The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-03-08

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Again-for this question was tried In
every possible form-on the California
bill. Mr.. Foote moved to amend by
inserting provision that the State Of
California should never claim as With
in her boundaries any territory south
Of So So. and il was determined in
the negative-yeas IS. NAYS 50. Twen-
ty three southern Senators voted in
favor Of this amendment. Then,
again. Turney. Of Tennessee, propos.
ed an amendment containing this pro-
vision, +" that her southern limits shall
be restricted TO the Missouri compro-
mise line. (s6s so north latitude and
il was rejected by q vote Of 90 yeas
and so nays.
Again. on the bill for establishing
the boundaries of Texas and q terri
torial government for New Mexico.
motion was made by Mr.. Chase 10
amend the bill BY inserting section
%. line 9. after the ward residents"
/" nor shall there be in said territory
either slavery or involuntary servitude
otherwise than in the punishment of
crimes whereof the party shall be duly
convicted to have been personally gull.
ty;" il was determined in the negative
yeas 90 nays IS.
will not trouble the Senate with
reading these amendments further.
One amendment. l reeollect. set out
with great particularly. that the Mis-.
souri, compromise line should be ex-
tended to the Pacific. and declared to
be in full force, and binding in the
same sense, and with the same UNDER.
standing with which it was originally
adopted.
Now. sir. what was the result Of al.
these various votesi Here was the
Territory Of New Mexico, eli Of which,
except very small fraction, not worth
mentioning. lay south Of s6' so, and
yet the Senator who nov invokes us
10 support the Missouri compromise,
Mr. Chase, moyeil to apply the Wi.
mot proviso to that territory, and voted.
in every instance. upon the yeas and
nays. except in one case. where his
name does not appear at all, against the
recognition or the application of the
Missouri compromise in any form what-
ever. What, then, is the actual RESULT.
Here were those Of us who were on
the tloor representing southern con.
stituencies. not only arguing, but
may almost say, begging, for the re-
cosnition of the Missouri cempro-
mise line. We could not obtain it.
The Missouri compromise line was
rejected-it was repudiated--it MAS.
in effect, declared not to be applica-
Bile to those territories. and that the
principle Of it should not extend TO
them. What, under these clrcumstan.
ces, did Congress doi They passed
two bills for territorial governments
one for Utah. lying north of S6o So.
and one for New Mexico, nearly all of
which was south of 36o so, in precise.
ly the same words in respect to this
whole subject-matter, putting them CT
actly upon the same footing, and con-
ferring upon each Of them the same
amount Of legislative power, and treat
ing the line of s6o so as if it had,
politically, no existence.
Now, MI. President, to recur, for
moment, I. what ! set out upon this
point with mentioning; that the prin-
ciple upon which an enactment IS
founded, the principle out Of which
rule of conduct grows, is some ORR
ginal or assumed truth, some proposi>
tion admitted to be right, out Of which
the law, or rule ofconduct, naturally aud
properly springs; ! beg your attenti n
to the language which has been so much
objected to and criticised. Itis thattlc
Missouri restriction limiting slavery
according to latitude I" is inconsistent
with the principle Of non.intervention
by Congress with slavery in the States
and Territories, recognized BY the leg
islation of $780," "'rhe principle Of
non.intervention NOT the words con-
tanned in those laws. Now we ascer.
tain what was the principle upon which
that Legislation proceeded, BY looking
both to what was put into the laws.
aud to what Congress refused to put
into them and examining the subject
in that light, we find that the legisla..
tion Of 1850 was founded upon a dis
tinct repudiation Of the idea Of yaking
any difference between the helcondition
of people lying one side of line Of
latitude, and the condition Of people
lying on the othsi side and that was
accomplished against the speeches and
votes Of the whole southern delegation
upon this floor.
Now, sir. If ! am right, these things
are made out: The principle or fun
damental truth upoh which the legis.
latinn Of 1920 was founded was, that
Congress had power. and that Con.