Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-08-17

ing preponderanee any member OF the Union This il
not point IN history Il has occurred BEFORE and has
nstruetou upon il Many q tie States At the close Of the
Revolution found to be large for the safety Of the
them As early as 1850 they were called upon by the Cont
mental Congress to reduce their limits their surplus
territory Some yielded readily from feelings Of harmony
and Cancellation feelings being rather stronger then
than they Virginia coded gatuousy all her terri
tory beyond the Ohio river Connecticut did not cede for
small claim on the shore q Lake Erie Georgia held ont I'M
and then BOT million and quarter in money, five
millions Of Of land scrip and obligation exguh
Indian titles and Indians which has OF mil
lions, for the territory alone which forms the single State of
Mississippi 1t required the perseverng exeron Is
e pras %
airy debit to obtain from the great States the contraction of
their limits and the cession OF their surplus territory the
Union Our ancestors accomplished the work. and they took
ashley fully believed guard against the like danger
all time to They took once and in the very Of
cession fix the number Of the States making
them OF number and size that the danger of
shadowing States predominant the House Representa-
tives Of small ones, rule In the Senate, equally
future dangers and difficulties And shall such example be
lost upon us Shall voluntarily throw ourselves back into
so much care WISDOM patriotism and money, succeed
ed in exrcatins us Texas il far larger than the North
western Territory yet our ancestors would not risk the dan
Ones they wisely fixed the number Of the WHOLE and the
tent OF each, avoid the danger ofboh extremes
herself il is suppo.tion contrary to All human sx1erence
But suppose she does what then Consequences Immediately
result which il is impossible BY the joint
luton Texas is TO keep her ands and pay her debts
These lands would lie without the limits of the reduced
State, and covered BY Indian tbes To pay her
rninsratiou Of land system in different State Or in
Territory belonging to the United States 1t would also
tory where Iadan tribes held the lands All hi. would
be impossible Nobody could think Of such thing State
quarre Indian wars daction and confusion and the in
Movement of the United States all the difficulties that would
would be the inevitable of such prouson
Of State authority into another State, into Territory and
calamous retention of limits it would be for Texas
decide which calamity she would nc the United States
would not have the poor Of choosing between
them. All would be at the option OF Texas. Hatss3
~ say this upon the assumption that Texas would accept
proposal and into the Union upon the Of the
any such thing, erceps for The purpose Of Prescribing her
terms as the price Of reducing her Limits and re-
Enqasng her claims 70 her remaining territory. BY the
Of the resolution she sto surrender her
which are n the hands Of formidable Camanches and other
savage Indians and which will their value money and
more than their value in blood obtain from these Indians
She accept except make
her terms afterwards for the reduction Of her limits aud
the cession of her remaining territory and that the precise
hand" 13l
labored for this five six years ago. and also the
commencement Of the present session. and all without any
effect And now, when at last the question has upon
US, and when we in the very jaws Of the crisis and have
to provide against it. my voice has very little weight in set
ting one even Of the collateral questions details Of the law
foresaw and said that Texas would make her terms
Il is and it but fair deduction from the crcum-
stances under which then acted The cry annexa-
ton without regard to consequences and that cry things
were carried forward. Well the consequences have
every that foretold at the time and that
not fretold 1t was not oretod the meno could
foesee that should have to purchase peace from
Texas that in addition to paying her what she well deserves
to receive, and well might be paid and above all this
the United States would have purchase her peace from
have heard
peciay from the Senator from Pennsylvania that the main
point now-buyng peace. Iapprehend that if an nd
vdual sets out to buy his peace at ALL either for his property
personal character he may be purchasing all day long,
and the purchases he makes the customers he
will have. As long he has cent to be got, he may
pec that course of things and it is about the with
Governments. If the United States has purchase peace
from State, it will have do from all long it
can raise dollar Now do not know that the Slate Of
Texas- speak Of States in coniradisncon from indivdu-
as-has done any thing yet to threaten yet If
Texas herself should make the threat the United States of
what she will do in her claim is not allowed, what
have to say is this Mankind is constituted that when
threat is made, get mad and will not do what is
right get scared, and do what is wrong and there
but very few who preserve their precise equilibrium
do they would have done in the absence Of any threat
do not know that claim any exemption from the
binary lot Of mankind Of being irtaed the side
terrified the Others but this much do know, thatI will settle
with Texas precisely the terms would have done in
S45 and precisely would have the
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about purchasing peace That is coming nearly as can
think to remaining was before any consideration Of
threats urged and it is dealing merely justly but
literally and kindly with Texas
Now, word finishes the whole shall vote against
this bill and is rejected shall reconsideration
with the full belief that there be framed from the bill
which the Senator from Maryland has brought bill which
will be acceptable, think, to Texas and the country.
The yeas and nays ordered and the question being
taken, the amendment was rejected, as follows
YEAS-Messrs. Atchison Barnwen, Bell, Berren, But
ler Clemens Davis of Misssspp Dawson, Dodge OF Iowa,
Foote. Hunter King. Mason, Morton, Rusk, Sebastian,
Soue, Turney and Yuee-l9.
NAYSMesrs. Badger Baldwin. Bradbury, Bright Cass,
Chase, Clarke Cooper Davis, Of Massachusetts Dickinson,
Dodge OF Wisconsin, Ewing Fech, Greene, Hale Hamln,
Norris Pearce, Phelps, Seward Shields Smith, Spruance
Stsrgeon, Underwood, Upham Wales, Walker, and Win
throp-29 rf
The bill was then read third time and passed, pub
shed last week.
STICKING TO ONES RIGHTS.
Old stories very often have forcbe application present
times. The following anecdoe with lately in
change PAPER
How is it John, that you bring the wagon home in
such a condition"
&c / broke IL driving st,unp