New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-27

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is-ed tn rsse on the faith OF his opinion the slave
has been brought there Whist can he do There Is
hl recorded Judgment prin'en m your Congressional
Report Whist Uill he cay lou are a sa'e MI
CALHOUN wss rsht Judge BERHfEN Of Ca profound
LAWYER whom know well wac -ht ! know thfse
gentlemen well them opinion Is entitled to the highest
authority and In the face Of Il II does not become me
10 ssv that YOU are free so boy 20 20 your ms-ter
80, - 20 The c.ss nfrfss ssguiar reBfr4m youare
not quite enough OF saxon What then - 20 Dc
done bv th= lill On a VIII OF error OF appeal can
come 20 the supreme Court OF tne United states
How The negro II be Is - Dc treated Ike white.
taxing out an aruesi must give bonds IN double the
value OF the subject matter N dispute And what i
that II you consider Il the mercantile value Of the
negro Il may be perhaps SluJJ OF 500 But ne can
no, haze the suuesl according 10 this bill unless the
value Of the thing controversy amounts 70 me value
OF 5000 But then, there comes N tn' Ideally OF
personal liberty what l. j. worm Nothins al al
saws the senator from south CaronatO tins fellow,
wbo 4. better without u And under all this complexity
Of legal qubblng and litigation 1t s expected that the
negro viii stand there ana contend win ms nsstci'
and coming On 70 Washington, Will prosecute his ap
neal two year. before the supreme Court enjoying the
opportunity OF visiting his Old friends about baltimore
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tween case thus submitted 10 the Supreme Court Of
the United state. in the absence Of all Congressional
action and that in which Congress would have decided
that Slavery should not exist IN the territory because
the Supreme Court in that case quoted 20 often from
Peters found that Congress had the power 10 egslae
tor the Territories The senator from c. concurs in
that decision.
Now if we can make any law whatever. not contrary
to the express prohibitions OF the Constitution we can
enact that q man with $4,000 worth OF bank notes OF
Mary land shall forfeit the whole amount ne attempts
TO pass one OF them in the Territory Of California We
may say if man carry menagere of wild beasts there
worth $500 600 and undertakes 70 exhibit them there
he shall forfeit them. The man comes back with his
monkey under his and says that tue Ia" FORBADE
him 70 exhibit his animals there II was thought mat
as an economical arrangement such things should not
be tolerated there That you may DC ne OF the mons
and tigers goes back having lost his whole concern
But now you take fellow that you say Is OrotAel 20
the monkey-wh wool on his head, and p1Tts sefEifW
centrum engraved on him somewhere else and some
how Congress is mpotent all the power OF the sove-
regnty of this country IS impotent 70 stop MIN Lha
strange sort of argument 70 me- II has always been
considered hat when state forms its Constitution II
can exclude Slavery Why sol Because II chances 10
consider it evil II be proper subject OF leglsa
ton in State and have transferred 10 US ~ virtue
Of this bloody power OF conquest as some say OF oy
pur aase as others maintain ssk-considering this as
an abstract queston-are there not duties devolving
upon us for the performance Of which we may not ne
responsible tosny earthly trbunabutfor wnien od VINO
has created US all viii hold US accountable Nhst Il
your duty above all others 10 conquered people You
say il il your duty TO give them Government-fnay
you then do everything for them which you are not
forbidden 10 do by some fundamental automatic truth
at the foundation Of your Constitution Show me then
how your action is precuded, and submit Though
believe il ought TO be otherwise, yet the Constitution
Of my country ordsins yield. The Constitution OF
States declares Slavery to be an evil Southern gentle
men have said that they would have done away with u
if possible and they have spoogized TO the world and
themselves for the existence OF 1t IN their most
These honest old mon OF another day never could have
appealed 70 God in the way they did had they not been
willing 10 strike OF the chains from every negro in the
Colonies if it had been possible for them 10 do 50 With
out upturning the foundations OF society do not re
vve these things TO wound the feelings OF gentlemen
know some of them consider this institution az val
liable but many of them ! also know regard II AZ
curse But thank God, Slavery Is not IN Oregon II Is
| D.H.tr - hon hTH ~ Nll
tramped down the people in order to extend your do
minion over them feel il to be my duty, when you
appeal to me TO make laws for them and the supreme
tribunal has said that have the power to DO So 10
avert from them such curse and establish Tree lnsttu
tons under which say that another IL MS
property, do not doubt this power. | know that
II has been considered OF old from l7s7 I'll the present
hour to be vested in Congress. The Judicial tribunals
in the West have considered IL so, and the Supreme
Court OF the United have said in that decision so
often referred that II was Have they founo any
restrictions upon Us No. Ana wnst "ouiu you
do if you were in Oregon to-day What would you
DO and you and you Would any man here II ne were
acting legislative capacity In that country say
feel myself bound to admit this evn into TINS country
for the benefit of Of the states who are over
burdened with ihemr fths true, 1t would be the
duty of the Free States, in that irsternal spirit
which ought to prevail between the various states
| az the Union 10 admit slaves whenever the Slave
| states became overburdened with them. Do we
so act in legislatng for our states No we say -
Enjoy your Slaves free them "a you VIII, but II
our wish that there shall be no Slavery here. 1ou
may mpOre state you please, 10 take slaves INTO IL
bosom for your convenience, but they do notiee tnem
selves bound by any Governmental obligation u DO IL
Am not then. bound to lay the foundations OF maj
State for whose future progress am 10 be responsible
| in the way which think the most likely TO produce
beneficial results to the people there And when ma
myself possessed Of this power, and clothed WIN com,
mensurae responsibility, no threats 0i dissolution OF
the Union no hearburnings here nor there and least u
| sll-that which we have heard much OF outoidoors-
the coming Presidential Election, shall deter me rom
/ ~.
euape of the Ordinance OF 81 would have Il enacted
that slavery shall exist in that country linen
| when nv black man comes 10 the Supreme Court OF
the United states provided IN this bill that Court
| must overrue the decision in the IN Peters or
else have misundersto the extent OF that power
| Then VIC will have acted upon the suolect-"e "ii'
have forbidden Slavery and observed that some gentle
men who handled this subject were very careiu 70 Keep
upon that line that Slavery may where II has not oeeh
prohibited That Is the reason prefer the Ordinance
of Y 10 this sOcalled Compromise Bill have no DOUBT
that every Senator who assented 10 that bill convinced
himself that II the best we could pass nave no
doubt that our fre ads from the North thought II woud
be effective in prevestng slavery in these Territories
But that the Senator from South Carolina does 10.
think So He supports the bill for the very reason tna
il will admit slavery the Senator trom vermont ior
the reason that slavery cannot get there Now IN n
confusion OF ideas desire that Congress II II nave any
opinion express IT, Ii we have any power 70 lessale
over these Territories, how long would II take 70 @Is
down the six articles OF the Ordinance oil 81 muse
OF US who think that that ought TO be iunaAihensa
law in the organic alton of our Territories VIII VOC oi
il and those OF US who believe otherwise VIII vote
against IT, and whichever party trIumphs, VIII give "a"
70 Oregon and California, bearing the responsloHly-
But must say that do not ike what appears 20 me
say it in no offensive shuhng,of Oh tne re-
sponsibiliy whchis upon now and whicn we cannot
| avoid The Supreme Court may override our deel
sion but If think have power 10 oraah tna'
slavery shall not exist in that Territory let Us say 80
If not let US decide. Let US not evade the que'oh
| altogether.
| That the Hon Senators who reported tnis OIL
/ had its passage very much at heart have no DOUBT
| nor do feel disposed TO deny that every man OF
them believed that Il just such measure as wa,
calculated to give tranquility 70 tue agi'aiea ni.
the people OF this country Well do notcare ior ,na'
agitation farther than that will look 70 Il "a motive
70 know what il is-whatm my powers and my duties a.
| have heard much Of this-I have been myself pro
phet of dissolution OF this Union but have seen the
Union of these States decried 80 much OF late tns' sl
not afraid of dissolution. Perhaps indeed wnen thls
cry of wofhas been long dsre garded he may come 81
last when not expected but do not believe that the
people Of the South going 70 sever themselves rom
this Republic because we VIII not establish slavery
here and there If have no power to pass tnls a"
let the people Of the South 80 70 the Supreme Court
and have the question decided Il will only be few
months I'LL the Court resumes it, sessions here ana tne
question can then be tried If the decision be against
us the gentlemen of che South can at once commence
their emigration 10 these territories Let us then MAKE
| the law as we think il ought to be made.
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