The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-05-09

~ designs of that section must have reached The Jour
in New York The extract will read q the Judgment
TO which northern mind came and which entirely COR
CURED with that which had formed The editor says
We Yesterday for the first time read Mr. cay's speech
1Arossi and have seldom enjoyed richer repasf
After some compliments to the distinguished senator
which will not readfor such offerings frequent,
to be interesting 10 hm--ihe article proceeds
,hs South win accept his promise. the North shosd
thing sonshtthe exclusion oil slavery from the new Tef
oresand can well afford 70 Ie the south have ine shell
pie Is involved.
Sir. ] am not willing to content myself with the
shel" claim for my State, small as she Is, share
though II be small share, stll share of the Nkerne
consent TO any settlement OF the matter in
issue which excludes the South from face upon the
Pacific oceanom part of the coast OF the Pacific. or
which denies to us the opportunity to occupy all territory
south Of the long established compromise line OF 36deg
30 min.
Without further extending my remarks. will merely
say our northern friends in this body in the words Of
Of the wisest and chiefest OF inspired morasisand
say i IN spirit OF protesaiion as well as cautione
move not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have
set" hs
Mr. goRLAND rose, when
under the necessity OF restricting the range OF the debate
Mr.. BORLAND. Lceriainly intended to restrict my
self the subject before the Senate, and not
s ~ ss aS % % g ss
The PREsiDlNG OFFICER said thai he did not al
senator K
Mr.. BORLAND The question before the Senate. as [
understand it, the printing Of this report desire 10
state very few words the estimate which lplace upon
the report. and therefore indicating the vote shall give
upon l. As the senator from Alabama Mr.. CLEMEMsl
has very justly said, this report is new thing TO the
Senate. and will be no new thing to the country for i IL
but compendium OF the views entertained and expressed
in the early part Of this session By the senator from Ken
precisely expressedin series Of resolutions.
which the report OF this committee has sustained and il
is nothing more. 1t embraces the views imbodied in
those resolutions at the time; and from the best Judgment
could give upon the subject Ct the me,l was opposed
sdeatons am equally opposed 70 the plan now propos
ed by this committee So far the spirit in which this
report conceived andthe expression OF patriotic deyo-
ton 10 the Union, concened have nothing to say
They are all that any man could ask. But, sr, the
spirit in which il is conceived and the mere express
nation meet The question 1t all nor all affect The de-
cson to which my mind must come In determining the
vote shall give il regard 70
look The substance of it. and not TO the language IN
which is presented the Senate; and appeal toeyery
one who hears me TO say there 10 in any one PROPOSE
s ss , u that ,y ny which SsS. SSaSa
present and have declared unanimously that they are
bound to stand by The proposition ID, in the first
boundaries Now appeal to every southern senator if
there Isl throughout the whole South, any State repre-
scented upon this floor any individual who has not de-
cared from the frst his unwillingness that California
should be admitted with her present boundaries II there
has been any such expression Of opinion from any
authoritative sourcefrom source than can BE- consider
heard it. Yet sir this report proposes to admit Caliior
mia with her present boundary sweeping the whole Pa
cifc coast.
The next proposition is 10 make territorial govern.
ments without the Wilmot Proviso Upon substantive
proposition, suppose, the South are willing to accede
In looking at the report and making my estimate OF IT.
look at the for the propositions that there
given and what theys II does not touch the main
question, in which the South believe their interests to be
nvovedthe constitutional question. II lays that aside,
for what Ii puts it upon the ground
that northern men have Is, that slavery cam
senator from Massachuseits, not now in his seat IAlr
WEBsTER, because the laws OF Nature and the will OF
God have and will forever exclude it. is, in fact silent
ground alone for all practical purposes Of legislation.
hereafter confirming, in my opinion, the constitutional
power Of Congress 70 exclude slavery from these Ter
tories, though il will be remembered that in the argu
ments brought forward in support OF the proposition, Il
assumed, and was sorry to it, in the disposition
to pass over the Distinction which il seems 10 me
always be held in view in the settlement Of this ques
onthe distinction drawn between the constitutional
power and the mere assertion that il is excluded by the
laws of Nature yielding, in fact. that point, the inn
portant point and the only point upon which we can
rest with any safety, TO mere abstraction Talk a.
ceive OF any greater abstraction than that ho
Another question Is the fixing OF the boundary Of
Texas Without going now into the reasons which VIII
govern my vote upon that subject, desire 10 say, in
few words. that il l. matter with which we have no
right 70 interfere; and that Offering her one million. or
boundary. would nking away her right Of sovereignty
Offering hera mess Of potage for her inheritance.
Then, sir, the next proposition - the fuEltive-save
question consider that proposition amounting 10
nothing as far a. the rights Of the South concerned
and worse than nothing Non-acton would be nothing;
but this goes little further than nonacton. II not
only gives no advantage TO the South, secures of
her rights, and not only proposes TO nct injury Vut
10 add insult do not believe that Congress pass
any bill with regard to fugitive slaves that viii be ct
entirely upon the ssveholdng States, and that no
practical operation where the community IN feeling
opposed to it, This proposition proposes trial by jury
to the fugitive, not, h true, in the State 70 winch
he fees, but in the State from which he escapes.
when be is taken back to IL. II proposes 70 nc
complish this in two ways the first H. that the shave
owner shall 70 before court, and take copy Of che
record to carry with him, thus throwing obstacle Ia
his way in the very beginning calculated 70 dees the
object Of his search the slave making his escape while
the owner s engaged In taking out thess papers alec
puts every savehoder In the southern States In the
power Of slave, involving him in mani. suits An M
dvidusl owning hundred slaves could be In single
day involved in suit at law with every one o. these
slaves Il 10 bad enough as il IL, Heaven knows but
when Won declare 10 the slave that he has the right 70
contest the right Of property with his master, all ne has
10 do IL to abscond and put the owner 70 the necessity Of
getting out legal Procession The copy OF record =
nothing more nor less than pfocessbefuTe ne can DC
pursued and them when he Is brought back, ne is 70
have he right OF trial by Jury You are holding out
the strongest reasons for his absconding, and laying
the foundation Of lawsuits between every STAKEHOLDER
and slave in the United States
shall not 20 further In the discussion OF this question
this time reservng my remarks for The groposnon wnen
shall come up for discussion But desire 70 say TINS
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