The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1852-01-20

Congress was lahoriug most asslduonsy for
the adjustment Of these questions upon fair
ard satisfactory principles. Numherless
ebssaese- WIRE couIuFed into existeuce hy
tdes'gmng politicians 6s the nurpose OF i'm.
pending I'll whoies me aud legitimate ae.
ton. on the part Of two houses Of the nation.
al Legislature. aud, with view ofkeeping
the exciting questions then 20 empSsticaily
demanding prompt settlement. oren aud ail.
adins'ed nn,iI the accomplishment OF their
own selfish ends could be secured. Several
months were exhausted Ia fierce controvet.
sal strife when ~ length ali ohs' aeles were
overcome. all impediments suFmounied and
a scheme Of adjustment wss announced To
the country, as having received the deliber.
ate approval Of the Senate aud House of Re.
personalities In Congress, and Of the Chief
Magistrate Of The Republic. which 4 not
eq uitable in all its features and free from
ell plausible objections. was, nndeuiably, as
plan Of compromise and pacifieation, under
oil the circumstances OF the case, entitled
to the cordial sanction and support OF the
whole American people 1t is certain that
this plan smbraced every thing demanded
by the October Convention of Mississippi
aud somewhat more. TO make this evident
a short statement of particulars will be SUI.
feent. The first OF the measures Of adjust.
ment, in point Of dignity, was the act ad.
miitiug California. This, in form, was
precisely like every other act admitting a
new State, that has received the approval of
Congress for the last twenty years. 1t was
a simple act OF admission, aud nothing more
shall not dwell upon it,
'fhe acts establishing territorial govern.
ments in Utah, and New Mexico were OF
a character which admitted of no reasona.
bic objection on the part OF any Southern
Statesman. Each of these acts provided
for The establishment OF a territorial govern
ment, strictly upon non-iniervention princ-
pies Nothing like the Wimot Proviso.
will be found in either OF them. In each Of
them is to be fonnd a section, providing for
the extenton ofthe constitution and laws Of
the Union 10 every part Of the territory to
which government was supplied. When
these acts were on their passage through
CoDg,ess, an, amendment was proposed, and
almost UNANIMOUSLY voted down. whereby
the Mexican law prohibiting slavery would
have been continued in operation. Itonly
remains TO be stated, that the territory OF the
Utah, large enough for FIVE or six slave
Il States, is entirely north of the Missouri Com
/ promise line of $3.50, as is a large portion
Of New Mexico also. and that the material
fact was concIusively proved in Cougtess,
before either Of these acts became part OF
the supreme law of the land, that Utah,
many shareholders and their slaves were
( then residing, and that no attemp, to inter.
fere with the right Of properly in slaves,
thus openly enjoyed bad ever been ventured
upon.
Il The act adjusting the boundary between
Texas and New Mexico is still less objec-
tionabie. Indeed. some such measure was
indispensable to the public peace. by 1t
Texas was to receive ten millions Of dol.
lar of the public money, with which 10
, pay of national debt and to secure such
advantages in other respects, as !, was per-
ceived would make her in few years one
Of the strongest slave States in the Union
! condition Of things highly important to
the South for many practical reasons, which
il would be easy TO specify. BY this act
many thousand persons, then resident npon
the Territory ceded and who were known
} TO be of quite an anotnoIous character were
forever separated from Texas, SO as 10 pre-
vent any mischievons interference. which
they might be inclined to practice in con.
nection with the delicate question Of slave.
: ry. This act contains an implied acknow-
Judgement on the part Of Congress. Of the
title Of Texas 10 all the Territory IN dispute
up TO che AID deg. OF North latitude and
: thus by irresistible implication recognized
the law of slavery. acknowledged by all TO
have peryaded al the time the whole body
OF Texan Territory, TO be validity operative
as FAR North az said 42d deg Of North Iati.
tude. aTaa gH0.l8f 8bi sulaa6a "a
Besides. il will be recoIlected, that it was
p.ovided by the resolution of Texan annex
alton, that all States which might be
formed after the period Of its adoption out
OF Texan territory lying north of &C. so
r should be free States, whereas this princi.
/ pie so deleterous and dishonorng to the
South, was overhrown by the plan Of al
! jusiment, which, as already ex planned. opens
the way 10 the admission of as many slave
States as the people Of Utah and New Mex.
leo ma, choose TO create. without the least
regard to any particular boundary line
, whatever. H v4sla tgin4 9Hl
The District Of Columbia bill. so much de-
: nounced Of one time. every intelligent man
IN The nation must know, is merely partial
) re-eracrment Of what had been The law Of
0 the District for more than half a century
r from the operation OF which no incouveni.
3 rnce has ever arisen; which law, too, was
: sIapproved February ~. 1901, aud has never
|. Iyet been complained VI since iis Original
: adoption by singe slave State Of the
! Union.
e The act for the fecapture and restoration
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