Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-06-27

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King of Spain-given away by treaty, and !.
that treaty, the work of Mr. Monroe.s cab
inet-Mr.sMol being member And
here there is no room for denial and non.
recollection. For long time Mr.. Adams
bore the blame of that cession.., A friend Of !
Mr.. Calhoun reproached him with it in the
House of Representatives. Mr.. Adams wasii
then alive, and present, and soon vindica-
! ted the truth Of history. He showed that
Ethfre wesss aiyisien in asabiaety-apons
the point ;he was against it'll Calhoun
for it-aud Mr.. Calhoun being a southern
man, and the majority of the cabinet SOUTH
ern, he carried the day, and Texas was lost.
4 was not then in public life, but wrote
against that act, blaming Mr.. Adams when
| should have, blamed Mr.. Calhoun. By
that cession the expansion of slavery Was
stopped; the growth of slave States in the
southwest was stopped; three hundred and
fifty thousand square miles subject to Amer
lean slavery, was cut off from American do
minion, and presented to a foreign king
This was another great qualification to the
Abolitienists; 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.
80 min. of north latitude. This strip hay-,
ing escaped the compromise line on one side,
and the Texas cession on the other, was open
to the formation of two respectable slave
States. MIR. Calhoun was then still cabinet
minister Secretary at War-had the Indi-' !
ans under his care-and was riding the
hobby of 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 gene from them except the fragmene
which was contained in the States of Nj
ouri and Louisiana. and in the Territory f{
Arkansas. Even this fragment ahpele :
to be too much to be left to the slave lts
and slice forty miles wide, and three sbins
dred miles long, was cut off from sfkaii-'
sas and given to the Indians; and tHs5save-
holders with the slaves upon the slice, were
required to remove from the cut off part,
and fall back within the contracted limits.
This was done by the Indian t,eaty-the
treaty negotiated by protege of Mr.. Cali
houn's. -5
He was then Vice President of the Uni
ted States, and President Of the Senate
| was member of the Senate-opposed TO
the ratification treaty-and came within
one or two votes Of defeating it.7s,The
slightest help Of Mr. Calhoun would have
defeated it, and saved fhe slave State of
Arkansas that territory, and those salt
springs, this loss of which she now has to
lament. Pakea all togethef-the com
promise-the Texas eession@the Indian
domain and the slice from Arkansas, and
Mr.. Calhoun did more, in less time, 10 abol-
ish slavery, diminish its area, and increase
that of free soil than any other man that
has appeared on the face of the earth; and
Of this the anti SLAVE party Of the north
were fully sensible, and duly grateful
They gave proof Of their gratitude Mr..
Calhoun was then candidate for Vice Pres
ident Of the United States; he became the
(avorite of the North beating Mr.. Ad.
ANS himself, on the free soil track. He
beat him six votes in New York ran head
and neck with him through New HamE-
shire, Vermont and Rhode Island was
even through Massachusets-and came a
nose ahead on the northern track. He-ac--
tually beat Mr.Adams in abolition States-
and with justice. He hnddone more than
him for free soil, and with more merit bee
ing himself an inhabitant of slave soil. !
told him all this in my first Calhosnit, in
lke 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 au
thor Of the Mexican war. This is what
then said to him.
"This conduct Of the Senator, in giving
away Texas when we had her, and then
making wsr to get her back. is an enigma
which he has neversyet condescended to ex-
plain, and which until explained. leaves
him in state Of self.contradielion, which,
whether ii impairs his own confidence in
himself, or not. must have the effect of
destroying the confidence Of others in him,
and wholly disqualify him for the Office of
champion Of the slaveholding States. 1t
was the heaviest blow they had ever re-
ceiyed, and put an end. in conjunction with
the Missouri compromise, and the perma-
nent location of the Indians west of the
Mississippi, 10 their future growth or ex-
tension, as slave Stutes, beyond the Mis-
sissippi. The compromise, which was
then in full progress, and established at the
next session of Congress, cut off the slave
States from all territory north and west of
Missouri, and south of thirty-six and a half
degrees Of north latitude; the treaty OF
1919 ceded nearly all south OF that degree,
comprehendlng not only all Texas, bat
large part Of the valley of the Mississippi,
on the Red river, and the Arkansas. to q
foreign power, and brought a nenrslave-
holding empire to the confines of L4ouisi-
ana and Arkansas, the permanent appro-
priatIon Of the rest Of the territory for the
abode of civilized Indians, swept the little
slaveholding territory west Of Arkansas,
and lying between the compromise line
and the eession line; and left the slave
States without one inch Of ground for their
future growth. Nothing was left. Even
the then territory Of Arkansas was en-
croached upon.
A breadth Of forty miles wide, and three
hundred long, was cut off from her. ana
given to the Cherokees, and there was nof
as much slave territory left west OF tne
Mississippi as dove could have rested 'ne Z
sole of her foo: upon. 1t was not merely
a curtailment, but total extinction Of
slaveholdiDg territory; and done at q tims