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col. BENT0NS GREAT SPEECH!
To the People of Missouri:
DELIVERED AT JEFFERSON CITY,
May seth, 1919.
Citizens: I have received certain reso
luticns from the General Assembly of Mis-
souri,, denying the right of Congress to leg
islate upon the subject of slavery in Terrific
ries-asserting the right of the citizens O
every State to remove to the Territories, &C.
quired by the blood and treasure Of ths
whole Union, with their Rroperty-declar
ing it to be an insult to the States to ex.
clude any of their citizens from so removing
and settling with their property alleging
such insult t8 be the cause of alienation
among the States, and ultimately of disu.
: nion; and instrueting the Senators of the
State, and requesting its Representatives, to
vote in conformity tothe resolves so adopted.
Ehese instructions, of which l now only
GIVE the substance, were adopted by the
!, General Assembly after the adjournment Of
sEongress, and after the time that it must
have been believed that the subject to which
zthsy refer had been disposed Of in Congress,
#hile other resolutions incompatible
hem had been given by the previous
Gele5 A ssembly, and had been complied
WITH 81, and were still on hand. They
are mere copy of the Calhoun resolutions
offered inslhe Senate in February, l847, de-
nodnced BY me at the time as frebrand,
intended for electioneering and disunion
purposes, and abandoned by him after their
introduction, without ever calling vote
upon them, for reason which will be here
after shown. l produce them in order to
justify the character | give of them, and to
show them to be the original of those which
Ihave received from the General Assembly
Of Missouri:
-. TIE CALHOUN RESOLUTIONS.
Rssolued, That the territories Of the u
hited States belong to the several States COM
posing this Union, aud are. held. by them
as their joint and common property.
aResotued, That Congress, as the joint
agent and representative of the States Of
this Union, has no right to make any law,
or do any act whatever, that shall, directly,
or by its effects, make any discrimination
between the States of this Union, by which
any Of them shall be deprived of its full
and equal right in any territory of the u
nited States, acquired or to be acquired.
sResolved, That the enactment Of any
law which should directly, or by its effects,
deprive the citizens of any of the States of
this Union from emigrating with their prop
.erty into any of the Territories of the Uni
ted States, will make such discrimination,
and would therefore, be a violation of the
Constitution and the rights of the States
from which such citizens emigrated, and in
derogation Of that perfect equality which
belongs to them as members Of the Union,
and would tend directly to subyert the Union
itself.
aResolved, That, as fundamental
principle in our political creed, people, in
forming Constitution, have the uncondi-
tional fright to form and adopt the govern
ment which they may think best calculated
to secure liberty, prosperity, and happiness;
and that, in conformity thereto, no other
condition is imposed by the Federal Consti-
tuition ON State in order to her admission
into this Union, except that its Constitution
be Republican, and that the imposition Of
any other by Congress would not only be in
violation Of the Constitution, but in direct
conflict with the principle on which our po-
itical system rests.
These resolutions were brought into the
Senate February l9, l847, and are the prot.
otype Of those sent meby the General As.
sembly of Missouri. / see no difference in
them but in the time contemPlated for dis
solution Of the Union-Mr. Calhoun's tend
ing ad;rectly,n . and those Of Missouri salta-
n,ately," to that point. In other respects,
they are identical, and this difference is moi
material, as the Missouri resolutions pledge
the State to @co-operate" with other slave
holding States, and therefore to follow their
lead, which may be directly. as the Acco-
mac resolutions, vouched to be the voice OF
the South, call fer State Convention, as
soon as bill can be passed for the pur-
nose. to organize the mode Of action.
consider the Calhoun resolutions as the par.
snt Of those adopted by our Legislature, and
entitled to the first attention; and, in tina
point of view, shall speak to them first, ane
begin with an argument against it, derivee
from the conduct Of that gentleman himself
In the year 1920, Mr.. Calhoun was
member Of Mr.. Monroe's Cabinet, and, a
such, was required by the President, in com
mon with the res. Of the Cabinet, to giv'
his opinion, in writing, to be filed in tn
department Of State, on the question OF tn
power of Congress to prohibit slavery il
territories, and on the consti1utionaliiy o
: the 9Th section Of the act for the admission
Of Missouri into the Union, and which sec
lion applied the anti-slavery clause of TN
Ordinance OF 1857 to more than half o
thewhole Territory Of Louisiana. Th
questions were momentous. The who'll
Union was then con7ulsed on the subjec
ofslavery, growing out of.he Missouri con
troyersy. Congress had just passed an &C
forthe admission Of Missouri without re
striciien, but with prohibition Of SLAYER!