The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-03-01


statements and irrefragable, as believe in all its
reasonngs, it is impreguable to any assaultby him,
or any man.
The first specification under his general charge
of ignorance and Misrepresentation. denies the
truth of a statement which will new read.
"These acts were never supposed to abrogate or
touch the existing exclusion of slavery from what
is now called Nebraska. They applied to the
Territory acquired from Mexico, and to that only.
They were intended a settlement of the contro- +
versy growing out of that acquisition, and OF that
controversy only. They must stand fall by |
their own merits"
That the first sentence which have read is ab- |
solutely true, suppose now doubts
Senators who were here during the discussions of
1850 must remember that the Report ofthe Con,
mittee of ofThirteen distinctly stated that the Com
promise Measures applied to the newly acquired
Territory" The honorable and distinguished
Senator from Michigan SITS near me, and can say
whether any syllable was uttered by the Commit
| tee of Thirteen or elsewhere, to his knowledge,
which indicated any purpose 10 apply them to any
other Territory. If | am in error beg the Sem
ator to correct me. Mr.. Cass remained silent.
| am right, then. ...-
But the Senator from Illinois says that the Ter
ritorial Compromise Acts did in fact apply to 9th
er territory than that acquired from Mexico. How
does he prove that! He says that part of the
territory was acquired from Texas. But this very
territory which he says was acquired from Texas
was acquired first from Mexico. After Mexico
ceded it to the United States, Texas claimed in
deed that the cessiou Injured to her benefit. That
L..
The case, then, stands thus: acquired the ter
itory from Mexico; Texas claimed it, but gave up
her claim. This certainly does not disprove the
assertion of the Appeal, that the territory was ac-
quired from Mexico, and as certainly it does not
sustain the Senator'S assertion that it acquir
ed from Texas. -e'=
The Senator nexttells the Senate and the coun
try, that by the Utah act there was included in
the territory Of Utah portion of the old Louisia-
, ma acquisili, H. covered by the Missouri prohibit
tion which prohibition annulled to that por
ton by the provisions Of that act. Every one at
all acquainted with our public history knows that
the dividing line between Spain and the United
States extended due north flom the source of the
9 Arkansas to the AID parallel of north latitude
That arbitrary line left within the Louisiana &C.
8 QUESTION little valley in the midst~of the Rocky
: Mountains where several branches of the Grande
river oue of the affluen,s of the Colorado, take
d their rise. Here is the map. Here spreads ou
II the va It territory of Utah. than hundred
A and eighty-seyen thousand square miles. Here
is the little spot, hardly pins point upon the map
10 which l cover with the tip of my little finger
% which. according to the boundary fixed by tn
Is Territorial bill, off the louisiana acquisi
IF ton, and included in Utah. The account given Q
s. i. in the Senator'S speech would lead one TO cup
pose that it was an important part of the Louisa
na acquisition. 1t is in fact, not of the smalles
~ consequence. There no inhabitants there
!, 1t is as have sad secluded little valley in tn
"a Rocky Mountains, visited once by Fremont, an
penetrated occasionally by wandering bands of Al
r. apahoes and Utahs.
to The summit of the Rocky Mountains es
signed as the eastern limit of Utah. That limit,
of consequence of the curvature of the mounai
ys range, happened to include this valley. Nobod
ma here, at the time Of the passage of the Utah bill
if adverted to that fact. 1t was known that tb
or Rocky Mountain range was very near the arbitrf
y ry line fxedby the treaty, and nobody dream
as ed that the adoption of that range the
boundary of Utah would abrogate the Nilsson
: prohibition The Senator reported that boundal
. line. Did he tell the Senate the country tn
. its establishment would have that effect! No, 81
r. never. The assertion Of the Senator that .clo
:, examination of the Utah act clearly establish
:, the fact that it was the intent, well the leg
III effect, of the Compromise Measures of 1850 to S
!. percede the Missouri Compromise. and all ge
:, graphical and territorial lines" is little short
- preposterous. There was no intent at all, exec
=. to make convenient eastern boundary to Uta
r and no legal effect at all upon the Louisiana q
QUESTION, except to cut of from it the little val
IN of the Middle Park.
VIZ The second specification of the Senator deni
the accuracy of the following statement of the a
dress in relation to this pretense of supercedure
wn s'rrhe Compromise acts, themselves. refute Il
he pretension.4 In the third article Of the seco
Ia section cf the joint resolution for annexng Tex
ho to the United States, it is expressly declared ii
ID sin such State OF States shall be formed out
tn said Territory north of said Missouri Comprom
yes line, Slavery or involuntary servitude except
led crime, shall be prohbiied;' and 10 the act for
the ganizng New Mexico, and settling the bounda
say of Texas, proviso incorpora ted, on the m
81, ton of Mr.. Mason. of Virginia, which distino
lin preserves this prohibition, and fouts the bare fl
will ed pretention, that all territory of the Unit
er- States, whether north south of the Misso
ade Compromise line, is to be open to slavery. Il
re- as follows. .---s...t "a
tue ".Tfouided, That nothing herein contain
DER shall be construed to impair or qualify ANYTHI
IN contained in the third article of the second sect,
the of the joint resolutions for annexing Texas to
lnd u,;ted States .nnroved March 4. 1s45. either
lied ,.nords tho nnmbsr of States that NAV bereaf
ded ha f,rn,ed o,t of the S,ate of rsxas. OR orHr
'ort WISE"
and ..ua-. :. nroof be.opd oontroversr ,bo+ F.,
cir ;,o;,,a r,bo M;,oonr; act nrob;b;,;na slave
and ,o,,, &c ae dao IN min far from be,o ebroo.,
by the Compromise aets, is expressly affirm,
and that the proposed repeal of this prohibition,
It il ..ond f ha;rr nm nfairn, a,inrl Of Tho