The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-09

that vote upon them which he declared him
self determined to have when he introduced
them.
In giving his cabinet support, where his
voice was 50 potential to the abolition Of slave
ny over million Of square miles in Loui-
siana, Mr., Calhoun did more than any one
man has ever done toward abolishing slave
ny in the world. Holding, as he then did,
the one-hlth part Of the veto power, and
commanding as his position was, as south
ern man and a cabinet minister leading
cabinet minister-the largest question ever
started Of free or slave soil, was then in his
hands; and he decided it in favor of free.
II was an immense boon to the anti-slayery
party, then so numerous and ardent but il
was not the only service which he then rem
1ered them Texas was then ours---a part
Of Lousiana--.o the lower Rio Grande; large
enough to form six great, or ten common
States Il was all slave territory, and looked
to as the natural outlet Of the southern States,
with their great increasing slave population.
II was given to the King Of Spain-given
away by treaty, and that treaty the work of
Mr. Monroe's cabnet--Mr Monroe being
member, And here there is no room for
denial and non-recollection. For long
time Mr. Adams bore the blame of that ces-
sion, A friend Of Mr.. Calhoun reproached
him with il in the House of Representatives
Mr.. Adams was then alive, and present, and
soon indicated the truth OF history. He
showed that there was division in the cab
met, upon the point; he was against it,
Mr. Calhoun for it--and Mr.. Calhoun being
a southern man, and the majority Of the cab
met southern, he carried the day, and Texas
was lost. | 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
lcan slavery was cut off from American
dominion, and presented to foreign
king. This was another great qualification
10 the Abotionists but il was not ALL
There was a 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
having escaped the compromise line on one
side, and the Texas cession on the other,
was open to the formation of two respectable
slave States Mr.. Calhoun was then still
cabinet misunderstanding 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 permanent abode; and thus it, also,
was lost to the slave States All Louisiana
was then gone from them except the lrag-
ment which was contained in the States Of
Missouri and Louisiana, and in the Territory
of Arkansas. Even this fragment appeared
to- be too much to be left to the slave States,
and slice forty miles wide, and three
hundred miles long, was cut oil from Arkan-
sas and given to the Indians; and the slave
holders with the slaves upon the slice, were
required to remove from the cut of part, and
fall back within the contracted limits. This
was done by the Indian treaty--the treaty
negotiated by a protege Of Mr.. Calhohn's.
He was then Vice President OF the United
States, and President Of the Senate was
member Of the Senate-opposed to the
ratification Of this treaty-and came within
one or two voteso of defeating it. The slight
est help from Mr.. Calhoun would have de-
ieated it, and saved the slave State of Ar
kansas that territory, and those salt springs,
the loss Of which she now has to lament.
Taken all together-the compromise-the
Texas cession--the Indian domain and the
slice from Arkansas, and Mr.. Calhoun did
more, in less time, to abolish slavery, dmin-
ish its area, and increase that of free soil,
than any man that has ever appeared on the
face of the earth and Of this the anti-save
party Of the north were fully sensible, and
duly grateful They gave proof of their
gratitude. Mr. Calhoun was then candidate
for Vice President Of the United States; he
became the favorite Of the North -beating
even Mr. 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 Island
was even through Massachusetts, came
a nose ahead on the northern track. He
actually beat Mr.. Adams in abolition States
and with Justice He had done more
than him for free soil, and with more merit,
being himself an inhabtant Of slave SOIL Il
told him all this in my first CaAouniac, in
the Senate of the United States, four DAYS
after he put in his fre-brand resolutions, in
my speech to show him to be the true a,i-
thor Of the lexican war This is what
then said to Him:
This conduct Of the senator, in giving
away Texas when we had her, and then
making war to get her back, is an enigma
which he has never yet condescended to ex-
plain, and which, until explained, leaves him
in state Of Standardization, which, whe-
Their il impairs his own confidence in himself,
or not, must have the effect of destroying the
confidence Of others in him, and wholly dis
qualify him for the Office of champion Of the
States. It was the heaviest
blow they had ever received, and put an end,
in conjunction with the Missouri compro-
mise, and the permanent location of the In
dams west Of the Mississippi, to their future
growth or extension, as slave States, beyond