Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-06-15

tnem IL 10 not anew question with me- this extension Of
slavery IN that quarter met il in S4 before the annexa
ton of Texas On the 10th day June of that year. aud
as part of bill for compact with Texas and to settle oil
questions with heg-the very which perpex us
bsfore she was annexed, proposed article " in the
projected clause
Art " The existence of slavery to be for ever prohb
ted in that part Of the Territory which lies Of
the hundredh degree OF longitude from the meridian Of
This is what proposed six years ago, and as one 10
series Of propositions be offered Texas and Mexico
settling all questions growing Of the projected
beforehand fhey were not adopted. Immediate annexa
ton, without regard to consequence the cry and all
temperate counssls set down British Traitors, Abo-
honiss and Wings. Well have regard consequences
nowseyera consequences Of which is this extension Of
slavery which the report and congomerae bills Of the Com
mee Of Thirteen force US to face did six years ago.
and heard outbreak against my opinions then. But my
opposition to the extension of slavery dates further back than
ls44-foy further back and this suitable time
for general declaration, and Of general conscience de-
livery, will say that my opposition dates from 1904
when student law in the State of Tennessee and
studied the subject of African slavery in American book
Virginia beok-Tuckers edition of Blackstones Commen-
tarles And here it is (hoding up volume and reading
from the title page J Blacksioaes Commentaries, ,oifh
notes Of reference to the constitution and a,cs of the Federal
Government The United Sate and of the Commonwealth
oVngaia, in fire roiumes ,tih appendix to each co
as oa"sea ss J n4 s, q 1ssa as S5
law in The University Of VILLAIN and Mary, and one Of
Judgesofe General Court IN Virginia. In this Ameri-
book-ths Virginia edition Of English work-I found
my principles the subject Of slavery. Among the short
the appendices of fifty pages in the appendix
to the first voume second part which treats Of the subject Of
African slavery in the United States with total eondemna-
ton Of the institution, and plan for its extinction in
Virginia. In that work-n that schoo-that old Vrgi-
MIA scho which was taught to reyerenceI foand my prn
cpes slavery and adhere 10 them. in the whole
essay, except the remedy-gradual emancpaion-and find
in that remedy the danger which the wise men Of Virginia
then and dreaded but resolved encounter because
to become with time the danger both
from so large emancipation The Of that day
not enthusiasts fanatics they statesmen and phoso
piers They knew that the emancipation of the black slave
not question between master and slave--no
question of property merelybut question of white and
back-between and what to be the consequence
to each from large emancipation And there the
wisdom, not the phanhropy of Virginia baked fifty years
ago there the wisdom of America baks And here
find the largest objection to the extension of saveryto plant
ing in regions where does exist-bestow-
ing those who have not The ncuraby Of the evil is
the greatest objection the extension of slavery is wrong
for the legislator to nct evil which be cured how
much to nct that is Dcurable, and against the
will of the people who are to endure it forever quarrel
with for supposing slavery blessing deem
evil and would neither adopt it impose it others.
Yet am slaveholder and among the few members of Con-
gress who hold slaves in this District.
In refusing extend slavery these seventy thousand
square miles, act in conformity not only to my long
established principles, but also in conformity the long
established practice of Congress. Five times in four years
did Congress refuse Indiana temporary
suspension of the anavey clause of the ordinance Of 81
On the I'd of March, 1903, Mr. Randolph, of Roanoke,
chairman Of the committee to which the memorial praying
the suspension REFEREED made report against it, which
concuned in by the House. This is the report
That the rapid population of the State of Ohio sufficiently
evnces in the opinion of committee that the labor of
slaves not necessary to the growth and settlement
Of colonies in that region That this labor demonstraby the
dearest of any only be employed advantage the cult
walton of products valuable than any known to that
quarter of the United States that the committee deem it
mex irnna
calculated to promote the happiness and prosperity OF the
northwestern country and to give strength and security to
that extensive frontier. In the sautary operation of this
gacous and benevolent restraint, it is believed that the
habians Of Indiana will at no very distant day, find ample
tor temporary privation Of labor and Of emf
grafton" )"
This report Of Mr.. Randolph in 1903 the next year.
March, 1904, different report the prayer
made by committee of which Mr. Rodney, of Delaware,
was chairman. It recommended suspension Of the anti
slavery clause for ten not concurred in by the
House. Two years afterwards, February 1906, similar
report recommending suspension for years made by
committee of which Mr.. Garne, Of Virginia, chair
man: it met the fate-non concurrence. The next
year, 1907, both Houses tried. In February of that
year, committee of the House, of which Mr. Parke was
chairman reported in favor of the indefinite suspension of the
clause the report not concued in And in November
of that year, Mr. Frankn of North Carolina chairman
of committee of the Senate made report against the sus-
pension which concurred in by the Senate and
mousy, it would from the Journal, there being no
division called for Thus five times in four years, the
extension, rather reextenson Of slavery into Indiana
Territory, which had been before the ordinance of s7
territory, holding many slaves Vincennes These five
fusals TO suspend the ordinance of s7 many
maions of it. All the Of the action Of Congress
the subject the effect stronger. The Missouri
compromise line curaiment of slave territory; the
Texas annexation resolutions the the ordinance
of s7 ITSELF often confirmed by Congress- curai
ment of slave teroy-n fact its actual abolition for it is
certain that slavery existed in fact in the French settlements
of the Illinois at that time and that the ordinance terminated
it. act then in conformity the long, uniformly establish
ed policy of Congress, well conformity my own
principles in refusing vote the extension of slavery which
the committees line would involve .s
return to the pont-the 10 900 square miles of territory
which the committees line would transfer from the possession
of New Mexico to the Of Texss-and the question
OF the extension of slavery which grows of that transfer
There is slavery it now, either in law fact will
be there by law the transfer made This leaves open
question and that climate be relied upon keep
away think not There two climates in New Mexico
gd the other temperate and these 900 square miles
in the temperate part II is long province, stretching
north and SOUTH high aud mountainous the noh-lower
and with broader valley lower down. Santa Fe has an ee
vaticn Of 7250 feet Ell Paso 3s00 The Rio del Norte
called in tho upper part of lis the river above (Ro
Arva in The lower part, river below, (Ro Abajo;) and the
climate corresponds with this structure of the counyrgor
Gus at Santa Fe mild at Ell Paso Humboldt thus speaks
of them
New Mexico though placed under the latitude with
Syria and Central Persia, has climate eminenty cold.
freezes there in the middle of the month of May SAN
FE ard little further north under the parallel of the
More the Rio del Norte covered sometimes several years
it. We do know the elevation of the country in New
Mexico but doubt whether under the SO of latitude t