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Common sense The character OF the convention,
oriy being from the South. should satisfy all iha they
had been in no manner ampered with upon the matter
Of slavery Mr C. was for admitting not only California,
but any other Territory, IN due me as STATE leaving
The people thereof determine the whole slavery ques
,on "a applicable 10 themselves, for themselves He
endorsed every sentiment Of the Presidents California
message because recognised only the sovereignty Of
The people themselves But for the cry OF party drown
6culfy in settling the question He could
the idea OF Mr. TooMBs, that il is The duty OF Congress to
the ansi slavery restriction Of the Mexican law.
He believed in the deleerIous effects oil slavery but
would not violate The constitution or the rights OF the
people Of the Territories to interfere with the institution
there.
MIA comedies the right egslate upon slavery in the
Territories does he consider il 10 be the duty OF Con-
gress to egslae 10 preclude the introduction OF the
great moral evil he il Is into the Teniiorles
Mr. CASEY acknowledged The power OF Congress in
this connexion, and also the inherent great right OF the
people Of the Territories to suit themselves with inst
nons.
Here followed much confusion, Mr.. CROW ELL insist
ing upon putting further questions to tine gentleman from
Pennsylvania, Mr. CAsEY and members urging the lat
ter not to yield any part OF has short remaining time
He (Mr CAsEY) was for leaving the Territories with
out governments, until they may be ready for admission
when he should regard their nigh, 70 determine their own
institutions being quite binding the constitutional
right Of the people OF the States IN the Union to adopt
slavery il they would, which no one denied.
The present Proviso agitation North and South and
more especially in the South but trick Of oppos
ton to administration, Mr. G. endeavored to show
California was bound TO be admitted.
Mr.. GIDDlNGS, having next obtained the floor, went
on 10 say that three weeks ago Mr. WINTHROP had at
tackled him, and he should proceed to notice that attack
He had given notice then Of his intention to reply to Mr.
BEEN By
conscences in refusing 10 bow 10 the dicaton OF Mr.
WINTHRoP's nomination
Two months deberation had convinced Mr.. WIN
THRoP that il would not be safe Tor him to make an issue
Of fact regards his Mr. ~ charges relative to the
manner in which MI. w had formed and arranged the
Committees the District OF Colunbia on the Judiciary
&c.
Here Mr. G. endeavored TO show that the gentleman
from Massachusetts, shked voting on the Proviso he
took his seat but would appeal TO all to say whether he
had ever had personal controversy with member ex-
cept in edefence Mr. 9. had been assaed IN coarse
terms by MIR. WINTHROP, and unjusllfably
Mr.. G. next entered upon exposition to prove that
Mr. WNTHRoP had given his voice for the conduct OF the
war with Mexico after having urged that il was war OF
rapne and wrong the part OF this government Under
these circumstances Mr. g. could not conscentiously
vote for him to be the Speaker II OF his great
consultations that his constituents IN after times would moi
have reflect that he had done anything directly to coun
tenance the war, as vote for MIR. WNTHRoP at the
opening OF the last Congress would have been. These
the reasons he had originally alleged to his constt
ents for refusing to vote for Mr.. WNTHRoP, as Mr.. G.
went on TO show by quoting at length from circular OF
his own. All lie had said then, concerning Mr. VIM
THRoP, was true il not, lei him deny il, Mr. w here
shook his head in the negatve The gentleman does not
deny what he tMr q said
Mr. G. next recapitulated his charges against Mr. VIM
THR0P, and then remarked tnat MI. w. ldd avoided
all The issues he had made merely denying that he
accessory to the war before the fact He would pro-
coed prove that he accessory before the fact Here
the gentleman from Ohio read letter from Mr.. Delano,
late member from Ohio saying that he had seen MIR.
WINTHROP go TO the seats oil Massachusetts, members,
when the original bill under consideration, and
the political fate Of those who opposed the of 1912
He read also from letter from Mr.. Severance, late
member from Name, 10 prove the same allegation, as
Mr.. WINTHROP said the gentleman from Ohio had in
ducpd Mr. Abbott that rpnfleman's subsequent
regret, vote for that bill He had five letters from
distinguished late wing members. thus TO prove that Mr.
WINTHROP was an accessory before the fact.
He next went on 10 show that the meeting al which
Mr. WINTHROP had urged the wing party to sustain the
war was not the meeting referred TO IN the denias which
another places and that the denals only referred 10
the place, moi TO the facts Mr. WMTHRoPs colleagues
had refused TO reply 10 his (M Gs) nerrogatories on
the subject and he commented upon their extraordinary
in thus refusing to make disclosures in this mat
ter.
He did not intend to send out what he had said with
being but personal explanation Bni, next the real
question before the committee II appeared TO be fore
gone conclusion that California should be admitted with
out reference TO other questions.
He next 10 show that slavery had everywhere
originally existed without law. The first Dutch ship
bringing slaves into Virginia found no laws egalizing
the institution there; and elsewhere this continent
was likewise the that slaves FIRST introduced,
and the institution afterwards egalized This govern
ment was formed 10 maintain and extend freedom, not
having been the rights of human nature In forming the
constitution OF the United States the clause fixing limit
10 the existence OF the slave trade stipulation
against the institution Of slavery after S0S, in favor
Of it. as held by MIR. TooMBs
Mr. G. argued al length next TO subsantiate this
view
Congress permitted the coasiwise slave trade, but did
not protect it This had been determined BY the action
Of the government in the oil the slaves wrecked on
the coasts OF the English West lada Islands, for which
England had refused pay, and for which reclamation
had not been pressed. The extradition clause of the
constitution had been honestly fulfilled by the northern
States, which, IN this connexon, bad only passed laws
10 aid asceraning the right OF the master the ndi-
vdua slave The North would not aid in their capture,
that not being any part Of lis duty, the Supreme Court
had decided MIR Webster yiews upon this subject were
not correct, as Mr. G. endeavored TO show. There was
law, however resting the breast OF the North 10 feed
the hungry, clothe the naked &c which would override
any all written laws The freemen OF Ohio would
turn bloodhouDds The laws OF the South did project
fee colored persons OF the North 10 the South Thus,
both Sides the constitution a failure in this
ion. He would hang man quicker for turning slave
hunter for the South than for any other crime.
For Ohio he protested against the views Of Massachu
sets az announced by Mr.. Webster In framing the
constitution, the South had obtained the ihree-hh dis
tncton 10 the constitution, which gave the northern free
North stood 10 it. There twenty northern
bers this floor holding their seats for the slaves in their
States This must stop here the North would not SUBJ
init 10 this degradation IN connexion with any new States
The motto OF the North was, that there should be no
more slave ierrory slave States
Mr. THURSTON having next obtained the floor, on
motion the committee rose and then the House ad-
journed.