The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-07

SIRE 10 introduce slavery, do 1.-THE north never will
complain" All that the north asked was liberty to keep
herself ree-entirey freefrom all responsibility for
the encouragement or extension of slavery She held
lhai she was not responsible and that the government
that the north never would be responsible for slavery
all he and his colleagues would be able stand up be-
lore Their people at homes and when they addressed abo
lonists or anybody else be able tell them that that
was thing with which they had nothing to do; that
they had to do with slavery than with the serf
dom of Russia They did prohibit all commercial in
tercourse with Russia though they did not like that in
stitution. II was her concern They said the
thing with regard to slavery at the south they had MOTH
ing to do with it; their hands clean; the general
government had no authority over it, But the north
linquished that prncpleif they allowed the money or
the blood of the norththe power of that government
be used for the extension of slavery, they had lost
the vantage ground OF principle and responsible to
their constuentso the civilized world-to God and
that responsibility they could not evade They
California Tor introducing that institution among them.
To-day they had the power to stop to-day if northern
men would do their d9ty-if they would dismiss
all idle fears about dissolution OF the Union and
emulating southern unanlmity, come up, shoulder
to shoulder, and meet them upon that ground,
that extension Of slavery would be prevented. These
empty threats OF dissolution of the Union were in his
Judgment thrown out and thrust upon them with view
to intmidate weak minds, and to enable northern men,
run counter to what ne regarded as the unan
mous wishes of their constituents, go home and just
fly themselves the plea that the Union danger
that the work of their revolutionary sreshat the go
fabric whose foundations the pure patriotism of
Washington had laid, about to be overthrown But
that for their conduct would not be satisfactory
Every northern man should look the question boldly in
the face. There no danger OF any secession,
long as the constitution was preserved But they had
been told by the gentleman who last addressed them that
to exclude the property OF southern men from that terri
tory unjust. How did that argument dovetail with
the compromise If unjust south of SO degrees 30 min
utes, was il not equally unjust to say that they should
not go with that property north OF SO degrees 30
gumen' He believed that Virginia had already pass
ed law prohibiting the importation and sale of
slaves from other States If slaves were property in the
contemplated by the constitution, where he asked
was the validity of the law Where did they get the
authority to regulate their commerce-to prohibit that
hs between ne states ties Ag Pe
out of that State and the selling of them. Whence did
that slave State derive authority for such law! He
had supposed that the regulation of commerce mat
ter exclusively within the control of the federal govern
ment. That these laws valid he did not doubt
And why' They did not refer to that kind Of property
that was within the meaning of the constitution Ii it
were, such law would be invalid. Virginia could
not pass law prohibiting him from taking his horses
there and selling them: New York could not prohibit
when Virginia said to the Georgian You cannot bring
your slaves here" Virginia said precisely what the
north said when she declared .'You cannot take your
slaves to California and sell them there" II Della
ware said, ''You could not take your slaves out OF
her limits for a mar et" what greater injustice
was perpetrated when it was said you cannot take
your slaves to California for market. Gentlemen COM
planned OF invasion OF equal rights as II the north
were to enjoy some peculiar advantages. How. The
north could not take slaves there. The southern men
could take the kind of property to California which
the northern could take and enjoy to the fullest ex
tent the same advants Gentlemen said that southern
men could not go there He did not pretend to speak
positively, but he believed that majority of the voters
of the south did not and never owned single slaves
and that if their wishes consulted they would say,
"Save portion Of that fair REGION where may go
and produce articles without the competition OF slave
labor" This consideration of itself sufficient to
show that all the defamation about the dissolution of the
Union was lust defamation and nothing more In ref
tn DOSifIO
to the war, he here said that he would advert to it
before he sat down. He was in favor of its vigorous
prosecution until honorable peace obtained He
ready promptly TO vote all the necessary supplies, and
that the he anxious yesterday to erm-
nate the debate. He agreed with the gentleman from
Tennessee, that peace could not be procured short OF
acquisition Of territory. He wanted that territory, and he
wanted it free. He wanted It in that condition which
would be best for se1bes for future generations and
free from that ''sad defomty"-hat unhappy misfor
tune" which the gentleman from Virginia Mr., BEDIN-
CERT 'could not help" and which he so feengly de-
pored He fevently hoped that his southern friends
so he would call them-woud not unite with the north
ern wings who had declared that they would have
country at all, and denounced the war. Let not the
country be disgraced by such ominous alliance If
southern men, however would act So all he could say
for northern democrats was, that they would hold
on TO the even tenor OF their way. They had
right. Mexico owed them debt-she refused to pay
they obtained judgement against her, and having is
sued execution, had got this territory He wanted to
hold 10 it, and to make such provisions for would
best promote its interests and its welfare He desired to
see in the future on the distant shores of the Pacific
rival to New England He desired to the
of that fertile region fully developed by the hand of free
industry He desired to agriculture. commerce. and
manufactures introduced, with education religion and
the dffusng all their blessings in the midst of free
and happy people. He satisfied that Mexicans never
would effect such state of things They were not the
to do it. American feemen, whether from the north
or from the south, would do it. But all that fair
prospect TO be blasted by northern wings and southern
democrats The idea to his mind was most melancholy
[Iaugher Was that 10 be the end of all the ervid eo-
quence which southern had expended in favor of the
war; Must all their glowing eulogles on the valor OF
the volunteers-all their spirlt-srng descriptions OF
Mexican robbery and outrage to this complexion come at
last? Were they prepared to tell the country and the
totism to get little slave territory Was it
to this, that the NORTH after having cordially
dered its aid the prosecution OF the warafter behold
ing fair and fertile region open to settlement IN the
hands of the countrywas to be told that because 1t IN
sisted on the exclusion of slavery from that free Terrific
ry was to be renqushed and lost to the country by
that same ominous conjunction which their western
friends charged with losing all the territory from 40 de-
grees 81 degrees 40 minutes Well if to be
the north made childish threat about dissolution of
the Union Ii the south wanted to do it, let them do It,
II southern men disposed to assume that position,
and by election proclaim to the country that all
their complaints about Mexican ouragetha all their
chivrary and eoquence had evaporaed into thin air.
all resolved themselves into what the &C WnMoT prOriso
showed TO be lurking design their part to get slave
territory, the north, he hoped would avert such calam-
y He hoped that northern democracy would stand firm
He trusted however, that the disgracefu spectacle would
not be presented to Europe, that an unholy motive
prompted southern in supporting that war, and that
the WnMoT prop,so had smoked il out there. When
told by his colleagues that such motive actlaed the
southern men, he would not believe it. Why, said he,
in talking with southern men, they all admitted that
an which thpy did IN extend