Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-04-13


or for the murder of our mothers.
These all the specified Of alarm TO the slave
States from any coaduc sppehended conduct the part
OF Congress- OF which have heard complaint do ou-
BILE myself with those who have power act-th ind-
viduals societies Congress is The effective power-he
representation of all the aiesand Of that speak, and say
know Of nothing in its conduct which give the
States any cause for complaint alarm.
Underlined complaints of aggressons, encroachmens, d
expressions are made from parts OF the South so far
as these underlined complaints apply 10 Congress- and the
Legislative resolutions offensive but they do
aggression, encroachmen oppression But do know of
forbearance in Congress TO exercise undspued power
might be exercised the and oppression
the South. aude to the power Of direct taxation The
slave property Of the slavehong States estimated
than thousand millions of dollars II would be rich sub
ec OF axsslon No Government in the world leaves such
mass Oh wealth unaxed We have taxed 1t, and when
worth much less than now-taxed it in 1898 and in 1913.
No one dreams Of Yet il would be mode of taxa
ton to the savehodng Saes the burden Of
would fall exclusively upon them It would be mode Of
annoying the slave States from the right it would involve to
and value the slaves and verify returns by actual in
specton 1t might be mode Of aboshing slavery upon the
principle of suppesng by ning under the name Of taxing
which was mode OF supPessng, banhng, branches of
the Bank of the United States resorted TO- in order to
get rid Of that institution, in of Western States
The abstinence in Congress exercise this undspued power
the fact that no Northern member has proposed limited
-hs great fact Of using this undpued power when it
might should be received by all candid minds highest
earthly evidence that Congress has no disposition usup
uSputeu powers much less TO commit fragrant violations OF
the constitution, to harass destroy property the
slavehoding States of this Union.
But, we do not stop forbeaance-a abstinence from
using undiputed to annoy the slave States We do
not stop at negative proof show the just and kind DISPOSE
ton Of Congress towards these States We proceed posi-
tive acts and by them prove the thing And here let
US be precise year 1885 is named the year Of the
commencement Of the slavery agitation and the aggressons
upon the South. Granted, the time. Granted also,
to individuals and societies. But how as 10 States
and Congress That is the point And the answer is that
little Congress affected by the abolition socees-so
little inclined to abolish slavery, restrict its area-hat it
actually increased it. and that repeatedly and largely, and
within the obnoxious time II in the year ls36-he
very after this slavery agitation is Dated and the very
year after leading papers in the South had made question
Of time only for Convention Of the slavehedng States
assemble and provide for Southern Confederacy that Con-
gress actually increased the Of slavery in Of the
largest OF the slave States and that the sacrifice Of part
OF the Missouri compromise line, and by the actual
sion OF large extent of free soil into slave SOIL speak Of
the annexation OF the Platte country to the State of Missouri
by that act Of annexation part of the Missouri compromise
lineone hundred miles of straight ne-was abol-
ished and line substituted three hundred miles
long on Its two Sides cutting deep into free SOIL and
ing it into slave SOIL The six beautiful counties Of the
fiate country were gained to Missouri by this operation
gained TO slave STATE and carved Of free territory made
free by the compromise Of ls20-and all by the help Of
Northern votes say, by the help Of Northern votes and
without referring to the Journals for the fact proves ITSELF
The Northern members were the maoity and without help
from their votes the law could not have passed alter the
compromise lne Their Senators equal this floor
and without help from them the twohirds Of the Senate
could not have been obtained afy the treaty which
moved the Indians from the ground promised to them for
permanent home and which removal indispensable the
annexation Of the country to the State Of Missouri All this
done and by the help Of Northern votes, and in the very
time laid the period of Northern designs for the abolition
of slavery in the States Il was done without any
ray of North and South. And poweress the abo
tpnists at home unable to make agitation at home,
that 50 far as am informed, they able to turn
single member out Of Congress for the vote be gave favor
of the extension Of slavery under such extraordinary crcu-
stances Thisis fact which stands for answer; and
such produce it and leave it.
This graa fact but small in comparison to another.
Behold that Texas, coded to the King Of Spain by South
administration in Sl9-recovered by the help Of North
en votes in 1874 the greater part Of il slave territory
This recovery carries slavery from the Sabine the Rio
Grandefom the Red river to the Bay of Matagoda-from
the frontiers Of Louisiana to the frontiers Of New Mexico
ten degrees Of longitude-above five hundred miles
straight line All this done for the extension Of slave
ry, and by the help Of Northern votes and within FIVE years
past. and during the very time that the Southern Convention
was under advsement account Of the designs of the
Northern people to abolish slavery in the States This
done, and in that time And now away with idle and
groundess accusations They sink into nothing the pre-
sence Of such facts these
But this is a-hardy the beginning Of Congress legs-
lation for the actual extension Of slavery Look all the
Southwestern and Of the Western and Southern States
Loek at them hey thirty years ago. Lok
Kentucky Tennessee, Alabama Mississippi Georgia, North
Carola Arkansas, and Missouri all of them less
ncumbeed with Indian population, keeping the white
and his slave. Now, all redeemed from the Indian and
actual slavery extended where it could 60 before And
all this again by the help Of Northern for without that
help the laws could not have been passed. the treaties
have been ratified by which this great extension Of actual
slavery in many great States, has been accomplished
say, then, that these fears ide-hs agitation ground
ess-tha Congress has design to disturb slave property
and that there is necessity for any settlement adjust
men about itno necessity for compromising California into
the Union by grand scheme of settling the whole slavery
agitation, at the expense Of her honor dignity, and rights
Having shown that the admission Of California ought not to
be mixed up with any other subject to the ques
ton of admission ITSELF and say that all the objections which
have been made to her admission goundess in fact in
significant in their nature. What are they
l. That of Congress has been passed to authorize the
people Of California form State Constitution. The fact
admitted but it's consequence denied Congress has full
power the admission of Saes and may dispense
with all preliminary FORMS when pleases and come direct
to the question Of admission. This is what may do and
what il has DONE It has admitted States without
than with the previous authorization Of act Of Congress
form constitution. Eight have been acknowledgements
in 1871 Kentucky l792 Tennessee, 1885, Maine, 1920,
Arkansas 1886 Michigan, 1887 Florida 1915; and lows,
admitted-and stretching period Of sixty years. and
reaching back to the venerable times Of early history,
when Washington President and the fathers Of poll
teal church still At the altar. Eight and there would
have been another il Congress had passed the act in
March, 1890, to authorize the people Of Missouri assemble
their Convention to form constitution. They would have
assembled the Convention themselves other Territories had
done before Them if Congress had passed the the
session did. contemporary with that event. and know
something about it. Certainly the authorization by Congress
convenience regulates the process, and pays the
pense but il is not necessity, and may be dispensed with
in a and has been in majority Of the Of admission.
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