The Arkansas banner., 1845-03-19

thing but one perpetual struggle We should witness feverish excitement ii the public mind; parties would divide on the dangerous and exciting question of abolition; and tho irritation might reach such an extreme as to endanger the existence of the Union i.self But close 1t now, and 1t would be closed for- ever.
 MT. B. said he anticipated no time when the country would ever desire 10 stretch it's limits beyond the Rio del Norte; and, such being the case, ought any friend of the Union to desire 10 see this question left open any lonser' Was Ii desirable again to have the Missouri question brought home to the peu- :. 1 pie to goad them to fury? That question setWeen the two great interests in our coun- try had been well discussed and well decided; and from that moment AIr. E. had set down Ilis foot on the solid ground thencsablished, 1 and there he would let -the question stand forever. Who could complain of the terms of that compromisee
 It was then settled that north of S deg. 30 min. slavery should be forever prohibited. The same line was fixed upon in the resolu- | tions recently received from the House of Representatives, now before US. The bill ! from the House for the establishment of ] slavery altogether from that vast country.-- How vain were the feass entertained in some quarters of the country that the slaveholding States would ever be able to control tho Union! While, on the other hand, the fears entertained in the South and the Southwess as to the ultimate success ef the abolilionsis,
 were not less uulounded and vain. South of the compromise line of 36 deg 50 min tAa States wilhMthc limits of 1'exas applying to come into the Union were lcil to decide fos themselves whether tbey wopll pelmt sla- very within their limits or not. And uuler this free permission, he believed, with Mr. Clay (ln lis letter OH the subject of anGexa- tion,) that if Texas should he divided into five States, two only of them wouid. be slave
 holding and three free Stales. The descend- ants of torrid Alrc delighted in the meridian rays ol . burning sun; they hasked and fe.
 joleed Ill degree Of heat which enafrated
 and would destroy the white man. Thelaw
 lands of Texas, therefore, where they raised. cotton, tobacco, and rice, and indigo, was the natural region for he slave. Bdt. north of San Antonio, where the soil and climate were adapted to the culture of wheat. fye, corn, and cattle, the climate was exactly adapted to the white man of the North, the e he could labor for himself wtaoutrsk orill- tJury. l. Was, therefore, to be expected thu. three ont oi the Avenew Texan States woa!d3 bo free Slates-eerainly they would be so, il they but willed il. Mir E. was willing to leave that question to themselves, ;ls they ap-a piled for admission into tie Union. He had no appfehensiogs of the resuli With that feature Ill llie bill, Us t cane from the House,
 he Was perfectly content; aud, whatever bill might ultimately pass, he trusted this would be made a condition init He did not ney- ertheless, set himself up 10 be dictator to the Senate us 10 what sorl of bill 1t should or should not pass; provided the great anaa l leading measure oi reunion was secured, ha should make 10 difficulty about mere subo.- dlaate questions.
 He went on 10 say Ina! he liked this bill for another reason. Que of the great and most weighty objections to the Texan treaty. as submitted to the Senate at its last session, was, that it>had been formed between the Government of Texas alone and the Govern-.. meut of the United States and the friends ol the measure had been driven to maintain then ground that the people of Texas were unanimously in favor of the measure of an-i neXaion; and, therefore, though their cont suunon contained Ho provision warranting8 lhelr Government to make such an arrange-s ment, yeta unanimous people could dispense with consultations and laws. But this biils was exposed tono such objections; adopt :. cd he true American system leaving tho s question to hepoeple of Texas. They were required to assemble in convention and adopt for themselves a constitution republican in ils character-and fit did not conflict with tls constimtion of the United States, then lhey were to knock at onr door for admission, as every State had done which had hiiherto been admitted into our Conederacv This course was in strict analogy with that prac-s tised toward every other State.
 When one of our own Territories becamoi ripe for admission, Congress passed law l allowing them to elect their delegates and to l form Consultation for their own Govern ment, imposing in lhelaw such conditonsa as l Congress might deem requisite When he territorial Convention assembled and assen,z3 l ed to those conditions, the law became eoni- 1 pact between the United States and the peo-3 pie desiring to form the new Slate; and when she afterwards came and asked 70 be recei,.2 cd, the faith of the nation having been pfevl-s onsly pledged, no,hug more remained thatr l to pass another act in four lines leclafing her to be admitted. This was the mode if which Mississippi, Lonisiana, Illinois, and other new States, had been received into the' i Union. The preamble of the bill recited tie' fact that q State Constitution had been form ed, that the people had compiled with the terms oi admission proposed by the United. staes, and, the dational faith being pledged by the former law, the new State was inlro- dueeJ accordingly. This was what he le- sired should now be done in the case ofTeX-' as: this was what the present bill proposedi;, and this was immediate as iaras practicable,y
 t treated the people of Texas as we ireated the people of our Territories. If any plan could be devised to accomplish tilc obietf I sooner, alr B. had not been able 10 conceiye' l l. The lacl was, that Texas would virtnalY