The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-08-01

ed beg them TO take what say III INC senso
intend it. In their place, should do as they will
do--vote for or against the bill, and all It's
measures, according to the amount of money to
20 into the blank-and with the same senti-
ment of profound humiliation which they must
feel. And this shows the enormity Of such un-
natural copjunctions of discordant measures. And
here will use an argument but lately come to
hand, but which ought to have its weight on this
occasion l allude TO the new Constitution OF Ken
lucky and it's salutary provision against the rum
Gus practice of "log-rolling" In section thirty
seven Of article two Of that instrument, there Is
this provision EVERY BILL SHALL CONTAIN BUT ONE
SUBJECT, AND THAT SHALL BE CLEARLY EXPLAINED
IN THE TITLE This is the sentiment of Kentucky
on the fatal practice of lacking incongruous oilis
together. She has pointed her constitutional can
non against it. True, wear not bound by the pro-
visions Of her constitution but we are bound 10
respect the principle Of morality in which IL Is
founded, and of course to condemn aud repudlate
this omnibus bill, freighted with many subjects
and dependent for its passage on the amount oil
money TO be voted out Of the public Treasury to
the State of Texas.
Sir. have myself, in bill now before the SEN
ate n-onosed comnact with Texas for the set
no mutual cessions-no exchange of territory
no ACKNOWLEDGMENT of New Mexico-no purchase
of the Santa Fe country-no giving away our
own territory, and paying Texas to takeit MY
proposals steer clear Of all that folly and blum
der. This is what proposed:
"Amra The State Of Texas cedes to the United States
all her territory exterior to the limits to which she reduces
herself by the first article Of this compact"
And the limits then proposed by me for her re-
duction were the same as now proposed-loEo OF
west longitude, and "a of north latitude. This
=. ~ hat hill pr0n0spI--a CeSs1OQ
from Texas only--and not of all the territory,
but of all her territory exterior to her reduced
limits This avoided the consequences OF cession
from her of the whole country, including New
Mexico as a part of Texas IL avoided the con-
sequence of holding the Santa Fe country as
a purchase from Texas. IL avoided the conse-
auence of admitting all that country to have been
a part of the State of Texas. IL avoided all the
serious and disturbing consequences in which the
committees bill would involve us. For such a
line as proposed to Texas, ceding no territory
to her, accepting no title to New Mexico from
her, leaving New Mexico intact, and conforming
to ancient title and present actual possession,
.s... Soo.ff milifts4s Ssaollars for SnGh D
line as the committee propose, not a copper.
The committee can find no excuse in my offer
'los $MA.I 1,uS aeYe address myself ~ IS,
pecially 10 that member of the committee thlr.
Cooper, Of Pennsylvania who seems to have be-
come its organ at this point and say TO him, ana
through him to the committee, there is nothing IN
the one TO justify the other. The two offers are
az different as the two extracts from that sarsapa-
rils root" Heaven wids apart, and inhHRefy dIS-
similar and not alike any tro particulars, and nat
ing no tho qualities IN eommon.0 One begins TWEEN
ty miles in a straight line above FL Paso-the
other three hundred miles in straight line below
il. One is latitudinal--the other longitudinal.
a. 10 New
Mexico in two-the other goes round her One
cedes seventy thousand square miles of New Mex
co to Texas--the other cedes nothing to her. One
accepts the remainder of New Mexico as cession
from Texas-the other holds her as q cession from
the Republic of Mexico One conforms to the
ancient title present possession, and geographical
affinities-the other violates all these conditions
One raises the slave question, and in its double
aspect of actual extension Of slavery into one hay
of New Mexico, and its implied legal existence "
the other half-the other avoids both these quss-
tons by leaving both New Mexico and TexasJust
as they are One admits the Texan laws and
Constitution to be in force in all New Mexico
east of the Rio Grande-the other asserts the
Mexican law to be in force there. These are
some of the points of difference between my offer
and the committees, and which will thank the
Senator from Pennsylvania Mr.. Cooper torecol-
lect the next time he speaks on the subject, and
credit the differences on the right side OF the
account But there is another difference, and
of another kind, between the two offers, and
which may be fully developed when we come
to the work Of filling up that coy and SEN
sitive blank upon which the committee are
10 dumb, and the knowing ones 80 knowing My
offer affects no other bill, or measure. 1t Is In
bill by itself 1t is Texas bill, and confined
to Texas. The money it proposes carries no in
A ha1 70 ut mas qnrp--bAe
no effect on the life or death of California or the
two Territories Ii carries no VOTES, for or against
them-excites no stock. jobbing interest, for or
against them 1t is a parliamentary bill, confined
to its own subject, unmixed with any question
claiming decision on its own merits alone, and
leaving all other bills to be decided in like man
ner, upon their own merits. This is particular
| difference between the committeei bill and mine
in addition to all the other differences between them
and which, at the proper time, shall more fully
develop; and, in the mean time, mhst remind the
Senator from Pennsylvania not tdoverlook these
differences when he comes again Y fortify his in
tended vote for sacrificing New Mfxico, by ref
erence to my bill for saving her.
The committee, as justification for ceding thu
one half of New Mexico to Texas and then pur
chasing the other half from her, argue that tits thu
only way to prevent Texas from swallowing hel
all up. This was great mistake in law, and {
further mistake in fact in surprising that thu
President-the then President, General Taylor
would not do his duty There we three way
to save New Mexico without givint up any par
of her to Texas First, for the Utted States Il
occupy her as she was on the day of her cessior
by the Republic of Mexico secoidly, by a sui
10 the Supreme Court thirdly, by offering fail
compact, based upon the true boundary. b,
either Of these three ways New Mfxico could b.
saved and the late President, in fessage befor
his death, let US know that he would do his duty
and maintain the possession until te question o
title should be decided by the comFtent author
ity. This is his message
already in former message re FRED 10 the fac
that the boundary between Texas and Net Mexico is di.
puted have now to state that infor%sin has been re
Gently s;nns os ,ss ss,s Of has