Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-12-20

vehemeny desired And the same thing had been still more
distinctly stated by his successor from South Carolina And
when not only this Congress- but this Administration should
long have passed away and this transaction should come TO
DC examined into by impartial posey would be found
that the leading ayowed y the American Secretary NJ
State to the Minister OF Great Britain IN the fce Of bo,b
countries and OF the World, In diplomatic note dated the
2Hh OF April 1914 declared be preserve certain
domestic institution under the requisite guarantees There
would remain forever the historical reason given y our own
Government for the annexation of Texas to this Union II
was then and there honestly presented without disguise
Now Massachusetts dssened from the measure on that very
ground she objected to the annexation because that had been
The purpose IN urging IT. and likely to prove its actual
effect.
The question presented was whether in that progress
OF our Constitution and political syem over the entire Amer
can continent which Mr. H. considered certain any flu
lure event among human things there should be coupled with
II IN the very first step of that progress the justification and
guaranty Of domestic slavery This question which Mr.
proposed to discuss without reserve but with perfect re-
gard TO decorum and manner to which he hoped no one
could take exception
lie considered the country standing the verge
and first commencement Of policy which hereafter to
govern our councils and to become emphatcaly the Ame
can policy and which the territories Of this
entire continent into consolidated body, and constitute
them the United States Of North America Sooner later,
fairly unfairly he believed that such would be our destiny
The process was now begun We about to add
vast territory to national jurisdiction II said to be
OF the frest regions of the habtabe earh-ferle in
SOIL mild and genial in climate, and rich and various in all
the productions of And the question came up whe-
ther we should extend and guaranty to such region the
stitution Of domestic slavery
Admit that all the proceedings for the admission of Texas
had been perfectly right and constitutional admit that OBJ
ection had been made to them and admit still further
ia the people OF the United States held and sacredy
bound by the propositions which had made TO the people
Of Texas still would follow that were bound TO re-
cognise slavery in that rich and beautiful Territory which now
asked to be admitted sister State into this Union Mr.
need say that in the resolution passed at the last Con-
gress, through struggles and and agone
such condition understood to exist Assuredly none
OF those who had with much reluctance given their assent
that resolution understood such thing What
was the letter Of that joint resolution In the first place.
prescribed the due adjustment of boundary in the third
paragraph OF the second section declared that new States
not more than four in addition the State Of Texas might
be formed out OF her present territory and when formed
should be entitled admission the United States and
that with regard to such Of these should be constituted
south of the line of 500 3d. they might be admitted with or
without the Institution Of slavery lust as the people of such
States should desire but that in all States north Of that line
slavery should be forever prohibited Now what it that
the State of Texas, in the constitution she submitted asked
Of the United States Was it that of four States cons
uted out OF her territory should be admitted that one of
the States south Of the line of 800 so should be admitted
Nos that State should be admitted which extended
on both sides OF that line and whose Legislature should
forever be prohibited from emancipatng slave Was this
with the joint resolution Of last year Obviously
not Had the provision respect the line commonly known
the Missouri compromise line been all complied with or
the least regarded Far from Throughout the whole
tttt, WHener lying soun OF that
admitted to exist and its perpeuaon guaran
he'd So far from allowing choice the subject only
to the States lying south OF the ne slavery established
BY the constitution throughout and the very letter of that in
'rnnen which gentlemen driving through this House
With such incorporate haste direct and open conflict
With the stpuatons of the very resolution which the ad
MISSION of Texas contended for
Mr. X had right to take any exceptions which appeared
him proper to this Constitution of Texas and be objected
o that feature a why il should be received II
not his purpose speak in to any particular
class OF States this Unon any reflections upon
The people of portion of his beloved country but he
would appeal to all men say whether the res portions
The earth in which the institution Of domestic slavery was
ound had come up to that degree OF prosperity and social
happiness which God, by his abundant gifts manestly in
ended them TO attain Let gentlemen take the whole history
II the world let them search the records every civilized
nation, and they must admit that, wherever place was
onnd for domestic slavery there place for evil On the
ontrary, where it shut there found the highest
tate OF civilized there the greatest Of labor
nd abors richest reward and there the greatest
and the ees play afforded to moral principles and
II right views There were regions Of the earth where this
Incubus had long existed could they be Invested of
reat social evil their property would soon double and quad
uple ITSELF and all the of public and Of private
appness would be augmented in still greater proportion
his the people Of Massachusetts confidently believed, and
Vhen they asked TO admit Texas the Union they
ever could consent TO do il but under protest against
ne Pepetuation OF slavery evil destructive the best
lteress of They could consent to see it ex
nded universally the soil of North America and they
h 4
not going to any thing against the Southern States
lis Union There slavery had been inherited it was their
yn affair theirs TO manage and control they best
light But IN this resolution gentlemen asked of him
recty TO establish slavery territory which but little
me since land of freedom they asked him TO expel
lis fair and fertile region from the Of freedom and place
in the of slavery and, only So but to de-
rive its Legislature Of all power alter in this respect its
Iture condition.
Mr. X said he that any objections coming from
quarter OF the country exposed to the danger of be-
lg viewed IN different light from those which might be ug
from elsewhere and member had favored the House BY
Fading an advertisement published in l74l in newspaper
Boston, IN regard to the sale of slaves there Mr.
was happy that the gentleman had done So because il a
orded HIM an opportunity TO yndate the character of his
state, which had the Of the adoption our
constitution had upon Der garments this foul stain He would
eer that gentleman any other who felt an interest on the
ugect to one OF the most authentic historical works now ex
ant on the subject of colonial slavery in Massachusetts, He
here quoted from Grahams Colonial History Of the United
States, IN which stated that while there had been four
een thousand slaves IN Georgia and thousand in South
Carolina, there very few in all New England That
under the administrations Of Governor Barnard and (oyenor
Hutchinson, bills had been introduced in he Massachusetts,
Legislature prohibiting the federation Of slavery in the Com
but they bad been vetoed by British Governors
hus acts which had been auded the skies when done in
Pennaa bad been passed without notice or praise
hen dome ~ the old colony Of Massachusetts, Bay Here
At last the history Of colonial slavery in Massachusetts had
been put upon its right foundation In I773 the action I'D
Tour successive Assemblies in that State had received the er
ecutve veto Of British ruler This was little while before
The thing had been done by the Quakers in Pennvlyo
ma and IN this Massachusetts had been somewhat before
band with them, he hoped they would make up for il by
AIDING ner heartily on this Here gentlemen could