Washington telegraph., 1850-07-17

ry has been adjusted with any other gov
ernment 50 as to contract or vary the
boundaries of Texas. That Mexico, by
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ex-
pressly reIinquished all claim to all terri
tory compounded within the boundaries
heretofore described; whereby, the claim
of Texas became settled. and her juris-
diction and authority became complete.
That the State of Texas should not be
hindered or disturbed by any authority
whatever, in the exercise of all such SOW
ereign and supreme power over all terri
tory within her limits as may be lawfully
exercise by any other sovereign State OF
the confederacy over territory within it's
ascertained limits.
Is. Resolued, That all the territory
within the limits of the State Of Texas,
being now slaveholding territory, it is of
vital importance to the Southern States,
that no portion of it should be transferred
to the Jurisdiction of the Federal Gov
ernment, without the most explicit dec
laration, that the same shall be slave ter
ritorv in the hands of the United States.
as fully as it now is IN the hands of Texas.
That no agreement between the Uni
ted States and Texas for cession to the
former of part Of the territory of the
latter, should discharge the Government
of the United States from the obligations
to admit into the Uuion four new States,
to be created in the territory of Texas,
with the institution of slavery, and pro-
vision should be made in the article of
cession TO preserve said obligation.
ID ho Hntu of
the whole South to oppose the attempts
of the northern fanatics to get possession
of any part of the territory rightfully be-
longing to Texas for the purpose OF ex-
GLIDING therefrom the people of the
South, and especially the Texans them
selves.
IT, ResolUed, That while the position
of Texas in the very breach through
which this assau ult may be made OH the
constitutional rights of the south, enttle
her to the assurance Of cordial and reso-
lutte support from every slave-holdng
State; these States have like right TO
expect that she will not be so false to
herself and regardless of their interest,
as to accept any sum of money as con-
sideration for admitting all enemy within
her gates, and establishing there strong
hold of abolition and harbor for fugi-
tive slaves.
49, Resolved, That the right Of the
people of Texas to form, at the proper
time, with the consent of that State,
four new slaveholding States. in addition
to said State of Texas out of the terrific
ry thereof is clear and unqueslionable,
and cannot be strengthened by amy mere
legislative construction or guarantee.
49, ReS0iued, That the who.e legisla-
tive power oe the United States Govern
ment is derived from the Constitution
and delegated to Congress, and cannot
be increased or diminished but by an
amendment of the Constitution.
90 ResoIueot, That the acquisition of
the territory by the United States,
whether occupied or vacant either by
purchase. conquest or treaty, adds moth
ing to the legislative power of Congress,
as granted and limited in the constitution
2l. Resolved, That the adoption of a
foreign law existing at the time in ter
ritory purchased, ceded, or granted, is
the exercise of legislative power, and
cannot be done unless the law is of such
character as might rightfuly be enac-
ted by Congress under the constitution,
without reference to Its pre-existence as
foreign law.
o. ResoLved, That the alleged princi-
pie of the law of Nations recognizing,
to some extent, the perpetuity of foreign
laws in existence within a territory at
the time of its acquisition by purchase,
conquest or treaty, cannot, under our
constitution and form Of government, go
to the extent of continuing in force, In
such territory, any law that could not be
directly enacted by Congress, by virtue
of the powers of legislation delegated to
it by the constitution.
%. ReSoLued That no power of doing
any act or thing by any of the Depart
men.S of our Government can be based
upon the principles of any foreign law.
or of the laws of nations, beyond what
exists in such Department under the
Constitution of the u S., without refer
ence to such foreign law or the laws of
Nations.
"a. ResoLved. That slavery exists in
the United States independent of the
Constitution. That it is recognized by
the Constitution in threefold aspect,
first as property. second as domestic re.
lation OF service or labor under the law
of State and lastly as basis Of polite
al power. And viewed in any or all Of
these lights Congress has no power un-
der the Constitution, to create or destroy
it any where; nor can such power be de-
rived from foreign laws, conquest, ces-
sion, treaty or the laws of nations, nor
from any other source but an amendment
of the Constitution itself.
IS. ResoLved, That the Constitution
confers no power upon Congress to reg