Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-07-13

its own democratic and constitutional way or must cease to
work all No more OF the States can assume the
responsibility of arresng the Government by faction Op
tinis aupics geri qus pro rcpu6Ecr salute geren
tur, qua eoatram rempubFcam rentur coara auspicia
fsrri.'
submit that the conditions demanded are equally
unreasonable, injurious and oppressive in regard TO the
other parties affected by the combination viz: Texas New
Mexico, UTAH, and the DIsrRrcr or COLUMBIA
Each OF these parties ought to be regarded asking only
just award and Congress is to be deemed ready make
Just one, and other Such award be made only
by bestowing distinct and separate consideration on each
claim. The same principle of diaecc philosophy which for
bids muarousness Of issues and confusion of parties in the
administration OF justice condemns ncouguous combinations
in legislation
The bill before adapted enable Senators to
speak side and to vote the other comply with
instructions, and to eyade them vote for the line Of 36
deg 80 min, and to vote against support the Wimot
Provso and yet to defeat its application to the only Terrific
es open to its introduction. solcf stronger language
courteous, might denand-from the majority here
subdivision of the BILL enable me elfectuay for
what approve without voting equally for what my own
judgment, concurrng with Instructions condemns and thus
place myself, where should invite all Others place
themselves under and full responsibility to the States
and to the people
While leave the of Texas in the of her hon
orabe and excellent Senator's must be allowed to think that
their this bill betrays want Of confidence in her
claims in the justice Of Congress A just claim ought not
to need unjust combination. Those who assume that
Texas has valid title to all Of New Mexico east OF the Rio
that State surrcnderng, for pecuniay equiv aent ex
region ectual secured to slavery, to the equvoca
tons of this Compromise These the contrary, who re-
gard the preensons of Texas in New Mexico groundess
will certainly protest against the surrender of
thousand square miles of soil, pregnant with liberty to the
hazards of this Adjustment Both of these parties think,
agree that the United States ought not to pay Texas the
equivalent unless her title is good and that If her title is
good then the United States have constitutional to
buy her territory If they may buy part of Texas for pur
poses defined in the Constitution they may buy the
whole IF they may buy the territory of slave State to
make free they equally buy the soil of free State to
sterze it with slavery If it be replied that the title is in
dispute then the transaction changes characters the equya
lent paid for peace and Texas is not yet lifted up SO high
the United States brought down low, to obtain
my consent to humiiang traffic .'
have heretofore said that could vote to pay the debt OF
Texas the ground thathe reputation of by the United
States in the of annexation, was fraudulent But
Texas prefer that should buy domain and do
mnion from her, rather than pay her debts She must be
content therefore, satisfy concerning the cardinal points
in the bargain viz ."... ~, ~ ....
First. TIE reasonablensss Of Tie amount to be paid
Secondly. The raiue oe equ'raent We are to rtcetre
Thirdly. The title Of The gendor. ..... .-'
Fourhly The use to whch the territory Is 10 be applied
First. How much to pay The sum is set down
in -, and the blank pertinaciously kept OPEN The
hart Achilles keeps thcket hee philosopher replied to
man who asked leave what he carried under his cloak
81 carry it there that you may not see it. =
Well obliged to assume that Texas is TO be paid
than her claim is WORTH because she will not trust to
distinct and independent negotlauon
don Of the admission of California and thus we sec Calto
na-the desire of the nation and the envy Of the wodre
duced by the Senate of the United States to the humiliation
of caering and chewing with money changers and stock
brokers' continually batting her offers with richer rewards, to
obtain her admission into the Union ,r .
The and value of the acquisition equally unsa
isactory When the question the to be paid Texas
nearly all New Mexico but when 1t comes on the do
main be obtained il turns out that we are to cede to Texas
part that province the rest and to pay her some
ten fifteen millions induce her acceptance of the cesson
Surely if concede Texas the admiration her representa-
ves require they must admit that she knows how to coin our
admiration into available gold. .... ".
The title. 1t is beyond dispute that the territory which
Texas offers was from time immemorial integral part of
New Mexico and that not OF ever was IN the pos
session Of Texas is equally clear that the United states
found in the possession of Mexico, and conquered and
bought it, and that they hold it by treaty soemny executed
1t certain that Texas conquered it. never bought
it, and has no treaty concession to show for 1t.
But Texas insists that she has equitable title She
serted, think, in 1885, by law in her satue-book, that
her boundary should be the 42d parallel that is she de-
cared her purpose to much OF New Mexico But
she executed even attempted to execute that u
pose She into the United States without having
cuted it. Her statute therefore mere brutun taLnea
The United States in the articles Of anneXaon refused to
commit themselves to the claim OF Texas Subsequently the
United States waged against Mexico, not for the claim
of Texas, but for other causes The war was "aged 10 OBJ
tain satisfaction of commercial debts and ndeties for the
expenses of the Being thus engaged in war; the Uni
ted States accepted New Mexico and California in satisiac-
ton of tile commercial debts and the expenses OF the contest
after paying fifteen millions Of dollars for their value
Thus the United States, free from obligation to Texas
qured the territory Of New Mexico making the conquest and
paying the whole consideration alone The claim of Texas
is grondless in equity as by the strict rules OF law The
claim of Texas is lust good the whole Of California
New Mexico. "a.
Nor is the proposition satisfactory in regard to the
purposes which the territory is to be applied am sat
sed that the soil of New Mexico is free soil by opera
ton of unrepeaed Mexican laws. know it would be less
surely free if this bill were passed The bill would raise
cloud upon the question prefer rather TO leave New Mex
leo as it Is
New Mexico has no representative here. Every phase of
this Compromise exhibits acknowledgment of her territory
and yet she is receive equivalent Texas already
has domain of surprising fertility New Mexico is
less expansive, and comparatively sterile This bill, never
thees literally applies the Scripture For unto every one
that hath shall be gven and he shall have abundance but
from him that hath not shall be taken away that
he hath
This pervcrsion of right proceeds upon the ground that
either New Mexico has no certain title that she has no
political COVE nment to defend it.
Sir, New Mexico distinct colony OF Spain. New
Mexico State in the republic of Mexico and afterwards
political Territory in that republic She never
less than that We found her that condition and charac
She retains that character Only her allegiance is
transferred the United States while Of the powers OF
government suspended by conquest remain abeysnce She
Republic according the definition of Cicero: Res
pubfca; popuh; populus aufen, omns hominunn
coefus quoquo mode congegatus, sed coetus muhdnis
juris consenst Ell utiEtatis c0mmunioae sociatus.
New Mexico has domain population, resources and quail
fled domnionarts, customs laws and religion She holds
these physical and moral elements OF STATE subordinate the
United States but nevertheless dhctly and apart from all
other communities New Mexico, morcoycr has framed her
the principle of the common origin of man and
the common government of God And thus she