The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-24

- The right prohibit slavery any nitory belongs
by them In forming their constitution for u State govern
ment or In their sovereign capacity independent
IS That in the event passage of any act of Con-
souri, Will be found in hearty operation with the slave
holding States in such may deemed
ssy for mutual protection against the
IS That senatos Congress be instructed and our
Representatives be requested, TO act in conformity
foregoing resolutions"
1t is absurd to deny Congress the power egslate
peases 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 the
present ume and never had questioned until Mr. Cal
houn put forth those unfortunate resolutions, from which
he had to back out under his Notifying cenradc-
tons 1t is absurd 10 claim it for the territories They
have no form OF government but that which Congress
gives them, and no legislative power but that which Con-
gress allows them Congress governs the territory
ton, and of this any State that has been territory is
complete example, and our own as much so any
Congress has the power to prohibit or admit slavery,
and no else Ii IL not in the Terrtories for their
governments are the creatures OF Congress- and its depu
Ties far any legislative power concerned Ii is
not in the States separately and this leads to one of
the grossest deusOns which has grown out OF the pol
cal metaphysics of Mr.. Calhoun He claims right for
the citizens of the slave States to to New Mex
profound The property is in the law which
ates it, aud that law cannot be carried inch beyond
The limits of the State which enacts it, No citizen of
that State an inch beyond The boundary line Of the State
which it. The instant he passes that boundary TO
settle with his property it becomes subject to another
law if there is one and is without law there is not
This is the with all with the northern man. with
his corporations and franchses-with the southern
one try it that disputes it, We inMssoun we'll stu
ated TO make the experiment conveniently and in all its
forms. Let any OF Mr. Calhouns followers try and
he will soon 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 6lh 1920
the Calhoun provso and will in vain invoke Slate rights
missouri In IIIinois ha
will find there the Jefferson proviso in the form Of the
ordinance OF 1857. Let him remove to Kentucky; the
the chae interest of the Missouri slave into real estate
for in Kentucky slaves are made real estate, and
placed on the footing of land, they are in Louis
lana. Let him move into Arkansas; his chatlel slave
subject to its regulation Finally let him remove vest est
and settle in the Territory of Nebraska, when it shall be-
created and the Calhoun proviso will be on him again
and his property will evaporate Thus citizen of Mis-
souri, get out OF his State any one of its
character altered holding it by another law and twice
he will lose ton two sides of his State contiguous
territory. he will lose it under act OF Congress which
became law under the advice and opinion OF Mr. CAL
houn, his high character of cabinet minister and as
ssng at council armed with the veto power This s
the of the Missouri CITIZEN and has been ever since
Missouri State; and thought the State
sovereignty insued felt himself bound 10 dissolve
the Union on account of it.
their States with them to Oregon and California 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 be exercised by the
same Judges in territories where there slave law
What aosurdity! No such thing be done The only
effect of carrying slaves there would be them free
would be in vain to invoke the constitution and say it
acknowledges property in slaves 1t does but that is
|confned to States.
Congress has the constitutional power TO abolish slavery
in erritores but she has slave territory in which 10
Of auS no % D the
California, New Mexico and Oregon, and that north of
Wisconsin, now Minnesota In Louisiana, north and west
tory north Of Wisconsin now Minnesota il was abolished
by the Jefferson proviso Of 1887. In Oregon it was
abolished by Congress in ls4s, BY what you may call the
fornia it abolished by the Mexican Government in
l629-conhrmed in 1887. and again in 1s44 Here
e have read The
were produced in the Senate Of the United States by Mr.
Dix, of New York
DECREE OF 1929
ABoLlcIoN EscLAvIrUD.-El Presidentc dc los Es
ados Unldos Me].canos los habitantes de la repubca
cia naconal que refuva benefcio ben tan
que cooperc al engandecmento de la repubca, que
n,eg,s una pa,s de sas haoi.an,e' los
por eyes sabias untas coniorme 10 dspneto ell
ordnaras que esan concedidas he vendo decrear
Queda aboida la esclavitud en- la republica.
Son po consguiente ibres los hasta how haban
3. Cnando los circumstances del erao 10 permitan,
ndemnzara los propriearios de escavos los
que dispuseren las leyes.
MEXICO. Is de Setiembre de 1929 A. d. Jose Maria de
Bocanega.
COLLECTION de Leyesy Decrctos, etc, los de 1929
1880, pag III
TRANSLATION
ABOLITION or SrAvLRY.-The President of the United
Mexican States me inhabitants OF the republic
Desiring signaze in the 1929 the anniversary of
which may tend to the benefit and support OF important
good which strengthen more and more the public
tranquility which may cooperate in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF the republic and which may restore unfortunate
portion of its inhabitants the sacred rights which
them, and the nation protected by wise and Just laws
conformity the provision OF the Both article of the
stntive exercising the extraordinary which
conceded to me, do decree;
1. Slavery is abolished in the republic
Those who until to-day have been considered slaves
consequently free.
When the condition of the treasury will permit the
of the slaves i'll be indemnihed in the
which shall be provided for by law.
MEXICO, 18th September 1929, A.. ID.
JOSE MARIA DE- BocANEcRA
LAW OF 1857.
"Queda aboda sin escepcion alguna Ia esciavitud en-
coda la republican, Abr B. de 1887 (Coeccion dc Leyes
y Decretos, etc.. tomo 8, pag Dol
translation l-Savery forever abolished without any
exception, IN the whole repubc April s. lSi7 COLLECTION
of laws and DEGREES of the general Congress United
Mexican Staies volume 8, page Dol
Los duenos de csclavos manumitos por presene Icy
e decreto de ID de Setismbre de 1922 ndem
azados etc COLLECTION fe Leyes Decreos, etc., tomo
9, pag Dol
tTranslaton 1.-The masters orsaves manumitted by the
present law by the decree Of the 18th OF september,
1929, shall be ndemnfed &c COLLECTION OF laws and de-
crees, &c, vol g. page e0i1
This is the Decree and this is the act OF Congress
6rming it, abolishing slavery throughout the Mexican
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