The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-17

either III their constitutions or by penal enact
ments, prohibited trade in slaves as merchan.
disc within their respective jurisdictions. Con.
gress, standing in regard to the people of this
District on this subject in a relation similar to
that of the State Legislatures to the people of
States, may safely follow the example of the
States. The committee have prepared, and
herewith report, bill for the abolition of that
trade, (marked d. the passage of which they
recommend to the Senate. This bill has been
framed after the model of what the law Of Ma.
ryland was when the General Government was
removed to Washington.
The views and recommendations contained
in this report may be recapitulated in few
words:
!. The admission of any new State or States
formed out Of Texas, to be postponed until they
shall hereafter present themselves to be received
into the Union, when it will be the duty of Con-
gress fairly and faithfully to execute the compact
with Texas by admitting such new State or States
2. The admission forthwith Of California into
the Union, with the boundaries she has proposed
g. The establishment of territorial governments,
without the Wilmot Proviso, for New Mexico and
Utah, embracing all the territory recently acquired
by the United States from Mexico not contained
in the boundaries of California.
i. The combination OF these two laSt-mentloned
measures in the same bill.
5. The establishment of the western and north
ern boundary of Texas, and the exclusion from
her jurisdiction of all New Mexico, with the grant
to Texas of a pecuniary equivalent and the Sec
ton for that purpose to be incorporated In the bill
admitting California and establishing territorial
governments for Utah and New Mexico.
6. More etfectual enactments of law to secure
the prompt delivery Of persons bound to service
or labor in one State under the laws thereof, who
escape into another State.
And 7. Abstaining from abolishing slavery; but,
under heavy penalty, prohibiting the slave trade
in the District of Columbia
Ii such of these several measures as required
legislation should be carried out by suitable acts
ofCongress, all controversies to which our late
territorial acquisitions have given rise, and all
existing questions connected with the institu-
ton Of slavery, whether resulting from those
acquisitions or from it's existence in the States
and the District Of Columbia, will be amicably
settled and adjusted, in manner, it is conf
dent ty believed, to give general satisfaction to
All overwhelming majority of the people Of the
United States. Congress will have fulfilled its
whole dirty in regard to the vast country which,
having been ceded by Mexico to the United
States, has fallen under their dominion. 1t will
nave extended to it protection, provided for its
several parts the inestmable blessing of free
and regular government adapted to their various
wants, and placed the whole under the banner
aud flag of the United States. Meeting cour-
agcousiy its clear and entire duty, Congress
will escape the unmerited reproach OF having,
from considerations of doubtful policy, aban-
doned to an undeserved fate territories Of a
boundless extent, with sparse, incongruous,
and alien, lnot uutriendly population, speaking
different languages, and accustomed to differ
ent laws, whilst that population is making ire
sistible appeals the to new sovereignty to which
they have been transferred for protection for
government, for law, and tor order.
The committee have cndeavored to present
to tine Senate comprehensive plan of adjust
ment, which, removing all causes of existing
excitement and agitation leaves none open to
divide the country and disturb the general har-
mony. The nation mas been greatly conyulsed,
not by measures Of general policy, but by ques-
tons Of Il sectional character, and, therefore,
more dangerous and Elore to be deprecated
1t wants repose 1t loves and cherishes the
Union And it is most cheering and gratfy-
ing to witness the outbursts of deep aud abb
ding attachment to it which have been exhibit
ed in all parts of it, amidst all the trials through
which we have passed and are passing. A peo-
pie SO patriotic as those of the United States
will rejoice in an accommodation Of all the
troubles and difficulties by which the safety of
the Union might have been brought into the
least danger. And under the blessings of that
Providence who, amidst all vcisstudes, has ne
yer ceased to extend to them his protecting
care, His smiles, and His blessings, they will
continue to advance in population, power, and
prosperity, and work out triumphantly the glo-
rious problem of mans capacity for selt.gov.
crnment.
CoTToN CRoP.-The receipts of cotton at all
the American ports. are now over six hundred
thousand bales behind last years to the same
date, and still falling of.
THE STAMPS ALREADY ON.--Persons visiting
the ship Macedonia will see in the bow. parts
two guns taken with that vessel from the Brit
ish. The stamp ofthe Crown, with the g. r.
beneath tells the story. A cockney, looking at
them short time since, contemptuously re-
Marked
dts heasy enough to put that stamp on gun
of Yankee make
"How Long do you suppose i. would take!"