The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-04

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e q put s's alarms a. they win prove now il this
Bat gentlemen stand up here, not senators from Texas
any 'ake he interest and the honor of that State under
Their peculiar guardianship and tell us what she ought
Saa whaI sne ought not to do And the senator from
tennessee Mr. TgREEy tells US also thar the cesson Of
& he people s Sa% w s0nse s.ss 70 ss
pesent TO protect their own rights and honor and they
nave able and faithful and vgiant representatives il
ls mouse oil Congress and the other Now the cession
o. me claim OF any part OF the disputed territory 10 the
United States will not have the slightest effect upon the
Ultimate question Of the exclusion or establishment OF
slavery there; not in the smallest degree. The right OF
determining the question will remain Just where IL is
nowIwh the people 70 be affected By L. There il is
and there il will be- regret to hear this objection to
our action urged with so much sollctude destitute as il
Is OF the slightest foundation, and calculated as il must
be TO excite feelings unfrendy TO dispassonate inquiry
ay se ds' her cs ae country 70 which Texas
VIII not 80 there do hope sir, that shall moi
as AN have this objection urged upon u.s.
Where is the danger the difficulty OF this proceeding
In the language OF the senator from Missouri when lie
report comes ~, we can say yea nay 10 it, it's own
nature and ne circumstances Of the country may requires
and this have already stated is more than Congress
reserved TO itself in the laws passed in 1875 and IN $500
Tor the adjustment of the controversy with Georgia II
we had now to make case, the parallel and precedent in
all essential particulars except the power say yea or
nay, q the case hetore u.s. we could not prepare one
more m point than this Georgia commissions which was
appointed and fulfilled It's duties during the administration
OF Mr. Jefferson Al that time the territory to the Mis-
slsspp was claimed by the State of Georgia. under her
colonial charter, and she made attempts to extend her
jurisdiction through its whole extent territorial gov.
eminent had been established nithe western portion, en-
baclng the present State Of Mississippi and the cou,ro.
versy assumed most serious aspect What did Congress
DO Provide fora suit in the Supreme Couni No And
why not Because the question properly .l.
dical one but was OF grave political matter not nvolv
ng single tact 10 the identity OF OF the course OF
line, but presenting considerations filter for mutual nego-
ation than for Judicial DECISION. They authorized the
appointment OF commissioners, who adjusted the whole
subject with the commissioners OF Georgia, and gave to
that State S500O.0O0 And still more, this authority was
committed 70 them without reservng any right 10 control
Their proceedIngsan authority which went far beyond
the present proposition, which reserves Congress the
full control OF the subject defy The ingenuity OF man to
point oata difference IN the principles Of these cases and
the only important difference in the details in the greater
caution manifested by this proposition in rendering the
proceedings Of the commission void, unless confirmed by
the action OF Congress.
repeat that, for myself, looking at the facts and al
the state OF things in Texas and knowing the extent to
which these boundary disputes are liable to be pushed
seems to me there never was question which more
urgently demanded the calm and patriotic consideration
and prompt action Of Congress than does this.