The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-19

PRODUCTION OF slavery into, or providing iOr It's
exclusion from, the Territories. He believes
| that this power, from the moment that terrific
| rial governments are established, will belong 10
the territorial legislatures; he believes, further,
that the territorial legislatures of New Mexico
and Utah will, if the power be conceded to them,
undoq exercise il SO as TO exclude slavery;
and believing thus, he voted the other day
10 strike out the provision in the compro-
mise inhibiting the territorial legislatures
from admitting or excluding slavery. Why,
if the power OF the territorial legislatures
| 10 admit or exclude slavery be recognised, as
General CAss thinks il ought and if those leg
islatures will certainly exclude slavery, as
General CAss thinks they will; will not the
practical effect of that doctrine, when carried
| out, be as much in contravention of the rights,
and as much opposed TO what are alleged TO be
the vital interests of the South, as the enact
ment Of the Wilmot proviso itself? Most unques-
tionably. And yet, to measure emanating
from such sources, and urged along under such
auspices, the Union has the effrontery to call
upon the South to lend its support, upon the
ground that if it fails, the South will scarcely
have an inch of land TO expect" and that, by
and by. New Mexico and Utah will come
knocking at the door for admission into the
Union as free States, with four odious Free
soil Senators to help the other Senators from
the non-slaveholding States to ''crush the
South" Can open trckery and shameless i'm
pudence go further?
In the same article in which this treacherous
appeal is made to the South, the Union speaks
adjustment" which, if adopted, is destined
to give ''peace to troubled land!" Hon
orablel' when the Union kno,cs that, if the
grounds upon which it has called upon the
South to support il were believed to be true by
its Northern Democratic supporters in the
Senate, they would spurn and repudiate it !!
" Peace to troubled land - when even now
is heard the din of preparation for a struggle at
the next elections between its supporters and
its opponents
How many Southern members of Congress
who support the measure, does the Union
suppose, will be without competitors AT the
next elections who will charge them with
How many Northern members of Congress
who support it, does the Union think, will be
allowed To walk over the track without being
compelled to meet the charge, from formidable
competitors, Of having basely abandoned ''the
cause of freedom2" And thus will this mea-
sure, which, we are told, is to ''give peace to a
troubled land" open anew all the fountains of
bitterness, discord, and agitation in both sec
tons of the country, and cause the election Of
an increased number of members of the next
Congress from both sections who will be COM
mitted to extreme opinions
To the line of policy recommended by the
President no such objections can be justly
urged, and from its adoption no such mischev-
Gus consequences can or will result To the
principle of adjustment proposed by him--the
reference of the question to the people of the
Territories themselves, when they should come
to form State constitutions, preparatory to their
admission into the Union as States-no man of
any section or of any party can be found to OBJ
ject The wisdom of his further recommended
ton. that Congress should, in the mean time,
abstain from legislating on the question, whe-
ther the introduction of slavery into the terrific
ries should or should not be prohibited, seeing
that il would be, sin the end, certainly settled
by the silent effect of causes independent of
the action of Congress- was obvious at the
time, and has been demonstrated by what has
since occurred in that body. Ii was absolutely
certain that the causes referred TO would ul-
timately settle the question, independent of
the action of Congress" Left thus to be set
tied, no pride of opinion would have been
wounded; no just ground Of complaint could
have existed in either section of the country
In neither section could it have been urged
that the interests of the one had been sacrificed
BY Congress 10 those of the other Agitation
would have ceased in Congress and out Of
il. But unfortunately, as we believe, for the
best interests Of the whole country. this recon-
mendation of the PRESIDENT was not acted
upon by Congress- Instead of the simple. eff
cacious, and practical course of policy proposed
by him, grand scheme, called "the compro-
mise" was got up, which was to do wonders.
Upon that scheme the Senate have been at
work for couple of months-to say nothing Of
and mending it up from day to day. Still. af-
ter the months of labor aud care bestowed upon
it, the very difficulty which, from the beginning.
it was obvious would present itself, still stares
the authors Of the measure in the face. That
difficulty was, and is, TO 50 form and fashion the
measure that its Northern supporters could go
home and boast TO their constituents that they
had, in effect, provisoed New Mexico and Utah,
while its Southern supporters could go home
and proclaim TO their constituents that they
had acquired for the South more "land' to stand
spon, and had succeeded in preventing New
Mexico and Utah from soon coming into the
Union, as free States, with four Of those wicked
Free soil Senators" to crush that section Of
the .Unionl
This difficulty yet remains to be solved.
"Protection.
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