The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1839-02-21

Represented nor representative in Thai Par
IiamehL And ~hilsi most lsrsensly Ssh
complete success 10 The British experiment
az West India emancipation. confess that
] have fearful fnrrbotings Of . Disastrous
termination Of IL. Whatever Il may be,
! think il must be admitted that. &c the
British Parliament treated The West In
iis slaves ss lreenen. u also treated the
West India freemen as SLAVES. II. instead
0f these slaves being separated By side
ocean from the parent country, three or
four millions Of African nrgra slaves had
BEEN dispersed over England. Scotland.
Wales and Ireland. and their owners had
been members nl The BRUSH Parliamen.
"a case which would have. presented
some analogy To lIIaI Of ous own enunlry
-does any me brlieve that il would have
been srpe'iienl or practicable 10 have
emancipaled them. leaving them q, Es-
main. with all their emhillered feelings.
in the United Kingdom. houndless as The
poweTs of the Bnslsh Parliament arel
O.her causes have conspIred with the
BRUSH example Ia produce the existing
excitement from sbaliIion. say IL with
prOi,'und regret, but with no inIenlian IL
occasion irritation here az elsrw here. that
there are persons IR balh paris uf the
UninH who have sought Ia minRle sb0lI
Iion with pnlIIies. and Ia array one pOr-
iion oi the Uaian against the other. II
is the misfortune 10 free countries that.
in high party times. a disposition Ino Of
ten prevails 10 seize hald Of every thing
which can strengthen the one side OF
weaken the other. Charges ol fostering
abolition designs have been heedles.ly
and unjusiiy made by one parry against
the other. pIinr 10 the late eleclion al
the present President ol the uniIed State.
he was charged with being an Abolition.
isi. and ahnliliOn designs were imputed 10
many Of his supporters. Much as wa.
opposed 10 his election. aud am 10 his al.
ADMINISTRATION. | nrilher shared IN making
nor believing the truth Of The charge. II,
was scarcely installed IN office before the
same charge Vas directed sgaiasI those
Who Oppnsed his elect on.
Mr. President, IL is not true. aud re.
juice that il is not true, that either Of the
tSo great parIies in this country has any
designs or aim al aholilion. | should
consider, il il were true, that The danger
TO the stability uf our system would ht
infinitely greater than any which does,
hope. actually exist Whilst neither par
" can be. think, justly accused Of an,
abolition tendency or purpose, bolh has'
proiIed, aud buih have been injured, i,
particular localities, by the accessiun o
abstraction Of abolition supporl. II lh,
account were fairly sisted. | believe III,
party to which | am opposed has pr"f;e'
much more, and been injured much less
Than that to which belong. Bu, an
Ear. for that reason. from bring disposeI
10 accuse our sdversaries OF being sbOlI
tionists.
And now, Mr.. President. allow me Il
consider the several cases in which th'
authority of Congress is invoked by Ties,
abolition petitioners upon the subject o
domestic slavery. The first relates 10 !
as il exists in The district Of Columbia
The following 10 the provision Of the Con
sli,utiun OF The United States in relerenc,
10 that matter:
"To exercise exclusive Legislation in all ca
scs whatsoever over such district Ina, exceed
ing ten miles 50 larcl as may. iy cesslon o
particular states, aud the acceptance OF Coz
gress, hec"me the seat Of government OF th
/ United States"
This provision preceded. in point o
time, the actual cessions which were mad,
By the states Of Maryland and Virginia
The object Of The cession was to establish
a seat of Gorernmeat Of the United
STATES; aud the grant in the Constitution
of exclusive legislation mus, be under
s,ood, and should be always interpreted
as having relation IN the object "f th,
cession. |, was with full knowledg,
of this clause in the Constitution lha
those two states ceied To the Genera
Government, the ten miles square, con
shutting the District of Columbia. II
making tire ccssion, they surpassed tina
i, was to be applied, and applied s"lely
to the purposes oi a seat Of Government
for which Il was asked. When IL was
made. slavery existed in both those com
mon eallhs. and in the coded territory,
as il now continues TO exist in all Of them.
Neither Maryland nor Virginia could have
anticipated that. whilst the institution
remained within their respective limits. us
abolition would be attempted by Congress
wi,hou, their consent. Neither Of them
would probably have made an uncondi'
,inual ressinn. il they could have an,icipa.
ed such a result. 1...
From the nature Of The provision in the
Constitution, aud the avowed ohject Of the
acquisition Of the territory, iva duties
arise on the par. Of Congress. The FRS
j., Ia render the District available. com
Portable, aud convenient. as seat Of 10
vernment Of the whole Union; the Other