The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-04-03

9th and last The very elemental principles and spirit
|of our institutions impeivsly demand for each comu
Unity the right % frame lis own domestic laws.
With these facts. my conclusions follow;
Slavery hold TO be great political and moral evil Il
has brought upon the Iepfoach 81 the civilized world
is doom has been pronounced, and neither passion
nor interest," both combined avert its fate But
my feelings cannot blind to the law The extension
o slavery will be prevented by other than con-
gressional prohibition; The law Of Mexico prohibited
law is in force there yet The origin OF the law is to us
IA matter OF no moment. The acknowledgment by the
proper authorities Of Mexico, Of such statute being in
force concludes the judicial court in Cbrsien
dom would 90 behind this fact to inquire into the legal.
~ OF its enactment Buihe "Proyiso" is a shibboleth
Is made the test Of mems favor toward slavery and
suppose that will be duly hoLored while its votares
wait until It's hammered chief like the yelled prophet Of
khoassan. shall explain it all What matters il TO them
That the SOIL the climate the productions, the laws and
ssco e. N a's II
can be accomplised-ihe end gained--by the natural
coming Of events The means-the particular means
alone will answer We wonder az the folly Of the fac
lions OF the Blue and Green in the Hppodromewe
vel at the senseless madness OF the Guelph and the Ghb-
belne; but the pen OF sober history will wriie with
equal cleaness, of the folly this thing. We repeat
while We wonder at other peoples errorsthe people OF
New Mexico as the people OF California, have the right
and VIII settle this matter desire and this all
should be content 70 leave i there but the safety Of the
has been pledged for the Proyiso against il in the
South, but as in favor OF il in the North; and my
sttuenis believe that this atrocous fraud they
think that It's exposure is demanded by the highest inter-
ests OF the republic; and they say TO me, that though
Congress may have no legal power to make such pro-
vision an effective law, yet
''Wrest once the ia,o 10 our authority
To do great right do little wrong"
and bring these pledges the test not to give the
ton OF Congress to the Provisonot to sanction it by my
vote but as the means to accomplish the object which
responsibility Of action The policy might protect the
republic hereafter and if So the necessities Of the State
would only vindcae its strength Let the State receive
laws Of Rome They found their origin in The exigeaces
Of the republic, and dashed down the power Of the trb
unes To utter them, shows the evil Of The times hut the
we cling to forms when they make the substance per-
or maintain lesser to the destruction OF greater
|rightl Without the healthy action of the body. limbs
snd AL must die The republic must be pure we lop
1.-THE provision shall receive the presidential SANCTION
southern brethren will remember that the result is one
tney nave fairly earned 10 them = he honor o.
them, but they TOO much Sell. immolaion is too
dear price to pay for the friendship even Of the South
THE load which the democrats Of the South have placed
upon them; and the result in the South at our last cleo
|uon, shows what in the West may expect our re-
With airer terms between us both may look Tor bet
ter days; but those days will never come until farer
terms are made.
Slavery is an exciting topic The South feels warmly
made in this debate and the integrity OF the Union has
been threatened These shocks wound though they may
mot it. The mighty oak when smtten by the storm,
|may show no hurt but its strained roots will yield
until in still hour the forest is frightened by its
crash The result is in the future The wild chariot OF
cv may be driven the dead body of the repub
|lic. The temple may be destroyed But il the mad pur-
pose OF those who worship its affairs, and whose heads
are protected from the tempest by its walls, does lay in
ruin reedomsIas and nobles safeguard, then may the
lover of bis despair of the liberty of History
then will wrlte that neither virtue nor intelligence can
protect ithat, though the nobest inspirations i'm
planted in the human breast, yet the providence OF God
has mixed good and evil that will become slave
Ito crafty his passions.