to them to a representative on the floor of this house that then had the right to make the call for admission and this admission when made was to be not on conditions that gentlemen might deem expedient not on conditions to future political views not on conditions that the constitution the people should form should contain a that would particularly open the door for from the north or from the south not on condition that the future population of the state should come from a or non state but according to the principles of the constitution and none other the people of were by solemn treaty when admitted to all the rights advantages and of citizens of the united states can any gentleman contend that laboring under the proposed the citizens of would have all the rights advantages and of other citizens of the union have not other new states in their admission and have not all the states in the union now and rights beyond what was contemplated to be allowed to the citizens of have not all other states in this government the right to alter and change their state having regard alone to a republican form and was there any existing law or any in the constitution that a total change from a to a state or from a non a state mr scott thought that if this provision was proper or within tne powers of they also had the right to say that the people of should not be admitted as a state unless they provided in the formation of their state constitution that slavery should be would not those conscientious gentlemen at this and exclaim what impose on those people slaves when they do not want them this would be said to be a direct attack on the state independence was it in the power of to the present condition mr scott deemed it equally within the scope of their authority to say what color the inhabitants of the proposed state should be what description of property other than slaves those people should or should not possess and the quantity of property each man should retain going upon the principle he would even go further and say that had an equal power to to what religion the people should that none other should be professed and to provide for the of all those who did not submit the people of were if admitted the union to come in on an equal footing with the original states that the people of the other states had the right to their own internal police to the rules of their own conduct and in the formation of their to say whether slavery was or was not he believed was a point by all how then were the citizens of placed on an equal footing with the other members of the union equal in some respects � a shameful in others a not by the constitution nor justified by the treaty of but founded on mistaken zeal or policy they were to be bound down by conditions and to which he knew they would not submit that people were brave and independent in spirit they were intelligent and knew their own rights they were competent to and willing to risk their own happiness and future prosperity on the legitimate exercise of their own judgment and free will mr scott protested against such a as was contemplated now to bo assumed over his the spirit of freedom burned in the of the of and if admitted into the national family they would be equal or not come in at all with what an anxious eye have they looked to the east since the commencement of this of for the good tidings that on them you had conferred the glorious privilege of self government and independence what seeds of discord will you sow when they read this suspicious shameful in their will they not compare it with the terms of the treaty of that bill of their rights emphatically their and will not the result of that comparison be a on the faith of this government it had been admitted by some gentlemen in debate that were the people of to form a constitution to this provision so soon as they were adopted into the union it would be competent for them to call a and alter their constitution on this subject why then he would ask gentlemen would they when could produce no permanent practical effect why expose the of the general government to tie up the hands of the state and induce the people to an act of which he knew from principle they to get clear of an odious on their rights mr scott had trusted that gentlemen who professed to be by motives of humanity and principle would not encourage a course of or by any vote of theirs render it necessary for the citizens of to act to obtain their rights he was unwilling to believe that political views alone led gentlemen on this or any other occasion but from the language of too the first struggle member from new york mr be was compelled to suspect had iii i upon bim that gentleman told ua that il ever he left hia present residence it would be fur j at events he wish i n send out bis brother and hia mr begged that gentleman to relieve bim from awful apprehension excited by the this accession of population he hoped the house would excuse him while he stated in did not desire that gentleman hia sons oi hia brothers in that land of brave noble and the member says that ihe latitude is too far north to admit of slavery tin e would the gentleman cast hia eye on ihe before bim he would there see that a part of virginia and were north as the northern boundary of mr scott gentleman if be would what 