The Arkansas banner., 1845-02-05
rl;ooman here rose and wished to .ex.

dr YaDCey No7 o' nv o-A PAo4a-
 ' Explanations elselohere.
 as nf not for Mr. Y. to decide on the
 Ia haracter of such conduct: the people
 'nS ,b Carolina would decide that ques-
 'G' pnt surely it might have been suppos-
 .a, every honorable heart would have | .d' .d and would have shrunk back within (sborore ssb 1t could consent to drag the dis
 If his own native State before the
 {, The unwelcome task, if it must be
 r,ed should at least have been left for
 '' hands. And well might North Caro-
 ,bus I wounded and gored by her native
 syclaim with the falling Cesar, "Et tu
 ,,In Mir. Y. should pass no sentence
 x. gentleman he should not undertake
 " 'nonnce what conduct like this deserv-
 wt the Bible, if the gentleman ever read
 Sookl might teach him the fate of the
 ~bo forgot what was due to himselfand
 smav Let him look at the Patriarch
 h betrayed in an ungarded hour and ly-
 arnosed in his tent. One of his sons saw
 ..rrpnt,s r shame, and went forth and ridi-
 I tbe spectacle before his brothers took
 mile and without daring to turn their eyes
 look for so much as a moment on a
 or so exposed, walked up backwards and
 inc mantle-the broad mantle of filial
 r,v-to cover his indignily from the {r1 The old man at length awoke from
 wine and heard what his younger son had Ie and, gifted with the spirit of prophecy 1 God himself, pronounced upon him a
 se which has come down upon him, and bn his seed, and upon his seeds seed, to l very hour, witnessing and proving to all inc truth of the Scriptures, "A servant
 servants shall he be, and shall dwell ill
 tents of Japhet and Of Ham, The full bent was even now before all men, in the tinuance under bondage, by the command Almighty God himself, of large and nu-
 ous race dwelling in the tents of Japhet l this western shore. Oh had the depart
 spirit of the pure, the wise, ;he patriotic lon been lowering in these Halls and ng these stately pillars, and here had Id a son of North Carolina utter langu- ] ge such as had fallen from that Represen-
 e, he might have stopped an instant to
 n astonlshment, but full quickly would descended in sorrow to the sepulchre. bIr. Y. said he should be pardoned if, in tlg these views of the subject M Which the
 psentative from North Carolina had dis Bed, or rather had avoided, and of the acter which he had attempted to give to ebate otherwise eminently dignified and Fhy of that Hall, he should not follow
 into the dark purlieus of party with th that gentleman seemed so disgraceful- |mliar; but should now address himself be great question before the House. [he first question to be settled was this !: | he several propositions which have been |eaied for the annexation of Texas to this ba constitutional in their character For Eelf, Mr. Y. preferred one of them which
 not now immediately before the com lee He referred to the proposition of gentleman from Kentucky, Mir. Tibbatts1 ease 1t more exactly met MT. Y's view of Constitution. The reasons of his prefer were these that propositions confined l 10 the very letter, as well as to the spi- li that sacred instrument. It would be re- lbered that, under the Confederation Eh held the States together previously 10 |adoption of the Federal Constitution. it found In practice that too few powers conferred on the General Government. that those which were given were too li- Fd and restricted to allow sufficient scope Ehe just action of the Government of so Fa Confectionery. Remembering this state pings, (which had then become a subject general complaint) if gentlemen would 10 the Articles of Confederation, they ld find that the Huh article was in these |ds:
 Eanada, acceding to this confederation Jomlng in the measure of the U. States, be admitted into and entitled to all the |nages of this Union; but no other colo Shall be admitted into the same unless
 admission be agreed to by nine States.n lhls was found the origin of the pres Rr'lcle Tn the Constitution, conferring on Esfess the power to admit new States in- e Unlon. The article, 1t would be per Fd' was specific in its terms, and yet 1t compass enough to allow the confeder-
 to admit foreign State by act of Con- F ne spirit of that enactment of the Fol fathers had been preserved in the Na'ulion which they afterwards adop- sn anu was founded in the 4th article of |9u section: "New States may be admit Oy the Congress into this Union ,
 IO"' what washe history of the transfor- 1On \ oi this article? And how could it 'nown that the general power then given preserved in its new form , If gentle ! would turn to the 4th volume of Eli 1, ,Deoate's on the Constitution, they t'u s md that, in the Convention which 'Or the formation of the new Constitu { MT Randolph offered the following posltion:
 mat provisions ought to be made for aaumsslon { of States lawfully arising with l'V limits of the United States, whether ' ', voluntary junction of Government e'rltory, or otherwise, with the consent n number of voices in the National Le- rlure ra. less than the whole. 3
 ,;a'S proposition directly contravened the ,a ol the previous article in the Confed- pi' That allowed the admission of for
 '@'es' this did not. And, moreover, t