The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-03
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
FRIDAY NIGHT, SEPT. 8, Is47.

ON recent nssou
compromise falls into very great which require
correction.
The Post states in the outset of lis article that Mr.
Buchanan, in his letter, sis in favor OF opening TO the
introduction of slavery all territories which the Union
may acquire south of 1868 degrees, north latitude;
in other words, of extending the Missouri eompro-
MISE which was so sgnay disregarded in the acqusi-
ton of Texas the domain which may yet be ceded TO
us by Mexico"
| The first clause of the above statement is not strictly
accurate Mr. Buchanan has, in his letter, expressed no
opinion sin favor of opening TO the introduction OF sa
very" any part of the territory which we may acquire
from Mexico. On the contrary, the application OF The
Missouri compromise 10 the territory urged by
the SOUTH and advocated by Mr.. Buchanan, while II
excludes slavery north Of the line of 3Ga degrees leaves
the whole question OF the nroducton OF slavery south
of that ne TO be decided exclusively bya majority OF
the people of the territory Mr. Buchanan does Lot
anticipate 'the introduction of slavery" by the people
of any part of the territory. Even while insisting
impressively upon the obligations implied both in
the compromises of the constitution and the compro-
misses under the constitution Mr.. Buchanan explicitly
states that northern democrats not expected TO APP
prove slavery in the abstract and he follows up this
statement by array OF reasons, showing, in his judg
ment that sit is morally impossible that majority OF the
emgrans that portion of the territory south of SO deg
80 min, which will be chiefly composed of our fellow
citizens from the Eastern, Middle and Western States
viii re-establish slavery within its limits
! So much for the Posts first assertion.
| But the Post falls, undoubtedly, into an error
still more palpabe, when it asserts, the above ex
tract that the Missouri compromise twas sgnally dis
regarded in the annexation of Texas Yet, if regard
ing this statement absolutely necessary to its argu
ment against Mr. Buchanan's position, the Post rei
crates its in another part of its article ia the follow
ing strong terms
"When the question OF annexng Texas debated the
question OF compromise again arose. and aem pit was
made by OF the northern democrats 10 obtain such
should divide the region equally iuto and free
territory. In this they souy resisted by the SOUTH
which finally consented adopt the line OF the Missouri
compromise the boundary between that part Texas
where slavery should be permitted and that where it should
not exist-a ne which would have exempted less Than
tenth part of the province from introduction of slavery
But pchen Ieras actually admitted into The Uaon
this condition tcaS repeated.
"Mr. Buchanan says that Texas admitted under the
rule of the Missouri compromise We surprised this
inaccuracy circumspect politician as the Secretary
of State, writing with the archives OF the Union be-
fore him. Texas admitted under her constitution,
which cgazes slavery in every part of her domain and
the sanction of that constitution by Congress sanctions sa
| pery TO the utternost bounds of the State.
"Mr Buchanan closes his history of compromises with the
remark that the harmony and the security OF the
Union require that the line of the Missouri compromise
should be extended any territory which may
ouire from Mexico. Why should he say this The line
that compromise ertended Ira tchen she adj
united, yet the security of the Union placed in no
danger The south oouM alow bargaining that mat
ter dpision Of the territory and forced 1eras into the
Jslion without compromise The turn of The
north We extend the prohibition OF slavery over
every of soil which Mexico may cede us, and
may do it with safety to the Union-wth security as
complete, say the least as when we annexed the prov
ince of Texas
! Now, having before that portion of the " archives of
the Union,' which may be found in the laws and public
documents OF the last Congress, undertake to say
that the above passage from the Post is, all its
rial avermens error from beginning endaA error,
too which we cannot see without great surprise in the
columns of journal so well informed a. the Post, and
protesting as it processes take very extreme posi-
ton upon this question after having maturely considered
the grounds of its opinions The admission of the State
of Texas into the Union consummated in fire distinct
and separate acts of legislation To of these
acts of the Congress of the United States The other
three of these acts were of Texas done-one fhem
| by her Government and the other two of them by
her people, through their deputies duly empowered, and
in Convention assembled And in every of all these
five legislative acts both the part of Congress and
the part of the Government and the People OF Texas The
provisions Of the Missouri compromise wee recited refer
red to- and incorporated into the achole transaction at
every stage Of it, the FUNDAMENTAL CONDITION upon
| wltich it acas all based and ordained.
To establish all this, in the very teeth of the assmp
ton upon which the Post mainly to rest its case
against Mr. Buchanans letter, will quote from the
published "archives' the very language of each of the
five acts of legislation, by virtue of which Texas became
one OF the United States
FIRST in the series the '.jont resolution OF Con-
gress for annexing Texas the United States approved
| March l. 1915 1t is as follows:
Resolped bv the Senate and House of Representatives of The
United States america Congress assembled That Con-
press that the territory properly included with
H. righuly belonging to the republic OF Texas may
be u called the Texas,
people OF said republic, by deputies in convention
embed, with the OF the existing government in
the may be admitted OF the States
| Of this Union.
so and be further resorcd That the foregoing consent
of Congress given upon the following conditions, and
with the following Guarantees to wit" Ne.
This second section contains and specifies three cond
tons The first condition relates to boundary and the time
of transmitting to Congress the State Constitution of Texas
duly certified The second condition relates to the public
lands of Texas her public property and her debts The
third condition adopts and establishes the Missouri COM
PROMISE, 60 aomine, and in these words:
Third New States Of convenient size not exceeding
number, addition said State OF Texas and having
sufficient population hereater by the consent OF SAID