Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-08-14

proper, and the same law iasehei
that when admitted as state, the SAID ter
ritory. or any portion Of the same shan be
received into the Union, Nth or scafhoW
.Slarery az It's Constellation may prescribe
at The time Of admission. What more can
any man ask than thisl 1t leaves the ques-
ton of Slavery where it rightfully belongs;
with those people who settle that country
| If they want Slaves they will have them
ifthey do not want them, they will refuse
to have theml Texas had her Senators and
Representatives. the Congress Of the Y. ,.
This was their affair and the affair Of the
people of Texas. They liked the arrange
ment, and the lawful power of the other
states liked it, and who shall complaint 1t
was Compromise between Texas and the
U. States, in regard to disputed ter
ritory which both parties had aperfect right
to enter into AS to Utah, the gentleman
says he would have voted fortbat, and also
for the Fugitive Slave Law. SO they TOO
were constitutional.
All that remained then to be considered
was the abolition Of the slave trade in the dis
trictofC olumbia. That measure Mr.. Boiling
said was a police regulation and not so
stringent as the laws of Virginia were up
to 1910, or about that time, whenit was not
competent for master to carry his own
slave out Of the State Of Virginia and re-
turn with him-for if he did, the slave could
sue for and obtain his freedom. Mississip-
pi had not been satisfied to forbid the in
PRODUCTION of slaves into her territory by law,
but had provided against it in her Consti-
tuition. Many other states had passed laws
more or less stringent upon the same sub
ject Willthe gentleman say it wasnot COM
petcnt for Congress to pass that law? did
not Mr.. Randolph, whom the gentleman
some 20 years ago?
Allthese measures were Constitutional
all of them clearly right in themselves
why then refuse to pass theml Because
they disturb the equilibrium That is an
old idea. The great Henry, in the Con-
vcntion of Virginia, that adopted the Con-
stitution of the United States, urged the
Convention not to accept it among other
reasons because, he said, there were States
not interested in the navigation Of the Mis-
sissippi River, and if the Constitution was
adopted, the South would lose the naviga-
ton of that great river. The Constitution
was adopted, had the U. States lost the
navigation of that river? What was the re-
sultl The United States had not only not
lost the navigation of the Mississippi; but
owned that river and all the land on it to its
handspring, and had not stopped there,
but had reached on to the Rio Bravo del
Norte had followed the ella to the Colora-
do and gone on to the Pacific Ocean. Yes,
the United States, SO far from losing that
River, had gained for itself many other
rivers far beyond it, and an Ocean to boot
MIR. Henry, though an intellectual giant,
was not prophet. Nor are the gentle
men prophets now. AS to the favorite
idea of the times, he said there was no equi-
librium when the Constitution was adopted,
and yet, in spite Of the fears of the men
who opposed the present Constitution of
the U. States, the country had prospered
and increased beyond allcalculation. What
then was the Hon. Gentlcman's duty in
the last Congress. He should have su.-
tanned and voted for all these measures; for
Virginia had, by her resolutions of 18th
Of February, 1850, given her consent to
them. She had so modified the resolutions
she had previously adopted, as to sane
ton the passage of the law abolishing the
slave trade in the District of Columbia and
no other one of the series conhicted in the
least degree, with those resolutions.
Col. Boiling inquired what the Hon.
gentleman would do, if South Carolina
should secede from the Union. Would he
let her go out and quietly unite herself
with Great Britainl Would he let her do
that--and thus practically cede that much
Of he territory of the U. States, to our an
cient enemy! Would he allow her to do
this, and thus place powerful nation in
the midst ofthe States of this Union?-
Could any true hearted American consent
to this p? Take the map and look at it
there is South Carolina running in be-
tween Georgia and North Carolina, al
most to Tennessec-thcn look at the Lakes,
and see the facility it would ford for mill
tary operations to England, should war
arise between the IT, States and England.
If she secedes from the United States,
what will she do! Have not her leading
men given us room to say, she would seek
the alliance Of England! Did not Mr..
McDuiiie, say she had more sympathy
with Manchester, in England, than with
Lowell, in Massachusetts Have they not
held out the idea over and over again
showing that she has an English heart 7
Did not the States north of her in the revo-
luton, have to send her help, to whip her
own tories! Has she not for twenty years
been constantly complaining? Did she
not in 1914, demand Bank of the U. S. !?
was not the U. s. Bank chartered in 1916?
Did not Mr.. Calhoun draw that bank bill :
Did she not grow dissatisfied with it?-
Did not South Carolina demand the tariff
Of protection? Did she not demand its
repeal! Was she not graiifed in all these
demandsl What will the gentleman do,
ifelected to Congress, and South Carolina
secedes, w Ill he sustain the administration