The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1854, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HE WHOLE NO. 6388, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1854, KA LD. PRICE TWO CENTS. scuri and Ar} anses—with @ recognition of the it iz voluntary servitace within their borders, I: has beem left for the present day and generation to proclaim this measure unconstitutional, aad worse, to ee intentions! vielation of the spirit of the con- atitul the pure and gifte: of that day whove t annals of our hte- ANOTHER NEBRASKA MEETING, | of boom, 1 ‘Mr, Douglas’ Bill Again Considered at. the Tabernacle. LETTER FROM N. BOWDITCH BLUNT. Wpeeches of John P. Hale, Joseph Blunt, | and Others. &., ko, Atthe Tabernicle, Broadway, last eveving, a mesting was held im sceordance with the following call ;— “YEE PEOPLE'S MEBTING TO PROTKST AGAINST SLAVE- cab! ior Dt MER AA A. ¥ - sof New York eby are opposnd to the vio- dation of the Missouri cowpromise and the exteasion of alave territory, are invited to meet at the Taderaacie on Saturd: aren Se 18th inet, to utter their stera pro- ‘teat the tened breach of faith, and their de- republic. Te | thooght pr per to clatart ought proper to disturb the p+ ace! aracter of this Hy Pd Mearure of public Leeda me thereby to foment the 80 easily @1 ered | ic there embraced 9 wigs Bh ig 3 ve I may, without being justly chargeable with eqotiom, aasert Vout Thave never besa nected of Tae faltering in maiotaining the just and constlin ‘ional righta of every portion ‘of the cy. The ocmpromise measures of 1850 recsived my fincere support; bat if I bad supposed that, by any oa ruiatry or rcfipement of sophistry, thoee mesaares could be construed into a repes! of or interfere ace with the Mis- eourl compromise, most eer'aiuly they mever would hive received my sanction; and I haserd nothing in saying, from my knowlege of Mr Clay and his views at t! time, thet the idea never for one moment eatered bis mind, and thst thet bightinded and mag oavimous atates- ‘man Lever for one moment would have isnt his sanction or enocuragement to apy such actor implication, N» man living, I *bink, will venture to assert that the rest statermen ot Ken‘uoky over was guilty of duplicity or in- tentional concealment of his views vpon questions of pab- &. ‘termined hostility to sny encroachment by the slave Le moment, apd if buch veutare should be hasarded, it is F caisd om the rights of f.ee labor io the territory secured | pot too much to pred'ct that the weld ass:rter wopld fad that compact, . dat few believers. I had supposed—certsialy I hai ‘NAMB BIGNRD TO THE ORIGINAT CALL, Robert Sak, boped—that the s speritier of party apirit, aad ai times of persoral animosity, which beeet him especially in the lat- ter part of bis political eareor, hai been baried in his and I have yet to learn that any wili under dirpute hia el. or that the “Piawber. Limy dealer, H-nry Clay subterfoge, this wanton cerec: ef hin hoor andfeme. I trust never to wee the day the fraternal bonds of our coofederacy absil be broke when this great republic rbali be robbed of a single li or member; bot if that lime shall ever come, (w>ish msy God ia h's Providence avert ) upon the heays of those who, disregarding the honorable pledges of their father: and their brethren, © upwecessarily opened afresh the scarce healed wound, Jet the responsibility and the fears rest. For ove, Ispurn the aseociztions and re ject t With great respect, your fellow citizen. N. BOWDITOH BLUN®, To Rebert Smith, Thomas Crane, Kiqrs, and others, Committee. The Caam—Fellcw eilizens, I will now introduce to you Joseph Blunt, E-q., who will offer some resolations for your consideration. Mr. Buunt raid — -Stoaventter. = Line dealer, -Granite + Plaster manufactarer, » Builder. ef Builcer, -Bailder, Builder. Tam pape to see this representation of the free labor * Merobant. oftbe North. Iam happy toadcreca » meeting of men “Lime dealer. who come here ‘0 discuss this question calmly and de "Stone dealog, liberately, Sixty-five years ago in this city were asssm- bled the representatives of the thirteen Ststea, anxiously awaiting the time for the organization of the govern- mest Ocly s few yearn had elaosed since they had se- vored themselvea from the mother eountry, and bad pro- claimed by the D-olaration of Imdep»ndenoe that ll men born free equal. They afterwards saw fit to refer the question of s!avery to be settled by the Legislatures of the various States ; but we all believe that the time must come when the United Statex will give ia their fall adberence to the principle in ics fullest sense. (Great Cheering.) At this time two S:ates—Massachusstts and ‘Wm. Laimbur, Jr Builder John Fofter..... . Contractor. ‘At half-pest seven o’clock fifteen hun‘red persons had “amfembled in the Tabernacle, and soon afterwards the necting was calied toorder by Mr. MoCLay, who nominated Joumra P Sucpson to presice over the meeting, which -momiggtion was ratified by the mertivg. Mr. MoClay then mominated the following named Vice Presidents and ‘Gecretaries, and the meeting accepted the liat:— New Hampshire abolished slavery withio their limits. PRESIDENT : In the ot States slavery existed to a greater so JOSEPH P. SIMPSON, lees extent. Very soon slavery was abolished in the ‘VICE PRESIDENTS: States of New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Islaad and Robert Smith, Oyras Curtis, Ccnneo!icut; and the patriots who harded this free govern- Horatio Ailen; H M. Solieffelin, ment down to us merit our eternal gratituve. (Ap- J. I. Coddington, Robert Taytor, plavse.) But we had bound ourselves to :espect the A. A. Depman, T. B Stilimaa, rights of the South, and to that pledge no Northern State Wm. H Webb, Wm. Mepsies, bar ever faliered in ite adhesion. After the reva}aionsay, Beoj. F_ Cam; James Hr rper, war it was found that there was # vast amount ef <erri- Troms McElrath, tory west of the mountains to which the South had a James Wotbert) ls George 3-uce, claim. ‘The States of New York, Vira’ and New Soha B Oorne! Jersey clatmed the territory West of the Ohio. Robert M. Hoe, h York came forward first and gave up her oli Thomas Obarlock, Joho H Cornell, to the territory, ond bree the exertions of such men Edmund Hurry, Thoms Carnlsy, se Thomas Jefferson acd Rufus slavery was pro- Tacker, opens art, mye Icha 8. Howell, Joho rr. ome Sami ‘axner, Thomas Addis Emmet, | thee pat a ld and that portion of it bno»n ae the provin Ate ‘ARIES: was erected into a State. It was agreed that slavery there Gustavus &. Conover, eth jr not be bps Us ores <a = Peter Ren x N. Havens. ore was & great conten sult was aver’ Sa sa oH | war probibited borth ef the Ine of 0030. Ircoullect well tre seration the news of this measure created on Sa>baih morning whem it came here; but the com- ade, the North remained true to it, as ge) Such has al) been ‘The Cuamman came forward and naid:—~ Fellow citizens—I feel highly vensible of the honor qyou have ocnferred upon me ip calling upon me to pie. wide over this meeting. It {s calle’ ass moettog of ths mechanics of Now York, s body of mea with whom I have ‘Deen connected for the Ixst half eentury. But it x mot only a meeting of mechanics, freem: I object to this vill ‘bes the Soutbera people have mot scked for it. is the work of @ few politicians, and is a I: olitioal (applanse,) and to discuss s subjeet of the highest i: ‘ever for the gratification of their person:! ambi paepop usall. It ie simply wigther the country | ijon; and I must do the Sonthera People the jus- be given ap to tlavery, or wh@her freetom ehall | ti90'to say that I fully believe “they never saked four years ago I attended a meetiog of | for any thing 0¢ thin eons. ‘The speaker referred t> the in- City Ho'el, | uriection at Southampton, Vii and the fast that among | the Sontbetn politicians asked Soonanis talags of the them all there was but one voice and th or free | Noith. They demanded that we should n+v: dom. (Cheers. u sentineat will be re- eak egsinst flavery. 1 eehoed here. apples ) The question bafore unis ove phlet to go through the mi of gr at moment to meohanios, [a my opiai lave | Th ia wever conld be done. Afverwarde, power bas slways been Sony down mechanics. [have | when the ory of saving the Union waa got up, Southern @lways been jealous of the gentlemen said that the Union should be put an end to what is called an abolitionint unless these resoluticns passed. Was there a Northern anti-slavery man and an anti slavery boy wan who ecceded to these measures? And once mora, ta taught me I do when thes tlemen met, for the purpose f giving i but I must call the formal representation to their opinions, wnost was the treatment which they received at Nashville? reer with | Why, they were driven by the voice of the people jes who stady | gimost beyond the borders of the town, to dis eet positions {2 | ouss and argue their monstrous and ridiculous dosiriaes. mse] I epproved of hi coars®, | Therefere, I tell you, gentlemen, it ia not the South Who I did not, I am now compelled to | desire thea: meaeures; but they come from the petty aay ince he has sold (applause) I withdraw tha! politicians who fawn aroun the executive at Washing: Yon. (Applause) I pany moat beartily detest these Feu. sins to be reon whether, on the sober second thought, | rep of the North who brosob these measures—false to the be will redeem the false step he bas taken, or whether | 5 incipl+s which they first took in their childhood, (Ap- ‘we shall moura him as one lost forever. plavee.) Agein: we are told that this compromise of Mr. Wurrsnnay then read the following letter from N, | 1820 is unconstitutional. If it is;is it not straoge that and | Over thirty years bave passed without its teing foand out, and that it wan at last discovered by Stephen A. Doulas, of Dlinois? It the sorntiny of the Mor roe Cabi- net. Jobp Quincy Atams was satisfied with it—(lond MN. B. BLUNT’S LETTER. New York, Feb. 18, 1864. grin bey eee oer ~ aan ape v Gurriawen—I received aod at the time otended pers. ® politician, jumps vu. w like iD, at cinnatie Jour request, 10 sdireas my follow-cllt- ovmees’ it unconstitutional! Ons thing farther, gens this evening, upon tie threatened violation of the leme-—Congrens bre control over terri Missouri compromise; but ineesrant engagement in a | ‘orice; and they must determiae, when they are first to ‘cause yet unfinished, leaves me no alternauive but to pre- | Start into sovial existence, whether they are to take s sent brielly my views m writing free and vigorous form or whether they are to be tram For a period of seversl years, I have felt constrained | melied by plavery. & plause) As to the effect of from a regard to my official position, entirely to absiaia ig few us look at the progress respectively of Missouri from any direct or public interference in politioal matters, | ane Michigan. The latter is fast advancing to the front Q ert 1 oer. | repk in the galaxy of States, and the former is lag Po found deriaticg from (hat rule, | behind under the barcen and evils of Leak oye the = should mot now @ ry howe mading in Con- | pleui If we were to legisiate this genera. ae Ner'oa totoar cawrsbiage as far abore | tion; if, Hike the people before Nosh, let ue eat and drink considers : vital im. | for to-morrow we die, then we might discard all rezard po tatagrity of the Unto, pols Sepeoial. | for posterity. and say “‘suffcleat’ to the day is the evil Kas favolving not ony s breach of piighted faith, bat | therecf.’” Cane) 9 detain you with ne farther welfare of our common cone, I have not felt my. | remarks, but wil read Kobiiea, of my opt. ‘RESO! elt at liberty to withhold s public expression of my opl " Tht te - sat meting of the actors in the eventfa! drama which led to | of New York, heartily conour in the stern receatly ‘of the #0 called “Miaaourt com romige,”” | uttered in tvis place by the. great meetiog ealled by the have passed from the scene of their labors and their | leadirg merchants and bankers of this city, agsiost the Pony e ifhngen the places which knew tbem once will | threatened repeal of the Missouri compromise : that we know RO more foever.’’ He whose name has been | cordially agree with the sentiment uttered by the presid- identified with that great measure, whose eloq ueat voice occasion, that ‘a bargsin ira was so often raised to sooth the excited passions of heated | and that we do not understand, will net tolerate, the whore last expiring energies were devoted to | doctrine of repudiation;” and with the declaration of tre effort \o exinghish forever tue fire of social | Mr. Gerard, that ‘‘the common and honorable sentiment and Ciseord which for s time threatened with | of all mapkind will condemn it,’ and that weceem it des! ruction our political edifice, has been roarcely cou | proper to express our surprise and regret that the re- to the tombere the toreh of ansrehy has besa syecifal resolutions ad again lighted and the worst iby that mesiiog, when pre jaaaior oivil “dt ented by Senaior Fish to the Senate, were refused « aroused. Deeply to — your assembling, our duty requires us to moet tl Resolved, That the pretence that the repral of the emergency with ox!meesr, bat with firmeesa For my- | Missouri ermpromise fa timate c: jnence of the self, Ihave been taugh: to revere the constitution of ut acts of 1860 bes been well shewn to be without founda ecuntry, to held to its principles; i however mach tion ia fact, by several Senstora, and enpeciaily by Senator may regret the existence ef any alated to affest | Ho hese monly sdhereces to trath and honor we preciate; ‘tthe doctrine breached some , that that compromive was urconstitational, erefore ought to be repealed, is alike novel and otartling, involving @ denial of our constitutional rights, left for our fathers a sti!l more cifficult tack te accom. | cunflicting with the views of our greatest statesmen and the creation of a form «f gov-rument binding line | the repeated action of ou: government; that uatil tne and their posterity. Ii eas no easy task to | Teriitories are organized into States, amd admitted to under one politioal ryrtem the stern de 1@ Unior, the people thereof have no right to make rales ‘ of the Puritan the perteouted Huguenot, the | aod regulations for the governance of the same, Dut that the feelings of spy portion of our cttiz Lhave siways felt it my duty fairly and hones:ly to watctain ite every ‘That copstitation waa ie ite. « compromise. successful result o! our revoiutioasry straggle hed placid Quaker, the zealous disciple of Romish supremacy, | uch 1ight by the eonetitution be absolately and and the fiery Cavalier of the South prom=*t) | ‘zelusively tothe people of the United States, in Congress But the task was accomplished, Ita resulta are before | sssembled. ‘the world in the present proud condition of the Amerisan Resolved, That a decent rae) on the part of our pect Representatives for the rights, opinions, and feelings of the Beople, demanés that mo great change in our settled rational policy—no change permanently ai the wmutusl interests and relations of the lous sections of be within the borders of different Siates, by ose | the Unton—rhouk be suddenly adopted by Congress until part of s portion of the staies: and the ordi- | « fair opportunity has been ded (or an ex, of sance of 1787 for the grant of the territory rorth of the | the views of thelr constituents, from whom aione all just Ohio, formed part of the condition of those oesst ona, power is derived ; that spy attempt to ha ‘this rill It i the proud privilege of cur own Ea pire State thet | through the Se: , OF to force ite a ng PI we their yon po 4% greatend stupendous mooument of olvil Mberiy. (ae of the princ:pal nots precsdiag cf the constitation waa the rectlement of the claims of the States to the unsettled ian is al- Hy il passage she vas the first t> place her contribution upon tnis altar | House, 1a order to (oree’all the judgment of the Of the public wesl. would be am act treacherous amd treasonable, and | ‘Au Bln 'o after State was admitted from this great North bo to doth Senators and Repressatatires, b; onthe of ‘western domain, it beoame obvious to the statermen of f office, and by the coxfidence which has bren that day that ree ne tigation of the Mis ee tna in them, not to be persuaded by any -slerippl, amd of ii insivpenssdle to the de jecomener Srent saeay ‘That, speaking in the velopement of the imme: ne rr sources of he mighty Wet | name of the ‘we respectfally but frankly remind ond negotiations followed. revulting in the patonase of that they are our servants, and not oar masters, the Frewch domain It ie well Koown at chix Resolved, That the ai of the Missouri compromise, day that the sovatitu: ai ieoh ont in order to introcace slatry into our free territory of Ne bd ee roy t ‘i C o¢ was | brasks O76 maneam would Pe in every polat a Sortan most inevitable a i! 8 viola\ not only of our chase. Out of the aejnisition of Lon bus the ri fy to Getianes alle of repabl anc Ubristian 0; a the first being Louisiane » That the intimaticn Baye already been form: Upon the question of simivsion of Mirsoari, a dis Senator that gussion arose which shook the Union to its satire [t | all the Southern whig Senators will vote for the bill, nua terminated in the adoption of that enactment which de- | sroused equally our sorrow and our indignation. That we ‘glared>—*+ That ip ali that territory enced by Francs to | of tbe North rogeet the, warniog Lore then by ‘the United States, under the name of L uisiaas, which | the merchsnts of our that with repeal of the ‘ea sorth of the 86 dex. 39 min. north Jstitude, mot ia- | Missouri compromise, and confidence are st an ‘eluded within the limits of the Ytate oontempiated by this | end forever. and com promise other than every lentary servitude, oub or: than in | there embodied in the feceral constitution between of ortms Yuercet tee’ jorties teal bare sinve masters of the South aed the shall be and is hereby forever pso- | North and West, will be vidated by fi Hs r I territories secured to ws by that compast, wa the goverement and the ovuntsy’ that they do aot traly Tepresent the people, whgeo mom cherished rights, prin- ciples, and interests they are detra.*ing for the promo- tion of their psrsonal ambiti ‘o. of t the cistation of loaders." And we warn all our public rervaate who may be tempted to falter ia their vllagh'n to the rigata Of free labor. that a dey cf reckoni.ve is 4t band. Rrrolves, That the agitation and alarm already excited throughont the free States, at the pr viol stios of our ancient rights, and the popalar of our native, but alro of our adopted sobeme for depriving them ef homertende Kansas and Nebraska, unless they will consent to work side by sids With slaves, iecicates the bitter curce that awaits those who sball daze to trampie on compacts aad remove the landmarks of freedom. That we o4ll upon th.) free labor ers of the North to forget all differeyce of yarty snd to stand shoulder to shoulder im defence of our eommon righta, and that we call apon all the ministers of eeligion, by the bigh duties of their holy offtce, to ixvoke tite of Natiovs to turm the hearts of those who a1 pla\ing this stupendous wrong, Keroived, That we cali upon our Senators and Regre- reptatives in Congress, to resiat unfliachingly, in sooth mapper as ag Senge Gees mest, all attempts, from wha ever quarter, to repeal, abrogate, er render jaoperstive, Cheoily or indirectly, the eighth section of the Missourt Ast; and that we call upon President of ths Uaiied in ence of the passage of such dill by Congroas, ‘to secure that compact from violatio: interpos!ng constitn uo) on ch "nie bat a copy of secolm\iona be forwarted tives of the Sta New tion to those boties, to the Gevernor of each State of the Ui to the P; of the United States ila ro Son, Jonn P, Baum them came upon the platform, amid onsiderable cheering and some slight hissing; a few eat- calls were aleo sudible. Mr. Hale said :— My friends and fellow citizens— 1 chanced yestarda afternoon to be im the Senate obamber of the Unit States when QGivernor Seward, one of your rpcasunta. tiv vented to that bedy—(appiause and ) 1 ou G.v Seward presente: to that body the reavla- of the Legis'atwe of this State remoustrating aqedust the pace: f the bill to which allusion has been 3 The resolutions wer: res. itetly read, ordered to be printes, and laid ope le, prodacing po more impression than was produced a moment after when the Clerk of tke House procuced as much excitement, the ot! other body, . When the Siamp Act was passed ‘arliament, and was sent over te these to be enf reed, there was @ town mesting held in New Eugland, tben not comprising over ity thousand people—the town of Boston—and at it the pesple resolved tha’ the S:amp Act should not bs en- forced in the town of Boston, ard they sent those reso- Intions to the British Pa liament. “They were uct read ard Iatd upon the table; but the Stxmp Act was repealed. (Applause) Why is it that the voice of three millions of peop'e, speaking thruvgh their leg!’ imate orgaa,. the Legislature of their State, and presenting thoee resolu tone tothe pational Legislature, did mot produes one thourancth part of the effet thot the town mesting in Boston preduced upon the British Parliament? The snswer is plain, The men of Boston were fo eatuest, and meant what they said: and the British Parliament knew, when they received those resolutiova, that the men who j nage them had the resolution to live upto them, The ate did not believe that of yours I’ they had they would not have been Iaid upon the table mingled with hisses.) Now, my fiiea4s, to night, rose to address an sudience wher I felt so inudequate to ‘the task, because I think Tappcesiee something of the importance end something of the magoitude of this ques. tion If I were to siand before you to-night to argue the case of one eclitary individual, ard upon the de.ermina- tion to which you might come rested his fate for the fa- ture of bis life, and by the determinstiou to walsh yeu came bis fate bereafter was to be freedom or tlavery, I ebould find the responsibility too overwhelming for my re capacity But how does such s question as thataink to utter insignificance im comparison with the question you came here to-pight to coneider? Lok on it for a mo ment; look at that map—(pointing to the large map aus: | aren ed in front cf the organ)—important as is the posi- it gives the territory, itie act qatte geographically correct, ‘Mat territery, I say, lyiag in the oontre cf the Uffted States, with waters from ite moontain peaks runoing now into the Atlantio, now into the Gulf of Mexis, and thep inte the worthern lakes. That Territory comprises an area of 480 0CO miles more than ten times th» size of ths Si ot New York, and fifty tmen the siz of the Sate of M. sechusetts. It cocupies # p’sition in relation to the rest of the country which the Chinese slaims for his oo! rest of the world, It is and if ti © re ports of those who h: e hand of civilisation to make question {s how eball it be gover ed t— and Ob! God, that it should be a question, when for thirty four years ws have slambered in tae se curity that {t wan curs—oure beyond peradventure. (Ap jause.) Why, Daniel Websier, on the 7th of Maron, 1850, in his celebrated sj +h which woo him so much of fame and 80 wuch of obloquy, deslared that the position of that Territory as to slavery wi by an irrepeal- able le But mcw we ore awstenei to the fact that what we gees for more than the time of ® generation ‘be settled is safe and secure no lorger. The question which we sup; our poned fathers settied more than @ third of » century ago has come up to be settled agsin. What is it—what shall that great land be? Let me tell you. it ia for you to aay; itis for the mechanics aud the workingmeo—the #1 bande, the honest kearts and clear hea‘s—the voters of this city toesy. (Applause) The honorable gentleman who preceded me rays he has s contempt for shose douth ern men who are costinually agitating this subject, but be bas more for the Northern men who are treacherous to their trust! Bat let me tell you thas there would be no Northern doughfaces to vote for that territory to begiven up to slavery unless they did it kno that they re- rerented coughface constituencies, (owt applause.) [at the perple of this city take hold of this question, acd Jet it be kvown that they are inearnest. L«t Ly ere of New York stand up, in the ocnacicus pride of their labor, determice that they will reckon at the polls with the men who vote to give up this ‘air iv! ianse to slavery, I tell you it will not be d wih be po tresobery at Wasbington unless treachery in New York to precede it; but let New York epcak out and that land ie safe, That ceantry will e900 be settled; the wars and oppressions of the Old World sre turpirg out hundreds amd thowards nally to people it. Soom apotber tide will come from the East aorone the Pacific, as row it pours across the Atlantic, and the tides will meet and setile there in the central land, and the Chinese wi)l find that he bas left one crntral kiogdom to find anotier om another continent. And what shall be its tutions of government? Shall they be sach as me ww York England what they are? Shall the bum of busy ipdustry be 4 on its hills and ip ite valleye—rhaii chur. nd sshoolhouses and scacemica Cot ite hile? (Loud cries of ‘ Yes, yes,’ applause and hirves.) Shall spires of Ch:iation churches potot from Loins hearta to FA "Seeninies ay. Ls Mero “Yon,” pon Spplause.) Ani w! the laborer goen home at might, wearied with his foil, shall be look im the tace of s wife that is bis, ard on the children ot his love, secured to him by the Iawe rot only of God. but of man alio? (Applaure.) Bboli the gratefu! song of thanksgiving go up to the Giver Of every gond, from free hearts ani happy homes; or in- stead of that, abail the clank of the cobain and tne wail of the bordsman go up, fillleg the ear of Sim who has re- Jed it an Bis pecallar glory that Ho is the God of the pressed? (Applause ) ' is what you have to settle; pot for this year—xot for this generation—not for this century, but for all cemisg time, whether slavery is an inetitotion cf human government. And, my friends, let the wings of your imagination take flight, sod see if you cep teen the megnitude, the impr @, the iamenelty and infinity of this question, Let mo ark you my frienco—my political friends—it this is one of thow minor qurstions which you sre wiliog to trade of at for @ plioe in the Oustom House! (‘No—no” —larghter prisuse.) = Are thers Bot come things that are a ditt! her aad holier thau to political sberbles for the market, 204 nestions? Now it {« proposed to do all thir: it in pri to throw down the barrier h you see marked on that map, not to let freedom dor below it, but to play March ap above it and that istheiseue—free‘om orsiavery. Weli, now I want \o deal with this thing fairly —I want to argue the question that hss teen preamted, 1; is raid that the measure is to be paseed for two raanone: the first lt decane the restrictions of the Missouri compromise are Unconstitntions]; and the second, hecanse they are inoon- siatent with the ae eae of 1860, You may thiok {t pom I should pr to argue ® constitutions} question in a mixed assembly like this. It is the very sort of en serembly in which I would like to argue it. Some people affect to think that common people cannot uncer. stend @ constitutional question. They think thet s maa must be as stupid as am over fed alderman, or ooriupt a4 a member of before he is fit to appreciate » eee cat Watee (laughter bg ae Af pro- pone to put it to frienda, eon fdsace Tint yoe"enn understand it. lavas fist examine ue question ss to the bar tersanenrn hg? probiviting slavery in the Territories. Let us eu; the Grst place, there Was no provision or presedent aboat ite The United Staves own ter: % then, there is n: it or pro- vision tithe cone te but the deals root that they own it. Through tei States apsak ? Why, throvgh their government—through Congress. ited Sigtes own tre Territories, exolu‘ing we > Ck pepe mg qwhicn beng con epeak hroug! reas, wor not seem to fol low im thr abrenc: is Tw Cocgress wer to leginlat jell. tase tie; how the early fathers of tho 6 thi question. Did they understand that Congrers had the right to legirlate for the éxolasion of slavery from the Territories? We can best soswer tt by history. The ooxstitution was adopted ta 1789. In 1787 the Continental an ordi i i, a tec Congress performed was to pass unacimously an act, bie Of whieh & ‘to render the ordi Doi arpa ee eciece a ‘Copgress, anc waa the first sesembled, for the government of the territ north west of the Onio river, may have full effeot, it (rate ite that there shouid be some provision made 80 as to ‘the same to the present consti! utiomof the United a &o, &e. Ihave the entire cf the act in my hand Ws! hen, Congrees thought there were some things in that Ordinance that should be amended #a as to mate it pene {a sccordance with the constitutfo: ; and ¢ only alteration or smendment the first’ Goo gress made to render that ordinance compatiol: with the constituiion, was im reference to tain things that were require¢ to be done by the old continents! Congress, and which, under the new con Mitntion, wers required to be done by the Presidaat Sonate, lenving all that part of the ordinance excluding elavvery in {al and existence, Gut perhaps they did not know what they were about—they had not the aid of the pew lights that have shoneon later day. Now, I Will read you come of the names of thoss who were mem. bers both of We suntin: nb) Coogrom and cf the first Uon- grers held She constitution. I find, ia Iokiog over the records of tacr botics, that there were seventeen gentienea wo weey members of both, and mon who ie their cay were supposed to know something about the gonstitation (Larghter.) There was John Langdon, of New Hamp dire, a name well kvogn; he wav a member of the old and also of the United Stater Copstitutional Convention, and alo of the new eolJont fem, wi prerided over the United States Sonate; fiom Miwsouw, getia there was Elbridgs Ge:ry; from Pennsylvania, Robert Morris, Ciymer, ‘zaimona; from Svath Carolina, Pierce Butler; from Gesrgis, Willlein Few; from Virginia, & person Komewbat known, James Modiion, &o. Well, seventeen members who participated fo ths convention whieh framed the eonstiiution of the United Gtates aa sembleiin the first Congress under it. [a addi:ion to that there wes arother gentleman, who, if he did mot Understand thie mndjrct Fo wellay his successor at he Pretent day, may be supposed to bave had some fecling Upon it. George Washivgton presided— (authuslasio eheexing)— over the convention which frame. the ederal constitution, and of courre liateved to a] the debates Upon it, wax the first President of the United Siates, and sigoed the act whisb, in his opition, reacere! the ond mance unr Since with the federal constitu ry ell, now, ‘he most thet elaiin for those’ gentlemen “ie ther ty “une, TE they were supposed to de men who nadrrstord what the federal cons tution meant. (Laughter.) You have their jn¢gmwent—their deliberate judgment, the judgment of George Wasbington, of James Madison, of bridge Gerry, of Roger sberman, of Kileworth, and other#—ot the whole Congress, for the act passed unaai- mously— that it was ocnsistent with the federal constitu tion, not ovly thst it was constitutional to legislate for the territori¢s in regarc to slavery, but to exelade slavery from every inch of territory we then owned. Thea if it ‘be true that one sot has a spirit which is {noonslstent with some other act, ad therefore it my ecpform to the spirit of the first act, | which beara the immortal names of Vi to act adivom ard others, ought mot to haves sp sanction today with thore new lights who this new Gircovery in corsti‘utional law? ( oe) fit be found that one is inconsistent with t to give way? that which we inherit 2 Our fathers— thet to which they gave utterance when the wounds ofthe Kevolution were not yet healed—whon thelr gar ments had not been yet washed from the pbiood of the wounds that they had received in the great contest and their locks were hoary with the frostw that fell with wa of heaven. as they stood sentivels round of libety? (Applause) I think I migh! my friends—I might at least mot be called arrcgent—it I were to leave the constitutions! question there, and if I might appeal-to those geatle- who Lave made this late discovery, and ask to argue this question with those authorities, and 2 alone. Bat we do not stop there. from that te igre: ted upon the exprees position thet they ave power to exclude slavery from the territories. Hi ‘was it in 1845, when T: D:d pot mer—Sou or, watch ought ha Did they think of this unsovatitutionvality then? How wea it that in 1648, when that grest territory of Oregon and Washington got » government, slavery was excluded, a K. Polk signed the act? Gu oack to every one admitting Ohio, Ilinols, Jaciana, Wisconsin, end you will find thay they contain s provision probibit- ing rlavery, and do not rest slone on the ordinance of 1787. Yet io the fase of this continued practice of the geverpment, it i* now found out, iu the year .f oar Lord hteen hundred and fifty four, thet these men were all milatahen (laughter)—ail mistaken, and a new tight has risen frem the White Mountains of New Hawpshire, and from the Green Mountains of Vermont, that 1s to put ont those little taper flashes to which we save been Sovurtemed to look for lignt be (vhsers laughter) What shall w. ¢ mex? I mid pot be eurprised if ia this voysgs of disecvery io which they found ont that there so'a Were uvcorsitational, that tuey found tha: the o art- in fon iteel waa an uoconstitudonal messa'e—(renewe gbten)—and th-y might say thatthe men who fra ued it bad po power to frame euch # constitution, and there sore it was uceuthoriged; aud Tam not eure that ia bis ‘age of progres we may not reach that polat. Thea there ia buts step fartner te go. It is very olear that the Ls © aration of In‘epencence was no‘ ao authorised sct; tho e ‘wes no’provi-ion in the B-itien constitation that mace it the jaw of the land, (Great cheertog and merriment ) it w: holly unauthorized; aad after a Whils, if we foi low our leacers, we will fad out that the Revola lon was an unjust faole rebellion, (Ranewed applause ard lavgbter.) Doon there need tobe soy more light cm this ques ion?—is all history amd experience to go for nothing?- is the light of the peat to afford no lights the experience of thee to whom we bave trusted ao iong to bs thrown aside? are we to ttar: off at this late Gay to follow this ignus fatuus, which tells us that it is the ocly troe lighi’y B-sides all taat, my friends, if you be not convinced oy this, let me pat it in another point of view. Have there not been som: vary astute men in both bouses of Congress sivee 1820. whose whole lives have been theembociment of perpstuating bumen slasery? I woncer that the kewn-ejed scrati ny of John © Calhoun never stumbled upon this treth, which bas been #) Ilatsly drought to light. I wooder that in his metaphysival npos- ulations upoa the divine or gic of slavery, te did not dte- cover this act to be Bawmond, of South C1 Clarkson, raid tuat slavery was by G.d, ind manctifec cf Chri Giscovery, Bot it wae never until a very rhort tins vicoe suggested that the Mixouri compromise was unconstitutional. And those th Missouri compromiss om the gr lity, were day after Cay, ia 4 1850, moving to extend the line from the territory that’ we scquired from France, west to ti ‘This queaticn dows not stop hers. If this Nebrasks bill is pnoopatite ticnal—if it has no forse, obligation—then the prohibition whic from Minnesota, Oregon, aud Washington {« unconstita tional; the barrier is thrown down, and every ent which we supposed the patrictism and wisdom of oar fathers left us is and siavery may march triumphant ever the whole of it. It will mot be before it is din covered that there is nothing in the ocnstituticn sacred but slavery, and nothing wo) th extending except the em- pire of the chatm. Applause.) Woll, now let me come to the ether branch of @ subject; but I find I am tres. passing upon the time I know will be better occupied in listening to others. (Ories of * No, ni ther, it is anid that this lation te in Heve thet is the word-.is sistent ; that the ‘ala- ton of 1860 was wrong. I take issue upon that, hat! was it to leave the existing laws of the Territory jast as we found them ? Tf you look t the of Congress qn will see that repeated se a Het male to induce it to repeal the Mexican , to abolish slavery im Texas. Now, it was sai when wa acquired that territory, we acquired it with the exist- ing laws, and that-slavery not ‘ge into it unless thore la . Bat refared to repel whatewr tbe ia, tt rT n law abolishes was the first pablished by the Oommi’tee om Territo: the true ground. If this is to be made consistent with the legitiation of 1860. it most be besed up m intervention. That is the principle, and that is the very nature of that Jegisiation—it was to leave the oo it was; if it was & free territory, it was to vm ve territory, Bo attempts were to be mate to change it. But the ptiit of )8€4 ig to introduce slavery into (t, and that no attempt shall be made to repeal it. That is the apirit we are called upon 10 at to embrace, instead cf the epfrit of cur fathers, which excluded avery from every inoh of territory. Se, it I have stated the positiem fairly, the attempt to repeal this compromise ig based’ upon ® mistake, a mis apprehension, because it in nor bcorelstent with the crasttatian © abeheh slavery or perpstuate it, and it is not consistent with the Irgisiation of 1880 to interfere vith the existing Jawa and repeal them. Now let us look a little farther, It is paid we are to have nom interven tion, that Congress is not to interfere, and at the same time they are not to interfere because it is uncoostita ticnal: snd yet it is prepored to organize territorial governments and to give them the right and power to de- termine for themeelven whether they will have slavery. I resollect # comment made upon the story of the tem, tion, which I will relate to you as partieulariy applicable here, When the devil toek the Saviour to the topo! a high moustain and showee the loms of the world, and said ‘ail this will ive you if you will fall down and worship me,’’ the clergyman here ssid, ‘My friends, he pro — was nvt his own, and whet he bave if Uongreas got it give it to @ territorial the Re legislate, bow can legis! Territorial legislatures are t tions of Copgrees, and they have no power out what Congress gives them ; it may repeal the whole act sort of territorial degtota crees ing ame yet not power to legi:late upon the aubj +o: ; but it may oreate an inferior tribanal, aod bieh the eonstitation does not it, my friends, this matter does put even cm the grounds which I have stated The rs of our constitution were wiser men than to leave 5 Kable to ding ; they foresaw tale ; they foresaw that frm ‘he immense terri owned, pew Btates aad communities would ap: they foreraw that immense interests would be involved, and that there must be @ power resting somewhere— Jenary, fall, rupreme—within the constitation, to legis- lete for them, And so Jeft it to no doudtfal con struction—no, thanks to their memory and to Almighty God for that memory, they setiled thi: very page of the ocnstitation, so pl who raps may read. (App! te the fou Fog A tation, you Thwow it is not fashiogeble to the Oxited States now-e deys tothe Baltimcre platform? (Reacwed laughter plause )»», You will excuse me, my friends, there quoting 1 tem these very old fashioned msn, ig from s,Xeb an old fashioned paper. (Mo: Fi ai edful rule, * orher pre in this conetiiu ola.me Now, Ist mea tk you, my friends, can Ia: plsiser? Who ia to judge whether th, tlavery or not? W.\J, clearly they ¢! 10 1bé supervisory po Wer ef the suprem judi ether the provision © Are confonant with t tiow or not. If :hie ary to go further ands dduce authority to prove that the itution confers up. 12 Congress this power and it wines by our whole history, they will Ought to be exercised as then the quesuon is settled. tell you the coctrine of « W-interventt if they break off this old « Wpremise what will the new one be worth? Jet va lonk #t the fature. the torch of discord should biaze im our midst, a persions be aroused; suppo % tvat sectional js thonld be breught 1m exiate UO*; suppore the pensions of ome party rhould be srrayec szainst those of auother, where, withip this bread isnd, !#to be found the maa witb temerity or absurdity enon, bt? stand up and boldly propose snother compremiss? No, the word wil bee itbiny and » by-word, as it ong) tt t> be. (Appia pet Let the mep of this Congrers rep d that comprom au. { tell them they will co more to rep te) overythiog which bis ds this Union together than aliel they could do. (Re- pewed applauee ) What wenld » oo: amanity be thit cid pot cbrerved public faith? A commu %ty of thieves eould + ot live together without i!, Why, Fi ber Amer says thet if there were to de tonight a fterurreotion from the foot of the gallows of all thos who hare expisted their erimen with their lives, au! the fricxe of past ages should be suse wbled into oas cummepity, the very Grst pesessity thet woall pe oo poeed upon such # soumunity, would be the preserva tien of the publio faith, for hey could n 2! exist without it, Let this compromise of 1520 de repea 1, an’ where ip publie faith, aad whatis it? Thirty-fov ryesrs it has esivied im nol mn gmpromans 1 thivsg i VE J ford <temehetoteg portion of the Staten bave « sjoyed ali the Profite of it while we have had nothicg but #9 unbrokwo forest. It bas been only the wilds and mo watalos—the wilderness bas been our portion; tha ravage wird the wild beast bave roamed unchecked over is, aud th > dirds have built their neste in asfety there, for the foot ef" sivilized Ean bas vot trod upon it But now, ia these | wter days, when the advancing tide of emizration in aboutt 20 people it—now, when two huodred white families kuve gone there to settle, thir apirit of slavery, thet has got three States out cf it, are Cetermined to seize upom tty last foothold « dom, anc make it pasturing ground for slaves hem doit DuatI de the South wromg; they have not demanded It; it in wot the demand of the South, ‘applauee,) bat it is’ the. tender of Northern servility. have beard io private ani pablio—[ have heard upon-the ficor of Congress, and out of it, remarks like this:--taid the gentleman from the South who poke for the mese- ure, “I don’t know a man in my State that wanted this compromise repealed, but when it ia offered to us by the North bow cap we go hore and maintain ourselves be- fore our constituents if we refase to take what is ten. ¢ered to us.” Said Mr. Benton tome, ‘Sir, if « Southera men had introduced this measure I would bave de- ounce it as infamous; I would have black balied it, it would not have bad time to eit dowa in the hall ; tir, 1¢ the North have x bargain. a bargain that was imposed upon them, and have lived by it thirty. four years, and now want to give up thrir half, have f avy right to complain?’ I'thivk, my friexds, tm disous- sing thin measure, we ought tod) jus'ice to the gouth ; if it was propose’ to the people of the South, there would not be ove voice in ten thousand for it; their sease of hovor, their chivalry, their mag papimtty- for they have it-— would bave repelied them from makivg the demaud But they sey, and ray with trath, if the Noith tender ic how can we refure i? Th'# question is with you, my friends, and I would rather argue tuis question for effsot to night before thia audience than before elihar house of rees. I tell you if the working men of whore obildren will go out and people that the foreign pupulation of New York, and all who hove interest i tree faraon and free housss, will look to that indeciiance, the most magnificent that » beneficent God ever gave to any people, and are determived that it shall be what their fathers more thao s third of s osntary ago voted it should be, it will remain so. It lies with you, wy frienca, and you ought to make these sentiments krown, and to make it known that you are iu earnest shout it. Here ia agreat question; it apresds over all It thing that is dear to thy humen away down in tha future trate; it belongs to ali tine—to geutretions that are to people this vast eon- + lorCirum pel eis | Aueduace shat time enall #romore, (Apc Sos ) We must wake up to the tamenss impor ances koh Gus Goa One of your reola'toas'tells o» ‘he miuiaters to ba ap and praylog, and vb cep do moueb; thoy wih tell you At ia rome hing; bat you caa Woy, vote, rr tnt}. jeetceml better, Taha’ trie qaestoa apd heck etn ot thatidef mors than Liesl im portance: itin a question that rlees above patty polioy, a geeqiicn that belongs to progress, to humeni y, to the destinies of the rece in all coming tiwe--yer, even to the Geatizien of eternity, Teil politicians to stand ons sid4, that you will give them the Custom House, the Post Ofice, sud eversthing but this fair inbericevee, whion yeu intend for the aboce cf firedom which you iatend to leave for your ebildr’ 2 and obil¢ren's o2ildrea—s place where the honest isborer may labor in the ¢igol y of bis own © ankood, and r ball met bs degraded by work ; ing side by side with the wave. (Appleane) Tell them the working x en of New York ere awske to this rubdject, enc, God helping them, this fair inneritaoce of freetom thall not be orerched by the aweat o the unps!. toil of slavery, nor its virgin life burned out by the fevered foot of the urpsid flava. (Sothusiasiis applacees, in the miést of which Mr. Hele retired from the stage.) ‘The Rev. Hevuy Wakp Bexcuse then came apon the stend, snd was greeted with loud applause, He raid:— Fellow Citiseos—I am a native of the good old State of Connesticat. where, among other costoms, 1s on: of be. ginning ‘he Sabbath om Saturday night, and by the tine the sun has gone Cewn on the Saturday all rocular things ined from till Monday rolls rounc again. Iam New York ia following her example, and ia early icg for the day to come, (Load spplause) I am glad that I heve deen spoken of ia these resolations, 4 that the misisters of the goupel are called upon to Bat thera ta rometh'ng necessary besides prayer. potice that when Christ ever ap ke of prayer, it was never mentic but it was al Wetch and ray.” (Lou wre) I thick tkis qaestion, which is Dow beginni> gitate the North, is one of the bloa sore cf that p'ant which, when it wes planted, you would not believe was poiron. It nas heretofrr beer com profuised apd compromised, aud baffled off, aod prt back, and you sere told tt wae not potsom, snd that there was no danger in it. Aad now, gentlemen, this pew pprig is nothirg upon God’s earth but a» shoot from thie sewe plat, and I tel) you it is poison, and taken in the poiiifeal system, lost is deatly to bumanity, I don’t come here to argue thin upon a political basis, but. Igo beyond, aud say slavery is @ Giegrace aad an evil, and slavery and f:cedom are in opposition, and have got to fight till one or the other is desd. Slavery isa valiure, and liberty, accor ing to our symb>I, ivaneagle, (though Tceuld prefer to think it was something else but, never- thelers, it js co on the national record,) and one of the two have got to triumph. Hi when there were mee :ioge of alone; she wanted to take care of ber own busicess, and (Langbter.) What ta it old tine abolitionists and free soilers, or | ment to reach them, why it was ti “free silers,’’ as they were sometimes called, there was | to witbholc this information from tt etr constituents? ys the cry of agitators, agitators, and it was al | people of the demand that we should Jet the poor Soath | their public men. rade us the guasdian ip trast for that great We are the of territory west of the Misslsaippi. of nations and willions mot y. | your admiaty fi & . Ve solemn duty upon you, trurte seatlaction dacarded i Bol jagd for the purpores of wlavery. Now, what is the ation of laad in the free States and slat Geo into Massachusetts and Virginia, and the effects cf slavery, Ia Massachusetts land cannet be bought for less than one huadeed dolisra per acre ; im Vireinis enough can be purchased for twenty five conte to one dollar re. Why? Hecause it is poor? Better jan of hi never shone upon it—because ala ban curved it, and made it not 60 valuable as free tory, Wherever siavery sits ite foot it ia ® dlighting cars, burning up every green thing in it, “Nowe hall Bo; these ecenes of slavery be closed? Suj that I was to take @ minister of the sospel (this case in coe of reality, kaown to me) and were to bring him upon this stand tc sell to you-hie Umbs would be fel of, his ancirs, his body, hit morsis inquized into, anc i he was religious he woul be worth, two or three Jundred ¢ollars more on acco" ligion is worth something whem it ia to Sup Lote he was to be sold bore, oildren, and the suotioacer snd the buyer were mea of if why, if the audience was of the strongest siaver; the North, they would not allow either the " to go out of this door alive. bow, gentlemen shall wi over the bread West, wh Union? Now, I believe take in missionary influence. Weve fm sending missionarien to the heathen; ma bow can we expect to exert aa influence there, the ipflueree of the Gospel is not streng cdg prevent ruch scenes of horror at home? T & religious feallog Salk cere rising in the North which shall y thin curse, Ineo myself here hand in hard with thors who have denovoced me as gp agitatator aad @ aoe I Onstle G, lace to face with the laughter ) Well, so long as they rapent of t 0 past we iree Novib SRC WHRERISE Itt mand together for a Mr. Beecher was loudly applauded at the close of hie npeech, when the meeting adjourned, jarden ta rougest pro dd fe k now; aad Iam THE FEELING ELSEWHERE. BASOLUTIONS OF THE CONNXUTICUT WHIG sTAFE - CONVENTION ON THE NEBRASKA QUESTION. Tae following are the resolutions adopied by the Whig Stats Ocnvention of Connecticut, held at New Hevea, om the 16th inst. :— Resolved, That we sdhere to the cardinal principles of the whiz party. pr'ection o’ American labor, theim- provement of oor harbors and rivers, honesty im publie servants, good faith in oar intercourse with other govern- ments, an bow rsble pease with all nations, and a seered ocmpliance with all the compacts which have been made detween diderent portions of our own oowttry. Resolved. That the Missouri compromise act of 1820, ia which it is provided ‘‘Thatin all that territory ceded by France to the United S'ates, uncer ame of Loulsiana, which lier north of 36 deg 30 win. north latitude mot im- lucec in the State conter plated by involua’ary serviiude otherwise crime, shall be ana ia herr by ite oud ever since promi Resolved, That this o inst the bly of 1] for the establie Ament of the Territories of Kai biarka, by which the foregoing provision is repealed, mot 00 Y 888 mesrure umexpectea and unea! fo: by aay portion of the country, leading to bitter sectional owntre- Versies, and to the lishment in thore immense Terri- tories of the enormeus evils of slavery, but as a violation ef a rolemn comvact, an inexousadle breach of faith, aad ar act ae dishouorabls as 11 will be disastrous to all parte of the country. Resolved. That those members of Congrers from the Northern States who advocate or favor ‘be proposed men- sure grcsely misrepresent the sentimenta of the people of the North, and that the fai(hieveness of avy of these mem- bers fornisbes no apology for the violation of honor aad good faith on the part of apy of the Represnntatives froma theS uth acd that we call upon all patriticand honoree bie men, in all parts of the country, to unite together te thwart the plans of demagogues and desi; ning anc sh aunts ee peace and harmony of country. Rerelved, That as the expression of the unanimous sem- timents of the convention om the subject of the Kansam ard Nebraska Territoriai bill mow in copier of the foregring revolutions om that sndject be fer ‘warded to and laid before the two Houses of Con Rew: lved, That we appreve the course adopted, im rela- tion to the foregoing measures, by the . Tomes mith, and return him the thanks of thie comveotion tor the soble stand taken by him in opposition to them, NEBRASKA MEETING IN COLUMBUS. At sn en i Nebrasks meeticg of the free soil citisens ef Columbus, Obiv. whioh is sepresemied as baing very thinly attenced, the following presmble and resolutions were peered, unanimously of courre:— Whereas, The act of Marsh 6th, 1820, commonly called the Mixsourl compromise, embraces im its limite about {-m hundred and eighty Ove thourand tquare miles of free territo1 hich is pot include i= any existing State or territorial ovganisation, being thas twelve times the ex’ of the State of Ohio, as great as that of el! the free States of this Union, excepting Uall- fornia, and capable, as we believe of sustaining a lation cf at Jeast ditty millions, which said act is as lowe Seo, 8 Beit further enacted, That in all thet terri ceded by France to the United States, under the name Lovisians, whch lies north of thirty-six cogrens and thirty minutes of north latitude not incluted within the Dts of th yy thi inroluntary servitude, other wire than as of crimes, shail be emi is hereby forever probivited. Tnerefore, Reroived, That the act of March 6 1820, commonly called the Missouri compromise, is @ solema compa t be 4 the South; that the Nor'b bas faith- 4 letter, and thst we ceom it Ciahonest for any America statesman, and above all for a Northern or Western etatesmap, to lend himself direetly or indirectly to its, violation. Rerolved, That this meeting is disposed, in good by the compromise of 1850, wed that we tn fsrasin us lies, to see to it that others, in like feith, stard by the compromise of 1820. Resolved, That it is our deliberate jadgment that the yeople of the North and Weat have not been treated with Proper respectin the shallow and false pretence off- cially msde to them in 1854, that tne Mirsour: compre- miee of 1810 was nuperseded by, or ts iaconsiatent with, the ocmpromises of 1850. We deny that such is the fact Not one citisen of Oh'o, or, so far as we know or believe, of the United States, ever before suspected that such wae the fac. We deem it » gross iasult to the intelligence of the country to ray to. time of the rage of the scta of 1850 referied to, such wassupposed: By'sebatorsand Representatives to be the ‘act we of them, as statesmen ssxing the sonfidence of the coun- try, and se upright men, not too high for public senti- hat in 1860 they caret the West demand an answer to this questicn frems Resolved, Tust, ip the opinion of this meeting, the we ovght pot to annoy the poor South. Well, we | charecter oi Northerm ani Western men is ngt understood bere given the douth peace; we have swal- lowed consclencer, ané got peace and this— planse) Well, wheredoea thiscome from? We a rather, im the State of liilnois, No, it And when my friend who w renee for the South, I 4 tell him I can’t—I oan’!, ‘famous, it iv infamous; bot when itis offerea tous from the North, we cannot refnee, Task how Icng is it defore the time wil came when an benest man will refass that which does aot be- Bim? Suppose @ thief ringe at our ¢oor, and pushes in reme old clother; we acy, Oh! we koe but then when they vere offered to oly, We Could mot refuse acoepting them. I say ‘his fs nothing mere. (Loud applacss) But, gentlemen, in this mots trap spracg upon us? Was it not intended to it through the two houses before there was time to disense it at the North § Aud when I oonsider thir I ds- like to hear such men as Thomas Hart Benton say it in iofamous. If it came from the South I should heve Wiackbaled it, &e.; but wince it is offre’ to as y the North we cannot reuse it. There is nothing in this | of the people of Obio be held. that reflects upon the virtue of the North, aud I noid thet spy Soutbern man and Kepresentative who accepts this bill or votes for it becomes & criminis, and from the North, becaqe he who offered | of 1860 by framers of the bill for organisirg the territory of Nebraska pow before the denste of the United States— that the forbearance manifes‘ed by them under the sets prucg solely from the fact that, under the eom- stitation of the United States, they believed that forbear- ance to be aduiy; that itis misteke to suppers that yy Bre not jealous of their rights and honor; thet b 4 regard the bill ref-rred to as an outrage apoe both; vpom the subject of ths Missouri compromise, they will ‘now po cor promize, but that they will maistaia it, inal ite in ‘ity and fulness, to the ee tone at all bazarde and to the Inet extremity, whatever he- sarcerand that extremi'y may be. Resolved, That we ceplore all farther agitation the subject of slavery, knowing it to be fall of but thet {tis forced upon as, and we do mot hesitet meetit si That if this deep and intolerable w: i ash siated im by thore wh: i our fellow citizens througbout the respective conniles, and express nation upor this rubject ; and i i li i & f State for or egainst the extension, the governmeat of the Vaid tory now free. i i ig worse than the man who could not refase the stolen Resolved, That this subject rices above all party lobes. I sm giad that my friend who bas preceded me | tion and politicians ; that it involves questions has argued this qarasion upon constitutional grounds, | good faith, the eolemnity of the integrity and raved me the trouble; for I have no} the kuowleige | public msn; that the people, doth Ni and Souta, are to discuss this constitationally, altaough this knowledge | satisfied with the Missouri compromise—sot a voice has fo not mecereary to argues omslitniional question (Ap: | been raised sgainet {t duriog the existence of more thas ase and laughter.) Why argues this upom sonst: ne wbols geveration of mea; that the attack now made tiene) grounds and apen ite inconsistency with the im | upon it bee rot come from the ple, Dut has seem famous compromise of 1886 (Loud bieses and applause, | prong a, the people. We our Srst solemn ap- which continned for acme moments.) Lat me say to | pesl io the statesmen of the country to defeat this um- those gentlemen #ho sre speak in their own tongs, |.jart bill; and if they preve faithloxs, we recommend that (laughter ) they 4 of wn eppeal be at oace made to the Li 4 lain blackemith woo tried to upon — Dill, but to reconsider the w! wabject compromi-es. “4 Repolved, ‘That copies of these resolutions be sent to our i. Sepators anc Representatives im Congress trom the State mered away till it was age of Obio, and an ‘oe their evalecy Se ee t it somewhat disconcerted, spe petriotiam, at willingness al meet r oF Mt” and “workirg away aguin | this crisis, to'the Hom, Thomas H Gentes, of Mlasourt, g il) it was spoiled, says he, ‘well, | koowl cee make and that these resolntions be published 8 good. for nothing bias of it” (Load laughteracd hissing | newspapers of this city. - Cries of Go it broad w.0.”) Now, speakirg of the | A preamble and resolutions affirming the doctrines root opp, by Te 4 yey 4) oe [oe > ante bul ts before the Legis- e reply ¢f the fellow in jail, to ae nal ture ou bere for?” ** Wall,’’ aald he, ‘I stole ul w wail, ‘The free sot) inhabitants of Chittenden county, Vermomly and when I went back for the dam they nabbed me,’ sre to hold & meeting in , Now, li te s0 in this care, They stole the mili ip 1860, | ¢xpress opposition to eo Nebracks bill, ard now they are coming back for the dem, and we ought ee: oe Oe have ned TELEGRAPHIO. pong) eompros re very severe meseures, and shard demand upon the North, and were GREAT MEFTING AGAINST THE BILL. pot very palatable even to the strongest frieads of Rocuseran, Feb. 18, 1854, South among us. | think these ere questions whish ‘The anti Nebrasks bill meeting im this city last sight, be rettied u gronnds other than mere enthusisem ty ded. Mayor Williams preai- tnd this ts {he fecling which T have in my hear! ia the wes very mamerons! remarks which I offer upon this tubject. Bay you | ged. Citisons of al] parties were present and concarred Finn Cece ee mn ceeate cad Raney «meres | tn tho The resolutions thoroughly denvane® ore, were an honest mas, ibtereot of Ita heisat. Now, God pas | the proposed repent oC the Menowrt eompeounon