Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-02-28

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be illustrated by on example drawn from private life
am an endorser for my friend on note discounted
IN bank He applies to me 10 endorse another to re-
new it, which do in blank. Now, this gives him
power to MAKE. any other use Of my note which he
pleases. But it. instead Of applying il to the intended
purpose, he goes TO broker and sells it, thereby dOub
ling my responsibility for him, he commits a breach
oftras and violation Of the good faith implied in the
But. Mr. President, this reasoning were as errone.
os as believe it TO be correct and conclusive 10 the
affair OF the liberation Of six thousand negro slaves in
tins District disconnected with the three millions Of
slaves in the United States Of sufficient magnitude to
agtate distract and embtter this great Confederacy1
The next case in which :he petitioners ask the ex.
erc'se OF the power Of congress- relates to slavery in
Florida is the southern portion OF the Unit
ed States. 1t is bounded all it's land sides by slave
states, and s several hundred miles from the nearest
free state. II almost extends within the tropics, and
the nearest important island to il on the water side is
Cuba, slave island. This simple statement Of its
geographical position should Of itself decide the ques-
coded the United States slavery existed within it,
BY the terms of that treaty, the effects and property
Of the inhabitants secured them, and they are
allowed to remove and take them away, if they think
proper 10 do so without limitation as to time. II it
were expedient, therefore, to abolish slavery in it. ii
could not be done consistently with the treaty, with
out granting to the ancient inhabitants reasonable
time to remove their slaves. But further, by the
promise which took place the passage of the act for
the admission of Missouri into the Union in the year
1920 it agreed and understood that the line Of Sc
6eg 80 min. Of north latitude should mark the bonn-
Diary between the free states and the slave states to
be created in the territories of the United States ced
ed by the treaty Of Louisiana those situated south Of
i being slave states and those north Of free states
But Florida is south Of that lne and consequently,
cordng the spirit Of the understanding which pre-
vailed at the period alluded to- should be slave state.
It may be that the compromise does in terms
embrace Florida, and thatit is not absolutely binding
and obligatory but all candid and impartial men
must agree that it ought not to be disregarded without
the most weighty considerations, and that nothing
could be more to be deprecated than to open anew
and healed by that compromise. Florida is the only
remaining Territory to be admitted into the Union
with the institution Of domestic slavery while Wis
consin and Iowa are now nearly ripe for admission
without it.
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