The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-30

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Missouri suffered in the' same way. 0n The whole,
Tho South lost $50 year bY shsse
He knew that statutory snsetnents were g al.es as
faith. Originally the States were to be liable to aid
in apprehendinr tugitives. There was no difficulty
formerly in recovering fugitive slsves. Many people
from the South took slaves with their families to the
North without moleatation. The State authorities
exercised the constitutional provision. But In con-
sequence Of case arising in New York, il became
necessary in 1893, to enact law requiring State o.
GERS to apprehend fueitives This act was executed
in good faith for time, until New York and Penn
sylvania- first on this sublect-passed laws
which obstructed the recovery Of fug'uves. New
York forbid the owners of fugitive slave the use Of
her courts, officers to apprehend them The ieg1s-
lation Of New York aud Of many Of the other States
was fraudulent evasion of the constitutional provi
sion. . e'g:s5
Mr.. Dickinson here said the courts Of New York
had pronounced the law unconstitutional.
Mr.. Butler was aware of this, and he intended to
give credit to the bench Of that State, while at the
same time he denounced the conduct of the Govern
Of that State, now Senator here, who had refns-
ed to deliver fugitive save-in which he could not
be sustained even by his own Legislature. He went
through with the provisions of the laws of nearly all
the Northern States, including Ohio, and declared
them to be deliberate and skilful frauds on the Con-
sttution. Mr.. B. reviewed the Maryland case, and
read the opinions of Justices Taney Story and Bald.
win, which Judges declared that the Union could
never have been framed without this provision. 1t
was, he sad the cornerstone of the constitution.
The North had got their commercial and naviga-
ton advantages in virtue of the provision. The
Southern men who signed the constitution would
sooner have cut off their hands than have given 1t
their signatures, if they had known that this clause
was 10 be annulled. These results were foretod by
that sagacious patriot, George Mason. The North
would get the majority, and disregard the constitu.
tional compromises. They would say. IS The Lord
has delivered the South into our hands,"
The Senate soon after went into Executive session,
and then adjourned over to Monday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
MIR. Thurston, the delegate from Oregon, stated
that on his way to the seat of Government, he had
lost the memorial from the Legislature of that Terri
tory, embracing several matters of interest to the peo
pie there. To supply the defect, he asked perms-
mtee % the Judiciary to inquire whether the Unit
ed States has not the right, under the treaty OF 1876
to dispose of the land, occupied by the Hudson's
Bay Company or British subjects, by making the
several occupants proper remuneration Tor what
improvements they had then made on said land, and
how is the amount of remuneration to be ascertained
and whether the Hudson's Bay Company or British
subjects had at the time of said treaty lawfully acqur
ed the occupation of land in the territory of Oregon
and whether the Puget Sound Agricultural Company
mentioned in the 4h article of the treaty with Eng
land entitled to any land than they had un-
der enclosure in state of actual cultivation at the
conclusion Of said treaty.
Objection was made to the introduction of the reso-
luton, and it was not pressed.
The Resolution heretofore offered by Mr.. Marshall,
of Kentucky, calling on the Secretary of the Navy
for information of the total of foreign and do
nestle hemp purchased for the use of the Navy,
prices paid therefor experiments to test the strength
OF each, was taken up and adopted.
The Resolution heretofore introduced by Mr.. Sav
age, calling for all the information in possession Of
the Executive, relative to the extraordinary proceed
ings of the British in the orcible seizure
and occupation of Tigre Island, was also taken up
and adopted.
The Presidents California Message was then taken
up and referred to the Commtte of the Whole on the
state of the Union.
number of nominations for Chaplain of the
House was then made after which the House, with
out voting, adjourned over to Monday.