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

tna III lncluues thirty towns and villages, anu
10000 New Mexican people who admit no allie
glance to Texss-then II becomes question
whether this FIVE hundred miles Of New Mexico
should not be deducted from the committees guam
tity Of 1914 ,933 square miles | happen to be Of
that opinion; and 80 would deduct about $4,000
square miles from the committees count. That
would make the two cessions about equal in ex-
tent, about equal in quantity. And now for quail
ity and value. How would the two cessious stand
in that respect Evidently the 20 900 square
miles taken from New Mexico is worth more than
the 10 900 coded by Texas II is in a better eli
mate being all Of it south Of $40, and part far
south as 2shi while the Texan cession goes up
to ~, in the Rocky Mountsins-withiu thirty
miles Of the South Pass, and cornering on Oregon
and California 1t is better land 1t has civilized
people upon it-four or five thousand at San
Eleslario, and two or three thousand at other
places. ltisunencumbered with resident Indians,
and will be ready for immediate sale and settle
ment, aud lies in the direct track from the lower
Mississippi TO the northern parts of the Republic
Of Mexico, and the Gila route 10 California and the
Pacific ocean. Ii is the most valuable cession
equal in extent better in climate and quality, and
more desirable from position. And yet the COM
mittee propose boot-good boot-some millions.
That is not the rule in the horse swap. Ii is not
the rule 10 give the best horse and then give the
price OF the other in boot, especially when both
horses belong to yourself
tie conscious that they were rather oyerdong the
matter in this article of compensation to Texas
this new mode of swapping land-giving the best
land, and then giving boot besides. They say;
Il" this boundary he Asssnted 70 by Texas she will be
quoted that in her And suppose
thA in consideration of this by the United
States she might without any ether cg'raef Tenqu,'h
ala HAL sha at
GHs damn 10 any part Of AeSc Msroo Bn under the In
naepes Of sentiment Of Justice and great hberaf the
bill proposes 10 Texas fer her rongaishmer q any such
Calm, large per45aoTg e.HfraleSf"
This is candid Doubtless many will suppose,
as the committee think some will, that the United
States had given land enough without superadd-
ing money to it They would think so upon the
very reasonable principle, that when man had
given up half his land TO quiet claim TO it, that
he should not pay money for the other half, es-
pecially when be believed both halves belonged
to himself and when he had possessed it all for
two hundred and fifty years. 1t is very rea-
sonsble, in such a case, that some would suppose
that he had done enough in giving up half l.
myself would certainly be one Of that some
But not so the committee. They have new rule
to 20 By, unknown in trade or politics before
They have recourse 10 sentiment! and, under its
influence, and from feeling Of great liberslity,
tAsV yiu5 make other equivalent 70 Texas for
relfnquishing her claim 20 tne rest prrxrco
This is the way il stands in the committees bill
and report and | give what they say in their own
words, that there EssS be no mistake about 1t );
another equivalent is what they propose. One
might suppose that one evuiqaient was enough,
but they propose another, so that there shall be
both a moneyed and landed equivalent to Texas
Now, | object to all this ! object to accepting
cesson of New Mexico from Texas, first, because
a. -. = :. .lH
has the actual possession, which is right TO pos
session until the claim is decided Secondly, be-
cause the acceptance of such cession would ad-
NIT the title of Texas to all New Mexico east
of the Rio Grande, and so raise questions to dis
turb both New Mexico and the United States.
Thirdly, because we give more valuable territory
than we receive, and then pay the value of what
wereceive into the bargain, and which was our own
before.
Sir, this is strange work A committee I'M
dertaking TO guide in case where they admit
they have not looked for either truth or law
prescribing line which they admit to be neither
true nor legtimate-abstaining from expressing an
opinion and yet enforcing an opinion-making
sacrifice and calling it a compromise--underta-
king to save New Mexico, and saving her by Civ
ing away one halt, and purchasing the other half
This is strange work, and new work, in the
American Senate: but let us go on with it.
The committee propose reconsideration in money
to Texas for accepting their line Upon what
principle IL is an exchange of territory-amu-
tual cession--and Texas receives better than she
gives Is it for the remaining part Of New Mex
leo II So it is unjusti6able to purchase what
we already possess, and dangerous to rouse the
questions to which the admission Of Texan title
to New Mexico would inevitably give rise This
is too serious question to be lightly evoked If
tho Tat If fHavo tha Ea
country, as the bin and report of the committee
admit then the Constitution and laws of Texas
are in force there and this is what the Senate
will say If it sanctions the committees bill and
what cannot be said without rousing great ques-
tions.
moneyed consideration is 10 he paid TO Texas
but how much is kept profound secret for the
profound reason of preventing jobbiDg in this
Texas stock In the mean time it seems to be
known in the knowing circles, that ten millions
is the amount to be offered and ON that basis stock
jobbing is rife 4. and three hundred per centum
has already been the advance. The chance of
California for admission and of the two Terrific
ries for Governments, rises and falls with this
rise and fall of Texas stock. They are all in
one cart together-California, Utah, New Mex
ico Texas boundary and Texas stock and must
all 20 through or balk together and all depends
upon the Texas stock.
The committee say in their report it is not to
be anticipated that Texas will refuse to accede to
their liberal propositions. That, presume, will
depend upon the amount OF money with which
that carefully guarded blank is to be filed and
that is not to be filled until the last momentum
til the bill is on its third reading Then the fill
ing is TO come; and upon the quantity of it, pre-
sumo, the vote of the State of Texas is to depend
both the State in its rejection, acceptance of the
proposed terms, and her representatives here, in
voting for or against the bill which contains them
| spe * of the State and Of her representatives
here, as would speak of my own State, and of N.Y.
SELF under the like circumstances Our first duty
is to our own State; and under the sense of that
duty the vote of the Texas Senators on this bill
this omnibus bill, in which the admission Of Cali
fornia and Governments to the two Territories is
mixed up with money to Texas-their vote upon
the whole bill must depend. Money enough to
Texas, and they 90 it! and all the measures are
carried. Not money enough to Texas, and they
halt and all the measures are lost. 1t is not only
an enormity in itself to make the passage of the
other great measures dependent upon the amount
of money voted to Texas, but it leads TO a vicious
and condemnable mode of fixing that amount
lt leads to voting the amount, not which Texas
ought to receive, but of what will pass the bill
and to the contrary, what will defeat the bill
Thus, those intent upon the bill must vote large
sum to secure the Texas vote those opposed to it
must vote small sum or nothing, in order to de-
feat it. This is vicious voting, and to be con-
demned everywhere. A jury that should make
up verdict in that way would have their verdict
set aside and themselves reprimanded. What
should be done to US and our verdict under the
same circumstances For one, | confess the vice
Of my vote, and lay its blame on those who force
me into the false position in which am to vote
Ia bill by herself and for such q line as pro-
pose, would vote Texas liberal sum in this
connection and under these circumstances not a
cent.
Mr.. President, there is something overrulipg
in the affairs Of men, which, in the end brings
out things right, and establishes the dominion of
truth and Justice; and never was this overruling