The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-10-03
TO BE CONCLUDED NKXT WEEK.
SPEECH OF HON. CHARLES E. CLARKE.
OF NEW YORK

UT NEW hohh'
On The Bill establishing The Boundary beteeea TSEas
and Mem .MerieO.
Delivered in the House Of Representatives Aug 80 1850
The House having under consideration Senate
bill respecting the boundary between Texas and
New Mexico, with the pending amendments
Mr. CLARKE said
MIR SPEAKER: | rise with much hesitation |
aware Of the great value of time, and Of my in
ability to gain attention but the attack of my
colleague Mr.. BRooKs oblges me to reply or TO |
seem to admit that | have been guilty of some
great legislative improperly. The remarks of
the gentleman were intended not TO instruct us
how we should vote hereafter, but to inAict pun
ishment for votes already given and the chief
burden of his remarks was the incongruty of
the gentlemen who voted together on two occa-
sions-to reject the Texas boundary bill, and that
it was not in order TO add to that bill the Senate
bill giving Territorial Government to New
Mexico-instead of any abstract improperly of
the votes themselves
The gentlemen whose votes my colleague scru.
tinizes are his equals in place, and perhaps in pa
triotism, and holding themselves amenable to
their constituents and their consciences, will not
be greatly moved because my colleague has seen
fit to vituperate For one, | am coutent to
do what is right, and shall not be deferred from
that course because others, who usually vote in
opposition, unite with me.
The bill which | voted to reject on its first
reading gives in my estimation, at least seventy
thousand square miles of territory, now free, to
Texas and of course to irremediable and hope
less slavery-a tract Of territory nine times as
large as the State of Massachusetts,. II gives it
in such shape that it embraces on three sides a
tract of Indian territory two hundred and ten
miles square, with the Missouri Compromise line
only to be run, for its northern boundary you
have new slaveholding State, as soon as it shall
please the white man TO quarrel away the In
dams.
OF the intention to make that Indian Territory
into a slave State, have no doubt; and that, |
believe is the reason for the peculiar shape of the
territory ceded to Texas. Look at the map, and
see the tracks Of the beast p
The same bill under the pretence of indemnity
| for sgrgsrafss"saee Bf ahe, hi" GtAds 'x Mex
Texas ten millions Of dollars, (Sl0, 000,D00)
Again by clear and undoubted concert of action
the Senate bill giving Territorial Government to
New Mexico, wuhom the Ordinance of 's7, Uhe
| Wilm0t Proyiso-,he freedom clause) il moved
rs an additional section to the bill The Speaker
decides that this is in order, and vote, in COM
mon with political opponents, that it is mol in
order.
oo 'h,S unuer '"e IMPRESSION 'n'. ~ 10 'ae III
.eh'ioh Oh ,hose VINO nurse 'hese pii,s anu VINO
hoPe " oo'i,0' anu un"0, up 'no W 'r"e
menes OF the oeha'es oiscaruea om""us, 70
move 'ne Pre'iouS I'eS'op' anu VI oVu'so ou' vi
all depa'e anu al nmenuhien., Subsequent
events na'e iuiy J"e."eu ny u'P".'ono ,o' Nv
sooner does 'ne gentleman from massachusetts
| lMr. AsHMUN get the floor, than he moves the
| previous question
For these votes | have met with unmeasured
aouse rom my coi'eaeuei anu nov nnu'ne ~ niS
own vocabulary "orus su,lic.en'ly ap' anu t'u'
Pera'ive or uTapery s"ino'en''s or"'.1 ~ "nio"
10 cio.ne MS ,ueas' ne lao'es uPo" u' INC ,n0"H'
'ioh Vi 'ne ~''o"eS !" "'"oo''" ii0"' "'"
Gentlemen will pardon me- but lines of Shakespeare
run through my head ana must let them OUT " ora" 10
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II. ,e,ri,orv and that too under the false pre.
,ence that We were receiving a vast tract OF conn.
,rv from Texas and were eSuitably hound TO nav
her deb,s struck AZ the hin the frat opnor,n.