The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-29


Try, OF an equal TO the inhabited ae
States, will soon become national stock Congress no
assumed me OF this stock They have be
gun to render il productive Congress have undertaken L
do more they have proceeded form new States
to prescribe the conditions which States shall be
admitted INTO the confedeacy Al this has been done,
done '0"f me least color Of constitutional authority
Yet Mr. Van Buren, not only refers the ordinance
1857, but also to the practice of the government unde
the present constitution He says:
1t must therefore suffice say. that from 1884, the dat
Of the ordinance prevention Of slavery in the north
western territory, down and including 1898, at leas
eleven ects of Congress have been passed organizing terri
ories which have since become States all of which the
constitutional power of Congress inerdet the introduce
ton of slavery into the territories of the United States il
either directly exercised, clearly asserted by enacens
which, as matters OF authority antamonnt TO Its
else.
In the laws for the organization of the Territories which
now constitute the States of Ohio Indiana Michigan, Hi
nois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. slavery expressly prohibit
ed The laws for the organization Of the Territories OF
Mississippi, Orleans, Arkansas, Alabama and Florida
contained enactments fully equivalent in regard to the
tent OF in Congress the subject of slavery the
These acts Were approved by Pfosden washington the
elder Adams, Jefferson Madison Monroe, Jackson, and
respective approvals from laws which we believed
stutional
We feel authorized to say that the record will bear
out Mr.. Van Buren, in these statements In the case OF
Ohio, have the circumstances under which the
9Th section of the ordinance Of 17s7 adopted. No
attempt at the prohibition OF slavery made in the
cases of Indiana, Michigan Illinois, or Iowa In the
case of Wisconsin there such attempt but it was
done in general and vague phraseoogy, which probably
escaped attention at the time, the precedent that
was departed from in the succeeding Gne OF Iowa,
when the attention of Congress much aroused to the
subject of slavery, Gas shall hereafter show,) and
return made to the practice OF Congress in the
other referred We feel authoriZp1 IN
|
make these statements, as they have before bean made IN
tho uouse If Renrosen,a,;ves and wa ora M, a,y,,e
'a' iio"@' Vi REPRESENTATIVES, anu VIZ "' no' aware
that they have been shown to be incorrect that at
| ,, g., do ~ avian hoe hoo, ,o.do VIZ oroto ,horosora
eirpt 70 no 30 even has peeh MAUI we quo'e
this head, from the speech OF Judge Bayly of Viz
gnia who has examined this subject as carefully as
| anv man
Alter the adoption a ,e constitution, IN the purer and
Congress 70 prohibit slavery In the Territories
institutions of the Territories nor on 10th the same
month, when an act passed authorizing the establishment
Of government in the Mississippi Territory On The 25h
March, 1904, the erecting Louisiana into Terri
was passed IN that aet the power was attempted
be me secAoh prohibiting any others than
persons removing the Territory &C reside 70 Introduce
but the @ OF Congress ing not TO sye
pealed.
This act the gentleman from Maine lMr SMART referred
TO- sustain him in his claim of the power in Congress to
gisae the territories upon the subject of slavery; bu,
gentleman had little farther, he would have
ond Think that the deliberate decision Congress
AGAINST him. Why the LAWN favor of which the
svmpathes of Congress doubtless wee-repealed? Surely,
only because its enactment considered usurpaton.
nd do not this conclusion solely from the char
acc, of the transaction ITSELF but from the testimony OF
statesmen who in the public councils at the time
rbo an also ref RED tn the go o the sap,o not
The i'm narration Of slaves from forr;gm contr
M ~ saa,,aJ 10 thnL l,, ,bis wa csr ,ha 80
arcse nj the mower now claimed And the onnion of Mr.
Snraesed in I790 th,t (,ongrass onni ,,rohih;,
IL c; si.vo,,ae in the Territor;es 10 haa 1,n,oJ
r ~ go nrnose RI, the ysntan.n sho,G raddoIon,
, ia Sun h p ner nuesonsJ ne ruh, Of Gonr.s e.
a1e ~ ohh, the toreion ove.trade and hafore Tho,
a h rrass Of isOa aidba Como ress nht' nohibi;
h e W.. ; 20 in territories ,vich I've h
t - ba adoniion If the constitution The ianana%e
Of he constitnon ia in these words sThe MIGRATION Or re
m h ,h noner to admit, shall mo, bs rehi,e NV
CONGRESS prior 70 the year 1902
%, :, .,r.. Tho, The c,uso of tho no, or 100, ,nda
was not very dehe ,elv consJered u
Congress- for subsequently in 1907 under circumstance
~ he ,ost ,nosing h rac,er and vino tho ~, uhas,
sanction tn thar act Conpes, modified This law in nost
vital naricunr The law of 1904 made the neoross inn
ported contrary to its provisions free But the law 1907
repealed this and declared that they "shoud remain sub
et to any regulation which the legislatures of the several
the importance of this proceeding hereafter.
IN Tho law a,ao,;na Mcbigan in,o IA orr;,orol
tbare vas no atfsmn nt terrtariai
or ,s hero in The "a 90 of Illinois mr. nj Misson In the
NJ there was and tbe conditions and re
,ctions Of the ordinanca of 787 vere recomsed R,t
was done IN genera. ana ambiguous phraseoogy, which
the case of Iowa on the contrary, the precedent in
no case o. o r Was "a ,h anu ,eii
the bill of the session OF ls45 relative TO the Oregon Ter
enorya,ed on it, UPON the motion of the present Soeaor