The North-Carolina standard., 1850-05-22

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Nor does the number of slaves within the District
make the abolition of slavery an object of any such
consequence appears be attached to it in some
parts of the Union. Since the retrocession of Alex.
andna county to Virginia, on the south side of the
Potomac, the District now consists only of Wash
ington county, on the north side Of that river and
the returns of the decennary enumeration of the peo-
pie OF the United States show rapidly progressive
decrease in the number of slaves in Washington
county. According to the census Of $780, the num-
Der 1905; and in 1910 it was reduced to 1890.
showing reduction in ten years of nearly one-third
II it should continue in the same ratio, the NUMBER
according to the census now about to be taken. will
be only little upwards of two thousand.
But majority of the committee think differently
in regard to the slave trade within the District Bv
that trade is meant the Introduction of slaves from
adjacent States into the District for sale or to be
placed in depot for the purpose of subsequent sale
transportation to other and distant markets. That
trade, majority of the committee are of opinion,
ought to be abolished. Complaints have always ex-
sted against it, no less the part of the members
of Congress from the South than on the part of
members from the North. 1t is trade sometimes
exhibiting revolving spectacles, and one in which
the people of the District have no interest," but on
the contrary believed to be desirous that it should
be discontinued Most, if not all, of the savehold-
ing States have, either in their constitutions or by
penal enactments prohibited trade in slaves as mer
chandise within their respective Jurisdictions Con-
gress, standing in regard to the people of this Dis
ct the subject in relation similar to that of the
State Legislatures to the people of the States may
safely follow the examples of the States. The COM
mittee have prepared and herewith report bill for
the abolition of that trade (marked d. the passage
of which they recommend to the Senate. This bill
has been framed after the model of what the law of
Maryland was when the General Government was
removed to Washington.
The views and recommendations contained in this
report may be recapitulated in few words:
l. The admission of any new State or States form
ed out of Texas to be postponed until they shall
hereafter present themselves to be received into the
Union. when it will be the duty of Congress fairly
and faithfully the compact with Texas BY
admitting such new State or States.
2. The admission forthwith of California into the
Union, with the boundaries which she has proposed
8. The establishment of territorial governments,
without the Wilmot Proviso, for New Mexico and
Utah. embracing all the territory recently acquired by
the United States from Mexico not contained in the
boundaries of California.
4. The combination of these two last-mentioned
measures in the same BILL
5. The establishment of the western and northern
boundary of Texas, and the exclusion from her iu-
rsdicton of all New Mexico, with the grant Tex
as of pecuniary equivalent. And the section for
that purpose to be incorporated in the bill admitting
California and establishing territorial governments
for Utah and New Mexico.
6. More efectual enactments of law to secure the
prompt delivery Of persons bound to service labor
in one State. under the laws thereof who escape into
another State.
And 7. Abstaining from abolishing slavery but,
under heavy penalty, prohibiting the slave trade in
the District of Columbia.
If such of these several measures require egis-
laton should be carried by suitable of Con-
gress, all controversies to which our late territorial
acquisitions have ven rise, and all existing qnes-
tions connected with the institution of slavery, wheh
resulting from those acquisitions from its exist
in the States and the District of Columbia, will
be amcably settled and adjusted, in manner, it is
confidently believed to give general satisfaction to
an overwhelming majority of the people of the Unit
ed States. Congress will have fulfilled its whole
duty in regard to the country which, having
been ceded' by. Mexico to the United States, has
fallen under their dominion. II will have extended
to it projections provided for its several parts the in
estimable blessing of free and regular government
adapted to their various wants, and placed the whole
under the banner and the flag of the United States
Meeting courageously its clear and entire duty, Con-
gress will escape the unmerited reproach of having
from considerations of doubtful policy. abandoned to
undeserved fate territories of boundless extent
with sparse, ncougruous, and alien, If not unfriend
ly population, speaking different languages, and
customed to different laws, whilst that population is
which they have been transferred for protection for
government, for law, and for order.
The committee have endeavored to present to The
Senate comprehensive plan of adjustment which,
removing all causes of existing excitement and ag-
tatlon, leaves none open to divide the country and
disturb the general harmony. The nation has been
greatly convulsed, not by measures of general poll
cy, but by questions of sectional character, and.
therefore, dangerous and to be deprecated.
1t repose. 1t loves and cherishes the Union.
And it is cheering and gratifying to witness the
outbursts of deep and abiding attachment to it which
have been exhibited in all parts of it, amidst all the
trials through which we have passed and are pass
ing. people so patriotic as those of the United
States will rejoice in accommodation of all troubles
and difficulties by which the safety of that Union
might have been brought into the least danger. And
under the blessing of that Providence who, amidst
His protecting care, His smiles, and His blessings,
they will continue to advance in population, power,
and prosperity, and work out triumphanty the glori-
Gus problem of mans capacity for selfgovernment.
The foregoing Report is so clear and specific that
deem it useless to republish the bills accompany
ing it, which quite lengthy. The FIRST is to admit
California State into the Union, to establish
ritorial Governments for Utah and New Mexico, and
making proposals to Texas for the establishment of
her Western and Northern boundaries. 1t contains
80 sections in ALL The boundaries of the territories
are fixed follows:
UrAH.-Sec S. find be it further enacted, That all
that part of the territory of the United States included
within the following limits, to wit: bounded on the
West by the State OF California, the North by
the Territory of Oregon, and the East and South
by the dividing ridge which separates the waters ow
ing into the great basin from those flowing into the
Colorado river and the Gulf of California, be, and
the is hereby created into temporary govern
ment, by the name of the Territory of Utah Proui-
ded, That nothing in this act contained shall be con-
strued to nhibt the Government of the United States
from dividing said Territory into tweuOr Terri
tories, in such and at such times Congress
shall deem convenient and proper. or from attaching
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