenant with hell
The nation was divided, the father
was at variance with the son. and
the daughterin-law against the moth.
er-in-,2w, two were against three and
three against two and a mans foes
were in his own household: the Meth
odist church was split in twain. for
the reason tha, Bishop Andrew. a
Northern man. who had married
widow who owned slaves, wodld not
resign his bishopic. and the Southern /.
members OF the general conference
withdrew and organized the Method
ist Church, South, that still remains
n body OF its own
The democratic party was split |
in three factions Douglas headed one
on the platform of sQuatter soyer.
eighty, breckenridge of Kentucky an
other on the platform Of the Dred
Scott decision, while Bel Of Ten
nesSee headed another on the Plat
form OF the Constitution and the
Union. The Dred Scott decision in .
stead Of healing the wound tore il
open afresh. The authority of the /.
supreme court was defied and the .
opinion instead OF being the law was .
used 10y the abolishionist as a weapon .
10 attack is findings. That decision
N1S DpNp- ~pNprSal IN any ..D,,,.. a.