The North-Carolina standard., 1850-10-16

Elk 10, 1891. a
and fifty three thousand square miles of territory
enough for three large States, designed, no doubt,
exclude the South from the whole of the Mexican ter
rltory by including all that portion Of in which the
is prospect Of profitable employment for slave la
Dor, there is not much grace in rendering the non
Intervention principle in regard to Utah and New
Mexico accompanied by measure for abolishinE
the slave trade in this District as concession to tn.
anti-savery sentiment of the North for the partia
fulflment of constitutional obligation for the
toration of fugitive slaves and strenuous and un
faltering demand for the admission Of California with
its gigantic limits, with the proposition contained in
the bill before us. to vote ten millions Of dollars to
Texas bribe-torture it you will, that is the
object and character Of the proposition-for about
fortyve thousand square miles of her territory south
OF 36 deg. 80 nn not worth one-tenth, perhaps not
one-twenteth, of the amount ...
Sir the character of this arrangement evinces de-
parture from that encroaching policy of our Northern
brethren have already imperfectly sketched-o get
all they can and hold on to all they get And yet we
are told by Southern gentlemen and Southern editors
this is fair adjustment of existing difficulties, and
ought to be embraced by the South and those who
cannot think SO, and oppose it from deep and abid
ing sense of duty, are even said to be factious.
Mr.. Speaker, may God. in his infinite mercy, save
| US from the caamnities which such misguided coun-
sells fail in process of time to bring upon
beloved country. Sir, if did reflect that it is
the nature of concessions beget other and ncreas
ing demands. and that the proposed arrangement
may be the result of the many concessions the
part of the South by those who have gone before US.
should regard it as mere mockery.
Enterertaning these general views, and regarding
the bill under immediate consideration contain
ing in substance the profigae and brazen proposition
to bribe of the sovereign States of the Confeder
boil boreo
ism, with corresponding equivalent to the South
generally, do not hesitate to declare that l would
sooner vote the $lO,OOO00O to defend Texas, than
would as an inducenlent for her to Gismember her
self.
know, sir, that what regard as the erroneous,
and illegal, and unconstitutional position taken by
OUT freesoil Executive and his advisers array the
military force Of the country to prohibit Texas from
exercising jurisdiction within her rghfu limits, rem
ders this bill peculiarly important. But with all the
increased importance thus attaching to it, will ven
,ure to do my duty, result what may from the ILL.,
Judged position the executive. 1t is not zoo late
for him TO his steps, and it is better and
becoming that he should do SO, than that should
depart from the course which my of duty re-
qures me TO pursue. He must take the consequent
ces of his own act mine.
When the gentleman from New York (Mr. Clark
addressed the House the other day. he ikened Texas
to the Spanish robber, who places his hat in the
road, and calls upon the wayfaring in the name
Of the Holy Virgin to deposite money in it pointing
long gun at him, and threatening death in case of
refusal. 1t was we'll remarked by the gentleman
from Indiana (Mr Gorman) that the simile more
applicable to his FRIEND the President, in attempting
to force Texas part with her territory. In this,
sir | concur; and if freesoilsm be personi6ed and
likened unto Satan tempting our Saviour on the
Mount by offering $4,000, 900, and saying 10 her,
6 all this will give thee, if tho" wilt part with the
portion f thy territory which demand,'' you will
have full and apt illustration of the whole scene
now going on. trust Texas will say, as our Saw
our did to Satan, get thee hence" and exhibit that
fortitude and herosm which she has heretofore dis |
played under the most trying circumstances, notwith
standing the threatening attitude of the President.
Should she do this, she will exhibit moral speca-
Gle that will cover her with imperishable glory.
Sir, the conduct Of the President in this matter
seems ME to be most extraordinary. In his mess
age Congress he says, by the Constitution of the
United States the Presden, is constituted Comman-
der-in- Chief the Army and Navy, and of the mill
tia several States, when called into the actual SER
vice of the United States and required to that
the laws be executed. That Congress has the power
to provide for the calling forth the militia for execul
ing the laws, and that suitable laws have been pass
ed for calling forth the militia and placing other suit
able means in the hands of the President for the dis
charge of his dues and refers to the Cd section
the act of the 2ah of FEBRUARY, l795, and to the act
of March, 1907. The second section of the act OF
1895 provides, that whenever the laws OF the United
States shall BE- opposed the execution thereof OBJ
struced in any State by combinations too powerful to
be suppressed by the ordinary Of judicial pro-
ceedimgs, by the power vested in the Marshals by
that act which, by the 9th section of the said act, is
the same as that of the shers OF the several Staes
and their deputies in executing the laws of the re-
spective States the President may call forth the mill
tia of such State Of any State States necessary
to suppress such combinations and to the laws
to be executed. The act of 1907 merely authorizes
the employment of the military and naval force of the
United States in cases of insurection or obstruction
to the laws the United States, ofany individu-
al State or territory where it is lawful for the Pres
dent to call forth the militia for like purposes under
the act of 1895. The President then usurpngly and
enormously decides what he had right to decide,
and what Congress alone, perhaps the Judiciary
can decide, that the portion of New Mexico east of
the Rio Gande does not belong to Texas, but to the
United States and although Congress has passed no
law for said Territory, the treaty with Mexico is
law of the United States extending over it, which
it his duty to execute; the 9th article OF which
provides that Mexicans who shall remain IN the ced
ed territories and do not elect TO be considered ct
zens of Mexico within the limited period, shall be
incorporated into the Union and be admitted at the
proper time, Ito be judged of by Congress.) to the
enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United
States, according to the principles of the constitu-
ton; and in the meantime shall be maintained and
protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and
properv and secured in the free exercise of their
iigion without restrictions Ifthe President right
in supposing the disputed Territory does not belong
in supposng that to extend the jurisdiction of Texas
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