Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-27

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this conflict with Texasl Sir | need not remind you
| of what everybody knows,-of the settled purpose OF
dislike and insufierabe anpahy existing pom the part
of the people OF New Mexico towards Texas, dsown-
ing their authority, denying their conquests
the existence OF their laws and rights ana lley nase
the power to do it, revolving ag alnst her aunorltyi
Yet all this is be let alone ana ie 10 'aAe oao Vi
itself by the plan OF the ffesloent: A.,,,;o,,
legislator 1t is my duty as statesman 10 perform
| what we have promised to perfom
Myduty tells me to extend to the people OF Utah a
new empire the benefit OF the supreme authority ID
which they participated when they were eons' 1
tbey came to u.s. we promised to extend to them. mat
my conception of my duty and will undertake to do
it. If cannot on account oil the WlImot frovso, or
on account of any other obstacles which may be thrown
in nv way shall not have swerved from my Duty but
stand acquitted in the sight OF God, and in my own
conscience shall be rreproachable 10 having delibe-
ratelv neglected to fulfil or attempt, what believe to
be the right kind of action for applying remedy to the
evils which the country labors under While the Pres-
dents plan is confined to single measure leaving I'M
| touched the Governments OF Utah and New Mexico
leaving the whole question in respect to them unsettled
and those territories unprovded tor-eavng the boun-
Diary between New Mexico and Texas open-one OF the
most threatening questions that now present themselves
to the country-he also leaves unsettled, or has failed
| to recommend, any plan OF settlement or accommoda
ton of the important and irritating question OF fugitive
slaves
l repeatit Let him who can, stand up here and tell
the country and satisfy his conscience, when the
whole country is CRYING Tor peace, wher Is mplorng
its rulers to bring quiet and repose to Its distracted mem
berslet him tell the whole country not In the columns
Of newspaper but in his place here IN the Senate, that
the pan proposed by the Executive authority is such
demanded by the necessities OF the people,
and the exgencies of the present Crisis shall be glad
to hear that man. who show such to be the case and
when am satisfied of it, shall readily surrender any
plan which may have had more or less insrumenality
in devlslng
Sir know that there is floating idea in the Southern
mind such as we heretofore have heard insisted upon,
on this floor of an equilibrium OF power between the
two sections OF tho Union--some balancing power
However desirable some such political arrangement, if
possible to render it practicable, might be- we all know
is utterly unaainable We all know that the rapid
growth and the great progress OF the Norhern porton
of this country such that it is impossible tor the South
keep pace with it, and that is, therefore Impossible
tor to compete with it in power unless the rule OF ali
Republics shall be reversed and the majority be govern
ed by the minority But because It IS impossible that
there should be entire equality in this respect because
there is not and cannot be, an entire equilibrium OF
power between the different sections OF the country does
it, therefore, follow that the Southern portion of the
Union any danger and that the institution in which
is especially interested, is put in peril by that fact &
| trust not | believe not. What are the motives tor
Southern right in that particular institution In the hrs
place. there is that OF justice which pertains to
men--to every man. in virtue OF the fact that he s
man. In the place, there is the constitution OF the
which all take to abide by that Constitution. In the
next place. there is the necessity OF the concurrence of
the two branches of the National Legislature before any
act of legislative infection OF wrong can take place.
Ia the next place. there of the President of the
United States applicable to any unconstitutional egsa-
ton which might take place in relation to this nsu,
ton Last Of ALL while we refer to peaeeaPl e.. and cy
States ready to pronounce the amendment OF every
constitutional law which may happen to receive the
sanction Of the Executive branch OF the Government
There also the responsibility of Representatives and
Senators to their constituents and lastly though trust
ia God that shall never have occasion to use it, there
the final right to resort to arms, and to make resls-
lance when oppression and tyranny become lntoerabe
Well, again, is the fact that this great interest of
slavery is in minority in the Senate, fact peculiar
to that INTEREST," No. sir, not at all How is with the
fishing int rest! 1t greatly in the minority. How is
with the manufacturing interest! That too is in the
| minority. How is it with the commercial interest! In
the minority 10 short when we pursue the inquiry, we
find that every interest is in the minority except that
great and a-prevailing interest OF agriculture, which
exists from end OF the country to the other When
all these enumeratlons combined together with the
possibility OF the final resort to arms, what further
cures can be sought for, with what would those who
are fearful and discontinued be satisfied There s all
reasonable security against any abuse OF power, any
ntoleabe abuse of power, arising from causes which
you arrest than you can check the beams
which darted daily from that lumnary OF the sys
tenn of which planet forms part-or than you car
: stop up and make flow back again upon the Rocky
Mountains, the whole Mississippi River.
tits utterly in vain to hope that you can ever procure
that equilibrium of which we have heard some speak
ing at this session of Congress between the saveholdng
and non slayeholding States. hope and believe that
is unnecessarybutn necessary or unnecessary il isut
terly unatainable, from causes over which you have
not the slightest control.
conclude by urging that the plan of the committee
proposes close and heal all the five wounds from which
the country is bleeding, by comprehensive compro-
mise. know, sir, what will be said know that it
will be said that the agators will, after the passage
of these measures continue to agate the two extremes
with their cry for their respective iavore measures
that the Wmo Proiiso will be proposed to be added
by supplementary act to the territorial governments
that will be required to be inserted in the eonsttu-
tons which those territories may adopt have heard
it said upon this oor-pass all your measures MIR
Clay and we will cry out REPEAL REPEAL. But think
l know something OF the nature OF my country
speak also from the authority and by the aid of history
At the time when the memorable Missouri Compro-
mise agitation solicited more intense anxiety throughout
the country than there is now the whole country
in uproar-one half the side of the exclusion of
Missouri, and the other the side of her admission.
Every legislative body in the twenty three twenty
four Sates-I do recolect the precise number of
States thenhad denounced or approved the measure.
The final settlement carried into the House of Rep
resenatves where the great took place. and the
victory won by small majority. What was the
quence! Every where there was Joy, exutation and
triumph, that the unhappy controversy was quietly set
tied, and the man who would have dared to interrupt
the universal harmony which prevailed throughout the
country would have suffered reproach and rebuke from
the Indignant voice OF this country.
And now, venture to say, that it this measure of
compromise goes the country with the sanction and
influence which it will carryif it prevails, the opinion
of this Committee of Congress- and ofthe Executive in
its favor and calculated it is bring peace, harmo-
ny and happiness again to the people of the several
States-l venture to say that it is passed and goes
to the country, that agitation is ended.
They may croak and howl as they please. 1t is only
a few miserable trades in agitaton-nen who live by
means of agation-men who are not satisfied unit
they can place themselves at the head of little clique
of followers whom they attach to theircoat tails
and with whom they come to the Democrats, and
say take me, i am good Democrat-I can bring you
this little capital;" or who will go to the Wing party,
and say to it, "take mel have this little balancing
power-I will enable you to triumph your adver-
saries"-t is only such men will raise cry against
it. will venture say that if this Compromise is
passed, and goes to the country, all such agtators
will be rebuked by the public ndigna ton into silence
| Ihave done. | will trespass upon the time of the
Senate no longer, as / have said more than in
tended to have said when commenced
We learn from various and unreasonable sources,
that public sentiment in Virginia is running strongly in
favour OF the compromise. Its opponents atter them
selves that will nlxuardr-sorno col. =.