The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-07-04

ltravcling month after month, until thae
concern broke down, and Caldornia was
turned out, leaving Utah in sole possesa
sion OF the yenicle. Thus Uiah--whicEs \
needed no Legislative aciion---where il5
Mormons had. already organized a eosg
eminent quite as good, and indeed rathe
better than any which Congress was Ike 4
y 10 organise for them--was preferred \
in the regards Of Congress. 10 California;
II was not until after the territorial gov.
ernment of U,ah had been organized up.
on principles acceptable 10 the Senators
from the slave States, that California re-
ceived the permission of the Senate 10
come into the Union. Ii
| ask your especial observation of one
feature in this plan of territorial govern
ment. You will remember that majors
iy Of the House of Representatives had
been elected for the express purpose Of
prohibiting slavery in The territories. One
half at least of the Senators had been in i.
strucied 10 vote for this prohibition. Al
Vice President, recommended to tho
sufffages OF the people Of the free States,
upon the ground OF his known opposilion-s
TO the extension Of slavery, was the PIE
siding officer Of the Senate, and held, III
case Of an equal division, the casting
vote.
Under these circumstances il might
have been well expected that the clause J
Of the Ordinance OF 's7, prohibiting ieri-
torial slavery, would have been engralied
upon any bill for The government Of tho
territory without hesitation. Bul not
only was no prohibition Of slavery en-.
grated upon the bill for The government
Of Utah, but on the contrary, a clause
was inserted, requiring any future Con-
gress TO admit into The Union any State
created out of that territory with slavery,
is the people Of the applying State should
desire it. This clause was doubtless in-il
tended as an implied recognition of the
iawfulness Of slaveholding prior to the
erection Of State government; for why
should there be provision for the erec-
tion Of slavebolding State out of noq-
slaveholding Territory? Thus was The.
will Of vast majority of the Americana
people disregarded, set aside, held for
naught by their representatives in Con-
gress. The same provision in relation 10
the erection offStates with slavery was
insert ed in q bill to provide Cor a terri
torial governmental for New Mexico. This
was called the settlement OF the territorial
slavery question!
Next in order were The questions re-
laling TO the boundary Of Texas. Public
opinion had been much divided inTelation
TO her Western and North western limits.
The annexation resolutions left all ques-
lions Of boundary to be adjusted by the
government of the United States, through
with Mexico. The Wing i
party had generally contended that the
true Western boundary Of Texas was the
Nueces and line drawn North from that
river TO the Red River. The Democratic
party, on the other hand, had generally
maintained The tile Of Texas 10 The terri
tory between the Nueces and the Lower
Rio Grande. 1t was upon this ground
that the attack Of the Mexican forces
upon the American troops on The eastern
bank of the Rio Grande, was resented
and repelled as an invasion OF American
soil. But no Northern Statesman ad-
miited the right Of Texas to any territory
whatever west Of her ancient Limits as a
Spanish province, and above the Lower
Rio Grande; while many Wing statesmen
of the South denied her title TO any terri
tory whatever west Of the Nneces. The
Nueces is short river, some 800 miles
in length; while the Rio Grande having
its course in its lower portion some $50
miles west of the Nueces, extends from
the Gulf some 1000 miles to i,s sources
in the Northern Mountains of New Mex
leo. This territory between the Nueces
and The Rio Grande, part Of the original
Mexican State Of Tamaulipas, was that
which the Wings denied and The Demo-
Gratis affirmed to belong to Texas. Not
a foot above--not foot Of all that was,
before the treaty of cession, Cnahuila,
Chihuahua, and New Mexico, belonged
to Texas. All this territory, upon the
treaty Of cession, became The territory Of
the United States, precisely in the same
sense and 10 the same extent that The
region northwest Of the Ohio became The
territory Of the Union, upon The cession
by Virginia Of her Claim 10 II.
Texas, nevertheless, boldly asserted
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