Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-21

perave duty But when we come to speak ct admitting
States the subject and entirely different aspect
Our rights and duties then both different The free
States and all the States then liberty accept reject
When proposed to bring members into the political
partnership the old members have right 20 say on wha
terms such partners to in and what they
bring along with them. In my opinion the people Of the
sve slayeholdng country large enough for hall dozen
dozen States into the Union In my opinion they ought
not to consent TO it,
Gentlemen mistaken Congress did consent to the
bringing in Of Texas They did consent, and was false
prophet Your State consend and the majority OF the
representatives. of New York consented went ino Con-
gress before the final consummaon of the deed and there
fought holding up both my hands, and procsiming, with
voice stronger than 1t now is Iemonstrances against the
whole of IT, But you would have So and you did have
so. Nay, gentlemen, will tell the truth whether shames
the devil not. Laughter Persons who have aspired
high lovers OF liberty eminent lovers of the Wno pro-
vso, eminent men, and who have mounted over
our heads and trodden down if slaves,
they the the very that brought Texas into this
country, insisting that they the only lovers Of ber-
and yet that is the truth the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, and declare before you this day Look to
the journals Without the consent of New York Texas
would have into the Union under either the original
resolutions afterwards Blu, New York voted for the
The two Senators from New York voted for it. and
turned the question: and you may thank them for the glory
the renowD, and the happiness of having five or s1 slave
States added to the Union Great sensaon Do not blame
for it. Let them who did the Decd and wlo are
proclaimng liberty, crying up their free soil creed and
using il for humbug and trading purposes.
Gentlemen. who aided in bringing in Texas It was all
fairly told to you both beforehand and afterwards You
beard Moses and the prophets Laughter !; but if had
risen from the Dead such your devotion to that Policy
that time, that you would have heard him listened
10 him for moment do not Of course, speak OF the per-
here before but of the general political tone IN
New York, and especially of those who soil
apostles Well all that do not complain of; but will not
hereafter, before the country the world consent to
be numbered among those who introduced slave power
into the Union. did all in my power to prevent it. Zap
pause. Then again, gentemeR, the Mexican broke
out. Vast territory acquired, and the peace made
and, much disiked the war, dsked the peace more
because it brought in these territories. wished for peace
indeed but desired strike the grant Of territory the
side and the payment Of the twelve millions of dollars
the other. That territory unknown. did not know
what it might be- The plan came from the South knew
that certain Southern gentlemen wished the acquisition Of
California, New Mexico and Utah, means of extending
slave power and slave population Almost every thing
unknown about the country. | did not fall into their
idea much butseepg quarrel and, conceived, seeing
how much it would distract the Unon voted against the
peace with Mexico. voted against the acquisition. want
ed Of her teo-California, New Mexico, Utah.
They rather ura-American, thought. They
far from us, and that they might lead political dis
tubance and voted against them ALL against the treaty and
against the peace and glad Of it. rather than have the
territories Seeing that would be occasion of dispute,
that by the controversy the whole Union would be agaed
Messs Berren Badger and other respectable and dsn-
the treaty which secured and if the of the North had
voted the way should have been spared all the diff
cues that have grown out Of We should have had the
peace, without the territories. Applauss Now, there is
sort Of doubt gentlemen that there were some persons in
the South who supposed that California, if it in at ALL
would in slave State. You know the exaordina-
ry events which Immediately occurred You know that Cali
nia received rush from the Northern people, and that
African slave could live there than he could live
the top Of Mount Heca Of necessity became free Stale,
and that doubt, of much disappointment to
the South And then there New Mexico and Utah.
What to be done with them WHY, gentlemen, from
the best investigation had given the subject and the reec
ton had devoted to it. OF the opinion that the
tans Of New Mexico and Utah could sustain Anne
rcan slavery than the Of Canada. saw it i'm
possible thought then it is quite evident There
FORE gentlemen, when It proposed in Congress to apply
the Wimo proviso to New Mexico snd Utah. it appeared to
just absurd apply it here ia Western New York.
saw that the hills, the eternal mountains and the
climate Of those countries would never support slavery No
could carry slave there with any expectation of profit
could not be done and the South regarded the provso
merely Of irritation, and by designed
irrtate, was not willing to adopt and therefore snw
occasion for applying the Wmot provso to New Mexico
Utah. voted accordDgy and who doubts the cor
recness Of that vote The law admitting those Territories
passed without any povso. Is there slave, will there
be one, in either of those Territories Why there is
not in the United States stupid not 10 this
moment that such thing wholly unnecessary and that
it only calculated irritae and to offend And am
who is disposed TO irritation, give offence
brothers, to break up fraernal friendship, without
cause. The question open whether slavery should or
should not 60 to New Mexico Utah. There is slavery
there's there is not the shining face Of African there
utterly mpraccabe and utterly ridiculous to suppose that
slavery could exist there and one, who does
deceive, will now pretend it exist there
Well gentlemen, have Of agita,ors all the
country; connected with the press some am sorry
say, connected with the learned professions. They agae
their livelihood consists in agating their freehold their
copyhod their capital their all in ALL depend the excite
ment of the public mind. Gentlemen these things
going at the commencement Of the year 1880 There
two great questions before the public There the
question Of the Texan boundary, and Of for Utah
and New Mexico, which consider one question and
there the question Of making provision for the
ton Of fugitive slaves Gentlemen, these subjects have
something to say Texas, you know, established her
dependence of Mexico by her revolution and the battle Of
San Jacino, which made her sovereign Power. have
already stated you what then anticipated from the
men that she would ask to into the Union slave
State We admitted her in ls45, and we admitted her
slave State We admitted her in ls45 and admitted her
with an underlined boundary remember that She claimed
BY conquest all that territory which commonly called
New Mexico the Rio Grande She claimed also those
limits which her Constitution had declared and established
the proper limits of Texas. This her claim and when
she admitted into the United States, the United States
did not define her territory They admitted her she
We took her she defined her limits, and with the
power Of making four additional slave States say we
but do not that one mean the United States
admitted her. Now, to judge fairly let back 10 1850
What was the state Of things in 1850 There Texas
claiming ALL great part of that which the United States
had acquired from Mexico New Mexico She stated that
belonged her by conquest and by her admission into the
United aes, and she ready maintain her claims by
| force Of arms Recolect that is not all. man must
that at the Of 1850 there was great agita
ton throughout the whole South. Who does not know thai