The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-01-15
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J. WASHINGTON, Jan. IL, 1870.
!. The Slavery Question Day appointed for {
b Eght.-Programme
The day Is appointed for the fight. On moric
OF Mr. Douglas to-day, in the Senate. Monda
wee. Z, the ed inst, the bill from the Terrtons
COMMIT. zee, providing for the admission of all tn
territory AGO ,pireG from Mexico by the late treat
as one State mt, the Union, and the adverse repor
of the Judiciary Co. nmittee upon the bill, including
the exact, direct and 'alpable question of the adj
mission nto or exclusion from the new territories
OF the institution OF slavery, were made the spe.
cial order OF the day also the minority report,
yet TO be presented, OF Mr.. Dow.,s, OF the Judi
clary Committee, IN favor of the bill OF Mr.. Doug
las, and against the decisions OF the majority of
the committee.
In more explicit terms, on Monday week the
| following questions become the special order OF
| the Senate, to be DE- bated from day to day until
| the subject IS exhausted -
l. The broad question of slavery in all its smplf-
| tude.
| 2. The questions Of free soil and free labor.
8 Tbs oonstitutiouality Of inhbiting in the nsw
A. The policy and legality Of passing bill admitting
she new territories State, leaving the question Of
slavery to be settled by the people thereof
nation or their constitution.
| o. Inc unconstitutionalty Of such bill.
o: Inc equality Of the rights OF the States snd
OF the people OF all the States take into terri
sofier VI the Union, their ell kinds slaves
| Government
The unconstitutionality and ineq u.iity Of inhi.
biting the Southern man with his slaves, equal
participation in tho territories of the Uno with the
| Northern man aud his Yankee notions
8. Tbs dtgradations Of slavery
o. The humiliation Of submitting to the wilmoe
Proviso
10. The duty of restricting the demoralizing INST
futon of slavery to its present limits.
IL. The outrage which such act would iraiot
IL The opinions Of Mr. Jefferson, as the father O.
the Wilmot proviso.
10 The compromises Of the constitution, and thu
frequent attractions Of its provisions by the North in
aiding in the escape of runaway negroes
GRATED condition of the Southern States, compared
with the prosperity Of the North.
49, The original profits Of the North in the slave
trade, its present profits in manufactures and
derived from slave labor, and the comparative
happy condition Of the slaves of the South as con-
Of the NJ rth.
10 defence Of the cotton factories on the tariff Of
II. The assumption that the people of the Union
decided in favor Of free soil in the election of General
Is The adverse assumption that he was elected be-
cause he 10 slavehoder and therefore pledged in his
domestic interests to the interests Of the South
49, The Allison letters, and all the other letters Of
Gen. Taylor.
20. The annexation of Texas.
81. The Mexican War.
%. The Buffalo Hunt.
2a. The boundary Of Texas, and all the correspond
"a. The remuneration Of Now Mexico by the inva-
sion of Gen. Kearny, and his military occupation Of
25. The proposed military occupation Of Yucatan at
the last session and the supposed negotiations foot
for the re- ccnpation Of the island ofCuba
o. The danger OF losing them from the rapid influx
ofpopuaon unless forthwith incorporated as State
2s. The difficulty of amalgam stng the hybrid Mexi-
cans with the ADgloSaxon population
20. The French Revolution, and sill the other reve-
lutions in Europe, including the flight Of che Pope
80 The necessity ofa railroad TO the Pacific and
fho SUunO ~ nf ifo natin a
government in the new territories.
81 The Nicholson letter. and the of defeat Of
80. The Buffalo Convention, and the effect of free
soil In the result of the late election.
SO. The policy of the wings In Ohio as contrasted
with their policy in Mississippi in the late Presidential
81 The revolutions of the Southern States, and the
proceedings Of the late Southern cauouses in the csp
IS The resolutions of Northern Legislatures, and
the defeat OF Hannegan as an example
36. The dangers Of the horrors Of intestine from
the by metss and bounds Of the institution
81 The immortality in the sight Of the world Of -
een.irg to its further extension.
IS. The patriotic sacrifices of fathers, and tn
blood Of our patriotic sires.
80. The farewell address of Washington, and hi
warning against sectional disputes.
Al The Sub Treasury.
AZ Rivers and Harbors.
43. The public lands and the Indians.
A The National conys ntion Of "a, and the admi
49, The slavery of the Bible the slavery Of the Jews
the slavery OF the Romans, and the slavery OF the
South.
AZ The British emancipation system in the West
Indies and the decrease of the in jamaica,
from the substitution for slaves of the Hill Coolies
49, The question Of slavery in the District Of Co
luMbia its reroceesion to the State of Maryland
40. The danger of q renewal Of the capital.
90 The glories Of the Union and the horrors Of dis
eelution.
81. The duty and aeterm nation OF the South.
81 The duty and fixed position Of the North.
3d. Dissolution
These ffty-three items, and many other incl
dental ones, are all comprehended in the motion
OF Mr.. Douglas adopted by the Senate, fixing
Monday week as the day on which to open the
ball on the California bill, and the majority and
minority reports of the judiciary upon it.
In the debate wblcn will follow the taking up
OF said bill and reports, every one of those fifty
three Items will be discussed.
From present indications, the debate will be
full, fierce, savage, compromising and unyieldlng,
pacific and warlke, grand, gloomy, and peculiar;
and, from present appearances, also, 1t will end
in nothing Everything will be said, but nothing
will be done; everything will be threatened, but
nothing executed; and the administration of Gen.
Taylor will be saddled with the whole respon-
SlbIlIty. w.