Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-12

dispute with New Mexico, and cessiop Of her
surplus territory to the United States
rhra-Recapture of fugitive slaves.
H. I.1a ne suppression of the slave trade in
tie district of Columbia
=, F1th-Of abolition of slaverr in tho D;str;..
of Columbia. ~
| States. H'uo IL 'i0
STANDARDIZATION of slavery within the u. s.
/ ana ana non-enumerated catalogue of oppression,
aggression and encroachments upon the South
This was the list of subjects, and he
was against the mixture for reasons an
/ Piled to the whole in the lump, and to each
separate ingredient. California had the
right to be treated as other States have
been when asking for admission into the
Unlon-none of which has been subjected
to the lndlgnity of having their application
! coupled with the addition of inferior and
foreign questions. lie objected to it on
the principle of fair legislation, which re-
! CURED every measure to stand upon its
own merits. He objected on account of
the nature of the subjects to be compiled
with California, all angry, distractng, and
threatening the Union with dissolution
while her application is calm, conclliatorv,
and promising to strengthen the Union.
He objected because California objected to
it. She had provided in her Constitution
that no legislative act should contain more
than one subject, and that to be expressed
in the title.
He next considered the objections as to
the connection of each of the proposed
measures, with the question of the admis-
sion of California. The question of Ter
rltorlal Government, brought up the Viii
mot Provlso-the principle involved in
which had already been settled bv Cali
fornia for herself-for the purpose of re-
moving all impediment to her admission.
How unjust, then, to connect it with the
question of her admission, to make her
admission dependent upon its precedent
settlement, with respect to two neighbor-
ing terrltories-the proviso involved the
controverted constitutionality, and there
fore should not be mixed up with a sub
ject clearly beyond doubt, unconstitutional.
He was read Y to vote for governments
to the colonies, and believed that slavery
was extinct iii New Mexico and all Cali
fornla, and cannot be revived in anv part
of either without positive enactments. He
was ready to vote upon the Texas ques-
ton, and to vote upon the proposition for
the recapture of fugitive slaves, but not to
tie them to proposition for the admission
of a new State. California had nothing
to do with these questions, no interest or
connection with them whatever.
For sixty years, the question of slavery
in the District of Columbia, and slavery
in the States, has remained untouched.
Therefore, there are no reasons for the agi-
tatlon and fears professed in the slave
States. He desired to do with all these
questions as Congress had done for sixty
years-let them alone. The fact that the
slave market is as good, and better now,
than sixty years ago, was an evidence
there is no danger to the rights of the slave
States. Not only was there no danger,
but he argued that Congress had, by the
act of Northern men. added slave terrific
ry; and this shows its disposition to build
up, instead of defeating. the slaveholding
interest.
AS to the expediency of giving all these
subjects to committee, he asserted that
all their labors would be useless. If the
good faith of Congress, so long proved,
could not protect the rights of the States,
nothing could. He reviewed the history
of the admission Of new States, and
commented upon it, to show that no State
had ever been treated as il was proposed
to treat California. He considered the
question of boundaries, contendng that
California S were correct and natural The |
State could not be divided. lie alluded to
and commented with much point on the !
views expressed by Mr.. CLAY last week |
by which he warned the friends of Cali |
fornia, that the speediest way of getting
California into the Union would be by
coupling her with other measures-because
otherwise there was combination which |
would defeat the MEASURE. He objected
to this capitulation by Congress TO fac
tional private combination-it was dishon-
orable, and his motto was " honor first
by peace afterwards-but for no peace
with dishonor." He commented upon
the anomalous condition of California
her urgent necessities, and the strong ne
cessity for immediate measures for her re-
lief, and closed with an eloquent alIusion
to the destiny of the country on the Paci- !
fc.
~ MR. BENDER, who was tried in Perry |
county last week for the murder of his brother |
was acquitted on the standing plea of insanity. /
He was sentenced to the penitentiary until he !
gives satisfactory evidence that he is a sane man |!
We regard the sentence as well merited and |