Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-06-24

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slavery has been abolished BY Mexican laws these laws
tnus q force. and preclude from entering these Terrific
| rice with slaves.
admit that Il has been laid down by writers on the law
Of nations that the municipal laws d conquered acquires
country remain Of force until altered by the conqueror Thu
rule IN favor Of the conquered people between themselves
and merely determines that conquest by foreign ene,
should disrupt al the bands Ut society," dissolve the law
which protect the conquered people IN their rights OF person
and property has relation 10 the conquered people amongs
themselves but does in the least affect the rights Of the
conqusror in any Of his sovereign attributes The conquero
enter and occupy the conquered country and by military
force may degard any laws existing protecting persons o.
properly As he Is omnpoen over the persons and property
Of the conquered he take with him into the conquered
country any institutions recognised 10 his suppose
law existed In Territory previous TO acquiring exclu
ding Americans from entering IT, shall we stand excluded
after have acquired Il suppose a law establishing
communism In property, would that prevent from hold
ing properly separately In the Territory Should laws
prevail against bigamy, shall tho conquering Turk be
liable 10 execution Tor entering territory BIO has acquired
with bis wives cannot doubt that when acquire ter
rto the citizen OF the United States has right to enter
and with him goes also all his fundamental rights under the
constitution Of the United States and the sovereignty Of the
States Take the first amended article Of the constitution
| il provides that
"congress shah make Law respecting establishment
of religion prohibiting the free exercise thereof abd
ing the freedom Of speech Of the press Or The right Of the
people peaceab 70 assemble aud TO petition the
for redress OF grievances"
Here, sir restrictions Congress- grants OF power
Congress shall make law respecting religion &C. II takes
for granted that liberty Of conscience freedom Of speech and
Of the press and the right Of the people peaccaby
BILE and petition for redress Of grievances sacred rights
existing, and Congress is only prohibited from interfering with
them Now, by whose authority DO these rights exist BY
the authority Of the States the soveeignes Of the Union Do
not these rights go with every citizen Of the United States
entering Territory belonging the United States Is he
prohibited by the laws Of Mexico toerang other religion
than the Roman Catholic religion, from wohipping God
cordng 10 his conscience Has he right to speak,
L. IL
ably to petition his Government beyond what the laws Of
Mexico confer If an American citizen has these rights and
carries them with him into territory, is by the authority
of the sovereign States Of the Unon who alone have given
and established them And will the sovereign
hoty which carries these rights into our Territories enforce
also all the rights Of property, has ordained them be-
in behalf Of citizens appears that all the laws
OF Mexico prohibiting slavery, like those prohibiting various
religions the liberty of speech OF the press must be o.
validity beneath the mastering sovereignty of the States 1t
has been lately maintained by the very highest authority in
the Senate that the constitution Of the United States with all
its limitations and guarantees extends Mexican territory
only under the temporary military occupancy OF
and therefore that the Executive had right collect
buions in the shape Of duties imports Whether this
position is correct not in time Of war, will deny
that In time Of peace the constitution with its guarantees
does extend over the Territories belonging to And it
does, all laws of Territory previously existing conflicting
with such guarantees virtually be repealed The
eighty of Mexico superseded by Of the States
and all the rights this sovereignty guarantees to their citizens
supremacy OF Mexican laws Territories will not do to
rule out the South Nobody would have thought of raising
such question had the South alone conquered and acquired
Mexican territory How then, our relations towards
these Territories be altered rights be impaired by the
fact that have conquered and acquired them cooperation
with other States Is presumed that because have
quered and acquired territory in with Northern
States thereby not only fall beneath their control in
Territories, but beneath Mexicans and Mexican laws Pro-
baby moving under strange deusion 1t is who
conquered, not the Mexcans They territory
not them; Northern friends have kindly and
Literally consented TO appropriate all Surprising, how
ever, that see things they must still insist that
within the Territories belonging the United States all Of
the States Of the Union equal and that neither
States Congress, Territories; Mexicans with
Mexican laws nghtuly prevent from entering them
with our property and participating in their colonization
Mr. Chairman, have thus endeavored to vndcate the
truth Of the resolutions have laid before the committee
Are they unreasonable Are they selfish unjust Do
they agrees the rights insult the sensiby Of our
Northern friends Yet distinguished Senator from the
South has said that they cannot stand their and
sisted in by the South, the Democratic party, and with the
Union, must be dissolved Sir, what is It ask Of our
Northern brethren in supporting these resolutions We ask
that they shall stand with the limitations Of the consti
tuition is not this cardinal principle of the Democratic
creed We ask that the sovereignty of the States shall be
acknowledged and preserved this the foundation Of
whole system OF Government itself IL the not
sovereign within the Territories belonging them they
not sovereign within their immediate boundaries and the
power which overthrow their supremacy in the place
also in the other Yet Northern friends can't stand
the test We ask that the co-equaty of the States the
cessa result Of their sovereignty without which there
be union Of States, shall be maintained and enforced.
Destroy the equality of the Staiemake and
others subject and instead Of glorious conederacy you
will have despotc empire and degraded provinces. Yet
"they can't stand the test We ask that rights joint
proprietors in property shall be outraged
The blood Of New York and South Carolina Conreras and
Churubusco flowed down the hill side together and
the field Of Buena VISTA the Of Mississippi and Illinois
sleep together in the same honoed graves. Yet "lhey can't
stand the test" We ask to be let aloneet alone in Con-
gres let alone in Territories the brief space Of time
which must cspse before they States and from the
Of things, within very limited portion Of Territories
Must be insued by aggression on institutions
So for the memory Of the past for the proud glory Of the pre-
sent which swords have contributed win and bazon
throughout the world, place in our Territories beneath
strangers and aliens to commonwealth and the cowardy
Mexican, whom have subdued They "cant stand the
test" We ask that the Union shall be preserved The
Union, il has been transmitted by ilustrous
cesiry undmmed by sectional oppression predomnance
polluted by sectional fanatcism Yet they can't stand the
test" They stand the test Of United States Bank
Protective Tariff Internal Improvements by the General Gov
ernmen the Independent Treasury These undoubtedly
great measures affecting the general welfare the Union
but State section Of The Union is avowedy struck at
struck down in their operation But here where the oun
dalton Of the Government Is assad its compromises threat
ened with overthrow, and the South the weaker section Of
the Union, prescribed and denoHnced what says the pa
tiosm the Of justice, the love for and the Unon
Of Northern friends They can't stand the test ~
Sir IL they stand the Of such principles under
circumstances exartino NJ Of