Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-06-14

posed nothlng, but proposed to treat
with Texas. and TO admit her upon
agreed terms. Mr.. Calhoun seized upon
the House resolutions, and adopted it,
and thereby adopted the Missouri com.
promise and imposed it, not upon ter.
rltory but upon a State. He abolished
slavery in Statel and in this he carried
abolltlonism further than any Barn.
burner ever proposed; for they limit
their abol!tionism 10 territories. This
Mr.. Calhoun did, and did as late as
March the Sd, 1915. There is no dis
Pute about it. General Houston char
ged him with it in his Circular. AID.
dress TO his constituents at the late ses-
sion of Congress. Every body was
struck with the force of the accusation
and looked out anxiously for Mr.. Cal
houn's reply. They looked in vain.-
He did not reply, and could not Con.
fession would do no good, and denial
would make il worse. The fact was
notorious, and was of public record
He could not throw the blame upon
Tyler, for he had often boosted in the
Senate that he, himself, had sc looted
that resolution.
repeat: | do not cite this conduct
of MIR. Calhoun in abolishing slavery in
a part of Texas as authority, to Justify
abolishing slavery in States, but to shew
that he went further than any northern
fanatic" has ever proposed to go; aid,
further, that up to that date, March Sd,
lS45 he had not invented his new doc
trine of, no power in Congress to legis.
late upon slavery in territories; and still
further, to shew that, up TO the same
period, he had not felt the pricking of
that new point of honor-the insult to
the slave States, in being excluded with
their property from the soil which
their common blood and treasure won.
Texas was all won, as we'll north as
south of SO deg. 80 min, by the same
blood and treasnre-the taxes of the
people and the blood of Goliad, the Ala
ma, and San Jacinto. And vet here
were citizens of the same State exclu-
ded, by the act Of Mr.. Calhoun, from re-
moving with their property from one
part of it to another!
And now have arrived at point
which claims particular attention. Ii
will be remembered by all that after
the rejection ofthe Texas treaty in "A,
varions propositions were submitted 10
Congress for her admission, and that
every proposlian contained some plan
for dividing her into free and slave ter
ritory. Every body will remember
this. Now | do not recoIlect a single
instance in which the consttutionalIty
of such propositions were disputed, or
single instance in which it was deem
ed an insult to the saveholding States
to see slavery excluded from any part of
it. These propositions were particu,
arly numerous in the session of III
-'45, which ended with two propo.
sitions enacted into two alternative res
olutlons--one TO run the compromise
line through the State, the other to ne.
gotiate with her upon the subject. Mr..
Calhoun selected the former, a full proof
that neither himself, nor the majority of
the two Houses of Congress, nor the
President of The United States who ap-
proved the resolutions; saw any thing
in them either unconstitutional or insul-
ting to the slave States, or rendering to
disunion. myself made one of these
propositions. 1t was 10 divide by par
allel of longitude. 1t proposed TO Texas
that she should surrender TO the United
States all the territory west of the one
hundredth parallel of longitude, which
was to be free soil--that on the east
side to be slave soil. proposed to limit
slavery by line north and south, and
that upon negotiation with Texas; and
if any person wishes 10 know my prin'
cipes about the extension of slavery
west into New Mexico, they may see
tin that proposition. | thought il righr
then; and do not change my opinion:
of right TO suit calculations or circum
stances. What is more, never hearC
of any body that thought | was wrong
then; and the only difference between
my proposition and Mr.. Calhoun's &C
was, that was in favor of limiting sa
very by line drawn north and south
and that by negotiation with the State
to be affected: Mr.. Calhoun divided tn,
free and slave soil Of the State itself by
i, line drawn east and west; and accor
dinghy did so divide ii: and the Stat,
so stands at this day. The ditferenc,
between US was the difference between
, a longitudinal and lalitudinal line, ant
between taking the boundary of Stat
upon negotiation with her, for th,
boundary between free and slave sol
and running the line through the Stat
itself.
1t is absurd to deny to Congress tn
power to legislate as it pleases upon tn
subject of slavery in territories: il ha
exercise the power. and with the sane
ton of all authorities, state and fedora
from the foundation to the present time