The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1854, Page 7

i : ! of the slave to such a degree | own Hbidinous passions. Sesolgtions have bees passed Sessa the Renste--and 1 pane sa tenbt uasoepter bad to remeve thie bar siateter trem the Constitution of o State; sudae the aera aption the of | as virtually the value of the ty. hy deflect mae, peeoarean 1a oar country, demanding ree ee ey eens param; bes ie an | mational may well furaish a mcre pewertut Bie It well fowsded, would roster ves with their to | Idoxot urge conniderations as obdjections to the “abolition of all neutrality,” with, 1 suppose, mo- ope, from w see no and for which | motive of shateanenremanion’ toes so meses fndopeaieetee ees ‘end oontiaus ite existence |, and there live in open coatemptef | existence of the naved right, bat be arsaiiael disanlties narohicsl powers; the ‘abolition of the Christian system the sat reapensible to the Xi nor to any other | its hemor thea any x pestation that its secom- int it follows that it caa- jent if thisdoatrine ts soued, niet Fitts e render it o: little, of penkloneat tee ey the eltimate rap Sees site made. boas, pad Fase, oes Rees ae op er with the principles would not be . indeed, value. ession of all punishment; bolition + have strong! preferre - { bo matwtats Fe wacts nor wishes its | But in'the méantine, and! without Jo Iagalation Eopaly,” or, in other wore, Mh destrasNon of the rights to eaprese my act out of pcullas weperd‘crntee | tee . ‘than by the resert te do not kne ‘elafms the ity of this preten- islgtares, equally | what ia the state of this relation of master and servaut, | of ownership, by am equal lou tion to-day, whish by motion of the countey, bat in obedionse to the dietates of ry Sep Sa may be repealed or it origina’ It is cert of very fis necessities ? | amd what law governs it? How is the pi to be roneing oath, to morrow, would, destrey the motive | my owm comscitenes, I never csase to uphold the | another; and thus, wo time, this eaelting heretofore im our poli diss: | under the sum, the | acld?—how distributed f—' ? Waat, im fect, | for Fe Mood make the country m desert; | right of the South to determine every question in relation may rise up to alarm and disturb, i! may be to se; ot aad general subject. The surprise I felt os its of contrary mot- | becomes of the vast variety of subjects connedted with i:, ‘uns eee railroads by the State,”” which, | to this of property for ‘them talves, and. the dat the country. wet time or For, it will be that the cases | and oe ty sasataey various into the language of truth, means the robbing | of the Union te carry into effect the constitu Ones this true dostrine of non interven- readi- | Segmmacs tous both the prinsipioand the praction slave Ststes? Does the law accom; ‘the pro ‘as | of the owners of that species of ty; ani to som- | provision in good faith and with kind } tion which is lsid down. im these bills upon the nd ado st. | of tke demand, sre those where the right to hold 3 | it creates it, and secure its epjoyn ent iteaow tow 0? Pe ts fe 4 Gemand the ‘abolition of laws for I de net know apy Northern maa who is disposed to grouad of # want of eomstitutional and you ut think | pérty fs ited by the losal laws; and, indeed. this Bat shall not pursue these inquiries, though inseparable Observance of the Sabbath,” “the abolition of | bevorid this; aor is there any Southern man. who si paniah tue subject for ever from the ne’ eounstls cannot safely s results from the mature of things; for if » | from the estal it of the fall right claimed, but oie Cropland the abolition of oaths upon |. desire it and semd it to be by loeal communities, te ‘alone estab- ty im Srtialen wore resoqnictd te logal coms whiob, after all, must depend essen’ upon the local tea these funcamental have been dis, Faeeid eat. onsen singe {socks caenaion, $0 sive which it belongs, amd as Semen ae pretension, #0 controversy would be over, without any investication 008. ive position cf the States and the ‘‘territo. mabe ceation t {ate on the Territories, ot the consequences it brings with and And in a iteelf the Iedusi tr iY jong! this Ceclaration of » want of , for my own 1 ht of an 4 ‘What law, then, governs the incidents of such pro: | require furthe sentation not since in olty, it was any power to regulate this condition in those political the sub provided ta the Dilla, vote ? of | hibited thus claimed to be held iz opposition to what would be the condition of the residenta of a Resolved, “That by the land reform, we understand { commuoities; and second, whether the thers may tate whetever may | the law of plece? Not the constitution or laws of the | country immediately on its annexation to the United | the entire abolition and annulment of all property valae | rightfully regulate it for themselves. | feel as little dis any may ocsun, not to the an- | United States, for they do not touch the subject stall; | States, and of European ‘ants who might remove | or ownership im the soil,” &ic., &o., &o. pasate o> ove Uiie minsiee agiet as Sie teamasane be to vurse, for deol comprouiss. enactment’ por hes Congress, if i) bad the dis the slightest | there? In snswer te a qui of Mr. on, Mr. Now, alx, these may be considered pregosnt and I aha'l restrict myself to a very brief reca This of ‘nen intervention ie the onlg regan ge | ant thus to meddle with thedaterne! affairs of the | Yulee oarsied this doctrine to its logiimate conclusion; | they certainly favoke changes which would be as fatel to | pitulation, which seems necessary to the ox; of | p ate for us, wit, in relation te thia agi these communities, We have only and said that if Canaca were purchased or conquered to- | the North as apy demanded by the wildest vissionary or | m™ 1 that i ‘extraordinary that after all the com- back to yw, though its laws prohibit slavery, yet alaves | the veriest bypoorite in the condition of the South would 4 abject Congress bee might be taken there inmedintely from ‘she Southerm | be to that of the Unio, And yet there is mo dan- 4 Btat @ local probibition being prostrated by this | ger from these mentalor moral delasions. Reaton and , Not one. New Mexioo t.’” In that eveat, what would be- Pesriotin wil! pienes fir empire and maintain their ‘to the sdmission of slavery | come of the Canadian and the European ant? Ie pent 8 If ne government ia to be tolerated ‘this bour passed into the the prohibition prostrated also for them? aad how yhere such are abroad; we shall soon bid adieu ) of the Gattes States; and its exclusion from | explained. fer they have no constitutional “ equality of en: to buman restraints. No, the remedy is to be found, mot I ta the act of the people, assembled in conven: * co equals in the Mate im the change of politieal institations, bus in the diffusion taza to form their ‘constitutlon’ and wot the actof the residents might, perhaps, be saved by some 8) of education, the free discussion and examination of st the subject of rt visiom in the treaty; but without it they would find them- | whatever propositions are preseutedas tendieg to ame- | lation and jar! ‘tw the proper losal for Mr. Retett, Indeed, in a remarkable rposeh {0 this body, | aelres subject to pre existing laws, and might be sur- | licrate the condition of mankind, Truth was never per- | wil nor is there j }, to the condi ieration rhable for am’ Americaa citizen in an American moetes by's yemees oc properly they could mot possess, | manertly injured by free inquiry You cannot control | ply this detect of a . Joga! mode, pag ge 4 undertook, by s peouliar process, to hold this exemption : ee a investigation, and you must take it, even with ite abu 4s a matter of necessity, just as Mr, 1 cannot but feel muck frernment rerponetle for the measure, making it one And what would be the operation on Terri. | for the blersixgeit brings with it, A highly r the action of the Congress of the Confederation reeched this point after a \ ‘more in bis long catalogae of off:nets. t tigation our for they have no ‘constitutional eq: mo | and respectable member of the House of Ropreseatatives | subject, the Uongress of the Constitation that this dostrine of num- ‘his argument ran thas :— joulties are increased inslead of being diminished. ity of States”’ to fall back upon? They present equit- Hel epee thinanbiens, some ‘time sinoe, ‘You think that | for establishing governments for the “ posenans 7.5 You have no right to pass the Wilmot proviro. I do not know that I understand precisely the | ble considerstions for equality, bat in point of cossti | slavery is agreat evil. Very well, think 90, but keep | United States, origizel or seq without iperane, 20 hens You sdutited Oaiforsla into the Union position which is asmmed with to the | tutional right, by which alone ‘such s question can be | your thoughts to .”” Tam sure, air, thishonor: | ary of the States; sueh « measure ender disousson; as 7 California inserted the Wilmot proviso in her constita- | extent of this principle of exemptim—whether it | tested, thax, do not come within the principle laid dowa, | able mem! have uttered this sentiment while feel- | welfare, indeed, to their prosperity. eae dost thee 0 applies to the citizens of one “state, so as toeuable | Andif not no emigrant from one Territory to another Sar taaegsy nets daslons anpeeniens pce the Bonin too Ia the exerelie of this power, a: condition, ar Therefore you passed the Wilmot proviso. 7m to take to the territory” of the United States, and can take this property where it ie prohibited, nor could | ‘reas tin the Nartb, for he knows as well as any ons | moro authority should be assumed than ian Se rns of tom. Buch are the promises and the ounclasion eharged by | there hold any ‘agauch by the laws | SDy person after beocming a citizens of any Turritory in- | the { ibility of proscribing the right of speech, and | tain the objaot and at the prevalence | — Ir, Rhet? upom another Senator, as the doctrine of the | of such State; or whether the exemption becomes uni- troduse or hold it, and he wouid thus find himself ina | of confiz ‘the thoughts of man to his own bosom. You That object is the organization of Territorial spn sentiment ig ered pecans reeneione Sones but assumed by the former as his own, when he veraal, allowing all the citixens ‘of the Unite: States to | tebooed ciass, little suited to the pride or feeings of an | might just as weil undertake to stop the tideof theoseaa | ments, and with iia accomplishment fairly ends as- | the more 00 because it was the Lc ngenyg very a: Bir the ‘was right.” take aby prohibited articles to this region which are de- | American. A state of things indeed which could not last | es to stop the tide of human optaion; and though both | sumed jurisdiction, for the psople are competent to ooa | principle, the inevitable jnence, as 1 conceive, of Siz, the Senators were wroxg—both of them wroag—t" | clared {0 be property by the laws of asy ove of thedtatss, | aywhere in our country. For it must be recollected that | of these might agents, in thelr realstloss maroh, azo felt | duet sir own affairs for themselvou, when ® government | our institutions, which me to muon m\srepre- . Rhett was correctly, as 1 doubt the propo | although Aleit as property by the laws of their the grant of juriajiation by fans. bile to the dereltorial fA < pie Tova es een vot Bealtfal [awe ie once | lastibuteds = A whatever jon Jatitade Of disare. ry oo Oe py tye ec gia bape Perdew intended anced mem \erre: |. | Legislatures over wudj' slavery isa ry One, ey shan wou! a lon there may , Iga principles, Telegraph, among woe re ee tis Sannusine: 1s 5 oritte Reaten whechn this Tenpanslen ofréece | Teakralned only by the eoustitution, ‘They ‘have, ot | Bu: the epeaker himself did as he hada fall rigat to-do, | there can be uoas whieh woult wathaztco Oongrous to is, | mighty throng of i 2 i af ay! 5 itth ae courss, the power to control it by abolishing, or by estab | without regard to tois prohibition, He examined the | terfere with the local and domesti affairs of these distant | ‘idence in aman who I ‘and ‘the Mansbasioa’ toe more oatisfactary’ er aeaee elon, gee ae te fay ait the et aot ‘of | lishing and Fegutat it, just Wo far au the conmittusion | whole mubject in the ball of the nation, aad of course | commucities. There would be neither powsr, nor reason, | ‘ho South in the abstraction of noa-lntervention.’” Usfactory, aa it lu approved or dimporeved. Acom- | the Caited Sites, oF ouly for ite-own eliisens, tha’ they | does mot stand in way. And how far ia that whea | could not expect that hia and-mot his practice | nor necersity to warrant the assumption, riz, the abstraet hss changed to the concrete. Jourd sylogian I think’ they all this form tm the may er joy the same rights in their new restiencss as 1a | they chcore to probibit it? Until some one woj>yigg the would be followed by others. Afterall, siz, he had pow- | So much for the authority of the federal lezislature | \ected stone has become the ebief stone of the ichools. But all the subi ‘of verbal metaphysics, | their slate If the former, this expansion ia not only | coustitutional exemption presents himself for enWanco | erfulreasons for denouscing this perpetual warfare upon | over this subject. The power of the people to te iginatiog m the days of Aristotle downwards, with thelr wasjot a —— as to Territorial jariedistlon, but | into one of these communities, He claims that the con | s!most one halfof the Union, and upon » subject of do- | for themselves upon all there questions of domestic poli. | ministering to the gratifoation of such a misera\ nd minor terms, their eopalas and predicate!, and all Bere bet rm px persone, bringing within the elas | stitution antees his admission there, with his aia: nestic pelioy vital to their interest and to their safety. | oy, is the iusvitable result of the preseciog principle, ani | sion, this dootrine of non-intervention and sell, othe: machinery b iH i 4 é ‘ z 2 i it d J and that he is thus placed beyond the reach of the But we eannot reach it by legs! means; we cannot | of American irstitutions, If Congress have no juriedic. | ment is tahing its place—bas taken it, nent seoee Se fleas, could not es! an the hay i fm cores Sere mo fated, Hea Pikoe easton ai is interdiction, Still, however, the law remains, to stop the progress of opinion and discussion, We oan | tion cver the subject, the people must have it, or the | great prinol, of our institutions, equall it ie usidw, nor persuade the american peopl> that, seoause | Cin aotent ina élaiia of aaomption someur at to ite ex. | it# power upon all who are not freed from its operation | givo them, however, right direstion, and that | moct impcrtant concerns of nooial aud of alvil fe would | origin and evlatary in ite operation. of beling am Tac aiid eect oe a pene Me be Aer the consequences it brings with it. Theéoctrine, | by higher authority. If this would not make aprivi. | should be the effort of every tras American | be left wituout wecnrity or protection. No one has ever | attack upon the rights of the South, it is the true const- ‘ es in Teeponaible for tuat ack whi 1s sooviche r=] ins nettheay lan declarations I have met with upon leged clace in this seit of bossted equailty Idonot | in the nemslaveholding States whose foolings snd | questioned thelr just claim to regulate, by thet: im- | tutional shield interposed for the protection of am article I Simission of such Sate into the Union I repest. | this subject, and some of which I have quoted, and f not amactof the gereral goverument has touched | the nature of the wrong complained of, sesmed to m aim in the slightest degree; and if ever an American | | have already eald, to carry with itaclaim on beh: it by law take slaves to Of the regions soquired | the citizens of each Stste to take with thom their a2 ‘editary aristoeratic distinctions | #2¢ whose intellect have not bese seinyd captive by tals | mediate repreagutatives, various qnestions eogmected | of political faith equally dear to every portion of eur oltt- owed thelr origin to far more trivial causes. I | *irauge haJncination. He should staad up for the rights | with their civil end ww ite that I should waste my own time and that of the | cf the South, Hy. standing up for the obligations ofthe | relation of master aad servant; acd this excep- | im thoirown way. 1¢ 1s at last diseovered and aoknewi- te by the further consideration of a proposition oom- | constitution, and expose that bollow philanthropy which | tion cannot stand test of any rensoasble | edged that Americans going to « Territory do net become far an regards the 0; Md d to enjoy it in this | ducting to euch resalts. seeks through blood and file the emancipation of w race | scrutin: j n | slaves themselves, nor can amy abstraction, like that ef ieielations, "Teg A fadietal deen | Ste teenie oh Domevand Wo..eplcy But, tr. President, let us look at this matter in | of beloge wio may become tree in God's good time—aed | niged against the existence of this right o ‘aovereignty,” now be fuccesatally raised up as » barriec Wicd thes pe ttineht tolee the ted. |. re snoibtr arpeck, Who are ‘the robbere aad who are the | when te bas prepared them for 1% how ‘kaow not—but | ment, founded en the ooaneztin of the pop between them and the enjoyment ef the most sacred rights Lm Pendens 4 Ané this seems to have been the position taken by Mr. | ropned—the plunderers and the plundered? Who are the | who if made free to mcriow would, at least those of them | ritories with the government of the Uslted states And this brings me to the consideration of the trae | Odlkoun; fcr L observed, in reviewing the debates in the | Qithors, and to what end, and to whore benefi: or injary, | who survived the struggle, becuse the moet miserable | bave been amazed at the cubUeargacwonts, politicc-meta- | Thove, rir, who wore here at the time eaanot forged round of the complainis, and how far they have any real | S* Subject, that, in aanwer to a remark ef | 4, this gre acheme of empire stealla;? Tuis act of poll: | and abjeot population on the face of the globe. physical indeed, which have been presented, against the | ceapct atany rate—that when. im the discussion of the ee 4! ay Mr, Niles, be placed this right upon other grounda, “por | tical rapsoity, without excuse, ia withont example in the | The status of slavery has existed from the earlist ages | enjoyment of one of the mort sacred rignts which God | questions aritiag cut of the Mexican scquisitioas, | de jocial relations, exospt this | sens—the po which God bas givea to max. pon spon | the comity of the States of this Union.” What that means Par igs Pepin Metre gg wey rn note " . | ‘of human selfishness, no strife “be. | of the world, and regretied, as it is and rust be by tae | has giver to man, The inrepsrable union betwaon repre | fended the propositions at wa ar he Bouth fs exelnded from the Territories, robbed of | in: the inves'igation of s comstituticeal claim, aa I | Dutcry onhiaas sulnshness. pag “Abram, thoagh | worsilt, it is m great practical polltical quostion, whisk | sentation and the regulation: of the domestic allairs of a | vertigation of the eudject, I was mot by sorm of Oppe> Notnt ey ° ror do rot understand, I she'll not undertake to iavastigate. | Dyw as then all parties were brethren, “nor was | every esiabiiehed community where it is reeogaissd mast | eommurity, including taxation, is oue of the oardiual | vition—reprobation I inay’oall ii—not often witnessed ami Now, {s this eo, Mr. President? What prevents Mr, Niles, in reply, stated the a of Mr. Calhoun | their enbstance eo great that they cou'd not live | «djust for itself, The Revolution found itin most of the | principles of American political faith, laid dowa ia our | which fonxd its echo through the whole South. putherg man from going to any of those regions under | *° bs, that citizens from any of the States are eatitled to | toeether.” ‘The whole land was before them,’ and is | Stetes, and there it was at the adoption of the constitu- Bate papers, taught im our sob ‘and triamphantiy sitions in the words I a tancon as a Northera man, it-hr chore, | outer any of the Territpries, and enjoy the.same rights of | before us, and is enough for us ap? eure to the handredth | ‘ica, and in many of them it yet remains, mekidg part | asserted and defended on tho. battlsali—a principle Lmot proviso was uaeonstt intousl, buGw of nothing Payeically, one can go'aa well as the | Property there which they evjored in the States from | Generation, I repeat, by whom and sgainst whom is this | of the rights and guarantees Of the confederation. To | which the Continental Congress in 1774 deplared in these | for the resron givgn that Congress had no jarisdiction T for, is tue ianguxao cfs great dramatic vost, bon | RICE they removed. As this position was stated without | Fretuitous, injury comimisied? it Je the South upon | ioveh it by the general government would bo t> stake to | worce: that the Kiegliuh coloniats " are eatities ton free | OVer the wutjoot of slavery. q fave “syns, hands, ergrre, Rah tdneay pang oy ccnteneliton, 28 may assume that it expresses the view® | which the North bas 1.id its heavy hand, and selzed for id corner stone ont wile poittieal pee. ‘Lik one and exsinsina power C3 Joghietion ‘a thee soverel peo A plier en Mer irae Tervitaey h fone 9 sions; * 2 t the proj to the whole. Now, nman inatitutions, 4s neither all the advantages its | vinsiel legislatures, where their right of representation rritury, aacanee elt ete ae ieee Ber ee Lire rrea cueiaians of 1s, shat the exitasies of Sey seins 6 mast wikis ialaesion a tasers tsjary, friends elas for it aor AS] fhe evil tts enemies deplore, | can lore be prowerved inal! case of taxation nad inter Fy Nami ee a Aber”) a8 well om le , Haves, for in.tanee, fro ¢ usual kem of even a at ae] ® misfortuse for spy country, ret its | nal pelity,’? &. fooling opie. 5 eee ernst ee ee | omaid, eatlutes Noms thee} yment of fash domala al be isin; for teaeead and Se ete pm is MALEE Denk, ta) eine R ERATE tar omeciadine bandiarl | aot abhenniadt ia Ga vaililion ot kamek opinions, | sd communities, exereiting the If there 19 no physical tr ty, net’beris there @ | tbe sitixeus of the Staves where such property exists, and | Pacis gountry-for the North amd South, the Kast and | ticm, Iam free to confess, that though it may come to an | that from Coe meri ayried urged to become oflonie: wera of government, whether ia Staten or Territories, one, in the way of emigrants from the North or | ts Ceprives them of w covsiitarionel rigat, | This is the | West—tor long ages to come. Folly and crime, it a trae, | end, and I hope tt may,'penceiully and jusily, I a9 no | and with the practios, to adopt the princip'es of Lord | had olume the sight of determining this question for the South, Aire equally free to go at their plea. | icJurr: but does the remecy stop with ita reparation, of | crten go together; but the folly of » premeditatedrabbery, | way in which this cap be effected bai by leaving is to | North Jn thie crusade against human rights; for there | themselves. The statute book is withonta mogle prohibition | Crs tt go far beyond it? A citizen of Marsachnsstts | Shove advantage in 10 enure to a reaote pouterity, ls ravo | th's0 most laterosted in {t, and to the procera they may y an argumsut which cao bs urged against this | _ Aud the prinoiple contained in this fourth proposition on the subject. 6 holés property in tha: Stite, amd by virtue of itelaws, | even ip the catalcgue of human enormiti ficd it best to eiopt. Avy external iaterfarence would legislation which the B:tish ministry did | wasedvanoed in my letter to Mr. Nicholson, waerein I Fwhere, then, in thie unjust exclasion—thia act of | Dose introduction into Oregcn, we will suppose, 1s inter | $e evjoyment of the land itself, the object of th only aggravate the evile and the Gangers, aud this our ex- | uot urge sgainet the demsnde of our fathers to be allowed | mid, “It (the interference of Congress) auoul: be limited troslous robvery, on the part of the gemeral govarn | Sicted by local I:gislation. A citizen of South Caroliaa | tery.) ar put out of view considerations havicg relation | périence has already shown, As to the.frightful p to legislate for thempelves, We bave besn told with due | 10 the creation of proper governments for new countries ment? I partRtty ld mol’ on not Of gamumlasiom, for or the rea rege spose es peale len tres? = | tom political balance. That no such plaa of perpetual tered, whlch have been drawa of eruslig on ono side, and vity=-spd I haya no doubt with due sinoerity— that sequined Seaslaxd, oe fo ry oe & on f ati ixéietea Wine in, teat us mate ieee o suffering snd wretchedacss on the o!fbr, they ars gross | ti Siater vervign;”’ and wa have been : abe, Ae ea ee whg need Practically excludes bim, is, that kg cannot take his pro- eg4 teas ory gate rage A <4 axnaemenond by whatever modern Galliver fabricated, arked, ** How can the ultimate and supreme | Meantime to the people inbablting them to regulate their venue. The existivg laws cf the coun'ry rendered the | Petty with bim, and is thus deprived of his constitutional | work to the people, ia obvious from clroumatanses which | origisating in ignorance or maleyclenod, aad rainiateriog | power of w State, be cividedt” Sovereignty, indeod | | own concsras in thelr own way. Ondition cf slavery em illegal one: and ft was comtended | ‘“eaUslity of enjoyment.” make part of our history, and which show that the Sjates | to the worst cf parsions both at home and abrosd. 1 | And who cam find ‘the wor! {a the ooastitutica, or who | | The Senator {som Hew York, (Me. Seward.) in bls oppee t the act of annexation, and the constitational equa- But.can each take advantage of the Iswa of another | to be formed from the them existing territory within the | ‘mow something of the concition of the rlaves, and I ba- | candecuce apy power from its use? 1: 1s ® process of | fition to this view #mid,as hin been often aud am —_ ity whict i {ta immediate axd necessary consequence, | State, and introduce article rot recegeized an such by | criginal limits of the Urited States would necessarily, | ‘ive, in general, they aro treaied with all the humanity | constructive authority, which cannot be too severely re- [aaa eg Conasere hes Tee. i _ a ogated this provision, and that a slavehol’er was as | those of his own’ if the Principle etente thus far, 18 | from arrangements previoarly made, and which the coa’ | hich oan readovably be expected in thelr altustion— | probated, at war, artis, with the famiamental bans ot | lars for the orgsats “ “Fourth, That org s it. And if they heve,what ° ‘pesull inhabit. | certainly reaches beyond t! tit assumes te guard. | pti carrying into effect, increase the | with» humanity honorable to the proprietors a1 aclase, | the conferation. Onee establish ita operation nw the | with this claim of self goveremen| ta chain? Mo nol! avy of epee oy SrOpeeey, The wrere and the remedy are out of jast proportion to Namie ape ‘of the non Mavebolitog States. and, toesy the least of it, quite as Sette they wouls be | foundation of Congressional sotion, end othe: and mearrr | ther! Is sa abpss or an oppzvssion to be forever oe fell, this is obviously s right, whioh, if it exist, canmot | eSeh other. The citizen of South Carolina, such is the ‘But what is the “South,” which is thus deprivad of:ita | in the Northern Ststes haa this ivetitation not beom abol. | rights then those of distant. feeble coramunitiea would Decaupe occe assum t the Boast = {itis obvious. 1n the formation of forced | Claim, cannot enjoy his portien of the ‘“prblicland” | just rights by an act of rapacity, consurmating its work | ished there, and far better than by many whese philas- | coon be prostrated before it. and the céure i ae nee ten ee ee at tae: | SIGnw tne peleel Oo take Bis alntée orn Lite en there PP thcexclagion of slavery? Not all the poeple of the | throphy ia thown by the tal ing aad reprosshtol w Ustened to disertations upon ‘halt sover- | Fy:tems for the Territories there mast be some ached by jena! action, end it is a more perver- | ends his complaint; end the citizen of Massachusetts is sub- | South, for all are not alavel and those who are nct | they utter, and not by the relief they contribute to objects ® ¢ivided sovereignty, « and ‘squatter sov- ing the powers to be sod.on. of terms to talk of robbery, where the right and the | ject to the ame imca;ecity, urless he can take his bank | are pi from emigrating because they cannot | o/misery, And I know scmething of the condition of the gt \d were told that the ‘' msjor includes the tne aoctpl sels Srtareak nod ta I prepise teraal dy, whatever these = foree | bills with bim,or'some other prohibited property,and there | carry their property with them, which {* the alleged dis. | poverty-atricken populations of Europe—of a large por: ed, apparently with » good deal of fixe). a fever’ 00 far oc reqerds Congr’ stone iegulation Tt is | also ends bis &. Byremovieg the tsupecimmentia | cuallasation thet deprives them ef their rights. It isnot | ticn of the Inbabitants who lis down in sorrow aad get how'siany individaals would eoasti rae ery ewy a “faws oz co tec: hen manage rebbery without # robter. ao aggrisrion without an | each case wesatisfy the original Geman: anew Seuth” to which the entrance of the “ territery and | tp in cere, and who pass their lives ia wavt, many of ple. pout thoy man ive te constitate | OTe oie, Dat wih theo Of tals logialar ressor, an injury with none to commit it, and none to | one then arise, which secures tom Northera man the right | other property of the United States’” is thus practitally | them ina state cf destitution utterly uninown ia this | one peop'e, and how far apart to make two with. | ton by Congres over the oudject of slavery, Lkeow of At by it. 2 to buy slaves, and to take them to the common Territory, Interdlotea, but the Southern slaveholier, while it is as eae a sare neat fac snare rilasty fa the peow’. |. 1¢ thee questions of kamen rights wees to be situediwilir | 5 ph Re, ‘Over any of the faculy relation: of vhioh the T repea’, tha, what prevents a Southern man from go- | tot because he cannot go with them,which is the first pro: | open to the Soutkera non tlarcholier es to every cltizea | ¢%4 capitals of Eaiape thax Lerex saw ia our own favored | the precision of a mathematical problem, substi. | 20 cuminol orer any of the lanily relations of which tee to apy of Mexican The only in- | position, but Desause some one olse under other ciroam: | of the » Hert. ‘The manifest er: or this pratenalcn bad ome shite Rest bod ce sor. prenet en eer re ree on | Stale thant (4; seueth a. pearpanied Sheng, geo it bold @ ences enjoys at privilege? ‘amd, ecoenovrio. does & | local asi become more obvious. ff we arsarts: ’ . = pad ¥ $e ald slaves Soe, | Southern na poneets the same. right? “Ir this be gal. the between these who doend those wan + [-ecrfiticn ol }aman want than the most laboted Gesorip | bisin of government then that established by our | S2¢ cught uot tobe through Gesiga—aed * wei |plsee, and, t ‘inconsistent with the as- sqealisy brings about ekasget iz the condition | pot ‘slaves where the institution of slavery. exiaty, ic [| tion. In the centre aid core of British wealth | pilgrim fathers the day before they debarked upon | terval Gomestic ony wegen 5 States. Weknow Te tie etek sans te feaslons ef the partios. It frat on. | seder'to show whieh of thaw Muay, with the at>ze | 0d pharasaeal exolusivaness, one bundred thooesnd | ill aod unksown continent, when they autoolaten to. | We cenact touch thelr “soy, arya Slates, We know it, ould tt re. | sbles the slave! to overcome the local legisiatioa by | propriety, be called the “South,” so far as numbers coo, | buman beings get up every morning without knowing | gother and signed their practical declaration of fade. | “cial iri" their wives nor their id) © thelr remark, thet this | introducing his slaves where es sea ee eee stitute a politics! community, and far indeed does tha: where they are 40 find a mest, yr aasing jod | pendence, solemnly tre hsp a gene ; horses, os firat, | to him on an eq’ with the man who cannot | element of power reach in this the great day of bama» | orcrime, One would thisk that was enough | cf God and of one another, to com “asmanelves to lolatien ‘shat ie ¢ to | held slaves by the laws cf bis own State, and then it en- J rights. For Eas pare te Bu mntof tha Ovara> | for the exertion of eny reasonable quantity, of philan | gether into a civil body pclitic,” qats ‘little band of IAD, oonsecrated by the bleod m | bles the latter to purchase and introduce slaves aluo, in | bas been good to answer inquiries mad- | thropy, and that, until these awful scenes of human suf | self-exiled Christians sambered in the whole men, wo. | of our fathi hallowed ‘by the affections of thelr @annct live where it is to | order that the inequality created by equality may itself | to him, the resuit of which I will briefly state:— ferleg were removed, it would exhibit a mucb more com. wen nd ebildren, She hundred and one persons, Whether | #000, There iano huwan futeliset, however mighty it exclude it, is to exclude of | hemade equal. I do not pretend to understand this pro | The number of rlaves in the Uni‘ed States ts,, 8,201,077 | mencable aptrit to labor there for life Gret and thea ?or | they eompa half 9 people, or a whole: poopie or two | msy be, which can rencer this ples of tyranny acoepta- aye however I | -¢ss~I only state it, The white population of the slaveholiing reformation EAtper then to bo pending poliiionl mission. Peoples, a not stop to fequire, but went right om. | dle to the Ammican people. admit 20 wach opi- But if the remedy is cen fined to a redress of the wron; Btatew iG... ...ceverseseeee seceseeeee 6,223,418 | asics, under the guise of a universal iove of mankind, to | ward to work. If the question was not settied by And this Coot ine of the right of the people to legis = "ot the. they | complained of~that is, to the establishment of the rizh: How are these slaves diviced among the whites? this country, kindly to excite ove portion of the Union | them, it wan settled by their descendants, now consti | late forthemselves was what more than any other mn people. system of | ts introduce into the sommon “territory” all propaty | By an sprroximative ‘estimate it appears that agsinst another, and thus lea to disolution of the | tuting ® portion of the mightiest people on the face | voAed denunciation It was pronounced Ly Mr. to hich Goss not f ; This is | which s meu holds ia his own State—then wa enter a new ‘the whole number of slaveholders is about.. 350,000 | confederation ard to the destruction of our power and | oftheesrth. Sat the objections I here referred to, and | hounto be “' the most monstrous doctrine ever advaaesd ry ai muestion plished exist | feld of con 'roversy. It is mot necessary I should ex. Of these some are of cours® females, aad some under Eset. What @ deplorable oommmmmation that | cthers of a similar character were spread before mo, if | by any American Ceber gps AA od ay To ry There | plore it. I leave that to those who favor the doctrine. | sg¢, oo that the adult male slav-holcers fall short of that | would be to these philanthropic Eollakmen ! Oertainly, | ot with logical conviction, at least With thorbetorionl co And another able and eminent Southera Senstor san- wre may well t; ft, from the conviction tant inme- t it would work extraordinary results in any country | Rumber; but itis sufficiently near the truth for all the | objects of commiseration are everywhere to be found, | fusion and with an emphasis which seemed to aay, t sidered my opinions so extreme on this poiat that he diate ruin follow its extinction in any manner under heaven where it might be applied. Enigrante pu haveis view. It would of course bs unjust to | even in the most prosperous commuvitier. Misfortuce, | are arguments that no man osn answer. Among the! #id T was the cnly man who eotertained them “in this wGered to publle consideration. Upon this subject I | from different portions of the Ucion woul have different | & com between this class of pro party whether produoed by ourselves or by the chances of life, | oontroverris! weapons, one wielded with the most zeal, | cbamber er almost beyond it.”” mhould feel just an the South feels, were I resident there. | righte—some to hold one kind of proper:y and some ano- | holders and the 6,872,418 perrons who do not within | sre inseparable from humen society, And there is no| if not with the most aucoess, wae this “squatter sove And io the compromise Committee of Thirteen it met and should bola im sbhorrenos extersal effort to | ther; each bringing with bim the liws of the State he | that category, when lookixg to the effects of emigration, | ian who essnot look around him and fisd objects relgnty.”” Tae fall extent of reproach intended to be | ¥ith Hitle favor though zealously urged. My friend from Jaterfere with this momestous question, Bat far other- to cverrale the local laws, ani te regulate the ieei- | because many of the latter are minorsanc females, whoce | nough upon which to exhaust hia benevolonos, whether | conveyed by it I never was able to comprehend, but so | ladiens, (Mr. Bright,) was found om the trae side ot ‘wise is the proposition, that to live in s non-tlaveholding | dents of property prohibited by the letter. Instead of @ | residence or removal is independent of themseives. Bat | its contributions are confined to feeling sentimentality | far se 1 understood it, it denies toa people the right of | Sumen rights, and so was the eminent citizen then ome Sommunity ise sacrifice which amounts to an interdistion | bsrmonious system of jurisprudence, equally controlling | assuming white male population above the age of | orextended to substantial offeringa for the relief of die- | eelf government if they do not ewa land, thus going | of the Senators from New iin De against enterizg inte it; an uiter exclusion from its ad- the affairs of s country, would be = system mes- | twenty one years ag the class responsible for emigration, { trecé. I have no patience with that oostive chai pretty well back into fendal times, practically making | [am happy to havo tuis opportnnity to do justioa to, aa wan ring their rights by the places whence they came, with | by secerta what proportion slaveholders bear to | which neglects the misery of ita neighborhood, acres more valuable than men. Well, sir, I believe there | ‘rues patriot as his coustry ponvesnes, aud who was prac’ ecnt ' for emigrants, not brought | this class we shall be able to form, not am accurate, bot | taetdemsrds the aid of the puree, and seoks ‘are obj sots in life Coarer than soil or trees, and that the | *mong the foremost both im geal and intellectual saigrationg to other States, where slavery doss not exist, | together, but kept apart by this strange protencisn, with | ® satisfactory estimate of the effect of this supposed inter- | colsy philanthropy far beyond ita reach, beca right of govern’ and the capacity to conduct it do | ‘2 bripgicg about the great work of conciliation. ga they are continually at BO One | favored classes holding pro; prohibited to the rest ef | Ciction upom the South. sre not wealth, and professions are cheapsr than ossa. | not Oo oe ‘upon the aceident of a deed for a given tract | ay bave others, thongh I cannot say there were. will devy that buman comfort and the bievsings of civ. | the community. He who believes that such » state of | ‘here are in the slaveholding States about 1,889,836 | It] might pramme to give an opinion vpn the enb- | of land. I msy be pardoned for this heterotoxy, if it be | But the full thu had not come, and the propositien flised life are to be found in many commacities athome thirgs would be the fair uence 0” any claim uader | white male bove the age of twenty jot, 1 will assy that our Southerm brethren #0: one, because I began life merely as a self-ownor, motare | failed. and sbroac, from which slavery bas been exalade), or | ihe eonstitution of the United States, or that it would be | which, divided bj 860,00, the number of i manil too much sensitivencss at thi jand-owner, and I think, before 1 attained Mr. Webster, with bis powerfal intellest, which grasped qqbere it never existed. It is worse than idle to advance | tolerated by public opinion ia State or Territory, ander. | gives about three adult white male persona ior eacla par’ | ¢°vllitions of ill directed feelings, frequently sincere, | chsracter (had some rights worth assert! the mightiest eubjeets presented to the humes compre- wach a Epes. Tt is rebuked by the experience of | stan 8 Aiutions of his country and tae character | som holding slaves—ccnstituting thrve.feurths of the | ut too often seaumed for persomal and political | knowledge did not come till brought by title deeds, Bat, | ‘lon, and from wiom few men cou'd differ without some the wor! ot countrymen very differently from what I do. whcle adult male population of the country. The State | ol j‘s's, A faciitious imporianse is thay given | cir, whether the government of the United States is | misgivings, could not reconsile Limeelf to this claim ef The second objection connected with this alleged seizure Certajaly, righta of , Originating eliewhere, and | of New Jersey la zeported as containing 235 slaves. The | ‘0 them, which they wonid never attain if left to | sovereign or enbordiaate, supreme or inferior, omfede | ‘@if-governmert This all well kaow who resollest the ‘of the public domain, ir. that a Southern man csnnot go | resogutoed | protcted in the country to whish snch | number is £0 a1 that that State has been omitted in | their natural fate, And another aud yet greater error | rated or ecnaolidated—and consolidated it will )scome if | ‘D'errogatories ke put tome concerning the relation of Rbere because be cannot take his property with him, and | pregerty is transferred, may sometimes tnvolve questions | this calsulation. The Superintendens of the Censua esti- | © ected with this whole subject sonsists ix tne de. | some of these doc‘riees prevail—are qxestions not the Territories to the general government, and the potitd- ‘ephea excluded by } peetiar conalanestithe fcom his share | touching the laws of the place whenoe it came; out such | wates-that the popujption of ail the families laterested in | msuds, altogether too exacting, mads upon ths public | » moment’s consid oi condition of ths people. Bosnse s territorial “is sot the common territor: uestions with them no claim by which those for | elaves is resrly equal to 2,000, 000, men of the non elavehol¢ing Btw many of which I| mate power. Nei anertsblinhed permanent government,” he denied to tt ry qi carry y, So far os this branch of the subject connects iteelf with | eign inws override and overrale the juriepradenes of an- Now, viz, it is evident that there isa great majority of | cave feen. and some of which I have felt. No stronger fer upon it the least juris fiction, Jurldistion over “the pabdject of slavery,” and ‘ waves regarced merely as “yon s it is certainly true otbet country. They are auxiiiary to the ends of justixe | the people of thy Sonthera Siates who are free to go | proof of this predisrosition can be given ne refasal ust go to the constitutioa—to the law and to the | other powers’? Why the duration of this temporary po- Bhat the necessity of fa of disposing of them | ia determining the original rights of the parties, busthey | whece they will end as they will, without any of the sacri- | On the part of Southerm members of this body to per- testimony. /ti¢al condition shoalé deprive the people of this right te Bay put the owners to inconvenience, to loss tadeed—a | do not take the place and supply the place of the domes | fices or embarrassments, or impediments, charged as re- | mit the insertion ie the Fugitive Siava law of @ provision | And all there usslees, and some of thom nnintelligible, | rsgviate the relation of master and servant apy more thaw ptate of things incident to all emigration to distant re- | tic laws, ecr uncertake to supersede then sulting from wale apenas species of property. silowicg the right of trial by jary to the person olsimed | sbetractions were urged as reason! why the taternai | D8 right to regniete the otber domentic relations I de pions; for there are many species of that property which Nor are the difficulties obviated, though they may in I co not undertaks to state what is the tras proportion | in the county whence it migh? be alleged he bad esceped, | aiTairs of Amaerican citizens nominally freemen, stouid bs | "otknow, nor did hoexplain. Ae did not find the aif ponstitctes the common stock of society that cannot be | some measure te chan; by assaming that it ia the | between this majerity and ocffperity. I merely give the | om hie restoretion there, should he thencemandit. [| controlled Rie Sant Legislature, not one member of | culty dn this har ny of recogaition,”’ for he was as faken there. Some, because they are prohibited by the | duty of the Territorial Legislatures to pass the necessary | basis cf the caleuiation, su that every ome may form his | never could eamprebend the motives for the rejeotion of | whish entitled to yore, is elected by or is responat | velieverio it. What he did notdoxo one has since dome, Jaws of vature, as houres and farms; others, because | iaws recognizing the existence and deficing the incidents | own conclusion. I moral results, and not absolute | this proposition, so jast in itself, and which would have | ble to, them. His Majesty, a Parliament, said the | +t Jeast to my conviction. ‘Shey are by the laws of man, as slaves, incor- | and protecting the enjoyment of this in‘erdicted proper. | precision. elven great eatisfeotion to the North, and have prevented | government of Goerge lil. has the right by statute | The first step we — with his fall concurrence, whem porated companies, monopolies, and macy iaterdicted | ty. Ase practical measure, there would be extreme diffl- How oan this minority, estimate it es you will, respect. | much of the hostility to the lew. ‘Iwasiu favor of its] to bind the oolocies im all cass whatecerer; | "¢ declared in effect by our legislation that Congrems Srticles; and others, again, because they are prohibited | caity in precuring such legislstion,and in carrying it into | ableas it is by character, position avd intelli genera! principles, was smong the ecrliost to urge | and now, before all the generation of ths men | *hould have oo suthority over the eubject of slavery im by statistionl laws, which regulate the transportation of | rfiect, where both depend upon tho action of « remote | called ths South, or how cin the North be charged with | the jusiice of ils passage and the iajary done to tue | wto successfully resisted this edict of tyranny bas | (hs Territories, and now we are taking another, and whem ERS, and confine much of it within oertain | ocmmuniiy,which,trom the very nature of the proposition, | appropriating land to itself to which so great a majority | oul by the delay, Therefaral to aocept this proposi-| pasved away, we are called upon to Iegisiste for | ‘akea we rball find ourselves at the goal, the prise of whieh tt overcome, im consequence of the | must be oppored tu the introduction of slavery, aad where ofthe Southern population may go without even the p: tiom reemed to inter pose wnmecescary barriers in tho way | tho colcnies in ell cases whatsoever. It took Lord North | apion snd tranquillity won beyond the reach of fatere expense it removal; and among these | public opinion is as powerfal as in any portion of onc | textof srestriction? It is bad enough arbitrarily to ex. | cf the investigation of quostiona of human liberty; for | and his mester George the Third seven years to learn the | ‘giiation, however mighty may be the progress of ome ment of his rights, and otill | ceriatnly th ‘tion over the continent, whose des In closed: with our own. my letter to Mr. Micholson, and | repeat @ “by going back to our true prinviples we ge tter articles are ca\ and much of the coventry, po matter where the other may be. 1 do rot | clude one man from the €nj > bjeotions which might reasonably have | falsehood of this arwomption; aad the lesson cost them mabich is everywhere to be fousd. Tae remely fe 2 a pee qreation of Congressional jauectinense, havi more to exclude many, however mistaken the motive may | deen urged against the anbmission of these cases tos | anempire. While hiswry ia the resord of human a3 Rew cases is the same, and is oaually @ li¢able to all | here‘ofore attempted to chow that Congress has mo Tight be; but it would be woree than ell (o extend this injus- | Northern jury, and which induced me to oppose that pro- | tions, it is the reiteration of human: motives and pretea 26 of whether Hving [sasachi to legtalete on the subject of slavery any moce ine Ter. | tice to a great community regardlees of every thiog but | virion, bad no application tow Southern jary, which oan | sions, And uw, before all the men of the generation or New York, or South Carolina; and that is, to conver rit than in a State. Its pewer, arisiog from nevsexsi! er on the on and local ‘ition on ‘the other. | have no prejudices to overcome in tha examination of | +hich eastully resisted this edict of tyraany have | back to the road of pesce and safety Leave to the pee all thece various kinds of property into the universal | is exhausted by the ectablisnment end Seyclation ot gre’ ‘be North bas not deve this to the South, notwithstend- | the rights of the parties. Bat not auineh of grouad was | parted away, we are called upon practicaliy to declare | le, whe will be leven dd thin question, to adjust paige re) Bay gee ‘to take that to these dicisl tribunals, leaving to the Territorial Leg ing Mr. Rhett’s declaration io this very hall, that at ome | yielded, and I determined not to give my assent tothe | that Our Majisty, this government, in Congress, haa the | “psa their own responmibilit, , aoe in their owa 1 render another tribute to the original P a regions, where it will command wha! may be | tures the exercise of th Ms i] 4 mo e oir peouliar loos! fonction cy fe our government, and fur rt or to prosperous enterprise. In all | volvi; vi] Mone conce: u ‘these izstapees the practical result is the same, and the | of paper 3 pllowie sturdloting teas thee pt swoop the government h: fought to extingw’ liverty, and peony, among neary one half of ti lowing or interdicting it-at their pleasure. | rene of the United States. law. It wane bed of Procrustes, aud aa bed no wish to | right, by statate, to bind the Territories {nail cares what. | 79d w de shortened or lengthened by s rigid adaptation to it, 1 | roever, or, scscrding to the new vorsion, to sell the pso- | ple ‘or it# permanenoy and prosperity.’’ {cond it no place forme. Had the Northern Senators been | ple into eahg This is good dootriae over mame is the ondition of equality. ‘nee concede that Congress has any power over the (u6s- Ard how do these circumstsnc’e justify the grave se drm upon toe poiat, this tributs to a grest prinaipis, ia | st Berlin and Vieons, aad at St. Poiersburg—dat I hope nas. 1 1 Hetono fie, with grees interest to the eloquent re. | tion of slavery, tbat moment it has all power, as no con | cusation of Mr. Calhoun, that “the nonelavyeholiin | wrecven with the Amerisan heart of upon the Wabash; though we are told that (od hes TELEGRAPHIC. marks of the Bonater North Caroline (Mre Bader) | stitutional barrier can be pofnted out to which it may go | States desired to exclude the citizens of the sla would have been secarad. [t requires c ® precious life upon ite fertile banks, in order t sod not overpa: Pi ae as in ot d *HIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, gwpon this whole peep ir yer to these in waiol States from em'grating with their prcperty tothe Terri | to swim with the current, while he who oppores it mast ucce and promulgate it. The ways of P:dvidence ars hee depicted with eq feeling the paiata) oir 'y rewarked, tha diffioultien which sur. | tory, im order to give their citizers and those that they | put forth all his strougsh, and even then may bosome its | often dark to Ue blind’ mortals, tut yidom Gusher S FIRST SESSION, Gums’ ences ceesectr’ with the disrup‘ion of those ties of | round this ques\ion must arise'ln & political community may pore, the exclusive right to settle there,’” &o, vetim, Popular feeling {4 & power hard to resist, | inthis caso, whether we coasider the mee enger or th habit and aflestion which bind every jas! master to his | whi nse certain articles o” property, such as siaves, are 20 how far are they compatibie with the bolie'an | and ihe frerroach of being # donghfaoe belongs | menvage—the propuet or the prophesy, He withous Senate. Alaves, on particularly to those domestic slaves most in- | exclaced by a general low, for’ otherwise the habdjest is | ponnoed by the protesting Seustors, thas “tunis govern- | to bim who panders to it, and not to him | whore knowledge ro »parrow falis to the ground some- arom, Fé “Menately aasociated with his femily. This is #0, sir, be- | free fro birrasamest Well, the power of tae Ioeal | ment could never be broaght to admit a State (Ualitor | who etrives to maintain the eonstitationsl right of all, | \imes selects sirarge eorumenta, according to our com- hobo re. 2, Oe tee bt; end it is among the karsh trials which | legidatore to prohibit the imtroduction of el nis) preventing itself under such olroacantances ii it were | oven in opporition to his own community, which holds is | ;rehension, to acocmpligh His wise designe. As did 20 in LAND 90 IRDEARA AD » part of the shifting scenes of life in which we are general ‘sition, could, under no ciroumstanc: not for the purpove of. excluding the ptopls of the slave | its hands vis political lifeand death. This is the oondi- | the daye of Aalasm. and when he di io a Mr, Perit, (em) of Ind, iatroduced « bill graatiag The Norihera emigrant haa his fail share | csecfoliy cirpuied, It ia.’ branch of the loglalat Ue fro vin of oon “4 believe, Rat whet. holdire Btatss from all opportunity of settling with their } tion which no Southern man has ever had to encounter | -otbing is left fr us but to bow acd believe, Bat what. | la:d to Indians and Ilinots for railroad Urposes, ft power :o reguiate the various property in tha Territory.” ‘ is conection with this eubjeat and itis preaigsty theoon | over may be the natare of this mission, the dvcttine itwlt | verriosy acaprer Tit MAPRLL OF tft semow 2 legal, the relation of busbard and wits, of ps r. President—The ‘fortunate predixposition ia this | dition which he eancot comprehend or will not do jastise | world sound better within aight of the tom® of Achil'es sea | bebe cig st obtha, of guardian and ward, of dedtor and oredt | country, when joosl {ujaries are felt f sil eimilar conditions recoguissd by our isstitu- | attribure them to a erign on tho ghasep. hich fons. And whether with some—and that i: my positioa— | the Untom to opprer# another, b | seg, But painful as they are, Ser cannot enter into the | 500 confice Cong) ersions! action to the nseoraary orga siz | the axsomption determination of oF constibal rights, whids ap- | ation of Territcrial governments, leaving to ths people, | ombargo, the no cOurKe, peal to rigid and not to the hindiier emotions | ‘the legitimate consequence, the enjoyment of | bore heavily om the Northera States, were charged by —«opfthe heart. ali legislative powers mot ineooristent with tne | them as originating in hostile motires, It fol'owa that al) the citi sns of the United 3tates have | coreti'otion; or whether, with others, you Suda: tocrush them, fhe tariff, bh equal clsims to go to the nations! domain, under equa! y verted in Congress to preserive the and the course of eve: ptrcumstarces, each responsible to the laws, and each | T-rritorisl legislation shall reach, the ravult, ae ject of slavery, were peculiarly empowered to take whatever the jaw mi. Searvies, Teapeots this question of jurisdiction. wili be the aa were considered hy them as coacla com leglslation, to | to, hen the course of @ Northera man is in question 1; | than witbin sight of the tomo of Wavalarton Bat oven | &t Tovcey, (6em.) of Conn, prosemted momerials from ‘5 of one section of | tv not enough, with too many of the Southern politicians, | uncer the sbac ow of Islamism, and withia heariog of tho | ornectiont sgainst the repeal of the Missouri compre: j that public mea from Lier free States maintain drmly and | vers who calls the falthfal to prayer, tt would mot De | moive urfilnchingly the @ tlave holding portion of | consicered quits orth xdux, iu this day of Tar kish reform . a t! ‘and sta “apa to meet t 1 And why should not the people of "ine Territories legis Mer, Wann, (free foil) of Ohio—Similar petitions tross verte, r than participate in their viola- | late for themselves? Tue Senator from New York ati. | Olio of enough—sometimer, indeed, it ie | wates that they Go not Kzow enough, and caunet safely nowbirg, unle optsice of the South upon thé gen- | be trorted with this {uoident of self governmen ora) question if adopted, and unreserved aliegiance pro- | power to regulate the eondi'ion of feesed to the declaration thet slavery is the best condi- | tbongh be in willing to tio of human soe oty. Now, 'str, I beiteveno nach dectrine, | life and death whien d i be Mr, Evenert, (whig) of Mass —From Massachusetts, Mr. Fist, (whig) of N.Y —From Montgomery county, ‘ew York, y J upom the politi Mr. Cuasm, (free soil) of Ohio— Right from Ohie, Among fas strange & confusion would exist in ms We cen only look to the constitution of the Uaited & jog wich in certain parts of the Usion to dertroy their | and not believing it, | will not profess it, from whatever | a country—with complete sutherity over waite, but @ pt mostiog at Lees- She Terit ‘as existed in the language of the world | for s barrier to lodal legislation, and it will be foamd that | prosperity. New, sir, En'this wa: equally wojust, Tenese | hiab quarter apnousoed. I-thiak it waa the sentiment of | Jiunited one ever blacks, Tht» piss ‘ot the ‘nssmpstaney ham was thd pivenetings of.0 ” 1 the tive race was toatiered upon the plains of | these acis before us, ae weiljas others preoodin; the origirated ‘in no such motive, nor were they citizen whose words of power ani wisdo of the pre to manage their own ocnosras in the olt | burg Carroll ty, Unio, one of the resolutions of whieh Shinar, ond when ene man could not understand azother’s | upon Territorial orgapization grant gmeral poware pureced with apy such object, The great body of ths rerounded throngh this hall, and who was t ples all the world over in the contest between power and speech. The tenure and the incidents of property would | Irgislation, which ineluae the relation of mastar and ser. | people who advocated them no doubt th ught they were rervice of Lis country to the uotverssl reg et of | frencom andit never was betier rebuked thao by the my A pg ot be regulated by the laws of the country where it | vant, as well as all the other conditions of life, Bat | constitutional anc necsseary, I dissent from some of | hy Atericam people, His peculier views opsa this gon | euthor of the Deolaration of lacependenoe, when he said, wenee be the passes of the would be enjoyed, but by the laws of the country whenos | these ge ferther in this important matter than any of | them; but length of years has brougut oharity, if not | cra! rnbject, and the frame of mind with which ho regard: | i/ the people are not fit to govern themsslver, hay they 8 oe Titoli teal ae his aie - thelr pred in the history of our legislation. oy | wiedom, and I have learned that « great community can | cd it, ere indicated by his Cenial of the truth of the re- | ‘ound ‘angels in the shape of men to gore 4 | to feedom and vo God, worthy on), tA er aneti Pach * Would strike at {acepentent and ne- | exprecaly provide that it is not the intention of Oongress | only be actuated by honest motives, howsver erroneous | ceived sxior, as be jas'ly called it, that “eli mea are | pir, the Senster from New York has m 5 Mr. Sconmm, (free boll) of eS a eoery ee —at police laws, ai sanitary | ‘to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor t) | the impressions bens and whatever selfish purposes | created free and equal,’’ # parsphrase of one of the ia | which escaped the penetration of thia patriarch of the | cette, one from Inciaos, and Ove from Pemasylvania. Jaws, ; See fee the of gee ged een area - ew Jeave the people thereof mey prom pt the action o° indivicuals, eoutesin te rights ot ee my {a the Declaration | cemocratic faith, and has found angels im the snape of | itr, Carros, (Ww Two from Delaware. m jo pen ir. oun o aoa. fd oped Ca Ee ES ee 5 y Thatihe South has suffered injuries from the eourss | of our Independence. Calhoun promoanesd it | Congressmen to govera the Territories. 1 do not belisve All of them were In ia their own way Aud developement of public optaion ia the North it | ‘‘vtterly urtrue,” because, among other objections, hs | ia this new phase of tyranny —mating slaves of whi | would be urjast to deny, But this is among the neves. | rxid, “Men ere not born. Infants are born. They grow | communities. | _ Mr, Pranon, (whig) of Md., presented the proceedings of rary evils incident to free institutions, and whieh are | (o be men.” “It may ferve to reconcile us to the unequal | ‘Then, sir, with these views tonching the right of aif. | a meeting io Baltimore, in favor Of amendiag the Revola- counterbalanced by far superior advantages The North | distribution of intellectus! power when we flad that its ernment, be-ntofore made known and yet maiatained, | ticeary pension laws, wud of givieg one handred ard eit fs expored to the same danger an’ difficulty by the indas- | bigbest possession ¢nures no exemption from error, and | [am catied upon by my yots to any whether | consider the | nocen ef iand to all who served in the war of 1813. trious dissemination of views striking at the very foun- ‘or, in tals éase ond would think #0 obylously | jaw esteblirhing the art Ker geyene] and by which DILL POR THE RELIEF OF PUROWASERS OF SWAMP LAND. dation of religion and social order. Ia this of the irface an not to ¢acape detestion by the hum- | Congres legislated over the subject of slavery, (s oonstita- ence. It in searcoly necessa'y to say that | tional. 1 donot; and 0 believing, I aball ever avow tho | reat ce gestae ), Of Mich. fae ‘1105 REVOLUTIONARY PENSION LAWS. world, when the epirit of iequiry 13 90 aotive yh: ; ji iby, ons of the evi it brings with It a an indisoriadaate | the word man, in the atore cosnoction, Inearployed anit | belief, My opinions wore tusyen or tee public of Mist’ | jana, ei tp orerfiowed and swamp areault upon almont all the entablisued institutions of the | often and iegiiimately is, in ite ime cation, | gan before they seat me here, snd my adliesion to those PAYMEDT FOR INVEMGATION OF CHARGES AGAINST ALECASOGIE Fimo It Po raat of the yr Cope body ba pi ag sewer Sale ‘ana nex, — , 9 in due {0 my conviction and my oy, and honey ven ie called juestion, > “ born. womr B * ‘cons isten: tra landholder to Hold bis lard. The ‘dootrine of equai | spiration, is of few days ane fall OP trouble,” Tao in denver eomuteeser Will be my justification with s | Mr. Benaeriax, (dem.) of Ark., reported rovwlation a- x his services t= sealons advocates; bat a sute barrier | Sel vhoshould undertake vo deny the authenticity of | TBAT sald I Wegrtied the introdastion of thi toe, isrenttiee the iparees egijase dike. tao tense and intelligence of the comma. | the Scriptures becaces the étrdition of » ehild ts and though I do so—because we were clo: pecintende nt of Indise in Minnesota, Lrid over. ig robbery,’’ is the d of the foun. | mistaken for that of a man, might easly be it thet | fountain of bitter waters, and | hoped its pod ae bi a oe coal of peendo re | it in his own ignorases, and not error, which he ex- | notagain be openec—yet I have no doubt {fi wers aSouth: | the dill grarting land to all the State for the benetit of ‘ovr domestic circles, and striving to yore, 3 ere man I shoald feel justasBouthera meafeel. Tshould | indigent insane was taken wp «6d amended #0 a9 to give 1 aad to ua fato The izle of montis ie men.” sare tho arsed Genize to ree struck from the sts tate book what they ae | nach 100,000 acres, leeving the other 6,000 000 acres more trae the old that | Reglish Cidactic But it is the stacy of the human | well as | consider an invidious, unconstitutional interfer. to be apportioned amongst them according to their eo. who knows his own father. igamy— | family, and not apy yAtion of it, This lessom | enos. It creates a distinction between North and South pound ratio of population aad umber of square miles. Peet ntl pene pane rather—also ten ates, | may us tbe Of strove exeitement upom the | which canpot but be obeoxious tos high spirited comma- ‘Mr. Gwin, (dem ) of Cal, said there was mo leed ia doth theorevenl ~ BO Cab eetines amu mam by tee wisest and beet im Of yuwmd eel tawy believe, wi 0 evmeteoned see private entry, Au tes nade tend Bestptare bo justly sew premsiad br avery ete eo orisine’ be | Save et coe tags, | te Se TERR ARAN enon, iy Iusvened. 97 Unat goals be fe Woehg Pease