Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-10-19

| It is not their thunder
Even 1t tho territory 10 se ADDED TO ON,
Cnion should be free, should deprecats any
great extension. / think We now have a larps
extent OF territory. do not know tina, we can
preserve our identity if we extend it from the
ic"Hbscot to the Rio Grande--to California
may De l. the South Pc Ie
hePoohcah governments mus. have an dem
NY oi laws characte's. usages, for self-preser-
vaton. Not so with monA..hies O, des,o,;sns
inc Gar OF Russia can govern norton of his
subjects by one code of laws, and an,.bs, v,o
are citferently located and possess a GIn>-snt
language, with another code. 1t is dangerous
experiment to add territory to the Union equal
IN extent to the original thirteen States. Sup
pose this new territory makes but 10 or even 5
new states. These being sparsely settled and
their represc ntaton in part, not, as may be, a
slave one, they will be entitled to but Repre-
sentatives in Congress while they will have 10
Senators. Does not this break upon the checks,
the balance the real spirit of our constitution
! There are some, knew, who consider it our
duty to spread inst krtions the whole
world, if possible. They consider that by do
ing We confer blessing mankind. While
sincerely trust that human and civil liberty and
and free institutions may extend over all nations,
l do not think we should be DESTROYS to impose
upon them distinctive forms. Let them be
prepared for liberty, for republican government,
and they will seek and gain them, perhaps much
different, and it is possible, improved forms from
ours. We cannot make free citizen out of a
person uraocustomed to self government He
must be fitted to be- free before he can become
just freeman, citizen of Republic.
| When in the State Department, said Mr.. Web
ster, it was represented to me that il very i'm
portant to our commercial interests that u port
IN California, OF pia~o WIS. could
enter and 10 business in enc of their own cities
should be secured. therefore entered into the
negotiation for such an object at the port of San
Francisco. But entertained no idea Of adding
new states or new territories to the Union.
Peace may soon come. l hope 10 hear Of it
tomorrow. 1t may bring real peace; it may
bring the seeds of strife and open danger to
the country. 1t is impossible to tell before hand
what will come. or how it will be necessary to
act in the event that results. Last winter the
wings in the United States Senate both from the
North and the South, voted, with perhaps one
exception, against any more territory being add
ed to the Union. The Democratic Senators from
both sections voted the opposite way. Northern
Democracy wish to carry the war, ge: ter
rtory and let il into the Union states but make
them free. The Southern Democracy take the
same course, except that they oud have the ter
rtory slave territory. So agreeing to the pros
ecution Of the and the addition of more ter
ritory. they unite in favoring these propositions
and would settle afterward the dispute to the
new states being slave or free.
have not seen one respectable fair minded
man of the South who objects to the North
ing all its power to prevent the increase Of the
slave power. have found none unreasona-
BILE as to dispute our right to this. With tho same
frmness with which would resist any eugmen-
tatIon to slavery, shall not endanger the con-
stitution by interfering with slavery as it is
established in the states. What is established is
fixed. We Cannot 60 back But for tho future
am for looking out for our rights.
Some of the people of the South make one
objection to the Wilmot proviso and that is, that
the new territory if added, will be settled by
Northern families, who represent free labor, and
who will live by their own labor; while the peo-
pie of the South cannot emigrate to these new
states because they will not be permitted to take
their slaves with them. Hence the additional
territory will be for the benefit of the free popu
lation alone. But these people should remem-
Der that the present representation of the slave
states is an admitted inequality. and by extend
ing slave states, that inequality will be in great
degree increased and strengthened.
am no prophet, nor the Of prophet; but
were to attempt TO prophecy, the last thing that
/ should dare predict would be the course of the
Northern democracy on this subject. Some of
them doubtless will 60 with the Wimot proviso
principle but the he n don ht hat the
eral sense of the party is against it. The pro-
ceediDgs of the late Locofoco State Convention
prove this fully. Are certain that the Dem
ocratic members of Congress from New Hamp-
shire and Maine will maintain position against
the slave powerl Slave representation, in pc
tical point of view, is all important subiac..
The moral view is great, know. but it is with
the former only that have to do in nv cspac;tv |
as a Legislator. The danger of augmensing i, is !,
imminent. the result, g. 6: ooing SO fatal, and will
receive my earnest opposition.
II peace comes-how we can deal with the |
treaty must be deferred till get it, and see
what it is. Suppose that we have no peace, the |
armistice broken, the war in renewed progress,
and Congress assembled. What is to be done
Unless the President shall make out a case, show |
Congress that no purpose of acquisition. no pur
pose not directly connected with the welfare Of
this Union, il the object and end of this war, zoe