Show NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN Antiexpansion Is no new cry In i has come down from the early days of the Republic The Constitution has been shattered before and the JDecla l ration of Independence set at naught Tho Boston Jdurnal has called up the great speech of Josiah Quincy delivered deliv-ered in the House of Representatives eightynine years ago againstthe bill for the admission of i LoUJ iitna the territory of Orleans as It was then called The full speech Is in1 Bentona lrBenton Abridgment of the Debates of Congress Con-gress glCsI shows at once the provincialism and egotism of tho New England of a century ago and how narrowed then as now were the horizons of socalled statesmen Some extracts from that speech will be useful and Instructive now His address opened as follows Mr Speaker 1 address you sIr with an anxiety and distress of mind with mo wholly unprecedented The friends of this bill seem to consider It as tho exercise of a common power as an ordinary affair a mere municipal regulation which they expect to see pass without other ques tions than those concerning details Hut detais Bu sir tho principle of this bill materially afYects the liberties and rights matcrlaly whole people of the United Stales To mo It appears that It would Justify a revo 00 lution In this country and that a In no great length l 6 time may produce It When I seo the zeal and perseverance with which this bill has been pcrseernca urged along Us parliamentary path when 1 know the local interests and associated projects which combine to promote Its success all opposition to It seems manifestly unavail ing I am almost tempted to ulaal out a struggle my country to Its fate I He did not leave however but proceeded pro-ceeded as follows But air while there Is life there Is hope So long us the fatal abaft haa not yet sped If heaven so will It the blow may be broken and tho vigor of tho mischief meditating arm withered I am compelled to declare It as my deliberate delbcrao opinion that IC this bill passes tho bonds o this Union are virtually dissolved that r tho States which compose it aro free from their moral obligation and that as It will be the right of all so will It bw the dijty of 30me to prepare definitely lor a separation amicably JCthey can vie lently l they must Here Mr Quincy was called to order but on an appeal from the Speakers ruling the House permitted him to proceed When I suoko of a separation of tho States resuming from the violation of th < 3 Constitution contemplated in this bill I spoke of it as a necessity deeply to be deprecated but an resulting from causes rCultn so certain and obvious an to ho absolutely l inevitable when the effect of the principle Is practically uxperlcncctl It is 1 < o pre serve to guard tho Constitution of my country that I denounce this attempt L would rouse the attention of gentlemen from tho apathy with which they acorn beset By the event jf this bill passes 1 am willing to be Judged The danger he was trying to avert was the admission of Louisiana and like his friends of these times he frends lmes appealed ap-pealed to the earlier and purer days oC the Republic Ih these words Tho people of this country at that day hud no Idea of tho territorial avidity yf their siucccaors I was on tile con trary an iiigument against tao success of tho project that tho territory was too ex tensive for l a republican form oC govern ment But now there Is no limit to our ambitious hopes Wo ore about to cross the MIsHlBslppI The Missouri and the Ked river are put roads on which our imagi nation travels to new lamia und new States to bo raised and alnuttcU under the power now lr usurped Into thin Union among undiscovered lands In the West Then as now he was sure that the Republicin the hands oC Us enemies I was swiftly drawing to a close I Thla Constitution Was never CoualructcU to form 1 a cov < irlnp for the Inhabitants nr oC the Missouri and tho llpd Klvcr coun try anti whenever it Is attempted to nlundor lt Vr these It wIll IJc rcnt asunder Then h h saw with prophetic vision I the kind I of men who vpuld eventually appear in the West j i Do YOU suposo the people of Ito North em antI Jantlc States will or oupht to loolc with pruicnce and see Rcpresentn Uvcs T i7i und Senntor from Iho Red River I nllll thls ua ° yrl naurlnft IhenwelyeH i pon I and the other floor maiiuidnt the concerns of a oahourd niloon hundred miles at least from their roalJuiue n I having a proimndoranoy n Muncllil Into whIch Conatfliitlonajly they hiiyo booi Udmltlea > could Jigvw Noew Slates are Intended to bo formed I I beyond the MlRslsalppl There Is ro I limit I ito rncRS jmaslnatlons on this subject Z fl short of California and tho Columbia I rlvor When I said that tho Mil would Juatlfj a revolution and would produce lt I ppolw of Its l principle and KB practical prac-tical consequences To that orlnclplo and thcso consequenccs 1 call Urn attention of this HOUBO and Nation Tho extension of the principle to States onsemplatod beyond tIle Mississippi cannot WIll not and ought not to bo borno Now Js It not clear that could the spirit of Jefferson have been sent to hover over tho Kansas City convention conven-tion it would have flaids Why all those lunatics are such men as Tosiah Quincy was in my dayl r |