The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-03-27

had an arranged meeting for conreTsa-
lion upon il. Invent home TO Massaehu-
seils and proclaimed the existence Of
that purpose, but could get no audience,
and but little attention. Some did not
believe il. and some were engaged in their
own pursuits. They had gene to their
farms, or 70 their merchandise, and il
was impossible to arouse any sentiment
in New England or in Massachusetts,
that should combine the two great polii-
icaI parties against this annexation aud,
indeed. there was no hope Of bringing
the Northern Democracy i,slo their view,
for the leaning was ali The other way.
But, sir. even with Wings. and lead
ing Wings, / am ashamed to say, there
was great indifference towards the ac-
mission oi Texas with slave territory in-
to this Union. Il went on. was then
oui or Congress. The annexation reso-
lulions passed the LIST Of March. lS45.-
Texas complied with them; the Leais-
lature Of Texas complied with The con-
dilions and accepted the guarantees for
The phraseology Of the language fthe
resolution is, that Texas is to come IN
.upon the conditions and under the
guarantees herein prescribed" hap
pened TO be returned to the Senate in
March, l645. and was here in Decem-
Der, l545, when the acceptance by Tex
as Of the conditions proposed by Cen.
gress were laid before Us by the Presi.
dent, and an act for the consummation
of the connexion was laid before the tvs
Houses. The connexion was not COM
pIeied. A final law doing the deed ol
annexation ultimately had moi passed
and when il was upon ITS final passage
here, l expressed MY opposition to il and
recorded my vote in the negative; and
there thnt vote stands, with the observa-
tions iha. made upon that occasion.
Ii happened that between 1897 and this
time, on various occasions and opportu
mites, lad expressed my entire oppo-
siiion to the admission Of slave States, OF
the acquisition of new slave territories, to
be added to the United States. | know,
sir, no change in my own sentiments OF
my own purpose in that respect. will
now again ask my friend from Rhode
Island to read another extract from a
speech Of mine. made ut Wing Con-
vention in Springfield, Massachusetts, in
the month OF September lS47.
Mr.. Greene here read the following
extract:
ave hear much Just now Of a panacea
for the dangers and evils Of slavery and
slave annexation. which they call the
sHiimof Prouiso.' That certainly is a
just sentiment, but il is not a sentiment
to found any new party upon. II is not
sentiment on which Massachusetts
Wings differ. There is not man in
this hall who holds to il more firmly than
| do. nor one who adheres to it more than
another.
81 feel some little interest in this mat
ter, sir. Did not | commit myself in
1898 to the whole doctrine, fully, entire
ly! And l must be permitted to say
that | cannot quite consent that more re-
cent discoveries should claim the meri,
and take out patent.
81 deny The priority oftheir invention.
Allow me to say, sir, 1t is not their thunder
ave are to use the first and last and
every occasion which offers TO oppose the
extension OF slave power.
"But / speak Of j, here as in Congress,
as a political question, question for
statesmen to act upon. We must so re-
gard it. certainly do not mean to say
that il is less important in a moral point
Of view, that il is not more important in
many other points Of view; but, as leg
isator, or in any official capacity, | must
look at 1t, consider it, and decide it as
matter of political action"
Mr.. Webster.-On other occasions, in
debate here, | have expressed my deter
mination to vote for no acquisition, or
cession or annexation, North or South,
East or West. My opinion has been
that we have territory enough, and that
we should follow the Spartan maxim,
.adorn what you have, seek no further"
Think that it was in some observations
that | made here on the three million
loan bill that | avowed that sentiment
Tn short, sir, the sentiment has been a.
vowed quite as often. in as many places,
and before as many assemblies, as any
Of the humble sentiments Of mine ought
to be avowed.
But now, that under certain conditions,
Texas is in with all her territories, as
slave State, with solemn pledge that il
she is divided into many States, those
States may come in as slave States south
of SO 80, how are we to deal with til
know no way of honorable Legislation
but, when the proper time comes for
the enactment, to carry into effect all
that we have stipulated TO do. | do not
entirely agree with my honorable friend
from Tennessee, lMr. Bell. that, as
soon as the time comes when she is enti-
tied toanothes Representative, we should
create new State. The rule in regard
10 it take to be this that when we