Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-06-14
cor. REyTOy,s sPEECIr.
TO THE PEOPLE OF Observation-Disclosures IN
THE CAPITAL
(C0nfinusd

lDg the answers which be did 10 Mr.. Monroe'S inter-
rogatories for the purpose of indicating the right Of
Congress TO prohibit abolish slavery in territories
When feel it necessary TO vindicate that right,
shall have resource to very different authority from
that which be quoted every side of every ques
ton it ever touched. quote il for very different
purpose-for the purpose Of shutting 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 mentioned bis resou
tions never called for that vote upon them which he
declared himself determined to have when lie intro
duced them!
In giving his cabinet support, where his voice was
potential to the abolition Of slavery over million
Of square miles in Louisiana, Mr.. Calhoun did more
than any has done towards abolishing slave
~ in the world holding he then did the one-hfth
part Of the veto power and commanding as his posi-
ton was as a southern and cabinet minister
a leading cabinet miniser-the largest question ever
started of free slave soil, then lns hands and
he decided it in favor of Free 1t immense boon
to the ant-slavery party then SO numerous and ar
dent but it was not the only service which he then
rendered Them Texas then ours-n part OF Lou
isiana-to the lower Rio Grande large enough to
form six great, or ten common States 1t was all
slave territory and looked to the natural outlet of
the southern States with their great increasing slave
population. 1t was given to the King of Spain
given away by treaty-and that treaty the work OF
Mr.. Monroe's cabnet-Mr. Calhoun being member.
And here there Is for denial nonrecollec-
q
that cession. A friend of Mr.. Calhoun reproached
him with it in the House of Representatives. MIR.
Adams was then alive, and present, and soon vindl-
Gated the truth of history. He showed that there
division in the cabinet upon the point; he was
against it-Mr. Calhoun for it-and Mr.. Calhoun be-
ing southern man, and the majority of the cabinet
southern men, he carried the day-and Texas was
lost not then in public life, but wrote against
that act, blaming Mr.. Adams, when | should have
blamed Mr. Calhoun By that cesslon the expansion
of slavery stopped: the growth OF slave States
in the southwest was stopped three hundred and fifty
thousand square miles subject TO American slavery,
cut off from American dominion, and presented to
foreign King This was another great qualification
TO the abolitionists: but it not all. There was
strip of land, about large enough for two States, y
ing upon the Arkansas and Red Rivers, and between
Texas and the SO deg. 30 min. of north latitude
This strip having escaped the compromise line
side, and the Texas cession on the other, was open
TO the formation of two respectable slave States. Mr.
Calhoun then still cabinet Enthusiastically at
War-had the Indians under his care-and was riding
the hobby of their civilization. He required this
strip to be given up to the Indians, for their perma
nent abode and thus, it also, was lost 10 the slave
States All Louisiana then gone from them
cept The fragment which continued in the States
of Missouri and Louisiana, and in the territory of
Arkansas Even this fragment appeared too much to
be left to the slave States,'and slice forty miles
wide and 800 miles long, was cut off from Arkansas
and given TO the Indians and the shareholders with
the slaves upon the slice, were required to remote
from the cut off part, and fall back within the
tracted limits. This done by Indian treaty, the
treaty negotiated by protegs of Mr.. Calhouns. He
was then Vice President of the United States. and
President Of the Senate was a member of the Sem
ate-opposed The ratification of this reaty-and
within two votes of defeating it, The slight
est help from MIR. Calhoun would have defeated it,
and saved the slave State of Arkansas that territory
and those salt springs, the loss of which she has
to lament. Taken altogether-the compromise-the
Texas cession-the Indian doman-and the slice from
Arkansas, and Mr.. Calhoun did more, in less time,
TO abolish slavery, diminish its area, and increase
that of free soil-than any that has appear
ed the face of the earth and of this the anti
slavery party Of the north were fully sensible, and
duly grateful. They gave proof of their gratitude
Mr. Calhoun then candidate for Vice President
of the United States he became the avorite of the
North-bcatiDg even MIR. Adams himself on the free
soil track. He beat him six votes in New York
ran head and neck with him through New Hampshire,
Vermont and Rhode lsand-was even through Mas
sachusetts-and came out nose ahead on the north
track. He actually beat Mr.. Adams in abolition
States--and with justice. He had done more than
him for free soil, and with merit, being himself
nhabitant of slave soil. told him all this in my
first Calhoun act, in the Senate of the United States,
four days after he put in his re-brand resolutions in
my speech show him TO be the true author Of the
Mexican war. This was what then said to him:
{" This conduct of the Senator in giving away Texas.
when we had her, and then making get her back is
enigma which he has vet to expIa
and which, until explained leaves him in state of self
contradiction, which, whether impas
in himself have the effect of destroying the
confidence Of others in him. and wholly dsquaes him
the office of champion Of The savehoding States. 1t
the heaviest blow they had received and put end
conjunction with the Missouri compromise aud the perma
location of the Indians of Mississippi to their
future growth extension slave States beyond the
sissppi The compromise which then in full progress
and established at the of Congress-
slave states from All territory north and west of Missouri
and south Of thty-sx and half degrees Of north latitude
the treaty OF 1919 ceded nearly all south of that degree
compehending not only all Texas a large part
valley Of the Mississippi the Red River aud Aran-
sas to foreign power and brought non-saveholdng en-
pre to the confines Of Louisiana and Arkansas pema
nent appropriation oil the rest OF the territory for the abode
OF civilized Indians swept the little slavehodng Territory
west Of Arkansas and lying between the compromise ne
and the cession ne and left the slave States
inch Of ground for their future growth Nothing left
Even the then territory Of Arkansas encosched upon.
breadth OF forty miles wide. and three hundred long
cut off from her and given the Cheokees there
not as much slave territory left Of the Mississippi
dove could have rested the sole Of her foot upon II
not merely cuTaiment, but total extinction of slave
holding territory; and done time when the Missouri
controversy was raging and every effort made by northern
80 ~ sop me CROWN OF save states. The sena-
tor from south Carolina. in his support OF the eesson OF
Texas, aud cedng Of the valley Of Mississippi
was then the most efficient ally of the institutions that
time, and depTves him Of the right Of setting up the
champion Of the Slave States denounced the sacri-
nee OF Texas them believing Mr. Adams
author Of IL denounce now knowing the Senator from
south Carolina to be lis author and for hshs fragrant
the slave in their Of utmost peril
II hold him disqualified for the Office Of champion Of
fourteen slave States flor Delaware be counted
shall certainly require him TO keep Of Missouri
eonne himself 10 his bsilwick, when he dis
euss hrs string Of resolutions"
In these terms reprosched him TO his face, for his
recreancy 10 the slave States, when he was catering
for free soil votes He was forced to answer and to
admit the vote in Mr.. Monroe's cabinet in favor Of
giving away Texas, and in conformity TO which ypte
the treaty was made; but with respect to the Mis-