Democratic banner., 1849-06-11
COL. BENroN's sPEEcH--c Continued.

COL. BENToN'S SPEECH Continued.
Some search has been made in the de-
psrtmeat of State for the written oPiaions
Of the cabinet, without finding them: but
that weighs nothing against the positive
testimony that they were there. The won
der would be to find them after 81 years,
and so many changes Of clerks; end it is
to Be remembered that no one Of Mr.. Mon.
ros's cabinet has been Secretary Of State
since that time but Mr.. Calhoun. -, i,,,
The fact is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by
the rules of evidence which convince the
human mind, sven the most unwilling-thai
Mr.. Calhoun, as q cabinet minister under
Mr.. Monroe, supported the constitutional
ty Of the Missouri compromise act. This
fact being established, let US see what that
act vas /; and that will be shown BY the
title to the act-by the act itself-snd BY
the actual condition Of the territory in which
it was to operate. This is the title:
San Act to authorize the people Of the
Missouri territory to form q constitution
and State Government, and for the admis-
sion of such State into the Union on an equal
footing with the original States, andtO pro-
h1bit slarery in certain territ0yies.' H
A very ineligible title this, especially in
the concluding clause, and enough to have
startled Mr.. Calhoun if he had held the
same doctrines on the powers Of Congress
then which he processes now. The act it.
self was in these words: -
Sec. 9, That 10 all that territory coded
BY France to the United States, under the
name Of Louisiana, which lies north Of SO
degrees 80 minutes north latitude not in-
cludsd within the limits of the State con-
templsted BY this act, slavery and invOlun-
tGry servitude, oaiert0ise than in the pun
ishmsnt Of the crimes Uhere@ The parties
shall haze been ,eonv,cted, shoU be, and
hereby aJorecer prohibited 81.
Ssch are the words Of the act-the very
words Of the Wilmot Proviso, and il any
modern copyist is to supercede Mr.. Jeffsr-
son in the paternity of that proviso it should
be John c. Calhoun, and not Davy WiImot!
It should be called the Calhoun Proyiso
and that for many and cogent reasons. In
the FIRST place he was nearly thirty years
ahsadof Dayy in the support Of this PrOviso'
In the second places, his position was high
eT, being s.Csbinst minister, and his voice
more potential, being q southern man. il
the third pisee, be was part Of the Uetl
power where three votes were . majority
Dsvy onlya msmber Of the lsgislstivs pow.
er, 5vhspsr t. requires . insjority Of both
houses 10 DO anything. In the fourth place.
Calhoun wiasi successful, Dsvy is not. Fin.
ally, Days Preyiso p . weak tcontrivancs
to prevent slavery from being where It ID
not, and Rhhfs IL never will be; Calhoun
proviso was Q manly blow to kill SLAYER,
where itkhsh sxisted by Law, and where /
would nov exist il point Of fact If that blow
he'd not been struck. The proviso!of Mr.
Calhoun actually abolished slayeryywhers
it existed BY lawn ell the upper half o.
Lopisisas- from $500 to 4essnd from ths
MiseissiPpE to de Rocky MonntainsAoye,
q sssSsssy nearly D iksassnd miles 'squsr'
merry I milton square milss--enougb i
make twenty States q $4,000 square mile
each-more In fecs than all California