The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-05-29

the opun OF bel constitutional ngnt OF expanding hei
limits and extending her dominion. Some there's who
meet the responsibility paniuly and come boldly % The
mark. with he Wilmot Provso ever their Ps 9hfrs
Who :touy deny power n pas ls oows1 IL
Congress to prompt California to pass ihs PIovso
and thus actually q delegate g Gaofa,s powers
se ne csoas the first
10 spread out the Wimot Proviso overthe vast domains
Of the Union on the Pacifc-from Oregon 70 Mexico.
from the Sierra Nevada the Colorado; and when that
high handed measure which ought 70 pertain only as
mnnime M 10 sovereignty done without the least
ton ne 10 6 Gsn as sy csss
they arc who fearing to risk the introduction OF slavery
into the ceded Territories, upon the issuenvolved IN the
question whether the Mexican constitution survived the
cession within the American boundaries are resolved
and prepared TO its exclusion by the practical
focement OF the Wmo Proyso in withholding from the
local legislature all power 10 afford that protection, in
with all other property, justly entitled TO. and
so absolutely needs and that enforcement be-
yond the reach OF chance or justice, by reservation In
pleasure all the enactmens which the territorial legis
lature may pass.
Why. then. was il. that 50 many Of the Will
il down But one answer occurs--the adoption Of
the amendment would most undoubtedly have defeat
ed the treaty The ratification Of treaty requires
that OF the senators present shall vote in ts
favor; and in Senate OF 90, with 80 members from
the free States. and 80 from the slave States i would
have been utterly hopeless 70 have looked for the con-
sent Of 49, after il had been made unacceptable and
odious to souherners by the insertion of the Wilmo
Provso The ratification Of the treaty Immediately and
absolutely depended upon the southern vote OF the Sen
ale ana not an inch 81 territory would have been &C
quired without IL This every senator knew; and the
prompt and decisive rejection Of Mr.. BAIDwM's amend
binding in conscience and justice formal compact,
that the Wm0 ProuBo should be applied to the
coded Territories while their territorial condition lasted
Sir, would wish at all times, both from Of pro
priety and from choice, to keep within the bounds OF
parliamentary order and courtesy; and hope am pass
ing the limits Of neither, when declare that cannot see
hnvu can mas
of national morality the attempt which is here made to
introduce IN the dangerous and deuding form which i
assumes in the BILL after il had been strangled beneath
the pressure OF the overwhelming numbers which reject
ed Mr. BALDwIN's amendment.
will nespass but brief moment longer upon the pa.
tience with which honorable senators have so kindly
borne with me, to take in general way but passing
glance at the report and accompanying bills presented BY
the committee, and which honorable senators, who,
doubtless. clearer and further than do have been
pleased TO announce compromise Sir, wish it was
q compromises real Notwithstanding mutual
concessions-snda fair compromise containing equiva-
lent CONCESSIONS al least regarded by the parties
who PROPOSE and by the parties who accept them for
then Fwould support il with all my heart am as sen
sble any that the country needs rep0se and do
not doubt but that the South would 20 as far and am
sure much further than the Morrill, in making any sacri-
fees which would secure il upon terms which neither
must say, in all candor that do in these measures
any such compromise, nor indeed any compromise at all
and many q them See but al Of them
is the compromise Will honorable senators point out
to me SINGLE concession from the North to the South
there is none. No; not ONE The characteristic fea
Of all the before exacons the
one hand and Weddings the other The South gipes
the North takes In TRUTH unless II can be said that
when the North is content to take less than a she con-
cedes all that she spares from the spoiaon, there is
not concession in the whole scheme to give evidence
will not say OF her magnanimity, but OF her justice
The honorable senator from Kentucky lMr CLAYl
attaches much weight to the conviction he is under
that the clause in the Mexican constitution prohibiting
H. al
that he declares with that drecness and fankness char
sceristic OF his bearing in the Senate and elsewhere
that were his convictions otherwise be would not have
supported this section OF the bill On the other hand,
the honorable senator from Mississippi, Mr. FoorE1
understood him arght assigns a reason why he sup
ports the section the conviction he under that
the prohibition was abrogaed and annued by the treaty
OF cesson Sir is not this strange state OF things mot
indeed that senators should support the same to
attain the same result, at ALL but that they should
do 90 from opposing and anagonistc reasonsl Many
other senator's doubtless have ranged themselves upon
either side OF The positions held BY the senators
ferred to- Should these measures ever mature into
law Of the land, will be conducive to its execution that
its friends not agreed TO the true Interpretation OF
the most important and vital provisions Of the bill The
less alarming and injurious, confess, nasmuch as the
senators come from the section OF the Union but
how would be II senators from opposite sections held
opposite opinions as TO the true meaning OF the same
terms upon most material point in the material
issue that had been nader Now sir am quite appre-
hensve that this s the in reference the very sec
ton under debate. Put the question to any OF the north
ern senators who favor the pan and venture the opn
ion that you will scarcely find any among them who does
not concur fully with the from Kenluck that the
Mexican laws survived the cesson and are now in force
in the coded Terrtores that the introduction OF slavery
there 10 wholly prohibited and that no binding oblga
ton rests upon the senators from the free States 10 ad
init either OF the Territories az free State into the
Union Sir IL such be the conflicting differences OF opin
ION touching the import OF the language, in the
same section, and between its friends, who knows
what Interpretation may bear am ong the masses OF the
people Nonh and West and South And does II become
us - senator's TO send forth 10 the people statutes nvov
ing the rights and powers OF the two great sections OF the
country, the true meaning Of which they will or can
no more agree about than ourselves do or cant Will
work ~ this with every point she conended for sur
rendered and Lost 10 her with every claim she presented
dis.owed; stripped Of every Of the ceded territory
OF her pro slavery rights in the District FORTS &C. with
her rights TO the extradion OF fugitives from labor
eiogged and obsucted, gaining nothing and losing al
ieReai IT. again, SIR, will the South be satisfied with
thief Never sir; neveri Why, IL such an adiustmen
- n would have contenied her. what possible plea can
Be offered 70 shield her and representatives IN
Conress from the responsibility they have incurred in
obsTucting the public business, at great waste OF the
public treasure. in conestng every which this plan
determines forever against herr Why SIR IL the South
wn 70 be satisfied with this. all OF us know that
there has not been single week OF the whole session
when this plan could not have been carried through
IN both houses trumphany had the South been united
IN 10 support and we know quite well that
southernes everywhere in and out Of Congress- What
fresh merits has acquired, what new advantages
Possesses, that now recommend II to honorable senators
who once spurned IFS provisions with bitterness and de-
nunciation, i cannot discover
My feeble health does not admit OF my pursuing the