Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-09-09

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Missouri compromise, other arrangement yielding inc
OF territory to slavery, would could receive the assent Of III
other House With full knowledge of the subject underoo
to deal WITH said TO Southern gentlemen that the bill
ported TO give them trial Of their claim under the congtuto
all they could expect from this time FORTH and Ihay
geved TO find that any Of my Southern friends stood ready
defeat it. anxiousy hope that upon further reflection, the
will view this subject in different light.
Sir IL is time the South understood her true position Sh
can no longer control this question He who suppose
that threat of dsunion will alarm the violent Of tn
North abors under great mistake To them dsunion ha
no teros Nay, believe some of them desire it, and pra
Tor it. contamination devoutly to be wished The p0t
cai astatos in truth desire settlement of the question
any terms and if the South should push her claim beyond he
constitutional rights the dissolution Of the Union will neya
bly, follow before the North will surrender. On the enforce
ment OF that constitutional right OF the Middle States viii
stand by the South Every patriot and sincere friend
his country in the North when he understands the true ques
ton submitted by this BILL will the able Senator from Yer
mont Mr. PHELPs) has done stand by the South on tina
ISSUE The course Of that Senator will before year eapses
be approved by the whole rejecting community in the North
aud will receive the appreciation OF all good in ages vel
to come The people still love the constitution and the ns
tuons OF their foreahers and in the North can win
aures that will speedily whe by dsparaging their abors
or deecrang their graves The cry against compromise
save the Union is destined to be shortved. The people
Know that when ashington submitted the constitution
Congress- he reminded them that individuals entering into
cley must give up share Of liberty preserve the rest
that the greatest interest of every American was the
consolidation Of Union, and that the constitution itself
was but the result Of spirit Of amy and Of mutual defer
ence and concesson rendered indispensable by condition
that spirit that mutual Difference and concession are
again rendered indispensable by condition We
about to apply the constitution TO region larger than the old
thirteen States when the Union formed. Under
such circumstances, when hear up for himself
higher standard Of morality and virtue than that OF the fathers
OF the republic and that he agree no compromise
or to the cant of the time, that principles be
promised, think of the poets exclamation
o. for foryparson power chant Thy praise hypocrisy"
Not of the Convention that framed the con-
stution who had objections to some part of it, Il was
compromise and the same feeling which governed in its for
nation and will be indispensable to its preservation.
History has done justice to the motives and OF those
who made the Union, and will do justice those who have
sustained this attempt to transmit it unmpad future gen.
erations.
As to much of the bill as organizes Territorial Govern
ment IN Oregon Is in truth matter of real controversy be-
tween the different sections of the country All men, North
and Southern, agree that Oregon-contanng by the Off
clal estimate OF the Land Commissioner, "a ,463 square
miles, $780, 800 acres, equal to such States
as New 1ork by her present laws and ought to remain,
Tree from slavery There pretext up by
that this territory can, by any possibility, be slave terrific
y No Southern has asked desired it. Slave labor
could not there compete with free labor But gentlemen who
had all their lives denied the constitutional power of Congress
to exclude slavery from territory, while concedng this,
specially asked of their friends put clause in the
ganc law for that territory, expressly excluding slavery from
II and thereby prevent them from voting for the bill The only
compromise in the bill this single point II agreed
that this territory should be organized by the appointment
OF governor, three Judges secretary, and Legislature
be elected by the free white male citizens Of the territory
These people deemed prepared for self government while
those OF California New Mexico governed their
territorial state by legislature composed stated the
governor, Judges, and secretary very much the North
western Territory organized by the ordinance of 1887
The compromise simply this The present laws prohh-
ting slavery wee by the 18th section of the BILL stand till
The first session of the legislature Of Oregon and three months
after That Legislature by the sixth section Of the BILL
yhir
y proper Tor the the territory; nconsist
eat with the constitution the organic law itself Of course
we all knew that the people Of the territory who OPP
posed to slavery would through their legislature continue the
restrictions and, to enable them fully to exercise their egsa-
tive power in this respect the bill continued the existing
strcton three months beyond their session Those who
denied the power to legsate ehe Congress in the Ter
ntora Legislaure oprohbt slavery could vote for this prop
oson, because the validity Of any Of the reororial lie
gaure depended its constuonay and upon the ques
ton whether such act could abolish restrict
the institution OF slavery they did not commit themselves by
voting for the BILL The Southern concession, heseore
only hitha the present laws Of Oregon should remain
force till reasonable time after the Territorial Legislature could
act the Northern concession was that the local Legislature,
instead of Congress- should make the law The fomer would
the latter never could do IT, This made the only compro
mise contained in the bill for do call the compliance
with the constitution in making the regulations enable par
ties in California and New Mexico carry the APP
peatc court compromise does include any
cesson by either party TO the other II merely acknowledges
constitutional duty and enfoces a constitutional right
The Senator from New York. (Mr DIx in the course of
long and ingenious speech against the BILL found fault with
remark made by at the time reported it. that by far the
greatest portion territories properly adapted free
labor and would necessarily be free soil forever that there
portion OF them where free labor could be intro
duced He thinks slavery compete with free labor any
where have not quite high opinion Of it. The gen.
teman has practical knowledge the subject. speak
from my observation, and say that in the beautiful coun-
where reside, although slavery is legazed and protected
there but about hundred slaves population of
about forty thousand SOULS because free labor more poEa
bic The gentleman, like others from his section,
who know little Of slavery except from books and the specu
atons Of persons entertaining Northern opinions, thinks free
labor compete with slave labor rice plantation, in
sugar MILL in cotton field He sits in the mds, Of
from the Southern States and, he will ask any of
them, they will tell him that his opinions entirely
and visionary. II was because knew that portions Of
New Mexico and Misunderstanding the land Of the Root
Dgge and the parts where the rains of heaven for months
together do bless the pached soil, and where irrigation
furnishes the only Of watering the productions Of the
earth-never would be cultivated by white labor, that
pressed the sentiment which the gentleman took exception
The Senator from Massachusetts, (Mr WEBSTER, in late
speech the Mexican treaty, declared bis opinion great
length that the Northern boer would settle in those
portions Of that country and if the gentleman will make the
inquiry, he will find that in the pastual and grazing por
tons Of California slave labor could not be advantage
poyed because the slaves sent tend the herds would be less
apt TO their master the herds themselves Climate
and production will sometimes make the laws which
regulate the character Of the labor be employed despite Of
The gentleman thinks he legsae free labor into any
part Of the earth know of him, then, why it