Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-03-16

which slave territory The line of SEQ 3O' drawn
through the territory and when slavery prohibited north
Of that line the division complete II unnecessary
to say any thing about the country below, BECAUSE saying
nothing, slavery existed heretofore. II decided by
making division of the territory between the savehodng
and the nonsavehong States have said that in this
where the whole territory is in dispute there should be dis
nct application to the side and the oher order that
might have the full benefit of the spirit Of the Missouri
compromise in unlike that for which ii made
that the citizens Of the United States engaged in conro
versy as to the right to take particular species OF property
into the Territories that this controversy painful injurious,
and dangerous its tendency and seemingly ec0ncabe,
might be adjusted without compromise Of principle by divi
sion OF the territory between the sections of the Union
the one to have sole above and the other to have
equal possession below the line. For, sir, when you admit
slavery into the territory you do exclude the white aborer
great aacy which has been repeatedly here promul-
gated to suppose So No, sir slave labor forms the SUBJ
stratum which white labor elevated and he who seeks
for that portion OF country where, in fact in theory,
political equality does exist be pointed to the avehod
ing States. Sucb at least know to be the among all
the white men where reside and such cannot believe to be
the where, in the slave States, white are
sunk to menal occupations.
But sir the Senator has noticed closing remarks OF
that speech which hoped would have had tendency rather
quiet than excite controversy Expression given
to the feelings which have always entertained OF an abiding
love for all portions Of the country, and petty sectional
hostility toward any has found shelter in my breast
Even that portion Of my remarks the Senator has thought
proper to comment on and, as Think unkindy indicated
the Of sectional se might be Of the destruction
Of happy and happness-conerng Union, the poor, the
despcabe antpahy the South because Of her institution
Of African bondage. To this he replies that there no hos
ty towards Of the South because hold the African
in bondage but that il only to the extension OF the terrific
ry in which the African may thus be held He has hos
ty then, appears to the fact of holding the African
in bondage place. but he has nsuperabe obec
tons to doing in another Why this Is it for the
benefit of that ITSELF Not at all. For every must
understand that diffusion, concentration is for the bene
fit of the slave Is it for the benefit of the white race Not
sInf~ thn nh
aton predomnaes the black the safety and happiness
Of both ecured and further, all must understand that
final emancipation is ensue, must come when the
slaves few proportion the whites nhabng the country
There policy which would rvet that instu-
on forever this country surely that which confines
the slaves to the present limits in which they are held.
There be door opened by which they may out and
that door be towards the equator All who understand
their habits and constitutional Pecuares must admit this
And yet the policy is here advocated day after day. by those
who claim to be the peculiar friends of emancipation, to draw
around barrier TO the exodus OF the slaves and
dam them up in the email territory which they occupy where,
increasing in number year by year. the mpossbiy Of eman
cpaton will augment also, until he only deny that the
system must be perpetual who prepared to see the slave
become the masters portion of the States of this
Union into possessions or to witness the more pro-
bable result of their determination by a servie war;
word two more to another remark made by the
Senator He that the Mexican States the
alton Of the Federal Government and not the Federal Gov
eminent the creation OF the States Now sir, the Mexican
Republic, like own passed from the colonial condition
into of national independence and when they organized
Government after throwing off the dominion Of Spain, they
stated "Ths nation adopts for form OF government
popular representative and federal republic The States
be free and Independent in the administration Of their
domestic affairs. The provinces became States, and their
republic confederation framed after the model of these
United States
II was declared that these articles Of this constitution shall
not be subject to alteration, &c.
Mr. BALDWIN. wish ask the Senator whether, by the
constitution Of Mexico California and New Mexico were
States Territories
Mr.. DAVIS. Territories, think.
Mr.. WALKER That may give the Senator the ad-
vantage of this position, will ask him question. Suppose
the Government Of Mexico had been established the plan
Of Iguaa and that afterwards the Congress created under
that plan had taken constitution and adopted literally
changing things that absolutely required it, for instance the
names, would that constitution have had the effect
there il would here
Mr.. DAVIS. That involves a great many questions.
( Mr.. WALKER. l wish him to view it merely in this
lights taking the consolidated government which was in fact
the plan Of Iguaa and proclaimed to be the constitution OF
Mexico, wish to know if the Congress created under that
plan had adopted constitution would have had the same
effect there as here
Mr.. DAVIS. Certainly not. But only speak of the
presented thus by revolution the vceroyay fell and
confederation States free and independent upon the
site it had occupied The constitution adopted defined the
powers of each department of the Federal Goyernmenhere
here the depository Of the general trusts only
for things understand them to exist not to sup
posed cases and their effects.
had occasion the Senator former occasion
the fact that the slave being person, and recognised in
wofod aspect person and property the laws OF the
State from which he is carried may follow him, and affect
his condition in the State to which he may be migrated.
The slave may have by law right to his liberty at certain
he be carried away before he reaches that he
does become slave for @ The decisions OF the courts
Of Mississippi have been liberal in this respect Our
ures prone, in involving supposition of fraud
upon the personal rights of negro, to shield him with
generosity proporonate his weakness believe it will
always be found that among both ues and the courts
have given the negro the ampes protection Of our laws
This is the natural result Of that sympathy and generosity
which the relation Of and slave is apt to produce
is the public opinion of the country somewhat suppressed
is true but destroyed, by the offensive and mschevous
interference Of Northern brethren with domestic relation
which they do understand and cannot appreciate re-
member in point that of African who was sup
posed have been brought in after the year 6OS having
been captured in of the constant those barbarian
tribes He purchased by subscription, and, with suf
6cient OUTFIT sent back to his native country.
is for questions to arise growing out
Of the laws Of the State from which slave may be brought
and think this has probably led the Senator into an erro
construction Of judicial decisions.
In replying my remarks the Senator from Wisconsineats
my position an assertion that slavery rsuts from nau
raj right did moi say that This is the passage from my
speech
I do propose discuss the justice injustice slave
abstract proposition occupy this seat tor no such
purpose enough for to know that here we are not
places which shall be held and certainly have
abolish it II is enough for elsewhere to know that
established by decree of Almighty God, that it is
toned In the Bible in both Tesaments Genesis
yeaons that has existed in all ages has been found among
the people of the highest civilization and in nations of the
highest proficiency in the arts 1t is enough if this not
sufficient to know that it existed in all the States Of this Union
at the period Of the Confedecy and In all but at the
the in OF