Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-31

ton OF domestic slavery"
There is nothing here asserting the power of
Congress to pass tho Provso, and it was not to be
expected that the committee, in proposing COM
promise to be united in by North and South
would deny that power. We think it was unne-
cessaryt press distinctly the idea that the Pro-
viso would have no practical effaceven if it should
be enforced, Gan idea, however, which was the
substratum of Mr. We5ster's mu oh applauded
specify but the committee more than alto ne for
this by putting deliberately on record the strong
declaratlon that now, and Sin all future time
Congress ought to con6no itself to the institution
of Territorial Governm snts, and leave the question
of slavery to be determined by the people when
they are prepared to organize State Governments.
This is, in its fullest extent, the doctrine contend
ed for by the South.
Butwe need not discuss this point farther. 1t
is too clear to admit of doubt, that as far as the
Territories of Utah and New Mexico are Concern
ed, the Compromise bill embodies all that the most
scrupulous Southern men should desire Before
we leave the topic however, we desire to call the
attention of any who may doubt whether the bill
is void of insult to the South in regard to the Ter
ritores, to the following remarks, made by the
Abolitionist, Hale, of New Hampshire, in the Sc
nate, on Monday:
81 will tell you what think the secret of this (South
ern) opposition is This bill has been proposed, and
Southern gentlemen have seen that the North have
snapped at it SO greedily that they trying to get
little more They have taken all the territory to begin
with, with restriction, and devoted it all to slavery
to begu with Then they have got the fugitive slave
bill to make hunting ground of all the rest Of the Union
ShOud Thav bava oil
that, and still they say they not satisfied. was
asking the other day in friendly and halt ocose man
ner Southern friend OF mine, ,What would you be
tIsfled with? Now says h., 'Pll be candid with you
we can have California for slave territory, with all the
rest it, and then take Cuba, would be satisfied for
| little while, but not long Now believe th, man
events there was great deal Of truth lurking in it.
admiled the candor with which he told me that they
woqIdnot be satisfied great while even with that
But to be serious II gentlemen not satisfied
with this compromise bill, with this adjustment what
| do they want! What have got that we can give
them! They contend that we cannot legisate directly
they do not ask that, because it can do that the
converse OF the proposition must be true too and we
may legisate to abolish slavery. They will not ask
una, mat because, to use vulgar phrase it would be cut
let US alone' Now, sir, it is to suppose that
this doctrine OF non intervention is doctrine. 1t
| IS notso You will find that it is old the New
Testament There was certain class that the Saviour
once came to: Let us aoue, let alone was their
request IN on intervention; take care OF our
selves That is what slavery asks to-day Let
alone DO not do any thing We will go into the Ter
| rItones and we will go when and where and how we
please Let us alone. Hands off. Non-nrervention
all we ask and all that we ask consistently with
our theory
Well, sir, this bill does all that. 1t gives them the
whole OF that, and still they not satisfied with it.
Now tell my friends from the North, if there is sin
gle one here who sympathzeS with in the least, they
cannot be satisfied When you have drank the cup Of
cancellation and concession to the very dreg they will
not be satisfied long. Long No. not at all. We
have conceded and conceded and conceded but conces
sion only creates new demands Who supposed four
years ago that it would be seriously commended on the
part OF the advocates of slavery on this floor that Con-
gress had no power to egslate in the Territories, when
every page OF our legislation from the adoption of the
constitution down to the close of President Folks ad
min straon, was covered with statutes recogn-
ENG and exercising the right, and whee very last
act OF that administration was distinct acknowledge
ment that it was constitutional exercise of power to
prohibit slavery in the Territor ies!"
1--WE have LETT ourselves but little room for not-
cling to-day the second objection urged against the
Compromise bill. 1t lies to the proposals to be
made to Texas for change of her boundary
Mr. Robert G. Scott, in his letter, which we pub.
fish in another column, regards the contemplated
cession as leaving to Texas only "a strip of Ter
ritory on the Gulf of Mexico and apprehends
that twill be settled by this measure that slavery
will never go beyond the Tooth degree of lon gi-
tude. We must say that Mr.. SCOTS recent geo.
graphical studies have led him to very singular
conclusions. The provision objected to reads
thus
"The Northern boundary of said State shall be as
follows: Beginning at the point on the Rio del Norte
commonly called I'll Paso aad RUM ing up that river 20
miles, measured by strait line thereon, and thence
eastwardly to point where the hundredth degree of
west Longitude Red river, being the southwest
angle in the line designated between the United States
and Mexico, and the same angle in the line of the ter
rtory set apart tor the indians by the United States
Any one, who will take upa map of Texas, will
see that the ''eastwardly" line here prescribed cut
OFT that awkward corner of Northern Texas, which
lies between the Indian Territory and Western
New Mexico. The line is nearly diagonal of the
para Telegram, formed by the 32d and 34th de-
grees of latitude, and the Tooth and 1O6th de-
grees OF longitude. Its Western terminus is be-
tween six and seven hundred miles above the
mouth of the Rio Grande; its Ea stern terminus is
near 500 miles from the Gulf of Mexico in pa .
rail- ell direction with that of the Rio Grande 1t
will be perceived at glance that the bill secures
the extension of slavery under the laws of Tex
as, as far as the Western terminus of the line.
which nearly in the lo6th degree of longitude,
and not merely as Mr.. Scott supposes, to the
Eastern terminus in the Tooth degree The title
OF Texas to the Rio Grande is quoted, and, under
the bill, slavery will for the first time reach that
river unmoested But it is also objected to this
part of the bill, that it proposes to pay many mil
lions of dollars in order to convert Gas the amounts
are loosely estimated) 1875 millions of acres, or
100000 square miles, of Slave Territory into Free
Territory. The committees report contains the
following statement:
According to estimate which has been made,
there are included in the territory which is proposed
that Texas shall relinquish her claim, embracing that
part OF New Mexico lying east of the Rio Grande d