New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-01-24
The First Southern speech Of tho session.

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Correspondence Of Tie Trouus W.sHSsros' Iae-dy Jan %
The House being in Committee OF the Whole,
M LISN BOYD. Chairman Of the Committee on
Territories in ihe Char NJ. CLISoNAN OF y. c.
9Th member Of said Territorial Committee. began
a speech upon Slavery ia the Territories at l.-J.
NJ C. is good looking. dark oompexoned IN the
prime of life speaks fuently and distinctly and
can be heard advaDtsgeously all over the House
He BETRAYED no undue emotion or violence OF nam
ner but betook himself to arguing, as best lie
could. the question Of Slavery in California, &c.
on the Southern side He considered that the
claim OF the North to the exclusive occupation OF
California aud New Mexico for those citizens who
do not carry slaves with them as property was the
most impudeut proposition ever offered affirmed
that the mines of California would have been
worked by slaves had their owners been permitted
- take them there as property and that II re
NAMED 70 be proved that the MICRO, any more
than the HoRsE, could exist IA a state oil reedom
out Of the tropics.
His views OF the future were substantially these
That II the South were now to give way on the
question Of Slavery IN the Territories i've states,
VIZ. { allioruia, New Mexico, Oregon, Minnesota
and Dcseret, would, in the course Of i've years
seek and obtain admission into the mon, aAd tnus
rive the North the control Of the other wing Of tas
capitol meaning a decided majority Ia The Senate.
That the Save states would som be sur
rounded BY Free States, II the Union should nus
continue, aud the South submit, while IN p years
their slaves would number or s.OOOD00
That the census TO b. taken this yea WI give
the North TWO 10 one on tins rooI-that g. tWo
members from the free Sta,0s To- every member
from those which hold slaves
That the federal revenue system was very IN
equal in It's operation railroad lroa could be pro
dgced Ia ENGLAND AZ $40 per tun--in this country
the cost Of rs manufacture IS $50 or 600 and a
revenue tax is therefore necessary 70 encourage
n. home manufacturer the domestic article bring
ing On demand tor our home products The
Sjuth uavs this tax, but added Mr. Chngmsn,
. INV constituents get no benefit b. the import OF
by the domestic demand which II produces
That of s46OOO 900 70 be spent this year by the
Federal government, he did not think that tie
nth co, back s500oO00 that North Carolina
was taxed about .. DO, 0oo0, OF which &c really
did not suppose she GOT back sl0o, 900.
Tbst n he south were to secede from the UniOn
s.S rlsce on their imports a tax OF - per cent
CIsys Co,upronise-lt would produce Tor them q
revenue OF SIS. Oo0 00O-bali OF which would amply
,uuu1rt their General Government, while the other
hak could be employed II building raAWays and II
making other internal Improvements CapIta- a.
,sss-,s8 wonld come In abundanty from abroad
EBglish capital had tled Belgium with iactones-
aat n t1ra time the commerce OF the South would
r.,siu in the hands OF iorelgners, and he admitted
that II weuld the people wO0ld suffer BAT hit.e by
dat and he instancej the high rates Of freight be
tween Charleston and New-Nork &c. "A proof or
as assertion that competition would serve the
south IN lieu Of raercA1tlle marine.
The south. with SIX millions Of free white PEG
Die. with Abe officers naval and nihtary-and he
55sr,es S,,ofr and Il AIak Tsyo. and Others IN L
lps--.-,oa-woud be absndNltly abe TO protect
themselves. It had been said that the North and
No-tb-West might endeavor 70 seize upon the
Lover Nississippi. but Great Britain had tried
t5st 10 lsI5 ani met with jackson and bis brave
comrades OF the South ard West; nor was i proc
me thst . future effort from any quarter in thai
direction. would terminate differently from thai
made AZ New Orleans N Isis.
In the way OF a compromise, Mr.. CLIyaxAS sig
NEED that be would be ooutenied 10 let CaIiorria
20 If the south were 10 obtain the Territory on ms
s;de the raountains-nean;ng the Whole eoGnfI;
south of5ss 30, bounded by Texas, IN addition Z
Texas,-it being, as he stated. vel hHed "'
slave abz."