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misunderstanding at warAhad the In
dams under his care-and was riding the
hobbyiof' their civilization. He required
this strip to be given up TO- the Indians for
their permanent abode ; and thus it, also,
was lost to the slave States. All Louisiana
was then gone from them except the ffag-
Missouri and Louisian, and in the tsnFitory
of Arkansas. Even this fragment appeared
to be too much to be left to the slave States,
and a slice forty miles wide, and three hun
.dred miles long, was cut of, from Arkansas
and given to the Indians; and the slave
holders with the slaves upon the slice, were
required to remove from the cut of part,
and fall back within the contracted limits.
This was done by Indian treaty--the treaty
negotiated by a protege Of Mr.. Calhoun's.
He was then Vice President of the United
States, and President of the Senate-I was
a member of the Senate-opposed the rati-
6cation Of the ~treaty-snd came within one
or two votes Of defeating it. The slightest
help from MI. Calhoun would have defeat
ed it, and saved the slave State Of Arkansas
that territory, and those salt springs, the
loss which she now has to lament. Taken
all together-the comprehensive Texas
cession-the Indian domain and the slice
from Arkansas, and Mr.. Calhoun did more,
in less time, 70 abolish slavery, diminish
its area, and increase that Of free soil, than
any man that has ever appeared on the face
of the earth; and Of this the anti-slave party
Of the north were fully sensible, and duly
greatful. They gave proofofthsir gratitude.
Mr.. Calhoun was then candidate for Vice
president Of the United States: he became
the ~favorite of the north-beating even Mr..
Adams, himself, on the free soil track. He
beat him six votes in New York-ran head
andneck with him through New Hampshire,
Vermont and Rhode Island-was even
through Massachusetts-and cam out a
nose ahead on the nothern track. He &C
tually beat Mr.. Adams in abolition States
and with justice. He had done more
than him for free soil, and with more merit,
being himself an inhabitant of slave soil. I
told him all this in my first CaLhouniac, in
the Senate Of the United States, four days
after he put in his fire brand resolutions, in
my speech to show him TO be the true author
of the Mexican war. This is what l then
said to him, r,.:. a5 .
srhis conduct of the Senator, in giving
away Texas when We had her, and then
making war to sc. her back, is an enigma
which he has never yet condescended 10
explain, and which, until explained, leaves
him in a state of self decentralization. which,
whether it impairs his own confidence 10
himself or not, must have the effect Of de-
stroying the confidence Of others in him,
and wholly disqualifying him for the Office
of champion of the slaveholding States. It
was the heaviest blow they had ever re-
ceived, and put an end, in conjunction with
the Missouri compromise, and the perman-
emit location of the Indians west Of the Mis-
Isissippi, to their future growth or extension,
ss slave States beyond the Mississippi.
The compromise, which was then in full
progress, and established at the next ses-
sion of Congress, cut of the slave States
from all tsrritorynorth and west Of Missouri,
and south of ~thirty-six and ahalf degrees OF
north latitude the treaty Of 1919 ceded
nearly all south Of that degree, comprehend
ing not only ell Texas, but a large part OF
the valley of the Mississippi, on the Red
river and the Arkansas TO a foreign Power,
and brought a non-slaveholding empire to
the confines of Louisiana and Arkansas ; the
permanent appropriation of the rest Of the
TERRITORY for the abode Of civilized Indians
swept the little slaveholding territory west
of Arkansas, and lying between the com
promise line and the cession line; and left
the slave States without n inch Of ground
.lfor their future growth. Nothing was left
Even the then territory Of Arkansas was
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