The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-30

| from California, they proceeded TO shut u
out OF Utah and New Mexico; by terrific
rial organization, which if it did not expressly
exclude slavery, by placing the matter under
the control of majority of Congress, actu-
ally threw US at the mercies of our enemies.
II was in vain we demanded your rights ;
Congress would MT protect them. You were
asking only an equal share in the territories
acquired ,-and instead of listening to you,
or giving you an inch, they proceeded to
deprive the South Of $4,000 square miles
cut of from the State of Texas, to make
more free soil territory, and then compel
you to pay SlO,o0O,0O0 for the sacrifice.
loud apPlause.)
To show you the basis on which Mr..
SoU.E founded his conclusions, | now give
you an extract, in which he quotes from Mr..
CLAY and Mr.. WEBSTER.
Mr. CLAY said:
"July 22d, 1850. Senators from the
Northern States might 90 home to their con-
stituents, after this measure shall have passed,
and say: We hare got California, she is
sure; there is a prohibition Of SLAVERY in
her constitution that aoiH last perhaps for
erer; uhereas, the Wilmot Propiso rould
hare had limited and epanescent duration,
eristing ,ohiIe the territorial form Of gop-
eminent remained, but ending rhenerer The
State should come to form for herself a con-
stitution.' This our Northern senators
might say with great propriety to their con-
stituents We have secured California for
you, she is dedicated now and forever to that
free-solism which you so much prize Well,
but why, then, they might reply, have you
not put in re strction on the territorial bill,
so as to secure that, at least, until they be-
come to be ripe enough to form State gov
ernments for themselves ?-Wou.d it not be
a satisfactory reply to them to say, that in
your opinion, and in the opinion of large
portion Of the Senate-the iaw Of nature
and natures God excluded slarery from
these territories, and according to your o,on
opinion also, The LEX LOCI Of The land also
excluded sldrery.
tie final measure, because it secured so much
of what the North wanted! Could you not
say that YOU were in danger Of losing what
you also wanted in respect to the residue OF
the country
The North gains the admission Of Ca
lifornia as free S ate, and the high prob
ability of New Mexico and Utah remaining
or becoming free territory; avoids any intro
duction Of slavery by the authority of Con-
gress; sees New Mexico detached from
Texas, with high degree Of probability
from the nature of the climate and the cha
racter of the soil, and from other circum-
stances, that New Mexico will ultimately
become free State, and secures the aboli-
ton of the slave trade in the District of Co.
lumbia Are not these objects of sufficient
magnitude TO satisfy any moderate, rational,
NUrthern wishcs?
"What rights are sacrificed What con-
cession of power and authority is made by
the North in this measured
"To what power is the sacrifice made
here'
81 ask him rhat right is sacrificed by the
North in this measured; Let him tell me if
the North does not get almost every thing,
and the South NOTHING but her honor?
L" yes, the honor of paying with her
money and blood for territory from which
she is excluded! And what says Daniel
Webster: Hear HIM also:
"July Is, 1850. What does she gain
by it? What does she lose by it.; Why,
if this bill passes, Massachusetts,, and the
North gain what is quite an object to them,
the annexation of California as free State,
with her present constitutional rery in
tensely desirable object, as believe to the
whole North.
She gains that She gains also, sir, the
quoting the New Mexican question, and
the Texan boundary, which, in my judg-
ment, as have said, is the most important
of all these matters, because most immedi-
ately menacing evil consequences, if such
consequences be arrested by this or some
similar measure, She gains the quiet Of
New Mexlco-she gains the settlement OF
the Texan boundary-obiects highly desir-
able.
Now, the question, therefore and I ad-
dress myself to the gentlemen Of the North
is this Is the probability of the exclu-
sion Of slavery from New Mexico by natural
causes, so high and strong, and conclusive,
as that we should act upon il as we act upon
the same degree of probability applied to
| lc,
If it be not so, if anything further is ne
cessary to be added to that, here we have
laid before US an authenticated expression 0!
| the inhabitants Of that country, who, it is
agreed, on all hands, have the ultimate right
Of decision upon the subject, that they are
opposed to it.
And how is it with the South /: Why,
think the South, the slaueholding States, il
all these measures pass, ,oiH gan an ac-
ceptable and satisfactory mode for the re-
clamation # slares. AS to the territorial
acquisitions, am bound in candor to say,
that taking Maryland for example, as one Of
the South, Maryland wiH gain exactly phat
Massachusetts hses,-that 1t nothing at aH
Loud laughter.
Thus you have the opinions of these emf
nent men on that Compromise, which we are