The North-Carolina standard., 1849-08-01

tablish or abolish slavery or any Other tnen
Eclnzens OF the United States in the terro Of&
the power II mas In that respect is to recorDn An
erty there whatever is recognized as sTeS S1e aspm
thority of any one of the States, it's ona The an
united authority of each and all of the Oelng IL
adopt such laws for its regulation and nr"e and
the state of the case may require Mo- ~ eSeIOp /,
slightest danger that the recognition of .S mere 6
OF OF each and all the States within p,EO
rtories, would turn them into Babel. 40 The
ton contends. All may co-exist without oOL Ben
confusion, by observing the plain and smnI nIUnHcts
duty and justice. PIE rule d
There is another error akin to this. tb..
can law aPolishIng slavery is still in force IL Hs
Mexicoland California when not part;cO .H ia NeS
thority or sovereignty remains in either. TI lisa
quest by us and the treaty that followed oxt aef eC
ed the whole and with it annulled all boSS
plcable to them, excepting those relatinn' 'sNa
rights of property and relations between ;TaN sOa
as may be necessary to prevent anarchy "nt "u.tsdqi
these only continued by suferqnee and anu eVa
piled authority Of the conguertng eOutry on5 vi Aea
authority Of the conquered, and only from the naa n
| of the case. Her laws abolishing slave r'cess5
embraced in this exception and if it wer. it are
be taken out of it, as the assent of Concroa. NOO
not be implied to continue law, which Il could
right to establish. " Had Do
But still higher grounds may be taken, m.
ment the territory became ours, the Conatse a9e NO.
passes over and covers the whole with its nrovi
whicq, fom.their nature, are applicable tn to,,;
carrying with it the just sovereignty and antbo
each and all of the States of the Union. and o
ing away every Mexican law Incompatible wiS i%eP
rights, property, and relations, belonpinu 70 WIN M e
zens of the nited States, without regard 10 wb t
they belong, or whether it be situated in the nor
or the southern section of the Union. The cit"N
of all have equal rights of protection to their nroU
relations andpersonsin the common territories of%
and all the States. The same power that sweDt .H
all the laws of Mexico, which made the Catbol"g
| lTrrIan LII,
which let in the religion of all denominations. wa a
swept away all the laws prohibiting the introdraS
of property OF almost every description somo oI
lutely and others under the condition of pavinq d
and letting them in duty free until otherwise HJ1
for, swept that which abolished slavery and lei in r
perty in slaves. No distinction can be made betra'
II and any other description of property or tbnr ~
sistently with the constitution and the equal rg.
| the several States of the Union and their citizens
But We are told by Col. Benton, that the ouecf,.
has become amere abstraction of no oimportsnce. %
few have gone in either territory, except citizens
the North and foreigners and that they are all nm
posed to US. What insult! What! taunt n, T.
telling us we cannot go into them, because foreiuUs
and others who have been let in freely, and we krI
ont by the threat of confscating our properly by him
-self and his associates, have become sufficiently m
merous to keep us out, without the intervention
Congress to aid them He knew that proDenvs
timid' and could be kept out by threats. and hsn
exclude us ultimately. What a comment on Hs
equity and justice of the government, that We vb0
have freely spent blood and treasure to conOug
the country, should be excluded from all its benefits
while it is left open for the and enjoyment Of ali
that rabble of foreigners, which he enumeates with
such ZeSt, as the efficient means of our exclusion
Is there another instance of such an outrage to
found in the history of any other governmentha sV
| er existed
His avowal of the doctrines of the abolitiOnss
will have an effect, he little suspected when he made
it. 1t furnishes ample evidence to show that he used
deception in assigning his reasons for declining to
obey the instructions of his Legislature. 1t will be
remembered he offered his reasons, that their res
olutions instrncting him were borrowed from min,
and that mine were introduced for disHnion purposes
and that there was difference between them. e.
cept that mine aimed directly at dsunion, and hss
ultimately at the same thing. He added, in effect
that his devotion to the Union would not permlfn
to vote for resolutions so deeply tainted with dsun
Tha was at the commencement of his speech. We
now have in its conclusion conclusive evidence from
himself, that all this was mere fetch, stratagem
conceal his real motive for declining to obey them
His real motive, as it now appears, was that he could
not vote for them under any circumstances, for how
could an aboitionist as he avowed himself 10 be-
possibly obey resolutions, which are utterly at van
ance with their doctrines To obey would have In
volVed him In palpable contradictions much 80
that it could not fail to PROSTATE, and to ovewha
him with shame, if he is not to shame invulnenbs
This he saw, and than he had alternative left bub
resign or disobey. He determined in favor OF hehTF
but this of itself did not relieve him of his dilemma
He knew we'll thatit would defeat his object to cone
out boldly, and say that he had abjured his tOna
creed and adopted that of the aboltonsts And hence
he was forced toadopt some other expedien; andt@
that purpose. adopted the miserable pretext Of sian
derously charging me and my resolutions, and bis
own leglSlatuFe and their resolutions with dlsunOh
and of assigning that as his reason for not Obeyng
them, when he knew that his position made it mP@
sIble for him to obey them. But these are Dol
the only resolutions adopted by the LegisatR
OF his State to Instruct him. The previous Legs
lature- adopted two others. of which he says, thai
they truly express the sense of the State, and ma
he obeyed them, not only in their letter, but sPnL
They are in the following words
I" RESOLVED, That the peace, pernenancy and WeiaN
of our National Union depend upon strict adherens
to the letter and spirit of the 9Th section of toe
OF Congress of the United States, entitled : 40 40
to authorize the people of the Missouri Territory
mission of such State into the Union on an eqaA
footing with the original States and to prohibit Save
ry in certain territories, "approved March 9th, lS
s. ResOfred, That our Senators in the Conges
the United States hereby instructed, and oar iP
resentatives requested to vote in accordance win
provisions and the spirit of the said 9th sech@ "
the said act, in all the questions which may coms
tore them In relation to the organization OF ne" -
ritories or States, out of the territory now belonging
to the United States, or which hereafter may Dc
qnired either by purchase, by treaty, orby conqee
1t is proper to observe thatthe thsectiOn to WIZ
they refer contains the Missouri compromise wns
established S6o 3O as the dividing line between ~
slaveholding and non-slavebolding States, drawn "
tween the western boundary of the State of MiSsOa
and the western boundary of Louisiana. lG's' S
resolutions he says he obeyed, in letter and sPn s
when in fact he fagranuy violated them, by his W"
farf fho
that territory. without any compromise annexed
that too, to assert the principle of unlimited pow
of Congress over the territories and in open deqG
of all compromise. He calls that bill hi: PIO.0iI