Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-29
SALEM. OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 90, 1913.

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4th. That as slavery did not exist there at
The time Of the conquest, but had been prohi-
bited by express law, the Supreme Court OF
the United States, TO whom the matter was
TO be referred in the last resort, could not be
from the principles of numerous
d decisions already made, TO decide otherwise
than that slavery cannot be protected there,
until the existing law abolishing it be alter
ed by competent authority.
5th. And, lastly, that these positions being
incontrovertible, the bill offered, as it was, as
a compromise, and a final settlement Of the
question, amounted TO nothing but a total a.
bandonment and surrender Of the right Of ex.
tending the institutions Of the South to these
Territories.
In that speech the gentleman had further
said, that before he would even vote 10 carry
into effect the treaty, by making the neces-
sary appropriations, he would have some leg
i~slative guarantee for the protection of slave
property in those Territories he had said
that that bill was as e%ffectual a prohibition
against slavery as the Wilmot p%roviso itself,
and even that it was worse.
He would now turn to the other division
of the Federal Union. 1t had every where
been contended in the North, by the friends
of General Taylor, that this Government
ought 70 legislale upon the subject Of slavery
in the Territories. 1t had been made the
principal objection to General Cass, that he
was opposed to such Legislation. Every
where they said that the question ought TO be
brought TO Congress that they would trust
General Taylor on the subject; that he would
| approve anything which Congress might do
on this question.
Thus we had witnessed the remarkable
fact, that gentlemen entertaining such oppo-
| o;,o eontinnopto hal oo-onorataJ onl yaoIo,a-
ly and efficiently co-operated too, as 10 bring
this question into these halls. The friends
of General Taylor at the North said it must
come here. What course, then, remained
for the Northern Democracy-lhose who had
taken the ground of non-interference They
could not if they would--and, for one, he
would not, if he cpuld-now keep this ques-
ton out Of these Halls; and it being here,
legislation being inevitable, and there being
no retreat, you cannot expect US (said hey to
go otherwise than for the non-extension Of
slavery, even, if you please, to the superero-
CATION Of putting the ordinance of 1887 into
any bill that may be brought forward to or
ganize the Territories.
These being the facts, he repeated it would
seem very improper for a defeated party, like
the Democracy, now 10 undertake TO take
this question out Of the hands Of the success
lul party. Whatever lnc le1lSldllOn mlgHt
result in, it should be RENTED to them g
they should have a trial, and a fair trial, al
settling this question /; and he said TO his
Democratic friends, stand from under, and
let this question go 10 General Taylor. lie
us see what General Taylor will do with it
He recollected to have heard a gentleman
L. from Alabama, on the other side Of the House
TMt. Hilliard at the last session of Con
gress, say upon this subject, that his candi
, date for the Presidency, General Taylor,
n would hush the storm which had been raise
concerning this question-that he woul
e calm the troubled waters. The countr
would be fortunate il it turned out so. S
far as he (Mr. r. was concerned, he wa
not disposed to deprive the President cleo
r and his party in Congress of an oPPortnnit,
of exhibiting what they would do upon thi
question.
g.; There was another view of the question
to which he would call the attention of gen
e tlemen. While the friends of General Tay'
y lor at the South were making speeches il
: his advocacy, stating, in most dogmatica
and explicit terms, that he could be trusted
f on this question of slavery, and that Genera
5 Cass could not that he General Taylor
was a Southern man, that his interests, feel
ings, and education were allied and identi
! fled with theirs and that General Cass wa
g a Northern man, and the very reverse in hi:
: sympathies, education and interests while
such a man as Bale Peyton, a distinguished
a and confidential friend Tor so supposed to be
a of General Taylor himself, in a discussion
with an honorable gentleman from Kentucky
who occupies a seat on this floor, (Mr. Boyd,
from Paducah, in Kentucky, had said tina
At General TAYLOR would veto the Wilmot Pro
v yiso and that men who could argue other
n wise ouoh, not to be reasoned with. Tx
GovernoI Me,calfe was at his State, Ondia
n na.N and made a speech at the Capitol, G
Is which the following account was given i
to the Indiana State Journal" the Wing news
naper ornan in that State
He lold the people, as a South ern maj