Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-09-15
h acts 5IAGmitLcG so Il candid Pub
rs.
from the Cntario Messenger.1

ed the "Jeffersonian ordinance of 81, for
in the ordinance of July ID, 1897, adopted
by the Congress of the confederation. the
language of the draft, by Mr. Jefferson in
1884, was engralted into the 9th article,
which is in the following words:
o.Art. 6. There shall be neither SLAVE
RY nor involuntary servitude in the said
Territory, otherwise than in the PUN
ISHMENT ofCRIMES. whereof the par
~ shall have been DULY CONVICTED:
Provided, always, that any person escaping
into the same from whom labor or service
is lawfully claimed in any one OF the ORR
GINAL STATES, such fugitive may be
lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed 10 the
person claiming his or her labor or service
as alore said"
On the 7th Of August 1889, Congress
passed an act adapting the ordinance OF 81
to the provision of the constitution OF the
United States, which ac was approved by
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President.
and the preamble to which is in the follow
ing words:
"Whereas in order that the ordinance Of
the United States in Congress assembled
for the Government Of the territory north
west Of the river Ohio may continue to
have FULL EFFECT, i, is requisite that
certain provisions should he made SO as to
adapt tie same 10 The present constitution
of the United States: Therefore, be il enac-
ted, &C."
The norlh.wes tern territory was coded 10
u. S. by Virginia, and at the time these
cnactments were made, slavery was the law
of the the territory, 50 lhat by the votes and
acts Of the great statesman of Virginia,
SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED where
j, legally existed. Down to tie year 1917,
numerous acts had been passed asserting
the power of Congress over this subject and
its constitutional power TO DO SO was not
questioned. This power is now denied by
the politicians Of the South, Of both parties,
and particularly By the supporters Of Tay-l
lor and CaSs at the North.
Gen. CAss in his celebrated Nicholson
letter, written in September 1917, said.
~ am thoroughly impressed with the
opinion that a GREAT CHANGE has
been going on in the public mind on his
subject the Wlmot Iroylso in vi
OWN as well as. others; and that doubts
are resolving themselves into cony cton,
thatthe PRINCIPLE itinvolvca SHOULD
BEKEPT OUT OF THE NATIONAL
LEGISLATURE"
II AM OPPOSED TO TIE EAER.
ClSE OF ANY JURISDICTION BY
CONGRESS OVER THIS MATTER"
lido NOT SEE, IN TIE CONSr
TUITION, ANY GRANT OF TIE RE
QUISIrE POWER TO CONGRESS-"
$50 far as compression, with less album
dance Of the ncce5slrlcs Of life, IS an evil,
that evil will be mirigatcd BY TR Ms
PORTING SLAVES TOANEW COUN-
TRY, AND BY GIVING THEM A
LARGER SPACE TO OCCUPY"
The following resolution was passed by
convention, which elected EDWIN CRos-
WELL, editor ofthc Albany .4rglts, dele
gate to the Baltimore Convention:
Resolved, That holding to the prime pie
ofnon-intcrlcreucc with the rights OF others
in their fullest and broudcst sense,we are OPP
poscdio restrictions y a1d ercry Kind, on
the action Of the people olany part OF this
confcdcracy, as To the disposition they
NAV choose to make of their PROPERTY in
settling territory which may be acquired
from Mexico, either by the yalor or blood
of American citizens, from every part OF
our common country, or by treaty; for we
contend that Congress has no moral right
TO interposc obstacles to the settlement of
such territory by any portion OF our people,
with ichateUer of their PROPERTY meaning
their negro slaves they mag see ff 10 car
ry there, nor to interfere with the inst''"-
fi0nS of such territory"
Gen. TAYLOR in his interview with com
mittee of thirty from the Mississippi Legs
lature in February, 1913, said:
"rHE SOUTH SHOULD NEVER
AGREE TO THE PROVISIONS OF
THE WILMOT PROVlSO; although he
did not believe there ever would be slavery
there, vet if the country was acquired, the
citizens should be left free on that subject.
HESAYS ALL MEXICO WliLENEN-
TUALIY COME INTO OUR GOV
ERNMENT BY DEGREES; THAT II
CANNOT BE AVOIDED"
This has ncucr been denied, but is ahun-
dainty proved by the concurrence OF the
whole south, his supporters and by mem
bers of Congress from The North, who have
obtained the most reliable evidence of lis
truth.
In the philadelphia Convention which
nominated Sen. Taylor, the following rcso-
lutions were DECLARED OUT OF OR
DER and smoihcred without discussion:
"ResoIyed, That the Wing party through
its representatives here, agrees to abide by
the nomination OF General Zachary Taylor
tcheegs,) on condition that he viii accept
the nomination rs the candidate ofthc Wing
party, and adhere 10 lis great fundamental
principes-N o Il \ L en- 81 . \ OF
SLAVE TERRITORY, great scusat!on,)
No acquisition OF Foreign territory by
Conquest, ,nlsses and cheers, order, order
sit down, hear him,) Protection to Amor.
lean industry, tremendous cheers, order
rap, rap, knock, sit down. 90 on and opPo
eiiion 10 Executive Patronage. Cheer:
and hisses.)
MIR. Chairman: T-(rap, rap, rap, order
whack, bang, order
"Resolysa, That while all power is deni
cd TO Congress under the Constitution tJ