Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-22
making This a part Of the compact


lie said that by these resolutions Il
was solcmnly secured that ont of tho
territory OF Texas new States to the num-
ber of four may be formed, those South
OF 80 30 TO be slave States, those North
to be free. No act of Congress can add j
strength to this guaranty. Texas accents
Vhe terms and comes in upon them. He
saw no way in which the Governments
ca can release itself from this obligation.
slavery was fixed there by positive guar
anty.
The resolutions provide that free States
can be formed north of SO 80. but The
consent ofTexas is required. How could
such a compact be formed if the North
mac mad the overshadowing power which the
Senator from South Carolina says it has
had?
In the House of Representatives these
resolutions were adopted by eighty
Southern and fifty Northern votes. In
the senate, by voteof twcnty-seven to
twenty-five. OF this twentv-seyen. dir
teen were from States-fom were from,
New England. Nearly one,half Of the
vote was Free Soil votes. He knew moth
ing so remarkably in history as this affair
This Territory of Texas-over which q
bird could not fly in a week--annexed
and positively guaranteed to be slave Ter,
rltory, and three fourths of the liberty
loving members OF the House from Con
nectcut, and one-halfin Senate, voted for
1t. One vote was given it from Maine.
one from Massachusetts. These men
called themselves the Northern De-
cEacy, They went for the acquisition Of
Territory, they went for the introduction
OF a new world, and after its introduction
they propose to apply to it the saving
grace of the Wilmot Proviso.
Two senators one from Connct ticut
and one from New York--voted for the
resolutions of annexation, with their ewes
vide open TO the fact that the then Sec.
retary of State had openly and with
manliness advocated its annexation be.
cause Of its being slave territory.
WIN inc aid Of AbolitioniSts here, was
endeavoring to abolish slave, y in Texas.
Itwas on this ground he adj ocated it's an
neyation.
Mr.. Webster said il was Aear the same
thing. Those two senators who had
voted to annex Texas-who had voted
for acquiring new territory-have gone
home to lead the great Free-soil party.
They had left to the Senate the odium of
voting to carry into effect the guaranty to
admit new slave States, or the greater
odium to vote to violate that guaranty,
while they have gone home and are now
engaged ir making flaming Frcc-soiI
speeches.
Mr.. w. then gave a history of his
course on the subject of the annexation
of Texas, and on the principles of the
Wilmot Proviso, showing that, from the
year 1886, he had uniformly opposed the
former and sustained the latter; reading
from speeches delivered on these subjects.
he had voted against the bill to consum.
mate the annexation of Texas. He had
been always opposed to the annexation,
accession, or acquisition Of territory,
north or south; he always adopted the
Spartan maxim: Improve, adorn what
youhave, seek no further
But, in the present state Of affairs, he
could see no other mode of proceeding,
than to carry out the guarantees of the
Texas annexation resolutions, whenever
the proper time comes. He may not he
there, but he wished it to be understood.
that this Government is bound 10 admit
new States out of Texas territory; and
out of the territory South of SO so; ad-
init them as slave States. That was the
meaning of the compact made by the
Northern Democracy. lie would carry
it out.
In his opinion slavery could not exist
in California and New Mexico, at least as
it exists in this country. 1t was as inn
possible to carry slavery there as il was to
do an]ysother natural impossibilty. Mr.
w. described Che soil and character of the
country, and held that no STAKEHOLDER
woull carry his slaves to such a, country.
1t was fixed fact that Cajifo MIA and
New Mexico were destined to be free.
and that too by the arrangement of things
by the power above. Ii. law was now
before the Senate providing territorial
government for New Mexico II, woplj
vote tof no prohibition of slavery. Ho