The North-Carolina standard., 1850-05-22
RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY % 1850

III, NORTH CAKOLlNA, WI
fessed object with which it was originally offered.
This has been clearly demonstrated by the current o
events California, of all the recent territorial acqui-
sitions from Mexico that in which, if anywhere
within them, the introduction of slavery was most
likely to take place; and the constitution of Califor
MIA, by the unanimous vote of her convention, has
expressly interdiced it. There is the highest degree
of probability that Utah and New Mexico will, when
they come to be admitted States follow the
mon, mere abstraction. Why should it be any
longer insisted on? Totally destitute, as it s of any
practical import 1t has, nevertheless, had the perni-
cious effect to excite serious, if not alarming
quences. 1t is high time that the wounds which it
has inflicted should be healed up and closed and
that, avoid in all future time the agitaons which
must be produced by the conflict of opinion on the
slavery question, existing as this institution does in
some of the States, and prohibited is in others,
the true principle which ought to regulate the action
of Congress in forming territorial governments, for
each newly acquired domain is to refrain from all
legislation the subject in the territory acquired
long it retains the territorial form of government
leaving it to the people Of such Territory when they
admission as State, to decide for themselves the
question of the allowance prohibition of domestic
| slavery. The committee believe that they express
the anxious desire of an immense majority Of the poo
pie of the United States, when they declare that it is
high time that good feelings, harmony, and fraterna
sentiments should be again revived, and that the Gov
eminent should be able once more to proceed in its
great operations to promote the happiness and pros
Pery Of the country, undsturbed by this distractng
cause.
As for California, far from feeling her sensbility
affected by her being associated with other kindred
measures-she ought to rejoice and be highly graft
fed that in entering into the Union, she may have
contributed to the tranquility and happiness of the
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she may one day be distinguished member.
The committee beg leave next to report on the sub
ect of the northern and western boundary of Texas.
On that question great diversity of opinion has pre-
vailed According to one view of it, the western
limit of Texas the Nueces; according to anoth-
er, extended to the Rio Grande, and stretched from
its mouth to its source. majority of the committee,
having come to the CONCLUSION of recommending an
amicable adjustment of the boundary with Texas abb
stain from expressing any opinion as to the true and
legitimate western and northern boundary of that
State. The terms proposed for such adjustment
confined in the bill herewith reported, and they
are, with inconsiderable variation, the that
reported by the Committee on Territories.
According to these terms it is proposed to Texas
that her boundary be recognised to the Rio Grande,
and up that river to the point commonly called Ell
Paso, and running up that river twenty miles, meas
ured thereon by straight line and thence eastwardly
itude crosses Red river; being the southwest angle
in the line designated between the United States and
Mexico, and the angle in the line of the terrific
ry set apart for the Indians by the United States.
If this boundary be assented to by Texas she will
be auieted to that extent in her title And some NAV
suppose that, in consideration of this concession by
the United States, she might, without any other equiv
alent relinquish any claim she has beyond the pro-
posed boundary that is, any claim to any part of
New Mexico. But, under the influence of a senti-
of justice and great iberaty the bill proposes
to Texas, for her REIMBURSEMENT of any such claim,
a large pecuniary equivalent. As consideration for
it. and considering that portion Of the debt of Tex
as, was created pledge to her creditors of the
of annexation to the United States and received
and receivable in their treasury, majority of the
mittee recommend the payment of the sum of-
millions of dollars to Texas, to be applied in the first
instance to the extinction of that portion of her debt
for the reimbursement of which the duties foreign
imports were pledged as aforesaid and the residue
in such manner as she may direct. The said sum is
to be paid by the United States in stock, to be
ated, bearing five per cent interest annually, payable
half yearly at the treasury of the United States, and
the principal reimbusabe the end of fourteen years.
According to an estimate which has been made,
there are included in the territory to which it is pro-
posed that Texas shall relinqush her claim, enbra-
cling that part of New Mexico lying East of the Rio
Grande, little less than square miles, and
about 79 ,957 ,l20 of land. From the proceeds
of the sales of this land, the United States may ul-
timately be reimbursed portion, if not the whole of
the of what is thus proposed to be advanced
TO Texas.
1t cannot be anticipated that Texas will decline to
accede these liberal propositions; but if she should,
it is be distinctly understood that the title of the
United States any territory acquired from Mexico
east of the Rio Grande will remain unimpared and
in the condition if the proposals of adjustment
now offered had never been made.
A majority of the committee recommend to the
Senate that the section containing these proposals to
Texas shall be incorporated into the bill embracing
the admission of California State, and the estab
shuent of territorial governments for Utah and New
Mexico. The definition and establishment of the
boundary between New Mexico and Texas has
intimate and necessary connexion with the establish
form territorial government for New Mexico, with
out prescribing the limits of the Territory, would leave
the work imperfect and incomplete, and might expose
New Mexico serious controversy, if not dangerous
collisions with the State of Texas. And most if
not all, the considerations which unite in favor of
combining the bill for the admission of California as
State and the territorial bills, apply to the boundary
question of Texas. By the union of the three meas
ures, every question of difficulty and division which
has arisen of the territorial acquisitions from Mex
leo, WILL it is hoped be adjusted, or placed in train
of satisfactory adjustment The committee, avalllng
themselves Of the arduous and valuable abors of the
Committee on Territories, report bi herewith an
nexed (marked Az embracing these three measures,
the passage of which, uniting them together they
commend to the Senate:
The committee will now proceed to the considera-
ton Of and to report upon, the subject of persons o
inp service or labor in State escaping into anot
er. The iext of the Constitution is quite clear
No person held labor service in one State,
der the ,cs ereg escaping into another, shall, in
consequence of any law regulation therein, be dis
charged from such service labor, but shall be defu-
cred up the claim of the party to whom such SER
vice or labor NAV be due. Nothing can be more ex-
plict than this nothing more manifest than