The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-17

spirit OF magnanimity, to do justice to the hum
blest citizen-much more to the peope--of one
great section OF the Confederscy.
A word or Two more, MIR. Chairman Those
gentlemen with whom have privately exchanged
views on these questions, know that have al
ways desired an honorable adjustment OF them
To accomplish this object 81 have been willing TO
concede much. ] desire that peaceful relations
should exist between all parts Of the Confederacy.
Even now am prepared To make concessions. In
this view Of the case, | have held myself ready at
all times TO do whatever might appear TO 10 be
right that | should do. In the other branch Of the
Capitol, proposition WAS made even 10 limit the
southern boundary of Utah TO 800 3U, and there
was but one reason given against it, viz that it
was the line of 36o 80. Well, if gentlemen are
so opposed TO this precise line, would be in
clined 10 take $40, running directly west, on the
same parallel with that named in the bill Of the
Senate, as the southern boundary Of Utah. do
not commit myself TO any particular proposition,
but have been hoping that this question might
be ultimately settled in suclr manner that the
people of the whole country would acquiesce
in il.
II Texas, sovereign State Of this Republic,
possessing sovereignty the fullest extent except
so far as, with IN other States, she may have
delegated powers to the General Government--if
TeNass hen you shall have made your PROPOSE
ton to ner, shall determine to accept that PROPOSE
ton, even though il divests her of some of her
territory which she now claims, it will be the act
of sovereign State, and will acquiesce. But
until she thus consents TO part with portion of
her own territory, as representative of portion
Of the people of Georgia, have the right to OBJ
ject to her being dismembered, and to insist that
the boundaries which she has so long claimed
the boundaries in, defence Of which we went to
war-the boundaries recognized and confirmed to
her by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the
accompanying map, shall forever be guaranteed
her. 0
"A. L.
And if she does not accept the proposition, and
the arms of the General Government should be
brought to bear against sovereign State, to de-
spoil her of her territory and her citizens of their
rights, have no hesitation in saying that the
cause Of Texas will be made common cause in
the South, and that the effort will be to preserve
her limits upon the entire Rio Grande, from its
mouth to its source. Those limits, as have be-
fore said, not only recognized by treaty, claimed
by her, and maintained by this Government in
war, but won upon the battlefield of San Jacincto
by the blood of her citizens, and acknowledged by
Santa Anna, the highest executive of Mexico, in
retiring beyond the Rio Grande after that memoir
able battle. M
regret, Mr. Chairman, deeply regret, tina. the
Chief Magistrate Of our nation should have ever
seen proper to menace, with the power and with
the arms Of the General Government, sovereign
State. Our Republic, if its Constitution is pre-
served and carried out in its original spirit, is
glorious Republic--the Just commentator not
the nations of the earth. desire to see it main
tanned and preserved in its original purity and
value.
| desire the citizens Of our great family of
States to feel as band of brothers; and whether
we tread the soil of New York or the soil of
Texas, or of Georgia, to feel equal pride and
satisfaction in the fact that we are American cit-
zens; and when citizen of New York or Geor-
gia, citizen from the North or the South, shall
plant his foot upon the soil which has been ac-
CURED as the common property of the United
States, he shall feel assured that the stars and
stripes of our common country, which wave over
him, will afford him that sure protecton--not
only to his person, but TO all that which by the
Constitution of the United States is recognized as
his property. 1t is an unequal Government in
its operation, if it does not give that feeling TO
every American heart, wherever it may be on
American soil.