Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-07-13

resents and virtually denounced for his fidelity to the const
tuition This resource then, under the ordinary operations
the constitution is Of avail And how is with the pre-
sent Congress- the only other of redress in the
adminf< aiion Of the constitution For six months il hal
been in session. and during this whole period of time slavery
has been the absorbing topic OF discussion and agitation Ye
nothing has been done heal the dsconents which Justly
exist in the Souh bleeding constitution. Alw
have received has been bitter denuncaons of our institution
by mary members of Congress- and threats to int
submission Although nothing has been done report ha
been made in the Senate by committee OF thirteen members
which IS pending in that body and as the measures
proposes besn pressed upon the South worthy Of
acceptance, deem it proper to lay before you brief
sideration of the matters it contains.
This Report embraces four distinct measuresl the ad
mission of California State with the exclusion Of slaver,
in her constitutions ID Territorial governments TO be erect
ed the Territories of Utah and New Mexico with nearly
half of Texas be added the latter Sd. The pro
hibon OF the slave trade in the District of Columbia
4b Provisions fr the recaptue Of fugitive slaves in The
savehoding States To undt rsand whether these
consistent with rights and worthy of acceptance
each OF them must be considered separately.
The South is excluded BY the bill from the whole of ha
part of California lying The Pacific, including hun
dred and fifty thousand square miles of territory and If this
is done by the legislation of Congress- the mode in which
is done is Of importance. California belongs The United
States, and all action by the individuals in that Territory,
whether from the United States from the of the world
appropraing the soil themselves erecting government
over is of validity They constitute peopein proper
of the term but citizens of the States countries
from which they have come, and to which they still he
all glance. When therefore, Congress attempts carry
and confirm the Of these individuals erecting Cania
into State and excluding slavery thereom il is the
thing if Congress had originally passed law to this effect
without The erven,i of these individuals. The exclusion
of slavery from California is done by the of Congress- and
by other authority. The constitution of California be-
comes the act OF Congress and the Wmot p,oyso it
tans Is the Wmot provso passed and enforced by the egs
laon of Congress. Here, them is that exclusion from th
Territory by The act of Congress- wich almost South
State in the Union has declared she would submit
plainly and acticay enforced by this bill. free people
cannot be satisfied with the de in which they deprived
OF their rights. sovereign State will disdain to inquire in
what manner she is stripped of her property, and degraded
from equality with her States Il enough that the
outrage done The mode is of little consequence. There
is therefore, in the mode of extending the Wmot provso
the Territory of California presented by the BILL nothing
to mitigate tie indignation of the Sou hen States TO battle
their determination redress the wrong, if inflicted They
excluded from the whole Territory Of California, Terri
tory extensive enough 10 contain four large States.
II the constitution proposed by California contained moth
ing about slavery, would the North allow her to enter the
Union Such the territorial bills proposed for Caor-
MIA at the last Congress- but they rejected he because
South not excluded from this Territory express terms
The inhabitants of this Territory have been left without any
civil government solely because the South would not
sent 10 be egsaed out of with her institutions; and now
that this object is accomplished by the constitution presented
by California; these conservatives-these advocates of law
and ordefare eager to admit her. without right prece
dent, into the Union. We of the
the nhabitapts of California may have suffered for of
civil government established by Congress and therefore
prepared yield much account of the
which they have been placed.
The next is in perfect keeping with this first iea
ture OF the report II takes from Texas territory sufficient
for two large States and adds it to New Mexico. What
the bill contains with respect to slavery WILDE OF lille
quence for It is designed that winter New Mexico
thus constituted shall follow the example Of California and
be admitted State with constitution excluding slavery
from its limits for without such exclusion she cannot hope
to be admitted 10y the nonsavehodng States into the Union
The effect will be, that territory, which slavery
exists, equal to States, will be wrested from the South
and will be given up TO the -slavehodng States The
pteex is that there is doubt the boundaries of
Texas Texas by her laws when she admitted into the
Unon lad but one boundary owarGs the west, and that
boundary the Rio Grande Congress- in the resolutions
admitting her into the Union, recognised this boundary b
laying down line Of limitation between the saveh dng and
non-savehoding Siaes-belng the Missouri compromise
line OF So 80 parallel of north latitude-hrough
part OF her territory, her right which is questioned
Her boundary of the Rio Grande alone gave her
this country, and thus recognised and ratified by the
resolutions Of annexation To vndcate this boundary for
Texas, member Of the Union, the Mexican took
place and in the treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo it was
finally INDICATED and settled, by clause in the treaty,
signaling the Rio Grandc the boundary between Mexico
AID The Unite States Thus by the laws Texas, by the
legislation of Congress. and by solemn the nted
States, the RIO Gande the boundary Of Texas
CT the prete lsion that her territory does ex
tend to within three hundred miles of the Missouri nrro-
mise ne, where Congress- in receiving her into the Cnon
determined that her territory should be divided between the
savehodng and on-savrhodng States Texas is the only
State in the Union which has the solemn guaranty Of the
United States every possible form her boundaries Yet
this Is the Government which disputes them and under the
petext that hey very doubtful proposes take from her
nearly half of her territory by virtue of such pre-
tensions, that by the bill States be taken from the
Southern and given the Northern and this wrong
is aggravated by compelling pay for it through tie
Treasury of the United States.
1t undoubtedly proper that Texas should be quoted
to her boundaries but she should be queted by law Of
congress plainly acknowledging them. II, after her boun
darles settled, the General Government carry the
purposes OF the constitution, coed faith TO fulfil all the
obligations the annexation of Texas to the Union requires
should think proper purchase any territory from Texas
the arrangement may be unobecionobe But any arrange
uen concerning her which leaves shade Of doubt
as to the right OF the people of the South any portion
OF the territory which, according the Of annexaon,
are now tree 70 them neither Texas the General Govern
ment have any right 10 make The terms of annexation
constitute the OF union between Texas and the other
states OF The Conf dracy and this compact reco
yeraby TO the people OF the sayehong States the right of
entering with their property all her territory lying south of
80 so rorth latitude, whilst from all her territory lying
north OF that line they excluded The bill in the Senate
makes no provision FOR carrying these of the
pact but leaves III doubt the right If the Southern people
throughout all the territory proposed be purchased whilst
many who support the b declare that in effect il excludes
entirely the ,pe of the Southern States from all the terri
tory purchased The least evil therefore, the bill can bring
to the people OF the Southern on enc ring it, i'll be
'ntiou, harassment, and liig alton.
But you will have very Inadequate conception Of the i'm
poT'ance OF the territory taken from Texas by the BILL you
couhne views Texas. IF you will look at the map OF
TIE United Staes you will perceive that the territory proposed
to be rendered Texas lies Throughout, It's whole extent
along the western frontier Of the Indian territory This is
now slavehodng country, and must be considered as
part OF the SCUM Place along their whole boundary
holding lODp vii Ind