The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-01-09
THE TEXAS QUESTION.
SPEECH OF Mr.. YANCEY,
IN the House Of Representatives.,
MospAr, Jan. 8, lSi5.

TO- .whichs have becopis deeply seated that what
under other circumstances would have been blessing
bas become a TO the country Instead OF testing
measures by their effect upon the country, large
portion of the community test them by their conteu,.
plated effect upon party This has crept into this hall
| Men Of emneDes and ability have INDUCED ia II
and when got tue floor in Committee Of the Whole
The Sub treasury bill, designed 10 have expressed
my regret that The gentleman from Ohio, with so
searching an iDtrllect-such power. OF sarcasm and
| wit so Iich diction and such warned accomplish
mepts, should have lent himself lower the charac'
ter of representative, which he appeared so well
able TO dignity and adorn. The consequence ID, We
fa. serging to be nation Of embttered partssns,
| instead OF enlightened and generous ncemen. la
such state IL Is to be rsoiced al when great ma
uOna question presents itself which, by it, towering
greatness, oyedops all minor issuss-~hich Is 80 we'll
calculated 10 puniy and elevate the national heart
to call into requisilon the nobsr qualities OF our ma
tuTo-to create high hOpes-to crush beneath lis lofty
patriotism and undoubted wisdom the conlemptbie
Vaccinations Of the mere pohticl,n-lo rebuks the
sordid aud groseng propensities Of those who know
and feel impulse but such draws them iresist-
| bly,, mere bubble in the wake Of party Such is
the Teas question. Every party has hailed II for
the last twenty years. Like The star which OF old
drew the shepherds attention from their huable pur
suits 20 the nanger where slept the Saviour Of the
world does this eliminate over infant republic,
appealing TO US as heemen to forego our wranglngs
and 10 accomplish In harmony the great destiny 10
which our principle. devote us-the spread Of the
blessings Of our liberties.
| And this appeal has not been ia vain. There are
living evidences around U.S. whose hearts bounded at
The hrst hulter Of such a banner Like TO the Jews
oil old, who kept up intestine ieuds during the inter
val OF the Roman assaults yet flew 10 the wall when
the trump sounded 10 arms, there some 10 whom
This question has proved paramount TO partyism-
here are Others who, though still the partisan, yet
respect the dignity of the question sufficiently TO dis
cuss as statesmen. Not so with the representative
from North Carolina, MIR. Chngman.l With him,
the extension Of our Institutions the Inmense effect
, for veal or wo to be produced upon commerce,
manufacturing agricultural and planting Interests by
( the messure-ts great bearing upon our military de.
ienne-Ils effect upon the question Of slayery-its
Consequences upon the fate OF the Union question
| now engaging the diplomatic abilities Of two CONT
nents-have not sufficient interest dignity TO draw
his intellect or his passions from research into the
causes Why MIR. RyndeI visited the White House
why he dined with some other person in the city
why the sailors of the North Carolina voted in the
| TN ward instead Of Brooklyn
We form our estimate sir, Of persons we have
er seen and was not, therefore, aslonshed at this
expose Of the he ad and heart Of the representative
from North Carolina. In the country | represent,
he Is looked upon betrayer OF the trust reposed
IN his hands But do confess TO some aslonlshment
when heard that representative exulting 10 his tri
umph over those brother representatives from the
South whose most strenuous efforts could not retain
the 18th rule, and attrbuting 10 their silence its
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spurns with scorn, and which could only have found
prompting in the heart Of who had given a stab
10 The institutions OF his own land and wears the garb
OF ITS enemy Such an eIulting cry over our failure
10 retain one barrier erected for the preservation of
our property and insttu IONS insult TO US in our
defeat, which merits The scorn and execration OF
every honest heart In the South And even with the
| estimate OF that representative which 1 had, was
somewhat surprised TO hear him recount, with such
apparent gee, what he termed the dishonesty of the
| anata of liz 4
case can pass no verdict. But if it was as repre-
senled, would not truly honorable heart and high
Toned intellect have shrunk from dragging unneces-
sary, and with such apparent gusto the disgrace Of
ms native State which he IN part represented before
the assembled wisdom of the nationi IL is said the
Wild deer OF the West will iurn and gore q wounded
companion to death But ii IS brutal instinct; and
man shrinks from laying bare the langs of his fam
| lily. And what does such conduct deserve will
not determine, but will refer the Of
ever he reads such book to that portion of the BIZ
bic where Noah having fallen naked in his tent,
drunk with wine, his son Ham exposed and ridicued
him to his other brothers. They took garment and,
backing up to the sleeping parent, cast it him
mantle OF charity to conceal his situation from pry
ing eyes. And Noah on awaking, cursed Ham, that
no should be the servant of throughout all
time and earfully has that curse stuck to his race
who even now dwell in the tents of Shem and Japhet
pitched on these shores How the people of North
Carolina will view the conduct of their representa-.
'i'o oh shls oCCdsoI, CaDHot Dut one lnlnR IS
certain that if the spirit of that pure and great pa
trot, Nathaniel Macon, had been lowering in this hall
during the exhibition Of the party magnIty and
seemly slurs made upon the Old North State, and
could have been susceptible of earthly feeling, that
| feeling would have been one of unmitgated disgust.
shall be pardoned then, by this House, il do not
follow INTO the sinks and pureus of party the repre-
sentative from North CorolIna, and shall address my
self to the question before us.
In the first place, them of the several propositions
which had been committed to the Committee of the
Whole on the state of the Union, Mr. Y. expressed
his preference for that of the gentleman from Ken
lucky Mr. Tbbas. This proposition met more
fully his constitutional view of the subject than any
other; it coniormed to the very letter well the
spirit of the Constitution. He referred TO the arti-
cles of the old confederacy which, he said had been
found to confer too few powers upon the general 60
vernment; that they too circumsc ribed and
limited to give that efficiency, energy, and scope TO
the government which the people desired. Mr.. Y.
referred to and read from the eleventh article of the
confederation which provided for the admission of
Canada into the confederacy upon her asserting
thereto and for the admission of other colonies only
on the agreement thereto of nine States Mr. Y
went into an examination of that part Of the pro
ceedngs Of the convention which resulted in the
transforming the article which he had read into the
article as 1t Is now found In the constitution, men
tonlng the rejection by the convention of the popo-
siton Of Mr.. Randolph, which expressly prohibited
the admission of other territory that within the
boundary of the republic, &c. The history (said
Mr.. W of this article, when they back to It's
root, was that Congress- even under the articles of
the confederation, had power to admit one foreign
State, and that the constitution being adopted for the
purpose of giving more perfect union and a larger
power to the government, the former specific article
had been enlarged into general article, confined
10 one state, but general, unlimited power, VIZ
"New States may be admitted by the Congress into
this Union" There was no limit to the clause but
thS good of the people of this republic and the
character Of the State, ylz that it shall be republi
can. This voting down the proposition of Mr.. Ran.
doph, and inserting the existing clause in the const
tu,ion proved concusvey that Congress had unlim
tied power to admit new States, from whatever terri
tory, into the Union The proposition Of the gentle
man from Kentucky met this very letter. and what