The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-04-12


United here under the condition that she should. BY
solemn aud authentic act q her legislature declare that
20 portion OF that constitution should be interpreted
70 violate the constitution of the United States in other
words, that II Tree negroes had right by the consntu-
ton to 80 into Missouri, she should not exclude them
under that provision OF her constitution Well sir there
was further provision in which, in order 10 exclude any
legislation or action BY Congress upon the subject. the
President was authorized BY proclamation declare the
conformity Of Missouri TO that requirement made 10 the
resolution for admitting her and. upon her complying
with H. the President then procalmng the fact them and
only then, was she admitted into the Union
Now slr, The honorable senator places himself behind
presidents say sir, that each OF the admission OF
Stale was under peculiar circumstances | will
not take up The time OF the Senate 70 go over The whole
q them here IS great subject agitatng and shaking
TINS country throughout and it proposed, in the spirit OF
compromise aud concession, to connect together two
or three analogous SUBSEQUENTLY analogous in
tnelr nature The honorable senator comes up and. en-
irenchng himself behind numerous precedents, talks OF
the indigniiy and injury in relation 70 Chtorna. Will
The senator tell me how she is treated with ndgnity
rial & Established al \" he one Biz III ca
iorna comes forward through her representatives and is
admitted Where is the indigntyi Will any tell
me We have heard il and over again announced,
IN the most emphatic manner. that indgnIty would
be rendered TO her without any definite explanation
without any showing how this indgnity would arise.
Sir, am taking up the time OF the Senate; il only
for five minutes that asked the floor, and meant five
minutes 1t simple question whether il is undgnied
or not IN California 10 concur in great scheme OF ma
tonal compromise the object of which the restoration
OF harmony peace and concord this people II there
Is any ndenIty in that il is ndgniiy which the whole
country will share with her, and which utterly
unable to comprehend from anything that has been
ted or be stated
Mr.. BENTON Mr. President, California concur in a
scheme OF general pacifcaton California concur, now
standing upon the outside of your door, stranger with
out your gates when her representatives and her
tors are not allowed 10 come in here Talk OF Caornia
concunng Sir, sheis concurrng in the sense in which
The slave tied TO the whppingp post concnrs in what s
done 10 that slave That is The way she She
has no volce--no even suffrage. She is not allowed
TO come In And she TO be bound BY general scheme
OF which she is TO be part and she have in il
always understood il took two 10 make bargain. In
this IT takes thirty 10 make bargain but
The party most bound BY The bargain and subject 10 the
binding Is to have nothing to say She IL to the
bonds and to say nothing at all about them Sir an
indigny. And, sir, this is no incomprehensble
thing. II is an injury TO California, have before
marked to mix her up with doubtful questions, some OF
which disputed account OF inexpediency, and NIL
OF which full Of points Of difficulty Il is injury
to California; FIRST by delay, and next to be subjected 10
the contingency OF agreement upon all these points Ii
ndgnity 10 be mixed up with things below her
rank II there was another State at this moment ready
to come into the Union 1t would not he indgnity
put her in the bill with that State Still say il would be
wrong Tor every State ought 10 rest, and has right to
rest, upon its own foundation She has right TO be ad
mited or TO be rejected by herself, and would be
wrong deprive her of but that would not be in
dignity | cannot say with what California il to be
mixed up the boundess order by which the committee
Is created According TO my reading OF the constitution,
there very few points which Congress has urs
dicton upon the subject OF savery and OF those few in
which there is clear constitutional authority Tor Con,
gress upon the subject oil slavery, there several
which this Congress and all Congress- have refused TO
touch, and which will not touch myself and therefore
will not delegate 10 any committee the right touch.
There have been difficulties in constituting the commit
iee lest all should be taken from either side of the d.
vidng line, or taken from either branch OF the political
parties. believe that there necessity Tor drawing
geographical lines, party lines, anything that
nees have 10 do upon The subject OF slavery; but that
is point will not take up now. ] will reserve il for
another occasion.
| come back to the main point that tlere are few
points upon which Congress has right touch slavery
at all, and oil those few there some which she has
not touched, which will mol touch, and which will
grant power TO no committee to touch For the present
the question is 10 exempt California from the bonds Of
thecommiiiee. But another question: question OF or
dernsy come up, when i Will be Tor you, SIR, TO de-
eide and that without any debate, whether not under
the language OF this resolution, California is referred
Il will have to be decided, II The committee shall take
into consideration the subject OF California, whether that
State something that has grown oil the institution
OF slavery in the United States, thus committing Califor
MIA to that committee deny that i has grown out OF
the institution of slavery the United States any
where else IL has connexion with II IN The world.
hold TO be forced conjunction 10 undertake. TO cou
pie with slavery Or to treat i as having been born
out OF slavery But all this is going beyond the present
question That must be reserved for hereafter.
wish TO say, sir, to the senator from Kentucky, 10
whom we are 90 much Indebted Tor The ADMISSION Of
but 10 Territory. Missouri Territory at the time
that the compromise of 1870 was passed. Il was
compromise that it was made applicable; and what has
since taken place has illustrated the truth and correctness
OF the decision made BY President Monroe's cabinet
at the time. One OF the questions submitted TO Mr.
Monroes cabinet was, whether the restriction OF
slavery within the Territory, within the named limits
TO which The word "forever" applied, should be consid
cred applying 10 State made from that Territory.
The opinion then formed that the word " forever"
could be applied to the territorial form only, and had
application TO the State formed from that Territory.
Since then, portion OF this Territory annexed 10
the State OF Missouri From territorial SOIL in which
slavery forever prohibited il became Stare SOIL aud
subject 10 State authority, and slavery went upon Il in
staneT, and has been there since liss full and
practical illustration OF the correctness oil the decision OF
President MonToes cabinet Now, sir, turn 10 the act
Of admission itself, 10 which much indebted TO
the senator from Kentucky. 1t is this;
Resolution rfosdng for he admission OF the State Of
Missouri inio the Union a certain condition.
"R oired bS The Senate and HOUSE Of hs
Uaifed Slafe d1aui C9Hgr0S assembled That MIS-
shall b. ednucd into his Union eqnal footing
with final States IN all upon the
undanena condition. that the fourth clause Of the twenty
sixth section VI The ifd article c the suni
ted the pat OF said state 70 C5gies shall never be
stued authorize The passage Of any law, and that no
law sha be passed, in conformity thtfeSo by which rny
citizen of ehet Of the Saes Ia ths Union shall bs
ciuded IRON the enjoyment Of e privileges aud i'm
munites 70 which such cizen ~ enled upder the
OF the United Ssatrsi ProVdfd. Iha the iegisia
oil the said Sale, by solemn public ac ss declare
the OF the the said fundamental condition.
and shatransUiit the Pesiaut o ALI United Sses
beiofe The iouuh MONDAY November anthem
copy of he said upon receipt whereof, he Pfss
deut by proclamation shall annoupce the nci whefeupon
and without any further proceeding the pait OF Com
gfuss, the admission oi the said STATE no hts Union snail
be considered ~ complete.
Approved March q 1871"
AZ that time we had fitting occasion TO admire the
manner in which superior minds remove apparent oh.
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