Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-06-17

the federal goref4 ment, made 81 BY
cesSion from two Have States wa
Eof right common ground, upon vi licl
Imell from all sections should have the
privilege Of meet Ing upon an ed uaI
footing, and pernli tied to enjoy ed Qua
privileges. Our Inference from the
Governors argument upon the Sub
ject Of abolishing the slave trade fl
that district, ma kes him ask the
question, which soc tion, the North OF
the South, mad ma de concesB ions2-
He was certain it |as not til / North
The possible practi cal V prlling of this
feature IN the Com romise, would be
the forfeiture Of j Our right to your
slave. Its object was to iniure the
South. A small reward would IN
duce an unprincipled aboitionist to
swear that it vas the object of even
an itinerant southetner, who happens
to visit the District Of Columbia with
his servant, to sell IBIS slave, and by
this law, he would be dispossessed Of
his property. Mort hern men in vc-
ting for this law, d. ubtless regarded
it an entering wedg T to affect the IN
stitution Of slavery in the States
What has the South gained by the
adjustment Of the Texas boundary?
He thought nothing, since Texan in
vincibility had indi4putably fixed the
boundary. It vas now highly prob
able that all that portion of Texas
purchased by the United States,
would come in as fret territory,
In view of an Express clause in
THE Constitution, CIV. Tfossda1easked
what had the South gained or the
North yielded by eHaeting the Fugi-
tive Slave Law. Tx then read from
the Constitution of the United States,
to show that it is t be duty of the
Executive Of any State to which any
fugitive from labor nhay have escaped,
to deliver him up 6h demand Of the
Executive Of the State from which
such fugitive may have escaped
After which, he referred to the differ
ent acts Of CongreB passed to en-
force this provision Iof the Constitu-
ton, down to the Compromise act
upon this subject, IIe then alluded
to the action taken by almost every
northern State on Il e subject Of re-
capturing fugitive slaves, which he
asserted to be the : hacting of stat
utes making it highly penal for any
officer within their Jurisdiction to
assist in the re-captd Ire Of a fugitive.
He referred to rec ent failures in
Pennsylvania torepe4 b her statutes on
this subject. In cons liberation Of this
conduct on thepartof the North, in the
face of the before me4tionedplainRro-
visions Of the Contribution Of the
U. States, he would Ike to knowwhat
the South hadgainedBy the passage Of
the Fugitive Slave Law. lie asked,
how hasitbeen observ$dbythe North?
Have they faithfully executed it,
lie thought several attempts to re-
capture fugitives, weht to show they
had not. And nearly all the recent
elections in the North had resulted
in the election Of individuals favoring
the repeal Of this law by the wings
and freesoilcrs uniting. Notwith-
standing the many complaints and
the many objections lie had to these
Compromise measures he was for the
Union. d Let the N rth faithfully
execute all the provisions of the
C9npromise, and he would be the
last man to finch from the mainte-
nance Of our glorious z nion of States
In answer to Jgd@e CanpbeVs
charge Of disunion purposes on the
bart of the Nashville Convention,
Gov. 7r0usddle asserted the charge
to be founded on the hope Of making
political capital with VI hieh to infuse
encouragement into the whig party Of
Tennessee, whose prospects we're
badly On the wane. Fad the whig
party IN all the slave States co-ope-I
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