Holly Springs gazette., 1849-10-12

CCO - llOuSlNIl, AHUICW JOIHSuHj OCO'
w Jones Seaborn Jones; II Lumpkin,
Phelps, J J Mckay, B Martin, 7 Pilsbury
D S Reid. l. II Sims, FP Stanton, JacI6
Thompson, and J w Tibbatts--?3.
Mr., Thompson isvery fond of holding
up in an odius light the names of Messrs,
Collamer, Giddings, Hre, Mash, Truman
Smith, and Winthrop. Yet, in the case
before us, we find him voting SIDE by side
with these gentlemen,
The bill was defeated in tie Senate,
March 8, 1917, by motion to Jay it upon
the tablc--Yeas 26, nays IS, Con. Cass
voting against laying on the table.
The same bill was again introduced in
Congress in ls4s, passed beth houses, as
all know, anj afterwards received the
approval of President Polk.
The object ofthe WiImotpr5vso is to
ercludc slarcryfrom national tt7rtory. As
proposed by Mr., Wilnot, it ruins thus:
provided. as an express ind funda>
mental condition to the acquisition of any
territory from the Reprblic o1hlexico by
the United States, by virtue or,.ny treaty
which may be negotiated between them,
and to the use by the Executive of the
monies herein appropriated, neither sla-
vcrynOr taroluntmy sapitutlc shall epcr erist
in any part Of saidterrjry except for crime
whereof the party shall first lie duly con,
victed
Oregon was portion of national ter
ritory lying West ofthc Rocky.Mountains
The whole people Of the United States
had common interest in it. The officers
cre"ted under the act giving it territo>
rial government, OF which We have just
been speaking, are paid out ofthe national
treasury. Mississippians have to contri>
butte their part to this object, although
they cannot remove 10 that territory with
their slaves, il they desired to do So
What else did Mr.. Thompson vote for,
then, but something akin to the lVilmot
ProviSo when he voted for bill excluding
slavery from Oregon? Was it rot the
very head and soul of the proviso itself?
"Ah but, Oregon" says DIR. Thompson,
''lies far north Of SO degrees 80 minutes, the
line of the Missouri Compromise, and was
but voting to carry out lis terms" Now let
US see whether or not that compromise had,any
thing TO do with the Oregon territory. 1t is
contained in the 9th section Of the act admit.
ting Missouri into the. Union, passed in 1920:
"Sec. 8. That in all That territory ceded by
France 10 the United States, nader the name
of Louisiana, which lies north Of SO degrees
80 minutes north latitude, not included within
the limits of the State contemplated by this act,
Slavery and involuntary sevitudc, Otherwise
than in the punishment of crimes whereof
the parties shall have been duly convicted,
shall be, and hereby is, foreves duly prohibit.
ed; Provided always E.at taS persou cscap-
ing into the same, &C.,
The compromise was limited by its own
words, then, TO all that territory ''pnder the
name Of Louisiana. All who aro convert Wv
with the history of the times, very we'll kII ~"
what portion of country bore the namd
Louisiana Territory in 1920 Il was that
tensve region stretching from the Gulf. ~
Mexico TO British America on the north,
side of the Rocky Mountains and mainly v"
of the Mississippi RiAer, covering what is ~
the States of Louisiana, Arkansas, MiSso
and the Indian and Missouri Territories
49, ~ :, a, s.
That scope of country West of the Mounta =,
""' A"o"" '''' J"1' 10 dis
tinct appellaton of Oregon Territory. In
dtion to this, wo were not at that day fully :,
possession of Oregon, We occupied it
common with Great Britain, the two cod
tries by agreement exercised joint jiIrisdictiu, VI
over it, the title to ii was in dispute, and ~
was somewhat doubtful what would be its ul !, =.
mate relation to us. Surely, then, bill pas :"
ed in relation to Louisiana Territory did nS1
embrace Oregon. Surely, we did not undennr
take to prescribe rules respecting slavery in "
a country over which another had the san,
authority that we possessed. I"
Again, the Missouri Compromise line d,
not so much as touch Oregon. BY rclereni,
to the map, it will be seen that it stopped {
this side of the Mountains in Longitude 80 q A,
grees west from Washington, Immediately [,
alne with the northern boundary ofArkansa;
The most eastern limit Of Oregon lies beyOn
the mountains, about nine degrees farthe
West than the terminus Of hc line. Eve
when Texas was admitted into the Udion,
though the line raIi directly up to lis easter
boundary the terms ofthe compromise had n,
application 10 that country, unit thanNne wa
extended throught by an cxpre IN m ir
the act of admission. Now, ifthe c,cS5romistl
can be made to embrace Oregon, country
over which we had no sole jurisdictionw when thd
act was passed, why did itnot also cover Texas
New Mexico and California as soon as they
BECAME oursl Yet, no statesman North Of
South contends for that doctrine.
But we have another piece of evidence mord
directly to the point. On the 18th Of January,
ls47, when the Oregon bill was under discussion
only the day before Mr.. Thompson and other
Southern democrats voted for il Oh its assage, Mr..
Burt OF South Carolina, (who had also been ell
trapped into voting for this Wilmot proviso meas
ure a: the previous session, and now like true
Southcrner backed out from D moved to amend
The 18th section Of the bill, quoted in this article
bv nsertinn in the 9TH line hetwaon tho ,vord