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t 1 j- ' LaammMMmmmwmmmBFaammmamf!! - - .. . . . . . . 9 r-r , .. , - , w -1 -. - - , - - : , lu est ion of House of , . . New Mexico nsideralio'n - - I this House al- r. r K W VENABLfa, OF N. C, potrer q" Uongrtss io Leg- :jnie on Stave PELIVEUE R EPRtSliNTATlVES, 184a i ,i1k f the Presilent in relation f. a.,r f Peace with Mexico, ancHn IG X ICUkY , vr. . ion to the Boundaries o California, being unaer r. VENABLE said : ; I would ni inc lime wuiu - . ... , f , to consume, to the d,n of h messages of the rresiuem uuw f f he peace with Mexico, to which Trelate, and the interesting questions an J herefrom, wonld be more than I. could ,yi discuss in thjBoRa.Mjle hour. iisirttS'T intenmy rfTntfktor ray con u'ents and the country, I shall avail my f of the -right which has arisen under the f ihp. hour-rule, to write out and b!ish them. I regret that my attention has ?n called away lor a moment lrom tne Usages ; but as my colleague Mr. Don iL has thought it h is duty to administer a ulte to mei in his debut, to whi-n I have n'ed with profound attention, ' courtesy to 1 requires that I shoulJ reply. He has h exception to the manner in which, on rmer occasion; I had undertaken to speak NTorth Carblma, and reminded me that 1 Rented only one district of our State ; in a speech delivered on the 1st ot June, rrrinr slavery in the Territories, m as-jr-the claim of our fellow-citizens to an il n'ght in the public domain with the ens of those States whose institutions did Wgnize slavery, I had used the expres speak for my own Carolina;" there .ssuming to "mysef a right to which I not entitled. I believed then, as I ao l that I spoke the sentiments of the peo of that State .But, sir, every citizen with 'er borders may use, and should use, the V expression. I owe, as a Representative, most profound respect to the will of my lediate constituents. To their instructions ve obedience. But the high behest of al- 'anrp. T owe " ttf ' mv own Carolina" to 'snrVxvhprft nil that I most value live land where the first note ot independence ried ala'm to the hearts of our enemies hfi em of the Revolution the land whose e and paternal police secures liberty with . taxation, and all the blessings of govern- it without those omerous burdens which nftPh rtcrnmnanv it. I spoke for her, one the old thirteen, who refused to come into j Union until her rights were secured, and sAtMxr until she became satisfied that the -r"""V- . i- j il ' Is of her citizens were recognizeu anu f s - . . : a. f jLtantied, as to me species oi piopeuy uuw i Jer discussion. 3ir, I cannot, like my colleague, claim' C 4rolina as mv fartherland I am a native " Virginia ; but within her borders I found 1 that makes life dear and happy; and I ill say of Virginia and North Carolina,' that I e dust and stones therof are more precious my sight than the jewels of any other land. fpJt nro found astonishment when I heard y colleague declare that North Carolina :Id an humble position on this floor ! Mr. DONNELL. With myi; colleague's TnfTssinn I will Dut mvself Iricrht. If I lid that North Carolina herd an humble po- lon on this floor, I must have done so in p liiirrv nf Wchate. I meant to sav that I 'as an humble Representative of an unpre- ndinsr State. ; Mr VENABLE. I sladlv receive the pcplanation of my colleague's remarks. I im gratified to learn that such was not his intention. The expression was used, and ob t i.rvpd -not onlv hv mvself. but bv others; ut 1 am pleased that I have called it up to s notice : for I should have looked in vain his remarks for the evidence to sustain the ,-- T. Il l 1 J mission, it wouia nave oeen a new auu expected declaration from one of rier own Sns: L I am stimrised that there h but one Vice in all those to which men are assigned, 4 . . . . m i 1 . ! which they seek after, tor wnicn tney nev encounter the efforts of competition. .nose who aspire to elevated positions, whose ars have drunk in the whiperings of ambi ;on, or who are struggling for success in any " the laudable pursuits which interest our ce, find, at every stage of their progress, ose who would supplant them, or seize the ize they are straining every nerve to grasp, ut, sir, for an humble position there will be und no conpetitor ; and our own Carolina ill be allowed to assume that position when ;er sons claim it for her. Her representa hn at ail times on this floor, and her distin guished Senators, enable her to claim that po rtion, on which, as one of the gallant old thir jen, she is entitled to; and allthough (like he most of the others) somewhat overshado w Id by the growth of the younger members ot m .tally of States,' she looks upon them Vith the high satisfaction with which a fond Jarent regards the prosperity of his children. YiTi who can claim an humble position; on this Joor or elsewhere, for the land which sent prth a Davie, a Nash a Graham, and a Da ridsoii, together with a host of others, to lead he armies of the Revolution, and to die on he ' battle-fields at the head of their com mands? whose patriotic sons, in advance of .ire wnoie American people, declared them elves independent of the British Crown ; Ind whose distinguished son, Richard D. Spaiffht. (thp. ancnttn.f 11 , otrrri- plhat memorable paper which will forever uuer tne 4th nf in tio r lnrir'oTiH rntnlot ! . !vt J ,i 3 & --.iu.iiuii, Aio. -sir inp hnmhlf? ' 'nosition.ii'Ar'Shev heeds no minW to nprfect hef titles to the re?oect of her sifter States and the world ; they are perfect- ea in me nisxory vi act ucjjdueu, uuu iuc a- Mv col lea orue also declared, that he was opposed to the increase of our territorial l'm its;. that we hadIreadytiniiclr And that our western - domain had already' produced mpnts to pmi'trrntion the stremrth and rp.- " - f TJ- 1 O sources of our'State had been carried off by O! .ir . l.. u. c tnai urain. oir,; i kiiuw iimi iue owners oi many broad , acres in the old States have lelt this apparent evil to a great extent. 'The lands in the bid Slate have, declined 'in value upon every extinction of Indian titlej upon every accession to our limits. ; But, sit, should we grieve over this ? Should we prefer the wealth and prosperity, of the few to the suc cess "of the whole people ? ':; Should we , not rather' cheerfully arid ! promptly ; divide' out our' wealth ;withV4r Jrlf, and t feelWTf tlieir prosperity is our " glory ? ? ir, civiliza tion rejoices in the sound of the woodchopper's axe : and as the tall "forests fall before his stroke, the earth smiles m abundance where nature, beautiful but unproductive of human life, had reigned undisturbed fof centuries. Sir, when I look around on tliis floor, and cast my eye over the Senate ; when I renjem ber, that from the Chief .Executive1 of this great Republic, through all those' pursuits where men win, distinction, I find that my oion Carolina numbers her full proportional am content These are her sons, who, hav ing braved the difficulties of a new country, have advanced into the wilderness, tamed it; and empires have risen with the country of their adoption to honor and distinction, and now shed the lustre which beams from j this honor upon the fatherland. No, sir, I would not bridle the enterprise.qf our bold and hardy yeomanry. I rejoice that the richest and the best soil on the face of the globe invites their in lustrv 'into active exercise 1 that honor, . " . i .i 1 1 wealth, and happmess, ar.e witnin tne.reacn of the humblest of her sons who may choose . . if . i ica i- : A , , to relieve nimsen uom me auvemiuuu? iiiuu- ences which the habits of an older country; throw in his way. and, going forth into the great struggle of life, may achieve a victory over fortune by his energy and jvirtue. Another colleague Mr. Botdon has ex pressed the same horror of emigration and its consequences. Sir, however , thit gentle man may oppose emigration 'from; ihe can have no objection to immigration into, Caro lina. His own history would J illustrate his nni'mnn?. : He em i orated from: the colder re- f o gion of Massachusetts to the sunny plains of i; t iL. : 4:.,fi,l our varoiiiiii. l pitsume iiiai ut; is attuancu with the change, and does not wish to see so T:. of Ithc i return of those early impressions, which Sled into every northemfi". , ' .' -nnornin(r tne DOUVU, 'BUU.iw early m ancy ;.h"-vv"'? - . rptnrns 1nnrp. Fa ' ot Iredell, of Davie and" of Henderson. Ci 11011 auu i layior, ot Ktanty, uaston, r umberp.d ClUeT With tho 1U, lirrY.ic oA .r '.i . " itviijg iiguM uuu. uiiiuuiuiiio 1Binebtch and bar, have made her illustri ous. Whilst tne memoii of Nathaniel lVIa- r ' unsunned in the hearts of-his ;ountry- ave memory l , -"-'uinea in tne neans oi-nis ?ounu ;;n anl the long list of statesmen who ha nwistrated ho- a; ;.;m.;nn an A -"aieu ner ciaims to distinction and re vn are remembered my own . Carolina 1 neveTi with my concurrenceassume an O . . fine a country drained of her population by inducements atTorded by a fertile territory, which contains lands of superior quality at Onvernment nricfi. He-has rebuked me for my zeal in denouncing those who justify out rages on the rights of the South, when, on a manded the sympathy of Congress for a hand of kidnanners. and declared that treason and sedition on the part of the slave' towards his master was a vinuej anu noi a cume wucn even the murder of a master by a fugitive slave was pronounced to be heroism,! be cause I denounced such a course, and1 those who thrust this policy on the House, asbe- came me represeniative oi a cuhsuiuci whose rights were invaded. I am regarded by him as an extreme slavery man, and as one of thase who do not deserve the thanks of the country : I am classed with those agita tors whose happiness seems to consist: ml the production of disquietude and mischief ; I am arrniornAfl n ronsnmina the time of this House to make capital at home, by giving 1 . f i undue prominence to the question or slavery Sir this miVht have come with some sem blance of nroprietv from a member from the free States, who supposes that his philanthro- . r t-nr pic enterprises are ui muit; jiHjjuivauuc, iuu the rights of his fellow-citizens!; who (would indulge in his sympathy for the black, by the rum of the white race, tsut l was not iuuy nrenared to hear this from a Representative from North Carolina . and I am assure the (rpntlpman: that mv constituents ot both par ties, as well as many who have addressed me on the subject! from various parts of the State, have exDressed their aODrobatiori of mv course, and sustained me with their most hearty- thanks. He has mistaken the opinions of our people, if he supposes that they either de mand or approve of tame and quiet submis sion when their rights are invaded. ' -The honorable gentleman from the Sate of Ver mont Mr. Marsh well remarked, that in his estimate of the opinions of southern gentle men, he made great allowance for their, ear ly impressionsy and the circumstance under which thev were educated ; thaf these im pressions were rarely eradicated without the destruction of most that was good and valua ble in character. I presume that my col league has not divested himself of the influ ence of early education, under which his opinions and character were formed. We find an entire concurence in his opinions as to the unlimited power of Congress to legislate on the subiect ot-slavery-in tne lerrnone?, with the opinions ot ail the members' ;rom his native Bay State a State alvyays Feder- al in its politics, always tne aavocate oi cen tralism, and from which, by its extensive em- iffration, like opinions nave iau,miu a focus, and! penetrated every l State i ut the Union. 1 can tnus snLisauzLuniy ." 7, ii ,.o t - partv associations nave brought back the opinions of early ( life, - and he sees all the power ;urin?.o-, VfJ the creature which has been made, . He re gards Congress as sovereign, and hav1Dg the Lereign right to decide- what, shall not r i,w!)nna Hnmnm. . I nave nronertv m uie '.".i . .i of LrrAewSrerea Genii amused themselves by transrinn imals: into human being ;je, in.a W, changed'a cat into a.beautible femaJe love iir Jhtt fairthe charm of society and the life and light of that intercourse which sheds its blandishments oyer and around the social circle. ' But with all her accomplishments and rare aftaihments, whenever a mouse was seen, her instincts .resumed their away, and she pursued her game." .My coIIeagueeeJa 4rs of . Federalnme ator rbrietv ot police anu Jn ytlcvy .X k . rn :rtnps who have no bver ih'itants oi ic. nrprn. Voice inthis House, and are actuaUy govern ed without representation: Whatever he may sabo; which tie seems rorecam mu- -v7. , he seems to have no fear of the. injurious powei of a majoritv of Congress, when over apbg the Constition,and prostrating every guarantee ot our ngnts. rauap," of themi he does not fear it so much, as habit causes acquiescence in almost any system ot policy;!! Sir, a very learned gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. Mann; in a recent speech delivered m this House, has fully developed the state of JNew Jinglana leeung uuu.upu Tort in ri-lntioa in utheiii rnia-and southern institutions. I have' that speech before me, in which he, like my col league, argues the right of i Congress to legislate wnnoui imnw tion upon the subject of slavery in all the Ter ritories' of the United States ;. but, unlike my cdleague, does not understand the relation of master and servant as it exists with us. But he, too like my colleagues, is opposed to em igration from the Souih into the public do main. Adopting and endorsing the language of some revel-end libeller of the South, he speaks of them in the following terms : ; "The point of honor is the only principle f thflm Vinl pnpfi and dissioa- lion bring down every succeeding generation I . ' . L i 1 1- I . ftny to a state continually lower ; soiuai nuvv,ai.c a hundred and fifty years are passed, the si a veh old ing territory, may be described as a vast missionary ground, and one so uncomfort able to i the faithful jniiiistry ."of Christ, by reason 'of its jealous tempers, and the known repugnance it has to many of the first maxims of the Gospel, that scarcely a missionary can he found to enter it. Connected with this moral ilecavt the resources of nature also are exhausted, and her lertile territories cnangea to a desert by the uncrcating power of a spendthrift institution. And then, having maaea waste wiieru vjou uau uiaue a gaiucu, slaver v trathers up the relics of bankruptcy, and the1 baser relics still of virtue and all manFv enterprise, and goes forth to renew, on . J I. 4 . .f .. I - J l 1 a virgin sou, its uismai anu loriorn iiistuiy. Thus, I at length, has 'been produced what J i. . . , i i- .1 r M! may be called the Powie-Kniie styie oi civili zation Jknd the new west of the South is overrun; by it a -spirit oi blood wnicn aenes allaws of God and man: honorable, but not honest ; prompt to resent an injury, slack. to discharge a debt; educated to ease, and read ier, of course, when the means of living fail, tn find thorn at the amblinor table or the race around Jthan in any vvork of industrv prbba- I I - 1 A. I. fc-, m nF I . ... Diy squanaenng iuc inuuus liviu mcic, tO relieve Hie muiuiuv cuac nocu. The Gentleman then proceeds to speak of the manner in which the children of southern parents iare nursed,'and the consequences: "it may seemraiutie out ui jjiu.cc. -uuu x cannot forbear here adverting to one point, which!; as a lover of children and a parent. touches Ime more deeply thaiji any other. To i . . . . rt .1 .1.' 1 . whom; are intrusted at, the &outn me eariy care and nurture , of children ? It has been thought by many educators and metaphysi cians, the children learn as much before the age of! seven years as ever afterwards. Who. at the South, administers this early know-lp.ftorp-I khese ideas, these views, that have such sovereign efficacy in the formation of adult character ? Who has the custody of children! during this ductile, forming, recept ive per od of life a period when the mind absorbs whatever is brought into contact with it? -Sir, the children of the South, , more or less, and generally more, are tended and nur tured by slaves." The (gentleman invades the nursery of very southern family, and charges southern mothersj with such utter disregard of parental duties, that their children are left to the tute lage of ignorance, superstition, vulgarity, pas sionperhaps impurity. These, from a dis-tino-nishUrl p.ntleman and an accomplished scholar,who presumes to describe manners which he never saw, institutions with which he is unacquainted, and domestic relations which he does not understand ! He sends forth to the world a libel on the South, with all the authority to be derived from his name; and this is meekly to-be passed by, or else my colleague would denounce the man who would sternly contradict the asperser as an agitating mischief-maker. . Sir, I should have hoped that the gentle man from Massachusetts, when; forming ; his impressions of the South from the gentlemen with whom he mjet? in this House, has not been compelled to pronounce us all steeped in ignorance, superstition, vulgarity, passion. crime, and impurity. And I can assure nim,! and all who call his speeches mild and dis creet argument, that they are not eminently successful in conciliating our kind feelings or our personal respect.. Suppose, sir, I should take the rantings of-Abbey Folsom, or the wild and wicked schemes of Garrison : should T in nortravino- the manners and characler- rr j o istics of northern society, select the absurdities practised in, and proclaimed irom, anu-saD-bath, anti-government . societies, with which that region is rife ; the Wild excesses of Mil lerism, arid of Latter-Day Saints, the abomi nations of Socialism and1 Fourrierisni, with the dark iniquities of Mormonlsm, and' Sha kerisra,1 and all the numerous fanaticisms which spring up and flourish in their free soilj and amongst the free institutions in the land of steady habits' and common1 schools i and hnvinn- flrawn mv authoriiv from some one infttifratp.d bv the moodv malice of a oriet. or some vagrant letter-writer or compiler of travels, send forth a speech to the world,' that this is af picture ol the wild, unprincipled yul- irar race who occupy the free States, and cul o .Lj...Ljt. r r:i tivate lree sou tue .uesccuuauw ui uc i. n Jrhrt landed three hundred vears an-o on his own Plymouth rock- and hold them up as the evidences of degeneracy from the Pitiori of their ancestors, would I not be a slanderer ? 1 . Could any; reasonable man assign another character .to; one; so recldejs in fexaminmgriS'pthoriiies, and so wanton in the charges, whichare founded upon them? And yet the'spelch ofthe gentleman is to So ibfthtothe .world, as a j faithful picture of the social economy pf the ;South. Sir, I desire hone of that philosophy which my'colleague so admires and. applauds ; but I denounce Ihe whole as a foul and abominable libel. " I re- gret, sir, thai l cannot pursue the analysis of the gentleman's speech, and subject u to a more .mmute 3 investigation. It should" Ve done ; and perhaps, if no' one else shall n: dertake the tafelf, I imay, tnyselL; hereafter, ..,iihpsnhiect further . v " f . ' Sir this: affords 'but ; another melancholy illustration of;th eflecfs of fanaticism.; It is humiliating torsee a gentleman ol; high, at tainments as a scholar, manifesting all the evidences of high breeding in his. intercourse with gentlemenwith, enlarged views on liter ary subjectsrsant with and practising all themenitiom the influence ofmohomania on "this subject,as to forget Ins connection with, or sympathy for, the whiles, in his zeal to redress thelvrongs whicS he conceives to have' been inflicted on the blacks. He is honest in his zeal, and doubtless supposes that he is doing faithful service to the cause of truth. I am sure that nothing but this conviction in his own mind would induce him for days to devote his ta- lents - ana acquirements iq tne ueience oi acknowledged 'kidnappers the abductors of slaves, caught in the fact. His heart, as well as his intellect, is so absorbed in this chival-. rous attempt to revolutionize the frame-work of our social institutions, that nothing else can; engage his attention, j Upon all other subjects he may doubt, but on this the demonstrations of the line of duty seem too clear.' The kid napper arid the fclon-j-the whole Africaa race, vvhethei happy and contented or the. reverse, are subjects of his sympathizing efforts ; but his own race and countrymen are either for gotten or libelled. Possessed of the over ruling conviction that he has a high mission confided to him he goes forth to right wrongs, without regard to the rights of- any but the subjects of his kindness. Sir, this is a deplo rable picture that a gentleman and a scholar, a man ol irreproachable life and character, should give the sanction of his name to "the broad denunciation of his southern fellow citizens, from their external to the most inter nal social relations of life ! I would say that this is a bowie-knife : 'civilization, with all its savage accompaniments, and its nurseries the schools of vulgarity and impurity ! We are left to deplore "the sad havoc of fanaticism, its iron rule over human! character' ') I "For faith, fanatic faith, once wedded.fast I To some fond falsehood, hugs it to the last." Mr. Sneaker. I have been greatly amused at the course of remark in which my 2olleague Mr. Doxnell indulged, in his reply to my speech of the 1st of June. He made a grave complaint that 1 had answered the speech of the honoTablerSwaaior Mr. BAUGBaJon the 1st, when that speech was delivered on the 2d or 3d of that month. The reply was to the Senator, and not to my colleague. I re ported the Senator correctly, as both he and my colleague admit. .The speech delivered by me in the House June 1st, was .for the House ; and, doing what all do what I sup pose my colleague will do I wrote out that speech seme eight days after it was spoken, and published it for, the country. A copy, early in that month, Hvas laia on nis taoie au the table of the Senator. .They can neither be afraid nor unwilling for their real opinions the nublic. and the lime makes no part of the force, value, or weight Of their opinion, riom gentieintH uau gone much further in the avowal of thei r faith on the right of Congress to legislate on the subject of slavervt in the territories, with U k.'i iKoir will I and their sense ot jus- tice ; and it is upon this all-absorbing subject ;nrl I will act unceasingly, r;ioQ4 nt o;,Sa W some equitable sett.e- iment. I listened with no small amusement to the metaphysical criticism which leu irom rnr colleae in the course of his remarks. consideration, of this .U-.i- T . ' 5' luay.sueoe said tq ha subject Well Va nr. yt,,. Ll ... ' when we, either dir P0SUl0n or assbt . the , ea7 J"11?' aent J - V Ul II H NAI-tQff'AV slaraS.ates;by .VrM ..v. uvuiiuwiUll Willi me to from New. York, Mr. Dtx.) to e are marked x-i . . ;.- r-... "fl", ttlt e coomess :vuiul a pomicai economist regards the ,n companson wim the end : equalled Dy me-inamerencewith whirh i,u r girds the ox doomed to be the next sacrifice e process of starva tion, the free States must acquire an ascen dency and power which would place us efTec; tuaHy beyond the reach oi rivalry, but -certain- j ctutu ui urs'icuuuuii. i . cnarsre no gentleman with treason to the South it would be unbecoming in'me'to do so, because I do not believe it to be truer I have never heard Brutus charged with treachery to Caesar, or with treason to Rome; hut when Caesar was ;stageringr-an3iF totterintinder the blows o Cassius and of' Casca, still maintaining tht struggle with his toes, when he felt his life- bJood pouring from the wound that the dag- not Cassar less, but cat ger of Brutus inflicted, he exclaimed, uEt Brute I" Brutus loved Rome more ! So when I see the South reeling. tottering, staggering, bleeding, at numerous wounds of her northern assailants, but yet mafhfaning'a protracted, heroic struggle for ner existence wnen, at mat crisis, southern . r i . .i ! , . . ' i . .i i . statesmen ieei it tneir uuty to aamu tne rignt and the power of her assailants, and abandon all the positions assumed for her protection, I am compelled, amidst my admiration of the disinterested love qf justice and 1 of right, to exclaim "this is the , unkindest cut of all!" If I see a man with his, face glowing with pas sion, his eyes flashipg with rage, in his hand an uplifted club, threatening to strike you down. if I should say to him, 1 "You have the power to inflict ;the blow," and he forth with fells you to the earth: I think a jury would be apt to find me an accessory to the act. My motive was doubtless an abstract , love of iustice, but! most indiscreetly, most unseasonably manifested. The position of our -southern slaveholding constituencies pre sents a most strikini? illustration of the case . O supposed. We see in this House a majority lor tne vvumot proviso. io appeals maueiu those who claim to be the free-soil parly can stay the execution jof their purpose thus to humble, thus to degrade our southern con stituency. The question mingles, in every discussion, the purpose is manifest in every movement. We here throw ourselves behind the intrenchments of the Constitution, we ap peal to its sacred guarantees, we ask only our equal rights ; and, i unfortunately, our own statesmen deny our rights, repudiate our claims, and give the weight of their talents and influence to establish the power. Legis lative precedent the weakest df all authority is invoked to aid; in the overthrow of our claimsand the Constitution itself laid prostrate at the feet of Congress. A skillful enemy will never storm a fortress, when ne per- i 5 e ceives a waver ins", unsteaay pan oi' our lines, where hesitation invites attack, and the onset and the defeat will be simultaneous.- Think you that either compromise or arrange ment can ever be made by those who claim all, when their power to take what they claim is granted by our own friends? JNo. sir : nothing- but a "firm, united, calm, and dig nified position, on the part of the southern statesmen, can save jthe owners of slaves in sovereign States from utter ruin. Nothing to mnro h ii m il iatinp- than that we should be the subjects of th philanthropic design of the Senator from INeHv York, to surronna us with' a cordon of freb States, and starve us out. I . i My colleague Mr. Donnell has also de clared that not one acre of the Territories of New Mexico or California shall come under our laws, or be annexed to our territory, with his vote or consent, j A like opinion has been avowed by other gentlemen on this floor. A gentleman from New York Mr. Duer has said that he is willing to abandon it to iviexi moneyj engaged to be paid, will meet with no sympathy,, no response amongst the people of the United States. I doubt not that he sin cerely thinks that all this will not atone for wrongs done to Mexico. '. It is also argued by gentteman.on this floor that they will not vote, the monev to carrv out this treatv until ivith 1 this slavprv nnpStinn i spfllpd liihlil thft fret soil -party shall do iiistipp. to thp South. . How ever, sir, I may desire the adjustment of this riung issue, - ana no man aesires u rnpte,) should be extremely averse to the n ot this policy and for this reason : lot conceive that any statesman would kueteTminp. ihn v,o. f,;'u.-.r snould bfi disffracpd ,vQ i j j 4 i co, befeaue ot a difTerenpe. nrf ourselyes concerning the division of the terri tory acquireby.that treatv. With this Me ico has nothmto do, is neither: a party nor privy ,to it, and Is in noway responsible for the act of either petty. Should Mexico te fuse to give posse&ifcn of the ceded territory it would produce the renewal cf the war, ac cording to all the laws whh regulate the iu tercpiirse of nations. Shod we refuse4o pay the stipulated sums, it would justify and r& produce the war. Nothing bt corruption on the p4rt of the President and SeWte, in which the other contracting power was jolved and. partook, could ever justify us in re&sing tho mone- agreed to be paid, I say, siryin what both contracting parties are involved, xbr ; we couiamot, on account or our own fraud or corruption, withhold thp hpnpfite rtf a p. JT- J - . - v w VI fc VU from thoee who had no part in its inception its consummation. 1 know that, in the dis cussioh of supplies to carry out Jay's treatVi this whole subiect was analvzed and all its A iKo ottnnl.itpd nrir.e into the bar- mv colleague in the-eouise vi cu, aim pj-iuv- ovT r-- - , ui) colleague ""-,- . -Kanrl.thp. .: ivr. cin T m snmpwhat astonished He professed his lnabimy w '"F -: ; " g- c,1 - " fn novnn annunciation "that trbth, reduced to its ele- t0 hear gentleman, m the face of a - solemn dnnuucMiioii, nav , , ffUlfje trMt mi(ifl thp aw of the land bv the Presi- ?mr2Zrtii Senate, pledging the faith of the na to investigation, and the onij s ,K ,i tn ive protection, government, and cm- .nsmno ov thnCA Wtllfil air. . . 0 4 , . T r .1 , such a development."; himself with what he Mir f nlleauue amused was pleased to call my mmseu witn wuui uo, r , . , -.i.-i a ,i.whe nrofessedto be un- i f J , ' . j T cap . in his course on aoie to unaerstanu. , .n , nrn. pot unueiBtrt cox-Pfl him from this subject, that he habitants of those provinces, declare on this floor their disregard of those treatv stipulations, a willingness to aoannon the faith ot the nation, ana violate me piuv ionsofa treaty solemnly Vatified and pro- , . i . .1. ill C3UI,1 Vio TTnitpd nils ouujcwt, vv saved him irom claimea to tne wuiiu. ouuuiv tuv position which might. th -he couid Slates faii in the treaty stipulations, what his present dilemma ,wue troub- must be the consequence? Did a treaty ter- not understand it. Hau my & -;- thp wn'r with Mexico : and would gen- led himself to reduce nej . nt f i iaw js tlemen who denounced ihe war and demand. in bur Governmenttneeuc f . referable wit: pow Iv. the will this development ot eieu: i , , - . . i ho cans actui v . . - , efl ai iu- nPP.ded h.ncP nf manifest corruption on the part ot tne sion that the non-slavehoia 0 t-a'' sJm i makin? that treaty. Cm anV SOUiUKlII I icsiucui "" -- r . , " or from any Tt .-, ,; mav, under cer- 11 15 msu uuij iuu wim , . i -ii ii i' . v of elemeDw i i r , . monev to carrv out a treaty a n-iiorht havfl arrived at the sa j r -;rQt rmniinn nn ihp. nart of the lim, or ' ..-Ktir nf ricrhtS. to fixupon us thestamp oi iny-; Vfnrt, no aid from him, upon us the stamp - n North cir-umstan?es,! withhold supplies even in onsequently ot fte & which orinated in a declaration made ,na to exclude ne . ;r memseiVes; buUt must be a case of out- WHO nu , . . i and conseq oarol bearino-s futlv develoned. T hold thp. rpnrih ;p j ---x r , can finrtrinp. hpld hv nnr Iprirlprs nn tbnt mptn. orabiej occasion, and I think I have fairly and fully stated the result of the conclusions adopt ed. . : ' . - ... But4 sin are we to leave those provinces without a corernment in the face of the'trea- , 0 - ty, in utter disregard of our faith and our con- tract ? "Are we to abandon them to the nenls ;. : , r- of savage incursion and domestic anarehy? " - : i .l . ilmj" l I i--r Lw .re we io Piay m's cnnuisii game ueiore. me nations oi tne eartn ? 1 trust not, sir. i WhetHer the Norlli give us our rights or not let us do our duty. The claims of humahitv j and th duty we owe to the demands of civn ' Iizatidn, call loudly for prompt, statesmanlike action,! The President, in his message Oil the table asks for the. fulfillment of this duty which we owe to the Territories, and we make it a subject of party struggle, involve it in the Presidential canvass, and forget the claim of the inhabitants of the Territories up1 on its. The dust raised in the scramble on the subject.of slavery " overshadows ail their claims I and we are upon the eve of the ad loufnment of what may be well called the Long rarhamenij without discnargmg mis high duty. My ' colleague Mr. Doiojeix has said that the power to establish or to forbid slavery in the Territories is derived from the clause relied upon by me to establish the opposite conclusion. , He has informed the Hoilse, arrd mysclfjin particular, that Congress has the nower to " disnose oft and make all needful r r . r ' . rules and regulations respecting, the territo ry or other property belonging to the United States that a law is a rule, and a regulation is but a rule, or law. I admit it : certainly no lawyer could question so grave and clear a proposition. All that. I assert is, that these rules and regulations refer to territory only as property relate to the disposition of that property for the common good- and must be according to the Constitution of the United States Congress cannot change the1 natures of property acknowledged to be such at the adoption of the Constitution, and conse quent ly cannot change tne ngni oi property in slaves.) But, sir, I so fully discussed this sub iect onja former occasion as to render it un- necessary to pursue it mrtner ai present i is the more unnecessary, inasmuch as he has been pleased to pay me tne unexpectea com pliment of having, in advance of the distin euished Senator from South Carolina Mr; i .1 j r : L " - UalhoVn, presentea a view oi mis suuje, which! he recognized as just and legitimate. Sir, I Can desire no better position than thai pd mp. That nure and distineruished Senator has won for himself the confidence and thie admiration of his country, and I ani well cjantent even to be unintelligible to my colleague, if I am understood by that Senator, and tne torce ol my argument acjtuo tcugcu by' him. r . Antl 1 would nere Temarn, uiai uic pi cre dent c-iied by my colleague from the deed of cession made bv North Carolina of Tennessee to the United States, does not prove wnai - i . . . II. A It rl desires upon this occasion, ne reau i prove that the power ot congress over iuo: subieit of slavery in the Territories was ac knowledged by North Carolina, because .he, in tbi deed of cession, expressly stipulated that the ordinance of lt87. should I; not be at tended over that Territory. " This was the act of a sovereign State, maKing a r herown free will, and . nexlnv condition which she chose, and the nexany conu TT -..i ctfttts vvould ac n i v,nt ni tue u VJtOVGllllI1"' w . , i. -1 Kilt '1U St lClUlill'" - m.w...Uy lUVlJiv. . w , . . , g -l WllO had . ., J e ; l-,rl nmn hr I -ron-onns fnrrnntin : in the use of the means oi n ' , , r,vi 1P! ' -irOlU lain-: , J tauw-J wii(..-ri"- . ., Mexico and their fern Uies.- to on war . the necessity's their valor and their pn vai , x known in an utfer disregard of all (ho n . A inn iRi - r -.. . ,i . J 4 1- io cuiiwra.ni uuu jn--.,rte. ih- u ..n.Mmta iho i,nnistiriiTinn. anu rnf the world. Sir, Iwarn my b man. In either case, to ustify a re- wnoever affirms suctauu-v; lfim-lpiV to R,ich P.trerrie means, the wrong must ; lu yoiyiui-, " , ,,-, of nublic omn- he fl; l . 4 Vi cofa nnPlll. 1 a1it -! . , ' " i- UnrlATStanU .lUClZ Hui lll.i It is av uwi au . 9'wu miii me peopic i.nnir made by 11 CCll "j meet w -The NoVlhSrale d.d no. choose thlCaUhe laws forbidding theft UWrS Opposed' right of indi-V and inurder pres pp befoTc . ;,l.Tfl s to comiii" - - . . , - .. . . . h Carolma, f ublic opm be fiagrant, open, avowedrand it must be the ithsurha development yi y v uc . , 'ito ;shonor orru- m i I.V, inind to tne saie cunciu- omy remeuy tu nycu auow.v on as W.U bring his .-r-w io ' - At ejtreme rcs,stance to ei- Sr S S 'te'" 'mg, and would amount to enin'j . -.;tinn that congress una oi amugauug vi uciof, - -- i-fratea avAhe S domain to .favorite portion the power. It JZ of our popSlat or., is too monstrous to require ,s such a case : It ux n ite cotruptly the MrStni answer. The -people .will Executive aSenate answer ,t, and most satisfactorily, with their graced the "atn' denounced th war, unouahfi'A frnhatmn of tbi doctrine it- erace from thosewho and treasure ex- ;fiel0ftno& ? kno sir, that I am considered a. ultra V make aar t.pou on tne Subject of southern, rights. iVtifiable, but Jabte eague admonishes me not to speaK yivw" minafton of the gemw""-; t4?rritorv hut the VS IZor that the latr requiring actrnentoftheiawv nonstimtion rc- suppb i lina; , until 'e admonishes me nottoipeab forro- otthegef but, 1 8haII speak for and tojCaroh na, mm Mexi2C BOt ODly the termo y, wry part.oi thXstate to?' - aciraeu-:- . -t the Constitution pre nl4"?Jt???Maie it if that formal supposed our ..gv- Carolina di! . ,1,1s not ousciicu. . -. , . - Sn that Tennessee should be harassed not mean iu. . Liihlnuestions oi mis son, uun iu S'SSSnto arising out of the Ordinance of barrassments 1787 were beginning tu terros of the contract, bound the Government of the United States to forbear from intermed dfiriV with the rights of property of those of her sons whose allegiance sne was anout tu transfer. Nor is he more fortimate in his rtu erenee to VatteK The passage refted ott treats of the power and the duty ot a PT'C or sovereign to regulate the manner in vyhich d bv his abJ jecti AU thiy is true; and any? ..soTereigrt '' - r i ok - -I 'V
North Carolina Republican (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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Sept. 27, 1848, edition 1
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