The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1848-09-13
OF MEs. BADGER
Now. sir, it is agreed BY all The writer's on
ON THE COMPROMISE Bill
DelIrered in Tie Senate If the U. States. july &C


Delrered in tie SeHote IF the u States. July &c
Now, sir, II is agreed by all the writer's OF
national law, by oil judges Who have trea
ted upon this subject, that slavery owes il.
existence 10 positive law, to municipal law
that, Independently Of law authorizing it
II dues mol exist any here; from which i
necessarily follows that, whether African
slavery be expressly prohibited in these
territories or not, il does not exist, unlcss
| by their law IL be allowed, which no one
pre.ends. Whether it shall he introduced
OF lis exclusion continued. depends, 10 my
judgment, upon the viii Of Congress. Ii
nothing be done by Congress it remains
excluded, and their power over the subject
IS complete and perfect. II seems TO ne
that Some confusion has resulted ia the
views Of gentlemen upon this SUBJECT, from
the fact that ~e heretofore have not made
acquisitions Of territory except with n view
to the formation Of States bn, We have
Just as mich power to acquire territory,
and keep II IN perpetual pupiIage, as We
have TO hing ii into the uuion as a State.
Our right TO acquire springs out Of the
treaty power ard the war power, and When
We acquire we are 10 deciae for ourselves
what shall be done with what has become
ouls, by ccssion or hy conquest. II We
should obtaialha, FL UoTa3o Of some gen.
tlcmcn, the island Of Cub1, weu'd We bs
bound 10 admit il into out' tmoni By 40
means. We should have right to keep
i as terfitoty-a province regu.
late il a4 we Please. Acd If we deemed
Il best for tie interest OF the L. States, We
might rishtiuly 50 keep il, even, TO use an
extrayngant pUfasc, "io the last ~ liable
oi recorded time" The constitutional re.
s,riction> we're intendedtoprotcct US against
our own Government they were intended
70 regulate Va among ourselves, 10 define
and distribute the powers which exiat be-.
tween the United States aad tho several
States, nnd 10 secure 10 The States and To
the people powers not graWcd 10 the Uai
ted States. There j. not an Article which
looks to the restraint of power, except as
II IS to be exercised over as; not an arli.
Gle designed to shorten our hanIs or dimi.
nIsh the aggregate Of our power in acting
externally upon foreign erflloty. There.
fore, | hold that, among those subjects fall.
ing within the constitutional power of Con.
gress, Is the entife regulation of such ter.
rllory as We may acquire, to make such
avs for 1t as NC may thitk best, and 10
give il a political Organization Of such
kind, AID with srch restraints sa3 limiia.
tons, rs we may prescribe. Within tdis
power is included tie Introduction or ex.
ciusion Of slavery, according to our own
judgment, entirely independent and ire.
spec!ivc OF the wishes Of The people Of the
territory, or MY body el'e. Ny friend
from OHIO, (Ar. CARVING in bis speech
yesterday, stated tina, vas the onls GEN.
tlcman sustaining lhe salpe relation to the
SUBJECT, upon tbs door, who cntctiained
ibis opinion, Slaco thatremltk vas made,
my itlehd from Kentucky, Mr.. bnler.
wood has expressed the same opinion, and
hazard nothing IN saying that thr honor.
lble Senator from Missouri, Vi. Bect5n,)
now 10 ny eve, than whom no man is more
cnpnb'c Of forming a sound judgment, holds
The same opinion without qualification. II
do him injustice, hope he alI} say 50,
The opinion il by no means novel. Why.
sir, when the bill admitting Missouri pass.
81 the House, ii Confined an express pro.
vision. rs fundamental condition on which
that State was to be admitted, that slave.
" should lie excluded. When the blll
came into the Senate chat provision was
stricken out, and the Missouri compromise,
excluding slavery fFom the territory north
southern members from having discovered,
At that time, that Congress had NJ power
nYcr the subject, the amendment was adop-
ted apparently without division, at all c.
vents, without the yeas ard nays no South.
efn member appearing 10 have thought II
necessary or important 10 record his vote.
Nor was this an instance Of hasty aud IN.
action. Among Southern Sen,
ators present on that occasion was the late
" lliiam Pinckuey. Il would be idle for
me to say here. or anywhere 10 the United
States, who William Pinekncy was, or to
what respect his opinions are entitled. Ia
a letter written TO his sonin law, and pre-.
served IN his life by Nr. Wheaton, he said
1.-THE bill for the admission Of Missouri
into the Uuion (without restriction as to
slavery may be considered as passed -
That bill was sent back again this morn.
ing from the House, with the restriction as
to slavery. Tho Senate voted to amend il
by striking out the restriction, (27 TO Is, J
and proposed, asanoiheramondment, uhich
| hare all along ben The cdrocafe of, re.
slrlc,on upon the vacant territory 10 the
north and west as TO slavery
Now, here we learn that Mr.. Pinckney
voted for this exclusion Of slavery from the
territory. not reluctantly, because nothing
better could be Obtained, but because he
had all along been an allocate Of il, and
must, therefore, have thought it both con.
and expedien,.
Mr.. KING. Does the Senator intend
to convey tho idea tina, Mr.. Pinckney was
10 favor of a restriction upon State en-.
,ering the Union by which slavery was to
be excluded from ii?
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