The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-01-15
8 NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY
Erecnffre nIessares.

New York IN his message TO the Legislature, on L
the I'd inst- writes at length the sukject'of the
Executive and the exclusion of slavery, and con-
cludes as follows:
The General Govemuentl has made four sepa-
rate acquisitions o. territory By each Of the three
former, slave territory was acquired and from these
acquisitions, five slaveholdiug States have all
ready been admitted into the u mon with an inn
phed promise Of four at some future daV |
The last accession Of territory is the only one |
whereby have acquired jurisdiction over soil /
whence slavery was, by existing laws, entirely |
prohibited, By the treaty with Mexico the terri
tories OF New Mexico and California came to us
free and the laws Of Mexico abolishng slavery,
which were in force at the time of the cesson,
tinue to- be operative, and are not affected BY the
transfer of sovereignty over the territbrys
"The people OF California have recently taken
initial steps towards admission into the MON as
sovereign State. By the constitution which they
have adopted they have embodied in their organic
law the prohibition Of slavery involuntary SER
vitude. And petition was presented to Congress.
during the past winter in behalf Of portion Of the
people Of New Mexico, asking for the establish
ment Of Territorial Government which should-
protect them against the institutioRfof domestic
slavery. The voice of the people Of California has
thus been expressed IN favor Of Freedom and there
is little room for doubt that New Mexico sympa-
thises in sentiment with California.
C0ngress,cannot, without transgfession of its
constitution establish slavery within this territory
it, without the violation OF the principles of
justice, and utter disregard to the wishes of the
people, and OF the protection which it is bound to
extend over the territory to which it has acquired
title refuse admission to the new State, or coupte
nance sanction, in any way, the introduction of
slavery within the territory. And without the
| ton and the assent of Congress, those newly
quired territories are secured TO Freedom and must
remain as they now are, exempt from the institu-
| tion Of slavery.
"The emphatic voice Of the Legislature Of the
| State of New York, expressed in the resolutions
passed at their two last sessions, and the nearly
unanimous sentiment Of the people Of our State,
/ have declared, that under no circumstances will
/ their assent be given to the extension Of slavery
into these territories from which it is excluded
| "NewYork' loves the Union of the States. She
will not Contemplate the possibility OF its dissolu-
ton and sees no reason to calculate the enormty
| of such a calamity"
MISSISSIPPI.
Governor Matthews, of Mississippi, holds the
| following language the subject;
| "At the formation of the Confederation, about
hree-fourths of the territory Of the Union belonged
to the present slave States. In the spirit of con-
citation, and for the sake of peace, consented
| to the deprivation Of our rghts-frst by the ord-
nance of 1857, in reference to the North Western
Territory, and secondly by submission TO the Mis-
| souri, Compromise, Here supposed that the
spirit of aggression would stop, and we might rest
quietly south OF the.lne agreed by that compro-
mise. But in this we disappointed. This
fell Spirit demands our exclusion from every
foot of territory belonging to the Union. 1t is a
universally admitted principle that when of the
| parties to 4 compact, without the consent of the
| other disregards and violates that compact, the
other ceases to be bound to the performance of the
obligations into which he entered in its formation
| The non-saveholdng States have refused to abide
by the terms of the Missouri Compromise, and the
slave States therefore absolyed from the observ
ance OF the stipuations into which they entered
and should at once fall back on their constitutions
rights, by which they held equal right with al
the citizens of the United States to- an,
settle with their property in any of the Territorie
| of the United States. We have learned by bite
| experience the consequences Of compromising ou
rights. Instead of peace; It only invites renewe
| aggression. Not only we denied settle
: ment in the present free States with our property
. Ia right we 'have refused to our Norther
brethren who wish to settle among us,) but can
not travel through their territories without DANCE
| of being robbed OF our slave property These ar
the results Of our concessions; and since their in
fidelity to their engagements has released us from
| even any honorable obligation TO abide by thes
, | compromises maintain that duty to ourselves re
quires that meyer again consent to any restric
!, ton to the extension Of our Southern institution
; from any portion OF the Territories of the Union
: I Unless we come to this determination, and main
~ | tain it with unyielding frmness, l am convince
- that the days Of this glorious Union numbered
4 The spirit OF fanatcism and aggression will peve
4 be stayed by compromises; but it will continue il
j. work OF destruction until the sacred ties which hay
N heretofore bound us together in great and gle
m rious brotherhood shall be rent asnnder-dur pre-.
Ill ent peaceful land shall be drenched in blood, an
= the glorious temple of human liberty, reared b
N our fathers and coRsecrated by their blood sha
s tumble into ruins, exposed to the jeers and aun
1s of the mnions of despotism. In the event of'tl
on adoption of the Wilmot Proviso by Congress,
os the admission of California into the Union by h
be late pretended Constitution the abolition OF slave
It in the District of Columbia, or the prohibition
~ the commerce in slaves between the States,
he lrecommend that the Governor be authorized
en- order an election Of delegates from all the count
in the States to convention to take into consider
t ton the mode and measures of redress, and to ado
,I such for our future security the cri
ali may deInand.n