Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-07-13

Texas, New Mexico Utah the District of Columbia were
no sooner crowded and crammed into this unwedly rick
ETY. ark through dsrst of the customary vehicles of egs
aton to weather the dark and dangerous Storm than
the storm passed away like cloud in The omi
nous haends OF June have come and and with them the
exa-consuonal assembage at Nashville but not its in
vadng fleets and hostile armies. So also the crisis the
House OF Representatives has come without disclosing the
steep rum which was apprehended The political elements
have subsidized from their wild uproar Why not let
California the VOYAGE in her separate vessel,
and following the Presidential chart make the port speed
lily, and in safety
The answer is, that the Commonwealth is laborng of
wounds which threaten its safety tcannot be improper to
apply to each of them tent that will search it the
bottom.
The first of them is the alleged neglect surrender fug
tive slaves This wound heeds arcsh at every return of
Congress to the Capitol, ...:
Whose annual wound in Lebanon alur-l
The Syrian damseIs To lament his fate,
u, In alnorous dties all summers day. .,
Sir, IT is not proved here that three fug,es year
withheld against lawful demand nay, think it is not
proved that is withheld. The value of what is
called slave property because the laws of slave States treat
1t as property, is impaired dollar. Strength and
beauty and youth bring their accustomed prices. What
then the evil The people of the free States hesitate at
the execution OF the act of 1893 among them without
adequate provision distinguishing between the real fugi
tive and the free czenbeween surrenderng the unhappy
slave, and kidnapping the still more unhappy freeman. And
what your remedy To give the form of trial after the
surrender, i'll the State which the alleged fugitive
veyed Sir this will only aggravate the exaggerated evil
Are then prepared confess that this proud Republic
approaches its downfall because slave sometimes finds
refuge under it, in spite OF its laws
The of these evils is the agitation about slavery
the District OF Columbia. There only thousand slaves
here all told The people of the free States
against their being held hopeless bondage; but they wait
patiently until the mind Of the nation be moved TO abo
sh it. What does this scheme give to these
monsances 1t proposes to the slave shameless
the Potomac and i'll return for that concession
exac guaranty OF the continuance OF slavery until Mary
wound by pungng deeper into it the knife that made it.
Shall we, then authorize the newl yeturncd Minister from
Russia TO give to his imperial master the gratifying nel
that this Republic the only coun,crpose his despo
ism, hastens to its fall by inadequate and in
glorious the bare possibility that thousand slaves
may, ve ten, twenty hence, De redeemed
from bondage! ... ..- T.
The next Of these evils is the cneroachuent of Texas
upon New Mexico Well, will leave the Territory
of New Mexico the keeping of the President and her
free institutions to the of her people until she
come here State and demand admission into the
Union "...
The fourth these disasters the solitude Of ten thou
sand Mormons in the far off basin of the Salt Lake But
this solitude is of their choice. They could live
under governments in any OF States It IS there
FORE solitude sweetened by independence The remedy
proposed by the Compromise to extend to them instu
tons like those from which they fled. Sir, the Momons,
when they shall have gathered population adequate to
sustain State government establish one; and IN the
time they will be living under the protection of our
arms and enjoying the only laws they are yet prepared to
endure
There is, then only one real wound upon the body pol
itic-he suspense OF California. This is wound whose
pain relieved by anguish III any other part and this
is the very which with exquisite the President
proposes shall heal Immediately, and by ITSELF alone
But is insisted that trivial these disturbances
the country nevertheless rrtated excited and distracted
Sir the country TO neither excited distracted
1t worried by delay, and has become inpatient
not impatient enough yet to approve this bill but inpatient
for the admission of California alone. That is ALL
replied
He'd That question cannot be settled by this bill Slavery
and freedom conflicting systems, brought together BY
nzed Their antagonism radical, and therefore perpe
ual Compromise continues conflict and the conflict in
wolves, unavoidaby all questions of national interest
questions of of internal improvement of industry,
Of commerce. of political rivalry and all questions of
peace and of war. In entering the of conquest you
have kindled to ercer heat the fires you seek to eHtn
5uish by throwing into them the fuel of propagandsn.
We have the propagandism of slavery to enlarge the
slave marEet and to increase slave representation i'll Con-
yrcss and in the Electoral coegesfor the bambe
seeks power, though the olive, the fig, and the 'ne
use and we have the propagandism of freedom
eract those purposes Nor this propagandism be ar
csted either side. The full of eXes and they
swarm our land. Emigration from Europe and from
ASIA from Polynesia from the free States and from
he slave States, and will go and must
obedience to laws which should say, were higher than
he Constitution if any such laws acknowledged here.
nd may be allowed here refer those who have been
candaized by the aluson to such laws to single passage
author whose did the side OF SUI
Dcrson of tyranny: II it be said that every nation
ought in this TO follow their constitutions at
md of for they ought not to be followed
unless they rightly made they cannot he rightly made
they contrary the universal law of God and Ma
ure. (DscourscS OIL Government by Alscrnon Sidney
hap. LIST, p. 49, spoke of emgrans; and wherever
hose cmgrans go-whcther they go from necessity or
choce-they form continuous, unbroken streaming pro-
essions of coonsts founders Of States builders OF nations
And when colonies planted States founded, or ma
built labor there the first and indispensable ele
and it begins and prosecutes the end It's strife for
recdom and power While the sovereignty of the Terrific
remains here, the strife will up here to be COM
osed. You may slay the Wimot Provlso III the Senate
hambe and bury it beneath the Capitol to-day the dead
in complete steel will haunt your legislative halls to-
morrow .... a
When the strife is ended in the Territories you now pos
ess it will be renewed on new fields North well as
ouh ory advantages gained to retrieve losses I'M
urrcd both of the parties well know that there Is Yet
4 that word Hereafter. '.>.... 49,. . a
have referred the promise of peace which
GRADED in the Missouri Compromise. Sir that prophecy
but half its journey yet The annexation of Texas. the
aston of Mexico this prolonged struggle California
desperate contest for the and sands of New
iexico and Deseret all within the scope and limits Of
prediction and the sres yet over ice
ound regions beyond the ST. Lawrence and sur-5urnt
ains beneath the tropics.
But while this Compromise will fail Of all its purposes it
ill work out serious and lasting evils. All such comps-
changes of the Constitutions made in deogation
the Constitution They render it uncertain in It's mean
g, and impair its vigor, well as its sanctions. This
ompromise finds the Senate in wide divergence from the
louise of Representatives, by of the undue multi
caton of feeble consumptye States effected by former