The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-30

necessary those who oppose it caneser yield tnis
opposition-they ssand upon the Constitution ~ 70
sentiments upon the Wilmot proyiso weIe nov 3e.1
fore the Senate, and in Few days would be petore
his constituents. .>S.es slt ;43as 81. . 81
lie had been instructed BY the Legsiature Of Mich
gan to vote for the pfoyiso. He recognized the rghf
Of the Legislature tonstruct him, but ne could not
under any circumstances violate his conscience by
voting for that which he deemed unconstitutional
When this question Of the proviso came before tne
Senate in practical mapner, he would conform 70
the Instructions, and to 0s own sentiments, 0y re-
signing that trust he could no longer fnihl.
The memorial Of the people Of Deseres asking aa-t
mission into the Union as Territorial government,
and the accompanying copy OF their Nonst'uIou' .'o
were referred to the Commistee on iertores. A'so,
Mr.. Foote's bill creating Territorial governments io1
California, Deseret, and New Mexico.
The Senate then adjourned. -
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The message of the President Of the United States
recommending appropriation to ht out an eHPeol-
ton to search for Sir John franklin, the bEusn nav
gator, in the Arctic ocean, was reterrea 10 tne
mittee on Naval Affairs. ..,r
On motion of Mr. Bayly. the House resoveq l.sen
into Committee of the w holeo on the state OF 'ne
INIT. Boyd of XIV. in the Chair,) with the view ot
referring the subjects embraced in the President an
nual message to appropriate commi'ees'
Mr.. Bayiy introduced series Of resolutions one
of which proposed to refer to the Committee on
Ways and Means the subjects of the tariff the STATE
of the Treasury public debt, tho law providing iof
the safekeepng and collection of the revenue the
receipts and expenditure, the branch mints' 'ne an
nual report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr.. Clingman availed himself of this occasion to
present the remarks of which he gave notice yeser
day, concerning the subject embraced IN tne rfesl
dents message, yesterday. in regard to Can'orhla;
Mr.. c.. expressed his confidence In the judgment ana
integrity and patriotism OF the Presioent' anu 10
commenting upon the views advanced by HIM IN the
MESSAGE said there was no real difference between
the President and himself He admitted the right OF
each State to settle for themselves all such domesc
qestions as were referred to therein but as to VINO
are the people that are decide as well the time and
selves questions for the judgment OF Congress under
all the circumstances of the case.
He alluded to Louisiana, which was kept two years
before she was allowed to form State Conshtuuon'
and to be admitted by Congress into the Union; ne
argued that the admission OF California. WIN her
present organization, would be great ant-siavery
triumph; but maintained that if the territorial ques-
tions were not settled this session, and permitted to
90 over till the next Fall elections none OF the gen.
tlemen from the free States here can be returned ex-
cept upon the anti-slavery platform. Those from the
North, he said, who had stood up for the rights OF
the South, had shown themselves the friends OF the
Constitution and the, Union.
He went into an exposition to show what would
be the advantages the South the Union were DIS
solved; maintaining that the commercial towns, Bal.
timore, Charleston, Mobile and New Orleans, would
abstract large portion of the trade of New York,
Philadelphia and Boston. The South, he said, if un
fortunately such thing as dissolution should take
place, would grow up in wealth.
In allusion to the Northern abolition movement,
he cited the great loss to Maryland of her property
which in slaves amounted to at least 100000 an
nuay. He said that from the tone Of the Southern
press, as we'll as from other Indications it was obvi-
that the South will at an early day be sufficient
ly united insure the of whatever means
may be necessary to adopt and protect themselves
from the aggression menaced from the North. In
relation to the territorial question, he submitted 1t
calmly the Norhern gentlemen that they had bet
ter make up their minds to give the South at once
fair settlement, not cheat them by mere empty form
without reality but give something substantial for the
South. They might, he said, acquiesce in the Mis-
souri, compromise line He would individually pre-
fer. under all the circumstances, giving up the whole
of California, provided they could have all on this
side OF it up to about the parallel of 40 degrees, not
far from the North line of the State of Missouri rather
than its Southern 36 degrees 30 minutes They
would thus be getting the whole of New Mexico, !
and, having the mountain chain and desert on the
West, obtain proper frontier. They might then
acquire, at future day, whether united or divi-
ded possession of the country along the Gulf OF Mex
leo, well suited to be occupied by slave population.
He meant that restriction ought to be imposed by
Congress this territory, but that after 1t has been
left open to all classes, in proper period that ma
determine for themselves whether they will permit
slavery or not. The South, he said, would acqui-
esce in any reasonable settlement. But, said he,
when ask for justice, met by the senseless
and insane cry of s. Union, Union. He was dis |
gusted with it; when it came from Northern gentle
men who were attacking them, it fell on his ears
it would do if band of robbers had surrounded
dwelling, and when the inmates attempted to resist
the assaants should lase the shout of peace, union
harmony"
He was for making the issue now, when the South
had the political strength to resist and to control the
question. He concluded by warning gentlemen at
The North against measures which while submission
10 them would be ruinous to the South, they would
not in the end be beneficial to their section. Seeing
then the issue in all its bearings it is for them to de-
eide. They holds in their hands the destiny of the
existing government.
Mr. Howard, of Texas, rose and said he would enter !
into no mathematical calculations of the value of the
Union. He would not attempt to reason as to
what would be the action of the South If disunion
to take place. He would 60 as far as any South
ern man to maintain the rights of the South and still
10 sustain the Union. But if the North were deter
mined to trample upon the rights and interests of the
South, there is an end of the Union. He would not
jenounce the North, because there were men at the
orh who had stood by the Constitution and its COM
promises until they were sacrificed. There was still
party there which stood up for the Constitution and
for justice to the South. Therefore he would not
make wholesale denunciation of the North. He |
believed in the personal patriotism of the President
he feared his action under control that would
be detrimental the South He referred to the Pre-
sidental contest-the different phases assumed by
the President in different sections of the Union upon
the Wilmot Proviso question, which had had great
predjudicial moral action against the South. The
acts of the last Presidential canvass he said. was no
index to the feeling Of the South the slavery ques
ton Tie South would stand up in solid column for
it's rights when the crisis arrived.
+ He then alluded to the views of the President
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