The North-Carolina standard., 1850-02-06

who treated with Mexico, and the
fact that all the country has been sinca given up to
the United States by Mexico and without giving to
these facts all the weight and imPorHce attached 70
them by gentlemen, there was established Piausl-
ble show of claim, but not good title.
Without now going into the inquiry whether the
Nueces or the Del Norte is or-was the true bounda
ry Of Texas, he had proposed, by his resolation,
x that boundary at short distance from the mouth
of tho Rio del Nore, and running along that river
the southern line of New Mexico and thence along
the line of New Mexico eastwardly to the old line
established by the United States and Spain. She
would then be country large enough, when peoped,l
to make three or four States.
The other resolution makes proposition to Texas.
It proposes that the United States will provide for
the payment of all that portion of her debts which
have been secured by pledge-n'ade when Texas
was a republic and competent to make such pledge
of the duties arising from Ter foreign imports.
How much that debt was, he could not, with all his
efforts, ascertain bnt it made but little difference.
was the principle he proposed to establish, and in
the assertion of principle the amount was not ne
cessary. The ground on which he proposed that the
United States should assume this debt was one which
he had more than advocated, as founded on the
principles of truth and justice. -
Texas was free and independent nation; as such
she had invited the world to make loans to her to
enable her to prosecute the then existing be-
tween her and Mexico. and she told all those whom
she had invited to make this loan that she would sa-
credly pledge the duties her Imports to the pay
ment of that loan. The money is lent. and it is ex-
pended in her war for independence. Afterwards
she annexes herself to the United States, and the
thing pledged pay her debts becomes the property
of the United States; and the fund pledged to the
payment of her debt is turned into the vaults of
the treasury of the United States. Now he thought,
that by all the principles of honor and justice known
amongst men, the United States, the recipients of
this pledge, should pay the debts due to the credi-
tors, at least far as the thing pledged would 60
that object. There three parties to the affair
Texas, the creditor, and the United States and
the United States could not do any thing to the pre-
iudice or wrong of third parties. .-..
| How much OF that debt would now exist if this
pledged fund had not been transferred the United
States, is uncertain. The trade Galveston and the
other ports of Texas principally in the hands
Of coasng vessels, and instead of receiving imports
from Europe, the goods were sent there from the 9TH
er States of the Union. But it is certain that, if
Texas had not become a State of this Union, the
duties on her imports would in few years have been
sufficient to pay her debt This proposal was made
another condition, on the condition that Texas should
reinquish any claim to any portion of the territory
called New Mexico. Now. she had no valid title to
any portion of that territory, but merely claim and
with general desire to have harmony and peace, she
and the United States might do, as is done by ind-
viduals, compromise, and the United States pay
thing for disputed claim for the sake of peace
The fifth and sixth resolutions, like the third and
fourth. had some connexion and should be consider
ed together. The fifth asserted substantially 9TH
principle tndn Wnat was asserted Dy resolution OF
his submitted in the Senate twelve years ago, and
then passed by majority of nearly four-fths of the
Senate That resolution passed in 1888, and re-
qured that the abolition Of slavery in this District
should not be done, except with the assent of Mary
land the assent Of the people of the District and up
on full compensation to the owners of the slaves.
The sixth resolution that the slave trade should
be abolished prohibited in the District 1t was not
that the alienation transfer of slaves between the
inhabitants between neighbor and neighbor should
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the residents of the District should be affected But
the slave trade, pronounced to be abomnable raf
fc more than forty years ago by distinguished son
Of Virginia. Mr.. Randolph, should be broken up at
least in this District. 1t mistake of gentlemen
from the North if they supposed that the regular ira
ders in slaves are looked upon with particular favor
at the South. On the contrary, they were sometimes
unustly excluded from social intercourse on account
Of the odum attaching to their business.
There was no reason why the trade should be al
desired to have large number Of slaves together for
sale, Alexandria, Petersburg, Richmond, Annapolis,
and Norfolk, and let them be carried there: let the
trader 20 there and est,bish his as and his prisons,
and not in this place, the capitol of the nation, where
often shocked the feelings of gentlemen, by
seeing slaves in chains, and in long trains driven down
the Avenue from the Capitol that house where re-
sides the President Of free Republic. He spoke
of many southern when he declared
the slave trade, now carried in this city, to be
xbominabe.
| The object and purport of the seventh resolution
been made plain and obvious by the debate already
had upon the bill before the Senate. 1t was obvious
also that Legislation is necessary, was it in
tended that any should follow the egth resolution
Il established truth sustained by law, and would
meet with general acquescence.
He had thought that resort to the old custom Of
our American and English ancestors, of occasional
declaration of great fundamental principles, would
be the best plan to pursue, and the Senate had
before them that plan of settling the great difficulties
! existing.
How far it might prove acceptable to the two par
ties to this question, it for him to say. It.
should be acceptable to both. There was in the ac-
ceptance of it sacrifice Of principle by either. 1t
was founded mutual forbearance, and originating
| in mutual concession and Cancellation.
to slavery, opposition dictated by the feelings of
the purest humanity and philanthropy. But while
he believed there was, in these resolutions about an
equal amount of concession, he thought he might
have asked more from the North, in the way of con-
cession. than from the South. With the gentlemen
from the free States, what was this subject but
abstraction! An abstraction, it true, based up
on the principles Of humanity and philanthropy.
BILE when dictated used party ends and par.
ty purposes. The North also numerically great
er than the slave States and greatness of power and
magnanimity should ever 60 together. On the part
Of the North, the opposition to slavery sent-
ment of philanthropy and humanity and when sem
timents of that kind entertained with tho wish
and disposition to make sacrifices to enforce them
they are truly noble. But, when the sacrifices are
not to be made by you Of the North, but by those
the one side, it is sentiment without any sacrifice,
peril, or danger, or loss; the other, there must
be vast and incalculable sacrifice of property
without you of the Ncrth being burdened with any