The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-13
Y OF WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 49, 1850

stars and stripes must over her ports and her fleets
o. she must raise aoi standard for herself she needs
least TO know whether you friends or enemies; and
hnaly. she needs what no American community can hvs
without, sovereignty aud Independence Just anC
equal share OF yours or sovereignty and independence o.
Will you say that California could not aggrandze her
self by separatonl Would il, them be mean ambition
to set up within fifty years, on the Pacific coast monu-
ments like those which we think two hundred years
have been well spent in establishing on the Atlantic
coast
win you say that California has no ability to become
prise that inheres in us and that ability implies command
OF all physical She has advantages OF position
She practically further removed from you than Eng
land You cannot reach her by railroad nor by unboken
steam navigation. Yon can send no armies over the
prairie, the mountain, and the desert, across the
mote and narrow isthmus within foreign jurisdiction,
there's but she has only to open her Mines and she can
seduce your naves and appropriate your floating bull
warks 10 her defence Let her only seize your do.
and she will have at once revenues and credit adequate
all her necessities Besides we SO moderate and has
the world become 20 just that we have no rivals and no
enemies TO lend their sympahes and aid TO compass the
dismembermento OF our empire
Try not the truth and fidelity Of California least not
now, not yet. Cherish her and indulge her until you
bound her fast by railroads. and canals and teegraphs
your her afnities OF intercourse are
established and habits Of loyalty are xcdand then she
California would not 90 alone Oregon 80 intimately
allied to her and yet 80 loosely attached to US, would
go also, and then at least the entire Pacific coast with
the western decviiy Of the Sierra Nevada, would be
lost. II would not depend at all on us, nor even on
the forbeaance Of California, how far eastward
the long line across the temperate zone should be
drawn, which should separate the republic OF the Pa
cic from the republic OF the Atlantic. Terminus has
passed away with all the deee OF the ancient Pantheon,
but his scepire remains Commerce is the god Of bound
aries, and no man now living can forete his ultimate de-
cree
But is insisted that the admission Of California shall
be attended BY COMPROMISE OF questions which have
am opposed to any such compromise. in any and all
the forms in which il has been proposed because. while
admitting the purity and the patriotism OF all from whom
is my misfortune differ, think all legislative
promises radically wrong and essentially vicious. They
involve the surrender Of the exercise of judgment and
conscience distinct and separate questions, at dis.
tinct and separate times, with the indispensable adj
vantages il affords for ascertaning truth They involve
REIMBURSEMENT OF the right to reconsider in future the
decisions Of the present. questions prematurely anti
cpated And they are usuTpation as to future ques-
tions Of the province Of future Legislators
Sir, il 10 il slavery had laid its parayzing
hand upon myself and the blood coursng less freely
than its through my VEINS when endeavor sup
pose that such compromise has been effected, and my
uterance forever is arrested upon all the great questions,
social moral and POLITICAL arising Of subject SO i'm
ana ss q s % Mna, Y
is well: II noble acquisition; il is worth sacrifice.
But what am ! to give up as an equivalent recog
pefpcu0Ie
Columbia; forbearsnce towards stringent laws
cernng the arrest OF persons suspected Of being slaves
found in free States; forbearance from the PrOvso Of
freedom in the charters q new Tero,ies None Of the
most Of them insist on all OF these conditions. The
equivalent then s some portion OF liberty, some portion
O human gas n one , Tego S 4, ,nS per n another
freedom. am, then, 10 surrender some portion Of hu-
man freedom in the District Of Columbia, and in East
California and New Mexico for the mixed considered alton
~ Ehortu evnId nd un.v fhe pari6 sf
This view OF legislative compromises is not II
has widely prevailed and many Of the State constitutions
nterdict the Introduction Of more than one subject into
one bill submitted for legislative action.
II OF such compromises that Burke said, in one oil
the lofest bursts Of even his majestic parliamentary elo-
quence:
of real vice but thousand times further from the
far from pole pole be the whole tribe Of spurious,
the things which thousand times at with
real virtue, these are the things which are ten thousand
il name and distinguished BY il. proper character
Far far from us be that false and affected candor that Is
eternay in treaty with crimehat half virtue, which, like
the ambiguous animal that flies about in the iwilghto
compromse between day and night s TO just mans
my lords, in which the Commons Of Great Britain can
meet tyranny and oppression"
But, sir IL could overcome my repugnance to COM
promises in general should object to this one, the
ground Of the inequality and incoagry OF the interests
10 be compromised. Why, sir according to the views
have submitted, California ought TO come in, and must
come Wnener slavery sldn0e or IN DisrCt
OF Columbia; whether slavery stands or falls in New
Mexico and eastern California and whether slave
w stands falls the slave States California ought TO
come in being free State and under the circumsian-
OF her conquest her compact, her abandonment her
ustabe and necessary establishment OF constitution,
and the inevitable dismemberment OF the empire conse
quent upon her rejection, should have voted for her
admission, even II she had come as slave State. Cali
fornia ought TO come in and must come in at all events
II s, then, independent, paramount question What
them these questions arising out OF slavery, thus
terposed, but collateral questons They unnecessa
y and nconguoos and therefore false issues not intro
duced designedly indeed TO defeat that great policy yet
MIR. F00TE. Will The honorable senator allow me
TO ask him IL the Senate Is 10 understand him as saying
that he would vote for the admission of California, ii she
came here seeking admission slave State
Mr. SEWARD. reply, as said before, that even il
California had come as slave State, yet coming under
the extraordinary circumstances have described and in
view OF the consequences OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the
empire, consequent upon her rejection, should have
voted for her admission, though she had
slave State But should not have voted for her admis
sion otherwise.
remark 10 the next place. that consent on my part
would be dIsingenuous and fraudulent, because the
promise would be unavang
is now syowed by the honorable senator from South
Carolina MIR CALHoUs1 that nothing viii satisfy the
slave States but compromise that viii convince them
that they can remain in the Union consistently with their
honor and their safety. And what the concessions
which wall have that effect Here they are IN the words
OF that senator;
sThe Moth must do JUSTICE by concedng to the South an
eqnsi right IN the acquired territory, and do her day by
causing the stpaaiious relative fugitive slaves be
faithfully nhied--cease the agitation u the slave ques
ton, ad provide for the insertion OF provision The
stituton, by an amendment which Will restore the
South In substance the power she posse OF pro citing
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