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mnf it t ? i mi iniirn nmn m f trmn rmmitn mnimmi ........ TTYW K ! ill Whole. Vo 12.8. Tarborough, Ettgccombc Vounty, A V. Saturday, October 0 isSO. no in DJ Tim TfC Tarboro' Press, BY GEORGE HOWARD, " jg published weekly at Two D ollars peTyear f paid in aJvance or,Two Dollars and Fifty , T , at the expiration of the subscription year. 1 vertisements not exceeding a square will be Inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and y Cents for every succeeding one. Longer ones at that rate per square. Court Orders and Judicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. POsft'I ICAL. From the Southern Press, SPBKCSI OF HON. J. R. J. DANIEL, of North Caroi ina, On the Texas Boundary Bill. Deliv ered tn the House of Representatives September 3, 1850. Mr. Daniel being entitled to the floor. (offered (he following substitute for the in structions offered by Mr. Root: I 4,VVith instructions to report with the ffl.nM hill an arldit itionnl section, declaring ! - ' nj hn much of anv and all acts of Concriess ! I. j n : aspromru tncan slavery in any i cm- itory belonging to the United States, which ' lies between the Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean, and is not included within the limits of any State, null and void from MM and after the passage of said bill, so as to tne other end of the Capitol, is becoming compromise, (since become so frequent in cxtend the principle of non intervention dangerous and alarming to those rights actional controversies waged against the jto said Territory." connected with the institution of slavery i,lf5t,l,ions of the South, to surrender I The amendment being objected to, and and guaranteed by the Constitution. I the important principles for which she Jthe Speaker having decided that so much believe the number to be yet sm:ill. Hut contended, our condition might have been jot the amendment as related to other ter- let me tell Northern gentlemen that as r different, if, indeed, the Union would ritory than that acquired from Mexico was their persistence in a course of injustice bave been preserved to the present time. !notin order, Mr Meade, of Virginia, ap- shall produce the conviction of a soiled sr, we have tried compromises and con pealed from the decision; whereupon MrJ purpose to make a discrimination agiinst cessions l,n,iI the term compromise has aU jDmiel consented to modify his amend those whose lot has been cast in the slave- most become synonymous with the sur Jment, in conformity with the opinion of ; holding portion of the Union, and deny pn(,l'r of Southern rights, and reminds me Jthe Chair, so as to extend the principle of ! them that constitutional eoualitv of Hunt of A'Ul 1 have heard said of a practice jnon-intervention to the Mexican territory ; only. He also caused to be read at the our political association, by excluding ol one ol lhe Acw -"filand Mates, ( 1 Ue IClerk's desk a letter from many of his them in effect from territory belonging to liove Connecticut,) that compromise, by a jconstituents, enclosing a circular found . ll with many others in a post office in his idlsiriM. in crlv rmhliritv tn it. W,,a ;oo,l ,ofp, ; In ,h(. wuuutfVf llVy IIILUIIU.U V J WW 1 V V-f pnilMnnfu.nH!,o tu frJ inwinrr !a a copy of the letter: a i Frank linton, N V . Jlllv IJ. loOU. tl i i" t r nr Hon. J. R J. Daniel: We, a portion j of your constituents, find in our post office copies oi the enclosed petition, as the . a A Is I eubject therein contained is one very del- I . ; J . . . . ate in it nature to the ouih, we nave mouTht proper to send you the enclosed copy that you may seethe attack attempt- cd to be made on the South, through the post office, to be used as you j proper. Your obedient servants (Signed) J0& A, W UTAKER And many others. N. B. It is said thev are beine spnt in w ell the post offices in the South. J r ' Copy of the Circular 1 fCP rost masters favorable to the object I , ... . f proposed, will endeavor to obtain signa- J ... . oifeiia tures, or if they cannot do it, nlease hand it to soiiie one favorable for that Durnose- Hh I.IIIIMAMrl ! I r .1.. 4 , r ... ...... 1 ". .u.wa.u 11 oussiuie oeiore tne isi 01 I t 1 . fo the Senate and House of Reprpsen- tatives in Congress assembled - l he undersigned, citizens of the United Slates, being anxious to remove from our fond, the greatest cause of discord; and to secure the future welfare, harmony, and permanency of the Union having in vevy an object upon which we believe the Rreat body of all parties and of every sec tion of the country can unite would res pectfully pray, that Congress pass a bill providing means to remove from our country, all that portion of the African race, who are both willing and ready emigrate to Africa; that suitable provi-ot.' mane ror tneir real wants lor one v u tW their arrival in Africa; and, as 9 tyeaur inducement for therm to emigrate, that a bounty in land be given them on their arrival, upon which they may with industry and economy support themselves; and make such other provision as may be most desirable." Mr. Daniel, proceeding with his re marks, then said: Mr. Speaker, my dispo sition leads me on most occasions to give asilent vote, but the importance of the bill before us, involving perhaps the peace of the country, and it'may be the exist ence of the Union, seems to require a statement of my reasons for the course I feel constrained to pursue. It is due to myself, as well as the generous and con fiding constituency whom I represent, and whose good opinion I highly prize. The censure attempted to be cast upon those who cannot approve all the measures brought forward for the settlement of the sectional controversy in which we arc in volved, imposes additional necessity for an expression of the views and motives which govern me on this occasion The charge that opposition to all or any of these measures is calculated to endanger the Union, and .that those who do not concur in them are unfriendly to its ex istence, is as short-sighted and illiberal as it is unjust. To me it seems to be the re sult of a timidity tending in process of time to bring about the very calamity which is deprecated no less by me, tban by those from whom I differ. Sir, I cherish an ardent attachment to the union of the States, and desire not nly to preserve it, but, if possible, to place it upon a more secure and durable ko:c 4i, k : uuaia man uiai ujjuii which ii now ri'po- If ti.nro kn,!;,.,:;, ;.. .i,,. c...i. uv-k- a i uiiiL uv, vuauiiiuuiai? in 1 1 it; iDUU I II, ,t A because they have lost all hope of a relllfninK scnse Gf jus)jcc from their Northern brethren, and believe their strong and increasinganti-slavcry feeling,' with controlling maiorities here and in and privilege which lie at the bottom of all the States, and won by the common blood and treasure of all, the numl :n innmocn f ,!,, oviont n.t un r.. I UUI Will TK..n ft IIC1 U I Ll UN" all III I I I II I I I I L III u TT-.: ,u c..,k l I but they are strongly and inflexibly at mciivw t J illume which n is iiiu r 11 PnnmnniD . ,.4 . A jeet of all. Governments to protect, and which the union of the States was intend 1 a ' 1 ca 10 renuer more secure, nm ,o aesiroy or linpur. And they will hold on to the tt 1 .1 u .1 . r 1. u.. on, un.es ...ey &nau oe o ecu . quit it, in order to protect tnc.r r.gntsanu avoid an inferior and degraded condition attempted to be forced upon them. r privilege in tne union, ii i"cy can oui 0 . TT" L A A. m of it, if they must. . . , . . r, . .. Ours, Mr. Speaker, is aconicderation 01 sovereign States, forming a .federal "e- public, and the common Government ere . i i .u c, . ated by the Slates aa sovereign com . j , i. r f t. tC8 1S tjie resuii 0f compact It u communi- n ; r is not a tr, i .'."encroachment, stimulated by Northern iicre u seems iu uucuicds sutn, it inpn f . , -4 k., r HOI UUCauSU II UUt ill juiauiii.t 01 yQ consider it a consolidated Government for any purpose is erroneous, and leads to results dangerous to the whole system, and hazardous to the liberties of the coun try VVe have, through our common Gov ernment, in our foreign relations, evinced a just and punctilious regard for our en gagements, and a firm adherence to the principles of justice, highly commendable; but I am sorry to say that such has not at all times been the case in tho administra tion of our home affairs. There are ad mitted peculiarities of interest in the Northern, Western,and Southern sections of the Confederacy, and some supposed diversity of interest between the slave holding and non-slaveholding States, bul not such as to render our 'common Gov- ernment oppressive to any section, or to say fifteen hundred millions of slave prop the slaveholding or non-slaveholding eriy. IJelieving such to be the tendency Stales as such, if its action shall be kept of things. I submitted some time ago a within the limits assigned it by thecom- resolution for an amendment of the Con pact between the States, and the princi. stitution, the object of which was to pre ples of justice and good faith shall be vent hereafter any amendment tending to strictly adhered to. abolish or affect slavery within the States. To restrict the Federal Government withoute concurrence of the States in within its constitutional limits, rendered which the institution may exist; and could more necessary by the acquisition of ad- it be adopted by the requisite vote of the ditional territory, and, if possible, insure two branches.of Congress, and receive the its observance of the rights of the States, sanction of three-fourths of the State Leg and of justice towards ' the different sec islaturcs, it would do more to relieve lh tions, would be a leading object wiih all. ,South from apprehensions beginning to be It is the best and surest method of trans- felt, and to allay anti-slavery agitation at mining the blessings of the Union to re-! the North than any other measure; and, in molest ages, and making our Government connection with the non-intervention in ail time to come a shining light to principle applied to the Territories, as those who are immersed in political dark-: proposed, in my amendment,, constitute ne3s. But, sir, how is this to be effected, ' the best basis upon which the slavery when the majority here, in pursuit of sec- question could be settled, and place the tional.advahtages. shall be guilty of a pal- j Union upon a foundation far more secure pable departure from the principles and than that upon which it at present rests, spirit of the Federal Compact? It can on-j'he resolution does not embrace all that I ly be effected bv union and concert a-'think should be matter of' constitutional mong the States and their representatives whose rights are assailed. Uy such union and concert, and the advantages afforded by State organization, encroachments may be repelled, and the action of the Federal Government kept within its appropriate limits, and the rights of every section of the Confederacy maintained. It was in this way that the Constitution was res cued and Federal usurpation rebuked, when Virginia, in 179 and 1799, put lorth hei celebrated resolutions, and invi ted the co operation of her sister States. Nothing has had a more sajutary and last ing effect in perpetuating the Union than the firmness which she" displayed in that great struggle for the rights of the States aiu' lne l,ue principles of constitutional ncrty Had she. and other Slates that s''ct Wltn her, been induced, by way of which Srew UP um,cr lhc arbitration law (,v''on ot the property among the claim- anis, oecause so irenueni, mai u was no uncommon thing for one who took a li- k i n g to h is ne i chbot -s farm, to prefer a v ' I c I a i m to i t , su b u. i t i t to arbitration, and l,,us compromise ooiain one nan 01 I I t . . . I what he claimed, but to which he had notiien, connected with a view of the en . . it; iuul UJIUCIC ui i gill. 11 UOes rca IV H h y ... . .. what the character and result of those v...k . . It , , South in which Southern rights have been Pretensions have been ured ut - tu .... . , . 1 . spil ll Ol IIIC V UIIS1 UIJUOM ii as Hie 1 aMW A . W W WW . wa lu i& a a a a w aaaaa uwuKikJ a. a j u av u a a . f , r t inn scienpe the Souh has gone far enough . , UHIUS UI IIIC VUU IUI V. 1 111 I 11 U I II Itll Lllll' ,1,0 nfr what has been left her. Concession seems t j 1 hp m - v w u m a a a a a a at : to be but food upon which the spirit of fanaticism, feeds and grows stronger; and prehended within the limits of Ohio, In it will never cease in its exactions, as diana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, long as a disposition exists on the part of containing, with that portion of Minesota the South to yield to its demands, until Territory lying east of the Mississippi, African slavery shall be swept from the . 312,595 square miles, making thc-prcsent country. After the outposts shall have been carried by excluding the slavehold- the original States, 476,676 square miles, ing population from the Territories, they and the area of slave territory only 385, will assail the citadel, and commence their 511 square miles. We acquired by our attacks upon the rights of slave property purchase of Louisiana, from France, ex in the forts and arsenals within the States, : elusive of Texas, an estimated area of 1, as well as the District of Columbia, and 13S,108 square miles. When Missouri, upon the slave trade between the States.1 formed out of that territory, applied for and as soon as the requisite number of admission into the Union, our Northern free States shall be formed, to which the brethren, towards whom Virginia had been anti-slavery policy of the North is rapid- so generous, had the illiljerality to deny ly tending, an amendment of the Consti- her application, but upon condition that tution will follow, giving to the General she woujd abolish slavery within her lim Government unlimited .'control over the its. This she refused to do, and the mat- institutioD within the States, involving, arrangement between the slave and anti slave States. I should have preferred to guard against amendments changing the existing provisions respecting representa tion and taxation, and the restoration of fugitive slaves. Hut, to try the sense of our anti-slavery brethren, I deemed it best to submit the resolution in the form in which it was offered, that it might be liable to as little objection as possible. Objection being made, however, and it not being in order to suspend the rules', it was not introduced I should myself pre- j last census, is 5,444,778. and ot the tree fer such an adjustment to the proposed j States, but S,556,845 being nearly as 5 Missouri compromise line. j to 8, without the population of Texas; The little regard which has been paid while their territory is less than one-half by our Northern friends to the principles; the territory assigned to the free Stales, of compromise, heretofore made for the And if the South shall he excluded from adjustment of sectional differences, causes the territory acquired from Mexico, being me to place no very implicit confidence in 526,078 square miles, of which there is a their stability, when subsequent Congress- prospect, unless the people of iho es are at liberty to disregard them or not, j South and their representatives become as feeling and interest may dictate. As! more united in resisting this curient of soon a the tariff compromise was about', encroachment, the area of free ttr ritory 10 enure to the benefit of the South, we will be 2,360,323 square miles. And know that pretexts were made for setting; should the bill before us pass, and Texas it aside, and conferring bounties upon the be induced by the bribe held out to her, manufacturers of the North and onerous ; to surrender 45,000 square miles other burdens upon the agriculturists of the territory south of 36 deg. t 30 min , as she South, And in the annexation of Texas, will do by the proposed limits, the slave although the Missouri compromise was holding territory will 'be diminished to firmly insisted upon where its application that extent, making it but a trifle more enured to the benefit of the North, in re lation to the territory acquired from Mex- ico, its principles have been 'wholly rrpu- diatcd, and that, loo, after Southern gen - llcmcn, in the observance of that com - promise, voted for the establishment of a territorial government for Oregon, wiih the ordinance of 17S7 in it. Such con- uuci on mu pan u, our iuiuiuiu uiiii-: . . 1. r il I .u I t I'uviiiuuiiio iiciciuiuig mauc, ia uui tor; ,,; .(;nn fnr fllptlipp , concession on the part of the South. ' .l.......! O .I. VhPn w hiMn,l ,tr inrWndpnon i,, r .1 1 c. c ocoiot the area of the original States was 852,197 : square milcs.-Of that, including Maine n.,n r.f MMnnhit .thpr r s wiih. 1. , 10 . , e. Uic unguidi ouiicb, wiuiii suuii diici a- non-Sl VenOJU- ith - in - territorv north - . - - " b ' J J j . nf . n, . . vv:.hin thelimiis'be designed progress to that state of t m - - -w ------ - ittiin Nnrih Pai - inolina, and Mississippi and Alabama wilh - . i:m;tanf nPnro;n nos ii snnnro UI i,niii., .v. n ..v. iv-, i iiimii vi in miles. I5v the liberalitv of Virginia, all! her territory northwest of the Ohio was j J j - - ceded to the Federal Government for the ' purpose of creating free States, now com- area of free territory within'the limits of iter was subsetiuently compromised, by giving up to the non-slaveholding portion of the Confederacy, all of the territory north of 36 dcg. 30 min. Uy- ihat ar rangement, most unfortunate for tho South, and I believe, the main source of existing difficulties, there is but little pros pect that the South will get any more of that extensive and valuable territory, than what is embraced within -the -limits of Louisiana, Missouri, and Arkansas, be ing 106,009 square miles; 'leaving 993, 099 square miles from which the people of the slave States are excluded In the treaty by which Florida was acquired, and I may say Oregon, for our best titles to Oregon, is under the Spanish treaty, tlv large and valuable territory of Texas, a dlaveholdiug portion of the Louisiana purchase, was ceded to Spain; and from Oregon, containing 341,463 square miles, the people of the South have been exclud ed, leaving to the South Florida only, containing 59,268 square miles. And when we were about to regain Texas, the application of the Missousi compromise was, as I have before stated, inflexibly in sisted upon, and the South again yielded, by which about 45,000 square mites vvero added to the already disproportioned quantity of free soil, making the wholo, area of our territory, exclusive of that ac quired from Mexico, 2,726,556 squaro miles, of which, 1,834,244 square miles may be regarded as free territory, and but 892,312 square miles as open to the slave holding population, while the white pop ulation of the slave States, according to than two-thirds" of what, in all probability, will be free territory. Although the gi gantic limits of I alifornia are now insisted ! upon by our Northern brethren, since the ; people there have excluded slavery, when the States of Iowa and Wisconsin applied for admission, the wishes ot the people of those Mates were but little consulted, and what wTere deemed reasonable limits were assigned them, leaving of the terri- - ill TT i j "J ' "tj former territorv of Wisconsin for a sixth Gtna mnt I It .t n t inn no InrrrA no M nnv State, more than twice as large as Mary- land, althooeh the number of States wast limiipd hv th dpd nf pP;nn tn Kxr A .limited oy me ueeci 01 cession 10 rive. A. project, too, has already been set on foot to carve another Stale out of the State of ni - u- kn ,iai0j ru... ....f,-.., j j " ll,1M- UI1 i:i:uuiii ui iuv cachciiicih uiui ii- ilarm which exists at thebouth, but which 1 1 have no doubt will soon be consumrnat- ;ed. Couple with this rapid and it must m ;thinps which will irive to our non slave- j holding brethren unlimited control over ! existing constitutional feuarantces for Jthe O O institution of sknery, by way of amend- . ment to the Constitution, placing at their disposal fifteen hundred millions worth of property belonging to the Southern State?, and 1 ask, is there any ground whatever for the surprise expressed by the gentle man from Indiana, (Mr. Gorman,) at the steadfastness with which a portion of tho Southern representation stand up in de fence of Southern rights. Were he a Southern man, I know the sentiments he has expressed, would place him among the foremoet, and to see his own words, most unrelenting" of us Why, sir, such seems to be the eagerness of the anti-slave? y feeling to take jurisdiction oft he sub ject of slavery within the States, that it cannot wait for that amendment of the Constitution which may ultimately be ob tained; but under this free-soil administra tion, blank petitions like th t I have caus ed to be read at the Clerk's desk, are be ing circulated in the Southern States Tren to prpcurc memorialists in faror of' a, jro V I- .t At I lg,-S 0 J - i . :..t
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