The Arkansas banner., 1850-03-05
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 From the report which we have Tesd of the frs part Of this spsech appears to thai old Hal did not toe the mark. with his usual precision and fair ness There was taO much backing and filling foo much oi the ei-me-go and hod-me-fAst policy, too much conservative, no-pafty, ai ihings to all meH, sa hs fsaes sor, of doeirne to have e'nanAed
 om ,wo months iucubra'iOns in ths solitary cham beF of an independent southern s'aiesnsn, who never intends to oslle any in the race for hon. and elevations This speech was evidently tnien- ded to be received, as ihs oil noon the troubled waters. the paci6er to the turbulent spirits oi ConsIes. and e gain for its author the of the gres, pac etor ss well as that Of the great eHsbodi nena l. breAhes throughout the spirit of ppro- mis-. bat this spirit IS carried 10 great extent with iiitie soft soap fot the North here, and little sof, sawdeI" for the South there, that it like an attempt 10 eoneiiste all parties preparatory 10 fothe highest elevation in the coan,ry. The resolutions in ihemseIvcs, except the preamble 10 the seeondl are right enough, but the whoe of the fist days speech Is a departure from the ienoI off resolutions.
 Tsey commence with preamble. setting foph hAt " iS HESNeofrp iVt hfN fN~NFf NN'~Sf'Nf N'~ harnony of the Uaioo Of these States, to sstIe and adjust amicsb.y all existing questions of feon,foversy between ihe,n, srisins out Ol the institution Of slavery. &e.n Mr. CLAv, instead of settling The question of ihe right Congress 10 legislAte upon the subject. proposes compromise of conflicting interests ana claims, by which the whole difficulty may be stayed of for the present, only 10 rear its ! 'hreafning cr~s. again. upon future and perhaps less suspicious occssioh. He says in his exortiun tbst of the principle objects that attracted his attention, was " the endesyor To forn such scheme of accommodation that neither of the tao classes of States, into which coaulTy IS so unhappi!y divided, should make any sacrifice o!any great Prn- cipl~." Wlrh this intention he has been SO very accommodating to eoneede to the North, ali that for which he South has been so hong and so sIrna- ously struggling as one Of her most important and inalenAble rights The right Ia occHPy equally with he North The territories acquired by mutual ex- pend,;urs Of blood and treasure.
 1 The preamble of the second resolution " That as slavery does not exist by law, aud is mol likely 10 be introduced ao any of the territory acquired by the unled States from the Republic of Mexico, ''is gided bait for the people of the South, and concedes at once just what the WiImot ProsisO has always contemplated, and what the South is not only unwilling 10 grant, but determined to resist- 1 IL will require more than the fimsy sophistTy, so unlike the usual close and cogent reasoning of the Kentucky Seaator to convince the sensible citizens Of the South the unpr-judiced people of the | North tha, {" inc clause which confsrs Congress the power to re9aidt< the territories and other pro-
 
 to that body. to introduce or prescribe the intro duction of slavery into these territories. There is not one sciniiIla of argument in the speech before us gong prove that the citizens of the territories do not possess the iaalieaable rights those who may reside in LOuisuna or ansylvania.- There is not one particle Of evidence to show that the people of tho territories have not te right in,erual regulations. It would be according vide
 atituje 10 the territorial clause 10 make il confer upon Congress ihs power 10 prohibit slavery any, where The powers granted to Congress by the Constitution are special powers aud should be con- strusd strictly, and all other rights prveleges aud powers but those thus specially given hy the Con- stuiion reserved to t.e States a.d 10 tue peo- l pie themselves. l In another place the honorable Senator has en- deavored, by labarynthne sophism, as enigms,i- cal the Egyptian sphynE, to convince his hearers
 that the transfer of the sovereignty from Mexico 10 the United States, de jurs and de aeto confers up on Congress precisely the same governments! powers had been or might have beeu exercised by l Mexico herself. He seems to have bsen entirely blind 10 the difference. ia the organization of the two republics and 10 have forgotten tha; the Con
 ress Oi ihs United States is not in itself the su- preme and sovereign power of the land, and that So as the people of these acquired ,er,orirs come under the jurisdiction of our government, and be- come citizens of our "model repubc.' they are 70 isstanf, redeemed, regenera,cd and disenihralled 1 from all the burthens and the very oJors of
 tyranny that may have rested upon them under some other dy nasty Even had their former masters been the yeriest ecspots that ever harbored Haynau Of hdded over the burning of imperial city, the moment they are placed under the protection of our proudly glowing stars and stripes tbeir shackes fall whitening from their limbs, and they are nves- ted with the rights and immu mites as any other of adopted citizens That slavery. so called. at one time abolished ia Mexico is trues the rigl,, may hGre existed there under the eonsu 4 hHN"H VI ttat tfo nature, Inc k0li, and climle" cf these acquired territories may pre- clude the introduction of slavery is probable but that slavery does not exist there remains for the people of those territories alone to determine for themselves and the mere ipse rh of eveu so great man ss Henry Clay eau neither add nor take away ono jo' tiIte of the constitutional rights which accrued to them immediately upon their entrance into our cOBfederAey.
 We regret to see this brigh, and shining light among our natiouai statesman So obscursd appa- renIIy by the fog cf presidential ambition We had expected to have heard from him proud argument upon the principles involved ia this agitsting que.- tiou, ia the place of which we have oaiy weak tissue of sOphisiry and undigniied attemp, st compromise when no compromise can be effected without yielding up of the position of the Sou,h, wh s.set.IA fI.a oua.ttnu