Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-11-30


mostly Improbable regions Of New Mexico and Utah. II
these obstacles be overcome the people
of those Territories left free introduce slavery if they
think proper But candor obges 10 say that think
never will be introduced there.
The difficult complicated and embarrassing question
which engaged deliberations that Of the boundary of
Texas Three different opinions regard TO prevailed and
were entertained by respectable numbers According to
the western limit Of Texas the Nueces and did not
tend beyond it, Another opinion maintained hat stretched
beyond the Nueces the Rio del Nore and up that river
from its mouth to the southern line of New Mexico The
third opinion held that embraced the whole country east of
the Rio del Nore, from its mouth to its head, including
nearly all of New Mexico All these opinions main
tanned with great plsusibiy, if ability The Southern
members almost unanimously and with great zeal and
esnsss urged the last opinion appeared to that ever
there was upon earth in which disputed boundary
should be settled and amcaby adjusted by compromise that
of Texas We Offer it is true, very large of
money, ten millions Of dollars for the exclusion Of New
Mexico from her limits but then previously bound,
to the extent OF nearly oneha that sum- the creditors of
Texas in consequence Of the United States having virtue
of the resolution Of appropriated themsevesa
the duties foreign imports receivable in the ports Of Texas
whilst independent which had been previously pledged to
those creditors Texas therefore, does not in fact receive
than about five millions Of dollars for the relnqushmen
Of her territorial claim voted with great pleasure for the
appropriation Of the money, because hoped and believed
would be honestly and bona de applied the extinction Of
her public debt and to her consequent relief from all pecun
airy embarrassment And Mr.. Speaker, wish that had
some legitimate ground Q lament have legitimate
ground to advance to every debtor State in the Union
sufficient to pay all its debts, and its credit wher
that credit has been furnished. We all members Of
glorious Confederation, and should be happy
every Slate standing upright and honorby in the gene
and the appreciation of the whole world If any State
act unworhy IN reference her public debt her conduct
brings less reproach upon the whole Confedercy
will at present say nothing q may hereafter have
s0mehing) in respect to the fugitive slave bill,
except that the aim of the provisions which
bodied in it to give fair full and ecacioHs effect to the
stuons provision for the surrender of fugves No
hardy enough upon the floor of the Senate, deny the
right Of the Of the fugitive slave in virtue Of the
sttuon. to have his property restored to- him. The only DIFF
of opinion the mode of eecng that object
But the momentthe Observation-Disclosures conceded every thing
yielded for all will admit that constitutional duty on
the part of Congress should be faithfully and eecuay, and
usivey and nadequatsly performed The last of the
in the series that Of aboshng the slave trade
in the District Of Columbia That trade had lost much Of its
extent by the etrocesson Virginia Of that portion of the
District lying south Of the Potomac and by other events It
reduced, think informed, single prison or
depot in which slaves deposited. Those slaves
not bought in the District but brought chiefly from
Maryland and Virginia into the District 1t trade in
which the inhabitants of the District had sort of Interest,"
the contrary they wished it abolished. Southern gentle
men, years and years ago, had expressed tho opinion that
ought to be abolished It sometimes exhibited the institution
Of slavery IN one Of its most painful and unpleasant forms
have myself seen not often lately Of slaves chain
ed together driven through Pennsylvania And what
humane person contemplate such spectacle without
painful feelings The existence Of the trade gave rise great
camor and great exaggeraton the North. Why should il
be continued in the District Why let the trader he
chooses continue prosecute his business 60 AeXan
dra, to Richmond, to Annapolis, to Baltimore If the
States Of Virginia and Maryland will allow him 60
there that sno why he should be tolerated in Dis
ct 1t within the clear and indspuable power Of Con-
gress abolish the trade In putting end to it Congress
has done than Kentucky hasone rbdding trading
in slaves merchandsethan the State of Mississippi has
done which Inserted in her constitution similar pohibon-
fhsnrn Sfaa hava he
which passed does not touch affect in the slightest de-
gree the institution of slavery exists within the District
1t does prevent the inhabitants Of the District from selling
otherwise alternating their slaves It does not prevent them
from going Of the District purchasing slaves and
bringing them within it for their The law
regulation Of police, called for by all the considerations
which unite in the passage Of any law, and in which,
in the absence of all passion, excitement and agaton all
impartial men would concur
Such Mr. Speaker, is brief account of the system Of
recommended by the committee Of thirteen That
committee thought expedent to unite in bill all those
kindred which related to recent territorial acqul
sions They thought that considering the actual state Of
opinion in Congress, best to unite Them When
thus combined each party would what gained and what
lost and would be that in the passage Of the common
would find is losses compensated by its gains
Moreover there unhsppiy distrus engendeed between
the parties what might DO the result if the several
separately proposed. One said to the other, If
pass what you want having got it. you will afterwards
fuse give what want By the combination of the mea-
each party would and know the exact extent Of what
it conceded and what conceded to it and being once
passed. there would be risk of bad faith. The friends of
the compromise in favor Of all the measures either in
the aggregate detail Welded to matter of FORM
actuated by pride Of opinion, they were animated with
other desire than the peace and harmony Of the whole cou
try. The opponents Of the compromise, with excep-
TONS against the measures the aggregate and in de-
TAIL and their objection therefore, their union not the
and real objection But for their indiscrcet and bitter
opposition the omnibus would have passed months before the
separate bills passed. Happily the whole system Of measures
originally proposed, finally prevailed in both Houses Of
Congress- The popety of the union of Of them
in the House of Representatives by the fact that
when the Texas boundary question presented
measure rejected by amajory Of than forty
and when afterwards united with the bill for establish
ing Territorial Government for New Mexico wthouthe Will
mot provso, it was carried by decisive majority.
And now, Mr.. Speaker, let for moment pause, and
consider what the actual losses and gains by the
tons Of the Union In the adoption Of this system of
think that California, neither party, far the action
Of Congress concerned be truly said to have gained
lost What has been done there has been done by cope
tent and admitted authority, without the inerposon Of Con-
w.hes of the South have prevailed the Wnot proviso has
been repudiaed and although do not believe that slavery
will be tolerated 10 either Of Them both allowed to admit
exclude according to their pleasure In regard TO
the Texas boundary the South has been rendered secure in
all the territory lying Of the Nueces and extending to
the Rio del Noe and up that river from its mouth to the
southern line Of New Mexico, for slavery, which
had been before disputed and conroverted The South gets
effective provision for the restoration al fugitive slaves
The South think, will be Quoted on the subject OF the sg
taon Of slavery in the District Of Columbia by the abolition
Of The odous slave trade ia that Dsrca measure equally
demanded in my humble opinion by the honor the dignity
thot o,pto,o hath The nd he