The North-Carolina standard., 1849-07-18

OF Congress conflicting with the principles herein
expressed Missouri will be found in hearty cooper
alton with the slayeholding States in such measures
may be deemed necessary for mutual protection
against the encroachments of northern fanatcism.
sc. That our senators in Congress be instructed
and our representatives be requested to in
formity to the foregoing resolutions.'' &ga3sa,
It is absurd to deny Congress the power to leg
slate as 1t Pleases upon the subject of slavery in
territories It has exercised the power and with the
sanction of all authorities, State and Federal from
the foundation to the present time, and never had it
questioned until Mr. Calhoun put forth those unfor-
tunate resolutions, from which he had to back out
under his own mortifying contradictions. It is alb
sured to claim it for the territories They have
form of government but that which Congress allows
them Congress governs the territory as it Pleases
and in way compatible with the'eonstitution, and
of this any State that has been territory is COM
Fplete example, and our own as much so as any.
Congress has the power to prohibit admit slave
ry, and ese 1t is not in the Territories for
their governments the creatures of Congress, and
its deputies so far any legislative power is con-
cerned. 1t is not in the States separately and this
leads to one of the grossest delusons which has
grown out of the political metaphysics of Mr.. Cal
houn. He claims right for the citizens of the slave
! States to removeto New Mexico and California with
their slave. property. This is profound error. The
psPey x is in the law mt Hnd ha
State which enacts it. No citizen of any State can
carry any property, derived from law of that State
which creates it. The instant he passes that bounda-
Iy 10 SetLle With MS properly IL becomes subject 10
another law, if there is one, and is without law if
there is not. This is the case with all, With the
northern man, with his corporations and franchises
with the southern man and his slaves. This is the
law of the land and let any try it that disputes
it. We, in Missouri well situated to make the
experiment conveniently and in ali its forms. Let
any of Mr.. Calhoun's followers try it and he
will what becomes of his property, his slave
/ property. Let him remove to Iowa he will meet
there the eighth section of the act of Congress of
March 9th, ls2O-the Calhoun Proviso; and will in
vain invoke State rights and Missouri statutes. Let
him remove to Illinois; he will find there the Jeer
proviso in the form of the ordinance of 1887.
Let him remove to Kentucky the law of kentucky
takes hold of his slave, and converts the chattel
interest of the Missouri slave into real estate for in
Kentucky slaves made real estate, and placed
on the footing of1and, they are in Louisiana.
Let him to Arkansas his chatte slave will re-
main chattel, but by virture of Arkansas law, and
subject to its regulation. Finally, let him remove
west, and settle the Territory of Nebraska, when
it shall be created and the Calhoun proviso will be
on him again, and his propertycwl evaporate. Thus
citizen of Missouri cannot get out of his own State
on any one of its four sides with his slave property
without having its character altered holding it by
another law and twice he will loseiton two sides
of his State contiguous territory ne will lose 1t un-
der act of Congress which became law under
the advice and opinion of Mr. Calhoun, in his high
character of cabinet minister, and assisting at coun-
Gil armed with the veto power. This is the case OF
the Missouri citizen, and been ever since Mssou-
ri State and ever thought the State SOW
ereignty nsulted, felt himself bound to dis
solve the U Mon account of it. ..-|
No {; the citizens of the State cannot carry the
laws of their States with them to Oregon and Cafor
MIA and if they could, what Babel of slave law
would be there Fourteen States, each carrying
code different in many respects from each other, and
all tc be exercised by the same judges In territories
where there is-no slave law! What absurdity No
such thing can be done The only effect OF carrying
slaves there would be to set them free: would be
in vain to invoke the constitution and say tacknowl-
edges property in slaves 1t does but that iscon-
fined to States
And now we arrive at substance-at practicable
point. Congress has unconstitutional power to abol-
ish slavery territories but she has slave terri
tory in which to exercise the power. Wehave no ter
rtory but the remainder of Louisiana north and west
of Missouri, that in California and in Minnesota:
In Louisiana, north and west of U.S. it was abolished
by Congress in 1920. In the terltoiy north of Wis
consin, now Minnesota, it was abolished by the JEFF
ferson proviso of 1887. In Oregon it was abolished
by Congress in 184s. by what you may call the BEN
ppoviso, if you please, In New Mexico and Cal
ifornia it was abolished by the Mexican Government
in I929-confr,ned in 1887 and again in 1874.
Here the DEGREES, the originals OF which 1 have
read in the authentic bound volumes of the Mexican
laws, and which were produced in the Senate OF the
United States by Mr.. Dix, of New York:
.a'-s< -.'L.-s.7-t TTRANsLATIoN.l .''-
r ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. The President of the
United Mexican States to the inhabitants of the re-
public: -.s- ..s. ..-..FI,- .-f. y
Desiring to signaize, in the year 1929, the an
niversary of Independence by an act OF national JUS
tice and benefcence, which may tend to the beneht
and support OF So Important ID SOou .WHICH tHdJ
strengthen more and more the public tranquility I
which may cooperate in the aggrandizement OF the
republic and which may restore to an unfortunate
portion of its inhabitants the sacred rights which ma
ture gave them and the nation protected by wise and
Just laws in conformity to the provision OF the 3Oth
article of the constiitive act exercising the extra
ordinary powers which are conceded to me, do de-
cree - r. sa' 'tE. e.-,'--<D %"
g. l. Slavery is abolished in the republic :. Isl. :
Q. Those who until to-day have been. considered 7
slaves are consequently free. .. al
g. When the condition of the treasury VIII permit,
the owners of the slaves will be lndemnlhed In the
manner which shall be provided for by law.,-3 =
Mexico, 18th September, 1929, A. D. sz.F 81 z. 81
- - JOSE MARIA De BocANEGRA.
--iStDFss }sl4t5 LAW OF 1887. - -
Saveryis forever abolished, without any exception
in the whole republic e April 5, 1847s COLLECTION
of laws and DEGREES of the general Congress OF the
United Mexican States, volume 8, page 2O4. =
The masters of slaves manuIntted by the present
law or by the decree of the 18th of September, 1922
shall be Unidentified, &c. Collection OF laws and
DEGREES, &C., volume 2, page 2Ol. - 8eelis7
This is the decree and this the act of Congress con-
rming it, abolishing slavery throughout the excan
repnbiic The constitution of 16 IA does not abolish
savery for thatWas done before but prohibits Its u
ture establishment. Thus there IS no slavery now IN
New Mexico and California and consequently none
in any territory belonging to the United States ana,
consequently, nothing practical or real In the wnole
slavery question for the people OF the Unted states 10
ovarref about There is no slavery now by law In
any territory, and it cannot get there by law except
act of Congress and such act will be passed,
~ even asked for. The dogma Of no power In Coh-
rs to upon slavery in territories kills that
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