Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-04
SALEM. OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST d., 1913.
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A Voice-I would like to have a chance at
him.
Mr.. Hale-The constituencies Of the Sena-
Tor satisfies me that he is originally from the
North. Going at length in reply to Mr..
Foote.
Nh Foo,e asked il the gentleman was not
the champion Of the Abolitionists in the
North, and does he not expect to BIZ nomi-
mated by the Buffalo C~onventionl If he is.
We shall have Hale storm with a vengeance.
Ola ha! ha y
Mr.. Hale-That depends altogether upon
how 1t is footed up. He then proceeded to
show that he did not belong to the Henry G..
wright faction, but 10 the Conservative Abo-
l%I'lonlsts, who wished to preserve the Union
BY falling back upon the old platform of the
Constitution.
With some further conversation between
MIR. Foote and Mr.. Hale,
MI. Westcott took the floor. He had no
Tears Of the Union. He had no fears Of the
WlImot Proviso-for, even if it passed, we
nave a President who will give it the veto.
ms excitement upon the question would
waste itself in the Presidential election
lie was in favor of the committee, and if no.
thing more could be done, the President
would be empowered, as in the case of Flo
rlda, to establish a temporary Government
over the new territories ill Congress should
meet again.
Mr.. Niles was glad to hear the Union was
sale. lie was oppose. 10 any compromise
on this question. He did not believe it would
be settled this session. 1t could not be lone
10y this Congress. 1t must be settled by the
people in the election Of a new Congress-
Let the people be heard on it. If you pass
lhls proposed compromise, the members vot-
Ing for 1t may be burnt in efigy when they
go home; and the act will not be binding, as
IN the case of admitting Missouri as a State.
These are but territories, and they will still
be open to Legislation. He would submit to
be voted down, but he would never assent to
an act by which one inch of free territory
shall ever be stained with human Slavery
All that should be done this session would be
TO give to the President the temporary Co
for the new territories in the in
terval to the next Congress, as was done in
1903.
MIR. BerrTien advocated, in a lively strain,
the committee, as the safest medium for a
satisfactory settlement of this question.
Mr.. Downs congratulated the Senator from
Delaware on his motion. The opposition
from a certain quarter pleased him. 1t was
proof that if this compromise be carried out
"Othello's occupations gone" (Ha! ha
ha They say the agitation will increase
and the difficulty will rise again. No, sir
they know that the plan suggested will xii
this free soil abolition movement stone dead
Messrs. Baldwin and Westcott, Dayto
and Calhoun. Bright, Foote, Clayton, job
Davis, and others, further prolonged the &c
neral discussion till five o'clock-Mr. Day
ton contending that Oregon was free an
ought TO remain free, by express declaration
and Mr.. Calhoun insisting that Oregon wa
derived from Spain and France, was open t
slavery, and ought, as well as New Mexic
and California, to remain open to the citizen
and their property from all the States.
The question was then taken on Mr.. Clay
toms motion for a committee of eight, an
as modified by Mr.. Bright's suggestion, tn
said committee shall take the general sub
ject or Governments for the territories q
Oregon, California, and New Mexico int
consideration, and report thereon-committe
to be appointed by ballot, four from the North
and four from the South, two Of each part,
TO each division. The result OH adopting al
this was yeas 81, nays ii.