Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1849-04-17

| labored and which she sacrificed to establish;
and this, therefore, with special and emphatic
| Justice, she sttled to demand. Give to her,
wherever the action of the Government touch
es her rights. that safety which she contribut.
cd SO much and so freely 10 secure for the be-,
nefit of others and Of alI; give her this, andsot
| let her experience, and SO show on ycur part,
that national generosity such as hers, is not in
all cases simple and unadultcratcd dnatlonaE
folly. hl..e ~. -. sFlT4 ss5st.f,.se5 E 49,,
But, Mr.. Chairman, when | thus speak Of
compromise, l desire to be understood as DONG
it with reference only to the general represcn.
tative duty which it imposes, but with none
| whatever tc the m easure which / have been
endeavoriag to support, that Of allowing our
Mexican territories to take upon themselves
| Immediately the functions and theindepend-
ence ola State. So far from referring to that
it would be extremely difficult, as it seems to
me, to present any measure upon any great OF
greatly controversial subject Of national poll
cy. which, either constitutionally or otherwise.
involves little Of compromise in it as that
measure does Constitutionally considered, it
scarcely affords ground enough upon which
the subtlest expostor could support the most
| shadowy distractions; whilst as o. practical
measure, cunning into competition with other
measures, it demands only that it should be
preferred, that it should be taken choice,
and is to that extent, and that only. a compro.
mise. 1t calls upon no one to disavow his IT,
vowa!s 1t asks not that any member should
repudiatc or retract his opinions. The anti. q
proviso man and the proviso man can both sup
port 1t in perfect consistency with what each
Of them has said Of his own opinions, and what
ca CHI has said against the opinions of the other.
The anti. proviso member cannot and vii! not
vote for or support any act Of this Government,
by which the introduction Of slavery into the
Territories Of the United States from any Of
the savcho ding States will he prohibited
The proviso member, taking the opposite
ground. will not, and cannot. as he AYERS, give
his vote or his sanction t., any act ofthis Gov
crnmcnt by which the introduction of slaves
from any quarter into the territories shall DO
allowed. Thus they stand, mutually facing
and defying one another, and both calling up
on the great gcogra phical sections which they
respectively represent. to stand up and support
them. Hers it IS, at this point, that the inca
sure now offered proposes to interfere: 1t pro-
poses to ste p in before the contending parties,
and cut of all necessity for decision upon the
questions in coutr vcrsv between them: 1t asks
the privilege of making up a new record in the
matter. and going to trial ard judgment upon
that 1t proposes, in other words, to sink the
whole question of a territorial government with
it's long train Of difficulties, doubts. and dan.
gers, and to entertain in place of it the ques-
ton Of an immediate forma ton Of State gov
eminent with its admitted rights and admitted
jurisdiction. Our whole embodiment with one
another hero, relates TO the extent of the le-
g,slative authority which Congress may con-
stitutionally exercise over the territories, whilst
they are subj ccted to its control We have ne
disa greement of opinion whatsoever as to the
power and rights of these territories over their
own affairs from the moment their territorial
condition is renowned. and their State condi-
ton is assumed. From that moment, as we all
agree, they absolutely and entirely inde-
pendent OF this Government in the regulation
and control Of their own internal concerns,
and have the full and sovereign right of per-
feet State to establish Just such system Of civ
il rights and civil institutions may be most
agreeable to themselves. The measure before
Us, wisely avoiding the ground Of irreconcila-
bio and hopeless dispute, puts itself upon that
Of our common agreement, and therefore, with )
great justice: calls upon us all TO come up and
support ir there. 1t gives TO Mother Of the an.
tagonist parties what each one Of them would
doubtless have prefcrred-the triumph Of his
own side. On the contrary, it medatos be.
tween them in spirit of fra tcrnal and perfect
fidelity to each, uud by clineing neither TO tho
one Eor the other, it proposes and expects TO-
accom- dish the wise and ust and national end,
Of set, ling the claims Of both. consistently with
the honor and the rights Of both Looking at
it in this light, ! cannot hut regard it as sea-
sonablc and happy measure of deliverancc and
relief, worthy Of all acceptatlon and all assist
ancn. Take it, and our troubles are over-our
reinsurance Of cordial and permanent brother
hood is complete. The uphoaving deep of the
public feeling, the surgcs Of which already
break at our very feet, will be soothed at once,
and will sink back gain into il calm as smooth
and glasay that of a summer sea. But re.
iect It, and follow up that rel ection by mea-
sure of sectional wrong enforced by the stub
born will of sectional ma GRITTY, and amongst
the wild and fearful issues VIII ich such course
will force into life, and which no mortal eye
can foresec, it may open up pit for US all. on
" less horrible than that Of the lost.
Concluded 1crt lceek.l