The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-12-30

by abler than the senator | would moi hesitate
70 pronounce pure nonsense. The constitution pro.
sides only Tor The admission OF State True
Sut Al is the act Of admission which makes il State
oome thify-th Years ago you, sitting
convention in the then Territory of Alabama framing
constitution upon which you ask to be admitted into the
Union. Did you imagine that you were committing the
folly OF asking that what had no right to grant
Suppose some wseacre had in that convention and
informed YOU that the constitution provided only for the
admission OF Sates--that Alabama was Territory and
therefore could not be admitted into the Unon-what
wonid have been your opinion merely of his coEsl
tutiona learning. but OF his sense From that
period 10 MS with only short inermssion. you have
held seat in this body Has il ever occurred to you
mat you were here unconslitutionay and that in the
very act OF taking your seat you violated the instrument
you We're sworn to support There but three cases,
believe, in our history in which States have been ad.
mited into the Union-Vermont, Kentucky, and Texas.
All The rest came n Territories and il the position Of
the senator from South Carolina be correct the early
fathers Of the republic. the trainers Of the constitution
knew nothing OF the fundamental law they established
But. sir while the senator from South Carolina denies to
California the right 10 come in because she not a
State he yet conends with that remarkable consistency
which chaacerizes many OF the opponents of the Com
promise. that Missouri did have that right Now. sir,
The only difference between the two that Mis-
sour had regular territorial government. and California
never had But they both Territories. nevertheless
and neither could ever become anything else without the
assen, OF Congress The people Of both adopted con
stiiuon and sent here for approval when approved
they both became States. but moi antil then.
IL
territorial bill for Utah. might pursue the same line
Of argument here the case of California and show
that the South passed that BILL and if robs OF any
onist or reesoier in either branch OF Congress who
voted for it. There but two southern senators who
voted against il, and those two believe, were given
upon The ground that they did not have much faith in the
capacity OF the Mormons for sef-govenment. | voted
for the bill and the pillars OF the southern rights church
voted with me; The senator from South Carolina was
not then here but he now undertakes 10 call robbery,
and with inexcusable arrogance, denounces all those
who differ with him as knaves fools. give him the
benefit OF his own words:
.'Are the people of the slaveholdng States practi.
cay excluded by these compromise measures from colo.
nizng one acre of these Territores Sir, of com
mon honesty, of any honesty at ALL who under the
matter, can say they are not"
have said repeatedly, here and elsewhere. that
free TO go 10 that Territory with our slaves as TO any
Territory which has been formed since the adoption of
the constitution, and. although am not sensitive
than other men, do not like TO have snch language ap
piled to my published opinions The senator must allow
me, however TO console myself with the reflection that
his judgment is not nallibe that matter by what
standard he may measure hmself-no matter by what
standard he may be measured in South Carona-in that
te spot constituting the rest OF the world outside the
limits OF his State, there very prevalent opinion that
the senator would have created extraordinary
sensation, in the kingdom OF Llipu itself.
profess to understand this subject better than the
from South Carolina studied il Tor information
he 10 find fault. shall read from the law itself 10 show
what the provisions OF the bill The same provisions
are in the New Mexican bill; one is almost exact
MIR DOUGLAS An exact copy
Mr. CLEMENS. Yes, except 10 the names and
description OF boundaries.
The proviso 10 the second section
"Aad PROVIDED, further. That when admitted a State.
said Territory portion OF the shall be received
into The Unon WIN or without slavery as their eonslu-
tion may prescribe al the time OF It's admisso
Here is guarantee which we have never had in any
previous territorial government is the first time in our
history that The North has proclaimed in adv their
m % 70 Leave the to es regulated By The
in the bill annexing Texas, but speak Of Terrific
res only, not of the partition OF States But that not
he maintains that the constitution OF the United States
protects right Of property ia slaves and that wherever
that constitution goes that protection exteads. agree
with him fully, and | shall endeavor TO show that tae
last Congress not unmindlu OF interests this
respect Not satisfied with declaring that the Territory
might come in State, with without slavery, as the
people should elect they went further and, for the pur
pose OF meeting the objection that the Mexican laws
in force in the Territories, they enacted in the nth
section Of the BILL that the constitution, and all laws
OF the United States not locally nappeabe, shall have
the force and effect elsewhere within the United
Staes."
Here is an express extension Of the constitution and
laws of the United States the Territory and in effect
direct repeal of any Mexican law which might be sup
posed 10 exist The judiciary act Tor the Territory also
provides for the trial OF title TO slaves Like the laws OF
Alabama and suppose Of every .ou,hesG @ State pro-
also for the trial OF the title OF adverse claimants. The
fugitive slave bill goes beyond the words oil the cons.
tutlOn, and thai wDen 10 service OF
labor in any State Territory shall escape, &c, be
shall be delivered up, &c. The letter oil the constitution
did not require the words or Territory 10 be inserted in
the fugitive slave bill We have bat four Terr,oreS-
New Mexico. Utah, Oregon, and Minnesota In Oregon
and Minnesota slavery is prohibited by law II il is also
prohibited in Utah and New Mexico, where the
cessy OF inserting provision that slaves escaping from
a Territory should be delivered up The supposon is
stulii6cson OF Congress. II thus appears Mr Pfes
dent. that only this bill passed by southern
votes but that framed suit the taste OF southern
men, and TO obvate every reasonable southern objection
shall discuss the question as TO whe her soil and
climate have excluded US from the Territories My opn
ion is that slavery will 90 anywhere where II s not ex
cluded BY law That is mmaierial II God and Nature
have excluded il have right 10 mnrmur at the de-
cree All we had a right TO ask was that Congress
our equal rights. When that was DONE as believe 1t
done, then became question for the people OF he
Territory, and 10 them am willing 10 leave H. II may
be well enough TO mention strange difference OF opnion
between the senator and his abolition admirers. There
OF them who has not told his constituents that
the passage OF these bills was triumph OF the slave
power. But recently letter written from New
Mount Vernon Ohio, in which he tells his abolition EN-.
poy en that New Mexico mus, be slave State that
emf grants constantly moving in with negroes, and
that he believed his longer stay there would be only
useless waste OF his time and their money, NOW,
whether he j. right IN this suppositoD or not do not
know II is sufficient for that the bill contains no
exclusion of southern nen-no insult TO southern ieei'
ings II the Wimo proviso is practically IN The terrific
rial bills, southern men put 1t there. 1T southern
and not a northern proviso.
The next measure of which complaint has been made
is the bill settling the boundary OF Texas Wen, slr "
happens that this also is southern, not northern
measure. II was introduced by southern man, passed