The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-09-06

our Territories with our swarnnS population,
we should accommodate the Georg ians as well
as the New Workers. Their domestic habits
I and customs were not the same, and the grea-
ter portion of each would not assimilate with
the other. 1t would be the part of wisdom then
as well as justice to allow the hitherto nnpro-
vided heir to occupy this portion of the terrific
rv in common with his brother who has man.
aged to exclude him from the other. If those
'ilws of God" so often alluded to, shall forbid
him to increase and multiply there, SO be it.
file must then abandon it unless he can con-
form to those whom they favor. He did not,
however, from the little information he possess
ed of that country, and no one knew much Of
it rs yet doubt that African slave labor would
be the best and the cheapest. Where such la
Dor existed there was greater equality among
the white population, but where white labor ex-
listed there was greater inequality, as one half
must perform the drudgery and menial offices
for the other halt.
Mr. Ashmun, of Massachusetts, moved the
previous question.
Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi made, as
point order, a question whether, as the Texas
bill provided for the issuance by the executive
of SIC, 900 in five per cent stock, on the accep-
tance of the proposition by Texas without fur
ther action by this House, it was not equivalent
to an appropriation which could require the bill
to go to the committee of the whole House.
The Speaker decided that he did not so con-
slider it. Although the bill would render the
House liable tie make such an appropriation
hereafter, this stock provision was not techni-
cally an appropriation.
The demand for the previous question was
negatvrd. Ayes "a, nays l07.
Mr. McClernard, of Illinois, moved to COM
NIT the bill and called the previous question.
Mr. Root, of Ohio, moved to instruct the COM
mttee to atfix the Wilmot Proviso to the bill.
He was in favor of the House coming to this
test question openly and fairly-the record of
yeas and nays on this motion would smoke out
the doe.faces on both sides of the line.
Mr.. McClcrnard denounced these repeated
attempts to enact this anti-slavery proviso.-
Slavery could never exist in this country. Yet
he should not shrink from giving effect to his
opinion hy voting against it.
| MIR. Brooks, Of New York, said he was ready
to face the music or be Smoked out as doe.
face" now us at any other time. But he did
not see why they should vote this abstraction
in the bill when it was almost impossible that
it could pass the Senate Nor did he perceive
the use of it rs it was well known that the laws
of God forever excluded slavery from that ter
ritory.
Mr.. Brown of Mississippi, remarked that if the
gentleman from Illinois supposed that the Sou
thern people were in the pursuit of shadows he
was egregiously mistaken. 1t made no differ.
ence to them by what means they were exclu-
ded from participation in the enjoyment OF
territory common to ;ll-whether by "Wilmot
Provisos" executive provisos," or by sanction-
ing the unconstitutional and irregular proceed
ings of a portion of the inhabitants of these ter
ritories. The cup was just as distasteful to
them by whatsoever mode it was presented.
They askedonly for that which they could right
fully and equitably claim in common with all
in the Union. But if common participation
was denied them, they demanded and would in-
sist upon fair division of these Territories
They could not forget that they paid large
share of the blood aud treasure which they
cost, and they would not forgive those who
should rob them of it.
The conversion of certain gentlemen to the
'nonuterveutiou" doctrine, was attended by
circumstances that deprived them of the credit
due to those wh,'abandoned awrong for right
The South could not now enjoy the better por-
ton of til, territory because other hands and
means than the intervention of this Proviso ex.
cluded them from it. And the iorbearance of
recently converted non-ntcrventionists WAS of
no account, us it was ueseless to them and USE
less to us.
The gentleman from New York had harped
OH the conjunction of certain Northern and
Southern members in opposition to these COM
promise measures as they are termed, which
he seemed 10 take great delight in illustrating
BY naming together all sorts of dissimilar and
disgusting objects There might be such Il con-
junction as that Of the travler and the highway.
man who demands his purse And if the gen
tle.nan from n. York should come in between
them and attempt to compel the travler to
give up one-half its contents and the robber to
consent to take it by way of" compromise" is
it wonderful that they should be found together
resisting him! But what sort of conjunction
wonld he exhibited when the question of the
admission of California comes to vote! In
what dark association would the gentleman
and his ''fellow compromisers" be then found
tle would leave it for future record of the
ayes and nays to tell in this House as it had
told in the Senate
Mr.. Clarke of New York obtained the floor