The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-07-10
CONGRESS-.


CONGRESS.
In The s<nsis. On Saturday. June -. Nh. Do
Vic q Miss-. coaeIsdsd his speech eonnsaeea On
Fdlsy. sgsins Tho eonpreni< bin
M. Cooper followed in support ef ths hilli but
h<sor. be had concluded the Senate vent nis
,.seut,e res.ioa, and then adjourned.
On Mondsy .July I. the eonsidsrssion Il The
esupromise bin was resumed. and Ma. Cooper
concluded his speech. Mr.. UPhsn followed In
sppodtioa.
A messsxs vas received from The President In
rply 10 Mr.. Foote's resolution. In which be says
that an orders 10 the Governor Of New Mexico.
were already laid before the Senate.
Hersr or RErHrsKsrlrrvra
On Saturday. June ~. the repOrt Of the com
mi,.ss o. elections Was farther considered. Tbs
resolution declaring Mr.. Thompson entitled 10
he con,rssed seat in the irst congressional dis
,riei Of Iowa. was rejeeied-ysss 30. nays io2.
The seat was Afterwards declared TO be vacant.
and The matter Was remsnded back 10 the peo-
PIE
On Monday, July I, the report Of the select
committee on the Gulphin claim was considered
and the conduct Of the Secretary Of War was
condemned BY Messn. Burt, Brooks and Conger'
and sustained By Messrs. Toombe and Brsek.
The latter gentleman bad not concluded, when
IN sdjournmsni took place.
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The WlImoi PrOylsO and mr.
Reid.--The Raleigh Register made the charge
sr,ins, Col. David 8. Reid, thst while in Con-
sres he voted for the Oregon bill with the VIII
mo, Proviso in Il, which in effect land was 80
svOwed,) asserted the power Of Congress over the
subject Of slavery.
This charge tho Standard pronounced TO be
f.l,,. anil appealed TO tbs record" for proof MI.
Reid, he says, awas NOT In Congress when the
bill passed"
The Register. in reply, brings ups the record
and shows tbs. in January isi7, the bill 10 give
. government to the territory Of Oregon was be.
fore Congress; which bill contained the following
words, iden.icaly those Of the wilmos Proviso
viz:
aThere shall Nc neither slavery nor involunta'
~ servituds in The said territory. otherwise insn
In the punishment Of crimes whereof tns parry
shall have been duly convicted"
Mr.. Burt, Of 8. Carolina, moved an amend
men, 10 the bill, recognising the cempromise lea
,urs Of the Missouri line; but this amendment
v.s rejected. The main question was then or
aered 20 be put, q shall this bill psssl" the yca'
and NAYS being taken, il was decided in the AMIR
u,stive-yess 1873, nays3S. The Register copies
the yeas and nays from the Congressional Globe
Of 18th Jan. isi7, page 1913, showing that Of
the North Carolina delegation, Messrs. Daniel
NK,y. and REID, voted for the bill. with the
wilmo, Proviso in il; and MesHs. Dockery and
Graham sgains. il.
The Register shows that the snti-slavsry clause
in this Oregon bill was identicaly, word for word
,bo same as the wiImot proviso. and contends
tba, il was inserted in the bill for the purpose Of
asserting the principle.
Mr.. Reid has written = letter to the editor Of
the Standard, which appeared in that paper Of INC
al inst, in which he pronounces the charge tha'
he's, sny time or in any way voted for the Will.
mo, pro~iso. a, utterly false." Yet he admits
tha, he voted for the Oregon bill with the anti
slavery clause in il. But he voted for il unie'
the Missouri compromise principle. Oregon lie'
north Of the compromise line. and the bill only in
h;biteJ slavery in that territory. The Wilmo
Proviso was intended to prohibit slavery bo,t
north and south Of the line. This Mr.. Reid con
siders broad distinction; and here he rests hi
defence. The apology would he entitled to con
alteration il the compromise principle had beef
acknowledged in the hill ; but an amendment {
that effect had been rejected by deliberate vote
and the clause in the bill prohibiting Slavery ha
therefore nothing to distinguish it from the verl
table Wilmo, Proviso, which has becomo 20 odiou
and offensive to the whole South.
But wha, is this but giving up the whole prin
ciple which the South is contending fort IfCou
sress has the constitutional power to prohibit sla
very in territories north of $50 30, has it not q
20 equal power to prohibit the introduction Of sls
very into territories south Of that line! If II
Constitution has given to Congress the power I
all, it is very clear that il has placed no limit VI
on it. We have thought that the principle cor
tended for at the South was non.interfvcnce
that the people in forming their state constitution
should be left free to introduce or 70 inhibit III
institution Of slavery a. they might see ft. Til
is tho only safe ground upon which We can s.an'
J. was for this cause we hailed with 50 niue
.y....,~. A.. ..r,xt Il, ths ecnsta of the commi