Washington telegraph., 1850-03-13

own faInily-when, after dwelling awhile
IN freedo,n, they have begged to be al
lowed to return. He hoped that it woul,
hereafter Ie considered by the free State
their duty to adopt laws for the enforce
ment of ihis part of the Constitution.
1t was wrong. also, to hold States re
sponsible, as States, for the acts of few
persons only; aud he never could conceiv,
that the conduct pursued by northern
pefsons to masters in pursuit OF thei
slaves would be sufficient cause for dis
solving the Union. There was grount
tor mutual complaint. Massachusetts
places her legislation on the ground D.
the treatment. by the citizens Of Charles
ton. 10 the minister she sent there, Mr.
doar. Massachusetts might have declin.
ed sepollg such mission there. 1t was
stated that his mission was for the pur.
pose q bringing before the courts of South
Carolina the question of the rights and
W'Wsges Of certain cclored people. He
Was driven out OF Charleston, in the same
way ltAt another was driven out OF New
Orleans lie did not undertake to Justify
The co,duct OF either party. If South
Carolita treated Massachusetts badly,
there vas no reason why Massachusetts
should badly treat Virginia. Kentucky
aud dher States. He mentioned the
circumstance 10 show that both sides had
cause tor complaints.
Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, said he
nevertlad heard the apology stated by the
SenaDr. as the reason for the Legislature
OF Massachusetts,. The ground Oh which
the Aws were repealed was. that the
court had decided them to be unconsti-
lutioi ial. The cause of Mr.. lIoar being
seat y Carolina was this. Massachusetts
has .iuch shipping trade there, and there
are employed great many free colered
persols WHO are recognized as citizens OF
The commonwealth. Those persons
comflained that OH the arrival of vessels
at Charleston, these free colored men
were placed in prison and confined till
the vessel was ABOUT to leave. thus putting
the owners of shipping to much incon-
venielce and trouble. Massachusetts
proposed to several citizens OF South Car
Dina 20 employ them to test the validity
ot this law. and it was declined, aud then
she sent Mr.. II. there for that purpose.
Mr.. Clay said that he had Obtained his
information from distinguished citizen
of Massachusetts. He hoped that that
State would, upon being more correctly
Informed or Inls decision Of the Supreme
Court, reverse her legislation.
The eighth resolution is i'll these words:
That Congress has no power to pro-
hibit or obstruct the trade in slaves be-
tween the slaveholdlng States: but thu at
the admission or exclusion OF slaves
brought from one into another of them,
depends exclusively upon their own par
tic,lar laws.
The Supreme Court lad already de-
cded this subject, aud. he hoped, decided
it forever.
Such was the series of resolutions he
had prepared, with a view to offer the
olive braiich to tie discirdant aud warring
spirits of the day. He was not at all at
tached to his own productions, and would
willingly consent to their Improvement
lie p,r it to the candor of gentlemen TO
say. if their duty would be performed by
limiting their action to the objection to
this or that particular point. Let them
produce their plans, and let them all see
if anything better can be adopted. ffe'
sent hun with such scheme, and he
would hail it with pleasure, and adopt II
with delight
When preparing this plan the Missouri
compromise was suggested 10 his MUD
and after considering it, he had rejected
1t as being less worthy of mutual appro'
bation than the plan proposed. lis
yeucy in the establishment OF tie MIS-
souri, line of So 80 had been greatly eX-
,yyerated. He had been wonderfully
surprised at the rapidity with winch his,
torical events are forgotten. He was not
even member of the House i'll which II
originated.
At the first session at which bill was
introduced to admit Missouri, the biil
failed the House insisting on eligrafting
the proviso of the ordinance of 1857, and
the Senate dissenting. At the next ses-
sion .laine was knocking for admission.
rhe Senate coupled the two States to-
y-ther in one bill, and said if you do not
ad,ni; Missouri we will not admit Malne
This was done by decided majority
The bill went through all the stages OF
conference before it was settled, aud
then it was settled by disconnectlng the
two States. Aud then it was that Mr.
Thomas, a Senator from Illinois. proposed
the liae Of go 80. and so it passed. and
so it went to Missouri, and for a while
quieted the country. BY a reference tc
the journals it appears that in every IN
stance this line of go 80 was offered by
Mr.. Thomas.
The line of SO 80 was voted for by
majority of the Senators from the South
a.llJ,rg whom were Mr. Piuckney OF Ma
rylanG, aud Mr.. King of Alabama. In
,i,a d.,ns4 the majority of the southern