The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-03-16
sUMTHHsVHHLE, S. c., MARC ne, as52.

a Territory should be delivered up
The supposition is a qualification o
Congress. 1t thus appears, Mr.
PRESIDENT, that not only was this bill
passed by Southern votes, but that i
was framed to suit the taste of South
erll men, and to obviato every rea
sonable Southern objection. [ shal
not discuss the question as to wlle,h
or soil and climate have excluded us
from the Territories. My opinion is,
that Slavery will 90 anywhere where
It is not prohibited by law. That is
lmmaterial. IF God and nature
have excluded it, We have no right
to murmur at the decree. All we
had a right to ask was, that Con
y1'e$s should not exclude it-that
Congress should recognize our equal
rights. When that was done, as |
believe it was done, it then became a
question for the pcople of the Terrific.
.y, and'to them | am willing to leave
It. 1t may be well enough to men
ton strange difference Of opinion
between the Senator and his aboli.
ton admirers. There is not one
OF them who has not told his constitu-
cnts that the passage of these bills
was triumph Of the slave power
But recently | saw letter written
from New Mexico by an abolition
eu'l'SsarV lG..sSa. s.2+n PAPER i'll Mount
Veil9lG ss4s lie tells his
fnolk'idEi;sE igNcw NIexi-
GO 'nHst bc:sa sifsSs that cni-
srnn'a were touslsSissss;;sza moving in
j. asth.hegsqes, and thIf hc believed
lls longer stay there would be only
Il useless waste OF his time and their
money. Now whether he is right in
this supposltion or not do not know.
1t IS sufficient for me that the bill
containssno exclusion of Southern
nIl,cnEno insult to Southern feelings.
ssEt sEt: thp sYsiIn8t. nsoYi fraes:eaIlyS
ist i erfftori hills Soatiieff lat:,
put 1t sIlait:1i isa Southern. and !
not a Northern proviso.
The next measure of which com.
rlaiat has been made, is the bill set
ting the boundary of Texas. Well,
sir, it SO happens that this also is
Southern, not Northern measure.
1t was introduced by Southern
man, passc; by Southern votes, and
ratified hy the people of the only
Southern States who had any direct
interest in it. It further happens
that Nlr. Calhoun, the great leader
Of the South during his life, has left
on record his deliberate opinion that
Texas never had Il shadow Of title 10
one foot OF the territory we surren-
dcrcd to the General Government.
lie asserted that the true boundary
Of Texas was the middle of the dcs
ert between the Nucccs and the Rio
Grandc. We gave to Texas nine
hundred miles on the Rio Gronde,
which, in his opinion, did not belong
to her. Vet his especial disciples :
men who have assumed a guardian
slip over his fame, endeavor to stu-
tify him By declaring that the title of
Texas was mdisputable, and that we
have sold slave territory to free soil.
Sir, | believe | loved lin better
while living, and respect him more
now, than any one of those who make
use Of his name to give responsibility
to treason. lie was never a ces.
sionist; and l am authorized to say
that the proof will before long be Civ
en- to the world. lie regarded the
attempt Of a single State to 80 out Of
the Union as madness, and died i'll
that opinion.
| pass now to the consideration of
the Fugitive Slave bill. 1t is
asserted with degree Of confidence
calculated to impose :;lon the coun-
try, that it has not been executed,
and cannot be. My understanding
Of the facts is widely different. In
the northwest | rccollect no instance
in which it has not enforced. |
rccollcct many in which it has, in
cludins some from my own State.
That it has been occasionally cvadca
in other places, is true; and that
in some instances it has been resisted
by violence, | do not deny. But
that was to have been expected. 1t
is so, and always will be SO, Of
all laws il, country like ours. No
man ever believed, when this law was
passed, that it would be executed in
every instance. No man ever be,
ieved 50 Of any law framed by the
wisdom Of man. 1t is sufficient that
this law has been executed as faith.
fully as other laws. Occasional fail.
ures by no means warrant any ono
in asserting that it is in effect o
dead letter. There is not law upon
our statute books which IS not some
times cvadcd. There is not q year ii
which criminals do not escape tho