Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-07-13

rally born free, and were, by privilege above all the
creatures born 10 command and obey earthly author
y not derived from their consent That charter is in
our hands Ii all that out and give the charter
back to New Mexico mutaed and leess thing, shall
have repeated the crime OF the partition Of Poland the crime
of the sbverson of the brief but brilliant Republic Of
Italy shall have emulated the Stuart who seized the
charters OF the free corporations OF England and thereby lost
throne and shall have surpassed the Guelph who nterpo
lated taxation without representation the Constitution OF
Btan and thereby lost the empire which enjoy. Sir
would be act unjust and tyrannica that upon the
principles OF our separation from Great Britain, would
work forfeiture OF our title altogether Hear what the
good Las Casas said to the Emperor Charles the Fifth
corning these possessions Notwithstanding your grant
of all these countries from the Pope and your title by
quest you have yet right them unless you do the
first place. the principal end, regard their good The
that regard IS to be had to the principal end and
for which superior or universal lord them, which
is their good and profit, and that il should their
destruction and ruin for if that should be, from thencetor
ward that power would be yrannica and unjust tending
the interest and profit OF the lord than the public
good and profit OF the subjects which, according to natural
reason and the laws OF Tod and abloed, and de-
serves to be abhorred."
Sir beg those citizens of the metropolis in the State
from which come, who have requested for this
BILL consider il in these aspects and then examne
me- and say how look that should seem to be lacking
Justice and humanity much as this fact comes to-"
But II Is said that the ordinance OF ~ unnecessary
New Mexico, and therefore san abstraction and that gives
offence
yield implicit faith to those who assure that
pecuarites of soil and climate in New Mexico exclude sa
They combined with other who deny that
point and this bill comedies the itself Itexpresy
covenants 10 admit New Mexico slave State she shall
that character Icannot surrender and benevo
lent purpose arguments which knit contradictions closely
words cav lie together. know that there slaves at
this moment in Utah and know moreover, that the dis
covey of few flakes of god Of few grains of silver,
of few cumps Of coal in the UNEMPLOYED of
New Mexico, would be followed by revelation of the
will of the Almighty in regard to it.
tyrant who deprived his subjects what he deemed
necessary for them Nero thought neck would be
than enough for the Roman people, when he wished they
had but that he might destroy the body polite blow
Perhaps they point to act comforting declaring
human rights, that abstraction. 1t observed
by of the founders of the Commonwealth of England
that the PRONUNCIATION of those rights had always been in
terms concrete, but abstract Our experience is
the There the Declaration of Independence, with
its solemn recital of the natural equality of men, and of the
alienabty of their essential rights There is the Const
tuition OF the United States, beginning with its sublime
of the objects of the Government and ending with its
Jealous bill of personal rights hat were these absrac
tons There is the bill of rights in every constu
ton and the constitutions of many of the slave States
hopefully distractions of equality which, for want of
only complete development of POLITICAL justice not yet
reduced to the concrete by established laws
Perhaps, moreover, the apoogsts show act
declamtory of human rights that did give offence The
tyn of France took umhrage at the noble motto which AL
semon Sidney inscribed in the Album of the King Of Den
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Nay Agenon Sidney expated with his life the offence of
writing distractions the fundamental principles of
| our Constitution; and among them the Wilmo
Proviso thus expressed by that immortal patriot The lib
cry of be limited diminished by or
by number of and the right OF
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Equal justice always excies fear, and therefore always
gives offence otherwise its way would be smooth and its
sway universal The distractions of human rights the
only permanent foundations of society is by referring
them that determine what stsaJshed, because is
RIGHT, in order to pd 0rere and what is right only
because is established in order that they may lawfully
change H. in accordance with the increase of knowledge and
he progress OF reason. "... .......
The abstraction question is the right of all the
members of State equal political freedom That is the
Wimot Provso-;hat is the provso of freedom-cal it by
whatsoever name you will II it ever right at any time,
in place. under circumstances it is right always
all places and under all circumstances can be renowned
safely nowhere Certainly New Mexico is the region,
hers the SOIL hers the cline, where should be
nounced New Mexico is the very field of the If
we surrender here where have all the vantage where
else shall find ground which to make resistance
We have taken breatng-spel from annexation OF ter
rory to divide the gains. This division made no
matter how the national nstinct-an instinct tostered ny
democratic sentiments and sympahcs and nvigorated by
martial ambtionyl hurry on in career that presents
scarcely formidable obstacles Whatever seemed attractive
to the slave States in louisiana in Florida in Texas in
New Mexico and in California, is surpassed in the valley
Of Mexico in Iicaan in Cuba, i'll Nicaragua, in Guate
mala and in other States of Central America. There are
fields native the tobacco plant to the rice plant to the
plant and the sugar-cane and the tropical fruits
and there are even mines of silver and of gold There the
climate disposes Incidence Incidence to luxury, and lux
my slavery There those who read the Willuot I
Provso only in the rgos OF perpetual winter in arid
sands will fail discern its inhibition Our pioneers are
already abroad in those inviting regions capital Is
making passages through them from and
within years those passages will be environed by Ame-
rican communities, surprising power and wealth, not
in numbers, the unsettled and unenterprsng States now
existing there. You will Say that national moderation will
prevent further annexation But national moderation did
hold us back from the Mississippi from the Nue.
ces, from the Rio Grandc from the coast OF
the Pacific ocean The virtue grows weaker always the
nation grows stronger. ...
The demand Of the slave States division line of SO
deg 80 min, elsewhere, across the continent between
slavery in the South and freedom the North betrays the
near expectation of these conquests The domestic pro-
ducton and commerce in slaves will suppant the African
slave trade and slave States will surround the Gulf OF
Mexico and cover its islands. Those States. combined
with slave States already existing will constitute slave
empire whose seat of the Crescent levee will
domneer not only the southern portion Of the CONT
nent through the Mississippi and its frreachng trbu
taes over the broad valley that stretches from the
of the Aeghane the base of the Rocky Mountains
This sir the dream of the stakeholder and this Is the
Interpretation thereof. know full well that it is woven
of the stuff which all " dreams are made on. | know
how hopeless would be the attempt establish and to main
tain such States and empire composed of such States
But know that nothing slavery impossible after
advantages already won and that calames distant and
therefore dedcd will rot deter from the prosecution of
its purpose extmgush the hope OF success.
There Is Il sound maxim which teaches that every Co
perpetualy degencratng towards corruption,
from which must be rescued successive periods by the
reslsctaon of its first principles and the reestabshment
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