The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-07-04

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Sir beg those citizens Of the metropolis in the State
from which come. who have requested me to vote Tor
this BILL to consider It in these aspects and then 70 ex
anime me- and say how look that should seem 70 be
lacking IL justice and humanity 50 much as thus 'ac
But il said that the ordinance Of s7 is unnecessary in
New Mexico and therefore Is an abstraction, and that u
cannot yield implicit faith to those who assure
that the peculiarites Of soil and climate IN New Mex
statesmen who deny that point and this bill comedies the
point itself ltexpressly covenants 10 admit New Mex
co aslave State II she shall come in that character
surrender Just and benevolent purpose to argu
ments which knit contradictions closely words can
lie together. know that there slaves at this moment
in Utah and know, moreover, that the discovery
OF few fakes of gold, OF few grains oil silver, or
Of few clumps Of coal in the UNEMPLOYED recesses
Of New Mexico, would be followed by new revelation
Of the will OF the Almighty in regard toit
Sir perhaps those who excuse this can point
me to tyant who ever deprived his subjects of what be
deemed necessary for them. Nero thought one neck
would be more than enough Tor the Roman people, when
he wished they had but that he might destroy the body
polite at blow. Perhaps they point 10 any act
comforting or declaring human rights that was not an ab
stracton II observed by oil the founders oil the
Commonwealth Of England thathe premugaion Of those
rights had always "been in terms not concrete but abb
stract"- Our own experience is the same. There IS
the Declaration Of Independence, with it's solemn recital
Of the natural equality q and 81 the naenaby Of
their essential rights There s the constitution OF the Un
ted States. beginning with its sublime summary OF the OBJ
ecs Of the government and ending with its jealous bill Of
personal rights What these but distractions There
the same bill OF rights in every constitution and even
the constitutions Of many Of the slave States hopefully
set distractions OF equality which, for want OF only
complete development Of political justice. are not yet
reduced TO the concrete by established laws
Perhaps. moreover, the apol0giss can show me some
act declaraory OF human rights that did not give offence
The tyrant of France took umbage at the noble motto
which Algernon Sidney inscribed in the album OF the
King of Denmark
8st ---MANus Hare, INIMIcA TYRANNIs,
ENsE PETIT PLAcDAM SUB LlBKRTArE QUIErRM.
Nay. Algemon Sidney expiated with his life the
offence Of publishing as mere distractions the iun
damenal principles OF our own constitution; and
among them was the Wimot Provso thus expressed BY
that immortal patriot "The liberty Of one man be
limited diminished BY one OF by any number Of men,
and none can give away the right OF another" Equal
justice always excites fear, and therefore always gives
offence otherwise It's way would be smooth and its sway
universal The distractions Of human rights are the only
permanent foundations OF society is by referring to
them that determine what is established because il is
RIGHT, In order to uphold forever and what is right only
because il is established, in order that they may lawfully
change H. in accordance with the increase OF knowledge
and the PROCESS Of reason.
The abstraction now in question is the right Of all the
members Of State TO equal political freedom That is
il by whatsoever name you will II il ever was right at
any time, in any place. under any circumstances, it is
right always, in all places and under all circumstances.
Il can be renounced safely nowhere Certainly New
Mexico u not The region, nor is hers the SOIL hers
the cline, where should be renounced. New Mexico
is the very field Of the contest II surrender here
where have all the vantage ground where else shall
we find ground on which TO make resistancel
We have taken a breathing spell from annexation OF
territory divide the gains This division made,
matter how the national nstncan instinct fostered
by democratic sentiments and sympathies and invgoated
by martial ambiton-will hurry on in career that
presents scarcely formidable obstacles Whatever seemed
attractive the slave States in Louisiana. in Florida ia
Texas New Mexico, and in California. is surpassed in
the valley OF Mexico in Yucata, in Cuba in Nicaragua,
in Guatemala, and other States Of Central America
frh ~ .-s~.
plant the cotton plant, and to the sugar and the
tropical fruits aud there mines OF silver and Of
gold There the climate dsposes to ndolence Incidence
read the Wimot Proyso only IN the rgors Of perpetual
winter, in arid sands will fail TO discern its inhibition
Our pioneers already abroad in those inviting regions
our capital Is making passages through them IRON ocean
to ocean and within ten years those passages will be
vironed by American communities SURPRISING in power
and wealth, if not numbers the unsettled and unenter
prisng States now existing there You will say that ma
tional moderation will prevent further annexation. But
national moderation did not hold back from the Mis-
sssipp, from the Nueces, from the Rio Grande,
from the coast OF the Pacific The virtue
weaker always as the nation grows stronger
The demand OF the slave States for division line OF
80 deg 80 min, elsewhere, the continent be-
tween slavery in the South and freedom in the North, be-
trays the near expectation OF these conquests The do
nestle production and in slaves will supplant
the African slave trade and new slave States will
round the Gull Of Mexico and cover its islands Those
States, combined with slave States already existing,
will constitute slave empire whose seat OF
the Crescent levee will domneer not only the
southern portion OF the continent but. through the Mis-
sissippi and its farreachng tributaries over the broad
valley that lies between the Aleghanies and the Rocky
Mountains This, sir, is the dream Of the STAKEHOLDER,
and this is the Interpretation thereof know full well
that il is OF the stuff which all "drearns
made on" know how hopeless would be the attempt
10 establish and maintain such Staies and empire
composed OF such States But know that nothing
TO slavery impossible after advantages already won and
that calarnes distant and therefore deded will not
deter it from the prosecution Of its purpose, exngush
the hope OF success.
There is sound maxim which teaches that every gov
eminent is perpetually degeneating towards corruption
from which II must be rescued nj successive periods by
the resuscaton OF its first principles and the estab
native to the heart than the principle OF the equality
ol contained IN the ordinance OF 1887 10 the corsli
tuition OF the United States The constitution OF the Uni-
ted States conefs no power upon Congress TO deprive
OF their natural rights and inaenable liberty shall,
therefore, insist upon applying the Pfoviso, not only
where ~ necessary to save territory from slavery, but
where its application might be waived OF
preserving and renewing the constitution itself II
not be bad political husbandry 10 stir the earth and apply
the fresh mould 10 the roots OF the ofeiaihers
abroad and clustering upon the States which surround us
Cherishing these opinions, have struggled, and
shall struggle to the Last, 10 extend the ordinance
OF 1857 over New Mexico. II fail in that, shall
not then surrender i by entering into the riddling
covenant contained in this bill; but shall fall back,
as | did III the case OF California, upon the peo-
pie OF the Territory, and leave Ne@ Mexico in the
mean time under the protection OF her ancient laws deem
ing her safe in sitting Free though wltbou, guard
open danger, than enclosed in suspected safety This.
air. will be non-inerventlonsu non-Intervention
you and can Practise and can justify not voluntary
self imposed non.inerventon TO betray or expose free
dom, but compulsory intervention, when all inter-
yenon to save has failed The President anticipated