The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-06-04

or hlrrs American. They were far from
US, and saw that ihev might lead 10 po
litca disturbance, and, | voted ngninsi
them all-agaius, the Treaty and aeans
the peace, and am glad o. it. Seeing thai
il would be an occasion of dispnie; th at by
The controversy the, whole Union would be
aeltaled, Messrs. Berrien. Bahuer, and
OF her respectable and distinguished men oi
the South voted against the acquisition
and the Treaty which secured il; and II
the men of the Moth had voted the same
wnv, we would have been spared all the
difficulties that have grown out OF 1t. Ap-
plause.
Now, there is no sort of doubt, eentle>
men that there We're some persons in the
South who supposed that California. II IT
came at all, Wohld come in as a slave State
You know the extraordinary events that a.
rose there You know that California re-
ccved rush from the Northern people, and
that an African slave could no more live
there than he could on the top of Mount
HecIa OF necessity it became free State,
and that, no doubt, was source Of much
disappointment TO the South And then
there were New Mexico and Utah. what was
to be done with them? Why. gentlemen.
from the best investigate have given the
subject, and the reflection have devoted to
it, was Of the opinion hat the mountains
of New Mexico and Utah could no more
sustain American slavery than the SHOWS Of
Canada saw it was impossible. | thought
$, then, and | think so now. Therefore,
gentlemen, when it was proposed in Con
grcss to apply the Wilmo: Provso to New
Mexico and Utah, it appeared 10 ne just as
absurd as TO apply it here IN Western New
York. The question was open whether Sla
very shosld not 90 10 New Mexico or Utah
Tnere is no Slavery. There is not the shl-
ming face of mn African there. Well, gen
tlenien We have race of agitators all over
the tountry-some connected with the press
some; am sorry to say, connected with the
learned professions. They agilate-their
livelihood consists in agitaiing-their free
hold, their copyhold, their capital. their all
aud all depends on the excitement OF the pub
liz fi1nd.
tienllptilch, these things went on At the
commencement OF the year 1850. There
we're two great questions before the public
There wis the Question Of the Texas boun-
Diary, and of Government for Utah and
New Mexico, which consider as one ques
ton; and there WAS The question of making
a provision for the restoration OF fugitive
slaves, Gentlemen, on these subjects have
something to say. Texas, as you know, es
iabshed her independence Of Mexico, by
her revolution and the battle OF San jaclnto'
which rtiade her sovereign power. have
already stated to you what had anticipated
from the movement, that the would ask TO
come into the Union ms Slave State. We
admitted her in 1915. and we admitted her
as Slave State. We admitted her in lS45,
and we admitted her with her own bounds
rcs-- remember t at. She claimed by con"
quest all that territory which was commonly
called New Mexico, east of the Rio Grande.
She claimed also by these limits what her
Constitution had declared and established as
the proper limits Of Toxas This was her
claim, and when she was admitted Ito the
United States, the United States did not
define her territory. They admitted her as
she was We took her as she defined her
own limits. and with the power OF making
three additional Slave States. | say we,
but did not always remember that
Now, in this state of things, LET us 90 back
TO 1850. What was the state Of things in
1880? There was Texas claiming all that,
or great part of that which the United
States had acquired from Mexico, as New
Mexico She stated that it belonged 10 her
hy conquest and by her admission INTO the
United States, and she was ready 10 enforce
her claims by the force of arms. Recol-
lect that is not all. 4 man mus. be igno-
rant of the history of the country who does
not know, that at the commencement of lS-
so, there was great agitation throughout
the whole South. Who does not know that
six or seven of the largest States Of the
South had already taken measures
for separaiion-were preparing for dis
union in some way 2 They concurfed with