Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-06-07


abolished slavery where il existed by 7
lawn oil the upper half of Louisiana v
from $3.50 to 40, and from the 8
Mississippi 10 the Rocky Mountains a
over territory nearly thousand miles $
square--nearly million of square miles @
enough 10 make 20 States Of $4,000 6
square miles each--more in fact than all 5
California, New Mexico and Oregon d
put together. Over all this vast ter d
ritory the proviso, supported by Cal
houn, abolished slavery--aboished it, 9
then existing by law--and shut il up {
from the slave emigration of the South.
And now what becomes of the dogma,
in his mouth and that of his follow
ers, so recently invented, of no power
in Congress TO legislate upon the sub
ject of slavery in territoriesl what be-
comes in their mouths, of the new fan.
gled point of honor, just felt for the
first time in thirty years, of insult 10
slave States in their exclusion from set
Element in the territories bought by the
blood and treasure Of the whole Union.
Louisiana was territory, and Congress
legislated upon slavery in il, and legis-
lated slavery out of a million Of square |
miles of it, and Mr. Calhoun supported
that legislation. Louisiana was a ter
ritory acquired by the treasure, if not
by the blood, of the whole Union; and
the proviso of 1920, supported by Mr..
Calhoun, shut up the one half of from
slave emigration. If that is insult, he
and his followers have stood being in
suited most remarkably well for about
thirty years; and perhaps, would con-
suit their own self respect, and lose
nothing in public opinion, if they should
continue standing it with like foriitude
for the remainder of their lives.
do not quote this conduct Of Mr..
Calhoun in giving the answers which
he did 10 Mr.. Monroe's interrogatories,
for the purpose of indicating the right
OF Congress to prohibit, or abolish sla-
very in territories. When feel il ne
cessary to vindicate that right shall
have recourse TO very different author
ity from that which can be quoted on
every side of every question it ever
touched, j quote it for very differ.
ent purpose--for the purpose Of shut
ting up The mouths Of his followers as
completely as il shut up his own from
the day he was confronted with it,
From that day to the present he has
never mentioned his resolutions! -
never called for that vote upon them
which he declared himself determined
TO have when he introduced thcm
In giving his cabinet support where
his voice was so potential, TO the abol-
ition of slavery over million of square
n / al Il Il
more than any one man has ever done
towards abolishiDg slavery in the world.
Holding as he then did the one. fifth
part of the veto power, and command
ing as his position was, as a southern
man, and cabinet minister--a leading
cabinet minister-the largest question
ever started of free, or slave soil, was
then in his hands; and he decided it in
favor of free. 1t was an immense boon
TO The antl-slave. party, then SO nnmer-
Gus and ardent, but it was not the only |
service which he then rendered them
Texas was then ours-a part of Louis. |
iana-to the lower Rio Grandc; large
enough TO form six great, or ten com
mon States. 1t was all slave territory
and looked TO as the natural outlet of
the southern States, with their great in
creaslng slave population. Ii was given
TO the King of Spain-givcn away by
treaty and that treaty the work of Mr..
Monroe's cabinet-Mr. Calhoun being
member. And here there is no room
for denial, or non-rccolleclion. For
long time Mr.. Adams bore the blame
of that cession. A friend of Mr. Cal
houn reproached him with it in the .
House of Representatives. Mr.. Adams
was then alive, and present, and soon
indicated the truth Of history. lie
showed that there was a division in the
cabinet upon The point: he was against
H-Mr. Calhoun for it-and Mr.. Cal !
houn being southern man, and the
majority of the cabinet southern-he
carried the day-and Texas was lost
l was not then in pnblic life, but |
wrote against that act, blaming Mr.. |
Adams, when should have blamed Mr..
calhoun. By that cession the expan-
sion of slavery was stopped: the growth
OF slave States in the south. west was
stopped: three hundred and fifty thou
sand square miles subject to American
slavery, was cut off from American do
mlnion and presented to foreign King.
Inns was another great qualification to
the abolitionsts: but it was not ALL
There was strip of land about large
enough for two States, lying upon the
Arkansas and Red rivers, and between
Texas and the SO deg. 30 min. of north i
latitude. This strip having escaped the {
compromise line on one side, and the
Texas cession on the other, was open 10 {
The formation of two respectable slave
States. Mr., Calhoun was then still 1
cabinet misunderstanding at War