The southern press., 1850-09-09

fered is simply to provide that shall give
such effect To the past legislation of Mexico to
hold that it interferes with the rights Of Southern
citizens. The amendment does not seek to estab-
iish sayery. IL does not propose to foresa either
congressional or territorial legislation. Ii does
protec the rights OF property the relations of
persons against any thing but Mexican legislation.
What excuse there be for refusing to insert
such provision in the bill, except that it is really
expected and intended that the bill it stands
shall secure exclusion from this territory Is
| this non intervention! Is this result which Con-
gress may lawfully accomplish, directly or indi-
rectly? | say nothing Of those property rights
which are invaded by such legislation but there
is another relation between the master and his
slave than that merely involving property. They
are both human beings, and there is domestic, a
social relation between them, which, while they
live together, the hest interests of boh render
cessary. You have no right TO destroy impair
this relation, any more than you have to impair the
relation of parent and child. This too, is some ex-
tent relation Of property. The child owes ser
vtude to his parent, and 1t is involuntary ser
vtude," too. Would you permit Mexican legis-
aton to destroy this relation, or interfere with this
claim to servtude? Have you any right to destroy
II by your own legislation?
Sir, gentlemen talk as if they thought it a sutIi
cient boon to the South, that New Mexico and
Utah should have governments provided for them
without the Wilmot Provso. They sometimes
talk Of 1t as a compensation for the admission Of
,
| what compensation is there to the South in giving
| governments to New Mexico and Utah, with or
| without the Proviso? What peculiar interest have
we in the people Of these Territories How could
we be injured if they never had n Government
Are they friendly in their feelings and purposes
towards us, as peculiarly to enlist our sympa-
thies towards them, and induce to submit to
sacrifices for the sake Of securing them the pro-
lection Of our laws' What is il more to us than
to the North, that Utah and New Mexico should
have governments? Sir, it is the Nor that
should desire such governments to be provided
1t is the North that would receive compensation
| from the passage Of these territorial bills, if they
| had suffered any wrongs tnat r quired compensa-
| ton. Wherever we may look for consolation un-
der the disastrous defeats we have just sustained
it is not IN these bills that we shall find it.
| will detain the committee no longer. | have
offered my amendment to test the strength
should rather say, the 'ceakness OF the doctrine of
non-ntervention. Rejected as it will be by a vast
ma oruy, it will serve at ieast to show what ends
are expected to be accomplished by the passage of
| this bill
! Pending the question,
| Mr.. BOYD, of KY, moved that the Committee
| rise. Carried
The SPEAKER took the Chair when
Mr.. BOYD moved resolution closing all de.
bate on the Utah territorial bill in five minutes af-
ter it shall again be taken up in Committee of the
Whole.
After some Intellectual attempts to adjourn, the
resolution was adopted, and on motion of Mr..
BoYp, the House again resolved itself into Com
mtee Of the Whole (Mr. McCLERNANp in the
chair,) and resumed the consideration of the bill.
| MIR. BAYLY said, he should not detain the
House a moment. He rose merely to appeal to
members from the section of country from which
he came not to offer any amendments to this bill,
but to let it stand precisely as it came to them from
the Senate. Ii was precisely in that shape that it
had received the vote OF every Southern Senator,
j and lnrl tha onft tha Sof
| his own State. This being the case, he hoped
that no amendment would be offered but that the
bill would be allowed to pass without further de-
lay.
The only effect Of offering amendments, would
he to keep the House sitting 40 much the ltter.-
| This being the case he hoped that no more amend
ments would be offered
| The question was then taken on Mr.. MiLLsoN's
amendment by telIers and determined in the neg
ative--ayes 40, noes 80.
| Mr.. TOOMBS said that if it would be in order
! for him, by opposing this amendment, to make II
few remarks, he desired u do So
The CHAIRMAN said that the gentleman was
at liberty 10 proceed.
Mr. TOOMBS continuing, said he desired, to gay
a word in reply to the remarks of the gentleman
from Virginia, Mr.. SEDDoN. The objection that
the gentleman urged to the bill. seemed to be that
there had been a series Of outrages perpetrated
upon the South. II, said Mr. T., the passage Of
the territorial bills without restriction on the sub
ject Of slavery, is not an outrage and the gentle
man does not seem to suppose that it IS, then there
to the gentleman, if there haye been aggressions
perpetrated on the South, she has done the mis-
| chief herself she has only herself to blame. II
is by her own hands, and by the hands Of her
sons, that the wrong has been done,
The gentleman had spoken Of outrages COM
mjted on the South. There could certainly be no
outrage connected with this legislation. So far as
that was concerned it was perfectly satisfactory.
| The gentleman not justified in saying that an
outrage was committed upon the South. lf any
outrage had been committed upon her, it had been
done by her own sons. If the matter were tested
this would be found 10 be the
| Mr.. SEDDON said he trusted it would be
tested.
| Mr.. SEDDON offered the following amendment,
as an additional provso to the lst section, viz
"And that prior to the formation OF State con-
stltutOn, there shall be no prohibition by the ac-
ton of the territorial Legislation Of the emigration
of any citizens Of the United States with any
property recognized as such by the laws Of any Of
| the States OF the Unon.'
Mr.. SEDDON said ] regret, Mr.. Chairman
that the remarks Of my colleague Mr. BAYLY
make some explanation on my part necessary.
He appeals to Southern representatives 10 f0rbear
from offering opposition amendment to this
bill, and refers to the fact that it received the ap-
probation Of all the senators from the South, in
referred particularly. Sir, since the rcjeclion, by
decisive vote, of the amendment offered by me
just now, 1t is my purpose certainly, and may be
that Of other Southern representatives, to vote
against this bill, even it came from the Senate.
Sir feel proud to concur in approval Of the
which has been pursued in relation to this whole
controversy by the Southern senators who OPP
posed the miscalled compromise bill, and espe-
ciaIIy in that of the able senators from my own
State, who are richly entitled to the comic ence
and gratitude of the South therefore feel bound
to explain the very different circumstances under
which the bill was presented TO and approved by
them While one of a series Of conjoint meas
ures, such as have been in substance passed here,
it met their stern, unwaverlng opposition, and
only when all others seemed defeated and this
stood alone, it acTuiesced in by them. |,
professed to be based on the principle OF non-in-
tervenron, and at that time, it might not unreason-
ably have been supposed that some adjustment Of
the other veXed sectional questions might be nc
complisheI on that similar basis. With
that hope, it might properly he, as doubt not it
was, allowed by those Senators; but now and with
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