The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-02


@s TH cOscHr''OsAI RHOrsx will be furnished them s
tsras
true and honest, there yet brighter and more gor
Gus future for them l speak for my own Carolina
whose hardy have found wealth. honor and dis,
JUNCTION IN all the south and west-whose colonists, pen
etratng the wilderness tanned it, and called into life and
sovereignty her noble daughter Tennesseefor her and
her sons | speak, when declare that she recognises
authority on the part of Congress the inhabitants OF
lance, the public domain She asks favors Blu: such
all may claim she seeks no advantages but such
Intelligence, energy; and industry will secure. In this
noble competition she will contend with her sister States
In the glores of such victory all will equally partake
But, sir, meet with embarassmen,s on this subject
which are exsesd1gy ,h annoying We find southern
in the admission of the right OF Congress to egsate
authortatively and without limit upon the admission
of slavery into the Territories. We find among our
selves those who give up the last hopes of the SOUTH
and surrender the citadel to the besiege Precedent is
invoked establish the right to dsnhert The evil
not only of being dsnhered but the penalty of crime
the forfeiture of felony, is fixed upon and
qured suppans. to ask that al mercy, which
should claim as right dssinEsisAsa P,nsior Of my
Oregon BILL admitted the right Of CoagFs . lsgislae
the exclusion q slavery il the TeIrsones but PLACED
sense of Justice of the federal lesisature. Gracious
Heaven are we reduced to ths' Is only, lasi
hope the verdict Of jury whose interests. whose feel
ngs and whose organization fix that verdict against us
Can any man close his ewes to the fact that the progress
both of opinion and Of power is against the south! Ever
concession made to southern interests-even the
slave trade egaized and protected by the cOnstitu
lonwhen the power and interest of the south were in
dspensable and until the Missouri question arosr
the power OF Congress on this subject regarded as
matter of much moment But the scene 10 changed
| The rich, the lovely lands ceded by Virginia, the
great mother of commonwealth, have been organized
into States, and she stands overshadowed her broad
disk diminishing, and, unlike the setting sun, does not
retain her relative size, to compensate for the
loss of the influence OF her MONDAY splendOr. lhe
lions share of the territory has been already awarded
to the States whose municipal law does not recognise
slavery And are left to the mere refuge OF ex,
pediency in this effort to secure our rights! And
do southern statesmen sound the first note OF re-
treat Does the flag fall first in their hands Are we to
look, as our last resort to Congress- with no safeguard
nounced that this IS question OF power, and OF power
only The horseeech, and the grave may say, Enough
but the lust of power be satisfied. Gaining
strength, and increasing in influence, II will never con-
cede the advantages attained moderate its demands
for those in prospect And southern statesmen yield the
question The best blood of the south has flowed like
water Side by side have they fallen, in the herces OF
the battle with the soldiers OF every State in the Union
And before the requiem chanied over the cod which
Them their fathers and brothers. and children
tod The prize is not for you the soldiers lands cannot
be Inhabited by his relatives and friends, because the
who control majority OF votes in Congress-; The emf
grant from every portion of the world-the convicts
the paupers the oafers, and the elons Of all Europe.
may and stand upon the lands red with the blood of
braves and BEST and turn them and their prop.
erty away They may say. 1t is good land, indeed, and
with your blood but there is dispensation which
gives 10 us, who have kindred feelings, common
sympathy ach you. Our children cast out and
the stranger admitted Sir, hail the emigrant to our
shores; May our broad and fertile prares, and our
boundess and uncultvated domain yield them album
danceour institutions, liberty Let their tears OF sor-
row be dried and the gaun genius OF famine forever de-
part from them Let them become rich, and free, and
happy But cast not out the children Of the soil; dis
tho descendants Of revolutionary fathers Shall
southern statesmen concede the power but deny the ex-
+ ind vhou
power constrain the times to their necessities" Our
constituents will hold to strict reckoning 1t may be
true that fortune and the south part here-eyen here do
they shake hands, We may be regarded the recedng
States. We must bear il may; but we will, with
dignifed remonstrance, make continual claim OF our
rights.
| APPENDIX.
NOTE A-The proposition that Congress has unlimited
the Territories has been broadly asserted by the
gentleman from Indiana, Mr.. PETIT who in reply to
10 h 1y se
rtoes, establish hereditary monarchy established
INTO and that there was NO limit but the viii Of the
national legislature in the premises The obvious and
ample reaton OF such doctrine is to be found in its
NoTR In the Of Loughborough Blake, Wheat.
37 Che Justice Marshall decides that the words directing
taxes, mpos, and excuses be uniform throughout the
United States, includes, in the terms Omitted States Gas
descp tive0 all the States and Territories Of the United
States and expressly rules that the power under the
tituon levy gives Congress the right levy
United States de aeo under its laws and, oconrse under
the constitution. This clearly sustains
and enforces my conclusion If the Territories of
the United States, and protected governed by
fundamental law, then the inhabitants aliens, and
ctizens-a question gavely raised The In
Cranc 26i sustans the principles. The revising
power of Congress- under the organic law Territories OF
territorial gsaton, springs from the structure OF that law,
pied by people Of Territory condition oil
under that regulation, and does grow
| of any inherent power IN CONGRESS.
NOTE C.The of Missouri affords striking iustra
ton: Missouri adopted her constitution in 1870, and
tnued a sovereign State, governed by her own laws and
admitted into the Union by proclamation in 1871 alter
complying with offer, made by resolution, on the part of
of the United States and accepted by the
legislature of Missouri in her sovereign capacity tSee
Statutes at Large, 1920 1921 pages 545, $50
MORE DVae pressly declares that all the laws and
institutions conquered country which conflict with the
law of the conquerng country must to
be operative He instances in which the OF
conquered country had previously to the conquest, sent
Representatives legislature Alter their conquest by
which did not admit of representation he says
ney must never again think OF IT, frf
| TIME Imputed Dramas Of ShaksPeare.-A supple.
ment the Plays OF Shakespeare comprising the seven
dramas which have been ascrbed to his pon but which
are not included in modern editions, viz, t-aJ
The Noble Kinsmen,
The London Prodigal,
Thomas Lord Cromwell,
Sir John Odc asle,
The p,ritan ar the Widow OF Waiting Street,