Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-06-21
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any territory and it cannot get there BY law, except
by act of Congress; and such act will be passed.
or even asked for. The dogma Of, no power in Con-
press to egsae upan slavery in territories kills that
pretensioD. No legal establishment Of slavery in
California and New Mexico is then TO be looked for.
That is certain. Equally certain it will never be
tablished in either of them in point of fact. The
people of both terrtores-ihe old inhabiiants-are
unanimously against it.
OF the emigrants. all those from Europe, Asia,
Mexico, Central and South America, and all those
from the non-slaveholding part of the United States
will be unanimously against it. There remains then,
to overbalance all this unanimous mass, only the
emigranis from the slavehoding parts of the United
Siaies-in itself the smallest branch of the emgra
tion and it divided the questiJn-many going for
the express purpose of getting rid of slayery-and
very few so far in love with it to go that distance
for the pleasure of having lawsuit with his own
negro, and with the certainty of coming out second
best in the contest. There is, them slavery at this
time, either in New Mexico or California, in law or
in fact; and will never be either, in law or in fact
What, then, is all the present uproar about I! Alb
straction the abstract right of doing what cannot
be done the insult 10 the sovereignty Of the States
where there is no insult all abstraction and
reality, substance. or practice in it.
The Romans had class of disputes which they
called de lana caPrina-that is to say, about goats
wool; and as the goat has no wool, the dispute was
about nothing. So it is Of this dispute among US
fornia. There is there to exclude, and the dis
pute raging is about nothing.
The Missouri resolutions copied from those of
Calhoun; and do not believe there exceeded half
dozen members in the two Houses all told who were
in The secret either of the origin design of that
proceeding They were copied from Calhoun and
TO see their design you must know his. His were
aimed at the Unon-at the harmony and stability of
the Union-and ut the members from the sIavehoding
States who would not follow his lead-myself espe-
cially. This makes it my duty to speak of him, and
to show his design in bringing forward the resolu
lions from which he was so suddenly backed out in
the Senate, and which some half dozen members
have succeeded in passing through the Missouri Le
gisature. This carries rather far back, but will
make rapid work, and short work.
Mr.. Calhoun came into public lie to be President
of the United States. The weird sisters in the shape
of the old man that taught him grammar, had whs-
pered in his ear-thoU shalt be President. Upon that
oracular revelation he commenced his political career
and has toiled at It's fu6men for forty years-at first
openly, and, it may be fairly, by putting himself at
The head of all the movements which promised adj
vancement in the public favor In 1916 protection Of
domestic industry popular he put himself at the
head Of the protective policy and went for the mini
mum provision-the cotton misimum--vhich was the
father of all the rest and the only real injury to the
cotton growers by suppressng for thirty years that
class of cotton goods which was of most universal
use and of the largest cotton consnmption--the
duroys and vevets universally worn before 1876
so totally suppressed under the Calhoun minimum of
that year-and just beginning o'nppear again under
the tariff Of 1916. At the same time Q6l6,) ma
tonal bank the State banks having failed, and
brought odium on the State institUtons-was much
called for Mr.. Calhoun put himself at the head of
the CALL and carried through the bank charter. About
the same time internal improvement, by the federal
government. became popular: lie seized upon lbe
subject; and, in 1898, as Secretary of War, made
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and canals, pervading all parts of the Union. In
1920 the Missouri controversy ragged, and the
whole north stood up man for curtailing the
Of slave soil she took the free soil current--and
expunged slave soil from all the territories of the
United States by joining in the abolition of slavery
in Upper Louisiana, giving Texas to the King of
Span and giving the rest of Louisiana TO the Indi-
ans. At the same time Jackson became the favorte
of the people for President he withheld and post
poned bis pretensions TO the Presidency, became
the advocate of Jackson, went upon his ticket, and
was elected Vice President with him. But this was
the end of his popular movements to gain the Pres-
deucy. He expected TO succeed Jackson and that be
would only have to wait and serve eight years. That
only year longer than Jacob had to wait and
serve Labsn for Rachel But oh the sappont-
ments in love and politics Like Jacob when he
woke up, he found it was Leah little ma gician of
the north had got into the bed and was to be Jack
sons successor Unlike Jacob, he could not wait
dnu serve elBut wears, ana determined
to clutch the prize at Then came notification
No. 1, (pretexted by that tariff of which he himself
The main author and that scheme for dissolvinc
the Union which Jackson's proclamation put down.
The tariff failed to bear him through: more infam-
mable subject was wanted-and that was found in the
sensitive question of slavery. Then came that long
succession of abolition plots for blowing up slavery
in the United States, compared which all the po-
| pish plots in England for blowing up the protestant
religion--the gunpowder, rye-hbuse, meal-tub, and
other plots, so formidable in their day-were tame
and impoent inventions. First, there was the Lon
don abolition plot Of Ashbel Smith, John Andrews
and Lord Aberdeen, for lighting the train of abolition
in Texas, and thence running it into the United
States. where it was to explode and blow all up and
TO prevent which it became a case of selfdefence
admitting of delay, TO jerk Texas instanter, by
treaty, out On their hands, before the pes was ripe
something like jerking the fuse out Of the AIDED
/ bomb before il would explode The treaty did moi
stand the jerk, and aas broke and the plot evapo.
rated without harm. Duff Green had been paid a
thousand dollars, by the Tyler administration, OIL
the United States treasury for bringing that plot from
London; but it money lost. Then came the
i Worlds Convention plot, also located in London. fo
the abolition of slavery throughout the world-iht
u S. inclusivey, but it came up feebly. and had
run. Then came the incendiary transportation mai
matter plot and that, for whle threatened to breal
up the transportation of the mails, and leave
two halves Of the Union in state of non-iniecourse
II ripened into bill for searching the mails-anC
then expired. Then came the incendiary petitions
plot: that occupied the time Of Congress for severa
years, aud considerably alarmed the country. unit
every body saw il was game performed by two set
of players, playing into each others hands, for the
own benefit at home, aud getting up an agitation o
which the public peace and the public business, wa
the victim. II then died out Thus all the abolition
plots--pretexis for second nullifcation--failed
Trey were, what the New York law reform statut
abolishng law latin, nterpreis the writ of ne erea
to be. co.
In the mean time there episode which vii