Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-08-29

WILL DEFEND Us; we will be MORE AND
MORE PRESSED AS w RECEDE; AND If WE
SUBMIT, WE WILL BE TRANrLED UNDER
FOOT"
VOTERS OF MAasEAnL! so far as the
voice of the empire county is to influence
the decision of this great question, the
matter is with you. When you go to the
polls to cast Your votes-aTrslNK OF YOUR
ANCESTORS, & T..ISg Of YOUR PosTEgITY!"
APp1gD1gs
MIR. CLAY'S OPINION OF TIL COMPRo--
MISE MEASURES.
The exclusion of Slavery BY the Mexican
Laws.
"What are the truths Mr. President ,
The first is that by law Slavery does not eetst
aoitlina tie territories ceded TO as by tie Repub-
lie of INerico. Now with respect to
the opinions here expressed that slavery does
not exist in the territories ceded to the United
States by Mexico, I can only refer to the fact
of the passage of the law by the Supreme
Government of Mexico abolishing it, think
in 1824, and to the subsequent passage of a
law by the legislative body of Mexico, / forget
in what year 1887 by which they proposed
what is true they have never yet carried
into full effect, compensation to the owners Of
slaves for the property of which they were
stripped by the act Of abolition. l can only
refer to the acquiescence of Mexico in the
abolition of slavery from the time of
its extinction down to the time of the treaty
by which we acquired these countries. But
all Mexico, so far as l know, aeguessed in the
non existence Of slavery. Gentlemen, |
now talk about the irregularity of the law
by which that act was accomplished 6m does
It become as, otoreign power, to look into tie
mode By aohich an object has been accomplish
ed 6y another foreign poaoer uhen she herself
IS satisfied acih aphat she has done, and achen
too she is the exclusive judge whether an Oh
ect acich IS local and municipal to hersel, has
been or hos nor been accomplished IN confor-
nifty aoith her fundamental kaw?"
Extract from speech of Mr.. CLAY in favor
of the compromise Bills, made on the 22nd
July 1856
| "The honorable Senator talks about the
sacrifice of the Northern rights and power,
what rights are sacrificed in this measure ?
Let him reply. What rights are sacrificed ?
what concession of power and authority is
made by the North in this measure? Is It in
/ the high degree of probability that still the
newly acquired territories viii ultimately be
| dedicated to the cause of Free Soil without the
Wilmot Proviso? Do they hug that preci-
Gus Wilmot so to their bosoms that nothing
but that will do-that no other obstacles, no
other preventives to the introduction of Sla-
very in the Territories will satisfy them, but
Wllmot Wila,ot, WILMoT? Is that sacrifice?
| To what pc wer is the sacrifice made here :?
Are they not satisfied with every REAL Sc
CURITY FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT
OF THEIR WISHES? or do they require
to inflict what they know is regarded as dero-
gatory to the honor and feelings of the South.
X X X
ask him wAat right is sacrificed by the
North in this measure? Let him tell me if
the North does not get almost every thing,
and the South NOTHING but her honor
her exemption from usurped authority in
Texas lands which have mentioned, together
with the fugitive Slave proposition, and an
exemption from agitation on the subject of
Slavery in the District of Columbia. l do
not want general broadcast defamation but
specifications. Let us meet them like men !;
Show us the power here to which Northern
sacrifices are made, Show whatis sacrificed by
the North in this bill. That is what want"
| Mr.. Webster said
''As to the territorial acquisition, am
6ound In candor to sag, that taking Maryland
for example as one Of the South. Maryland
will gain exactly what Massachusetts, looses,
that IS nothing at all.
| MR, CHoATE formerly in the Senate from
Massachusetts, said of these measures in a re-
cent speech on the Union IL think that un-
der their operation, and by the concurrence OF
other agencies, 1T WILL AssuREDLr COME TO PASS
THAT IN ALL THAT VAST ACCESSION OF TERRI
TORY BEYOND AND ABOVE TEXAS NO SLAVE
WILL EVER BREATHE THE AIR, AND REJOICE Al
THAT.
/ JOHN VAN BUREN, in speech delivered by
1 him before the Democratic State Convention
of Vermont, may cath 1851 says:
sIt may safely be assumed that the earnest
contest of 1848 thus led to the prohibition Of
slavery in that State, California The ra-
pid pulsations of the great heart of liberty in.
iected the blood of freedom in the veins ol
California, and she came into the Union q
!; free State. She came in as the thirty frs
{ State. She came in alone without a slavehol
ding State attached to- her to neutralize hel
strength, as Maine had in Missouri, Michigan
had in Arkansas, and Iowa had in Texas, and
as the South claim, should always be done
when free State is created.
{ The majority of the states of this confedera
cv, thus became free. The entire Pacific coas
of the United States was dedicated to free
; dom by the prohibition of slavery in Oregon
and California. The traffic has also been pro
hibited in the District of Columbia, and ];
power has thus been exercised over that sub
: iect which the Sonth has denied and jealous
t " resisted The same power exists to abolisl
slavery itself in the District. and its eyentua
exercise is thus rendered amere question o
time.
/ The ground assumed by the Buffalo Con
vention was that slavery within the seyera
States should be exclusively controlled by tn
States themselves, but that the general gov
ernment should relieve itself from all respon
ability for the evil, abolishing it where Con
; gress had the power, and prohibiting its intro
duction where it did not then exist Tni
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