The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-03-01

ras denird. ard - relieve her ifen
ne restriction ~ r6Hdition shich twas
proposed by me opPanrnts q the eK'
tension ef slavery 10 imp0se upaa her
ad.aissisa into the Union.
Bat. sir. the meaning 70 be gather
ed from dis prssisiua j. clear. feature
iy independent of these two rcesior
ascertainihg lis sense.l Il We reeur 70
the corresponding provision introduced
into the joint resolution for the annex
alton of gexas. That provision Is m
these words:
Nex Ssatss q e0nsenirnt sIze. noi efce<d-
iag fear in nnahrr. IN addition 10 sad Stale 81
TEXAS. hasing safiirieni pap1lslion. may hesesl
ief, by The consent Of sid Stale, he iarIBed e1s
u the isTrii0B thereof which shall be enslied -
admission under the provisions % The Federal
Constitution. And such states as my he fafmed
out az that portion Of said tsfntosy lsins soaih
Of So 80. north latitude. cOmmoniy known a.
the Missouri csmpromise linz. shall h< with of
without slavery. as lhe people Of each sisis ash.
ing admission may desire. And in such State
os States az shall be fsrmed out ef said Tertiary
north Of said Missouri compounds hne. slavery
o. involuntary sersiiuds CsrcePi for erine) sh.iI
be prohibited"
That Was a clear construction put
BY Congress. in the year ls45. upon
the meaning and Interpretation Of the
exclusion contained in the act for the
admission of Missouri. passed 10 1890.
The last applies as a restriction "a
States. expressly by name as !" States, =
and the other is perpetual restriction
upon certain described " territory" OF
domain. without the slightest reference
to the political mutations through which
it might pass.
! In the next place. Mr.. President.
think it is abundantly evident that the
Missouri compromise was founded up
on certain principle. My friend from
Massachusetts, said, that he did not see
how we could, with correctness, use
the language that the restriction in the
eighth section Of the Missouri bill was
Inconsistent with fhe principle Of non.
Intervention established BY the Iegis.
lation Of 1880. | think nv friend er,
red. | understand By "principle'
any fundamental truth. any original
-'postulate, any first position IRON which
Iothers are deduced. either as princi
lples or rules of conduct. For exam
Pile. il is obyious that this principle
postulate. fundamental truth, origina
position. was assumed in 1890 in the
passage Of the Missouri compromis,
Iact. TO wit: that Congress should have
power to establish geographical line
aud TO permit slavery ON one side the
line aud excluding it on the other; and
further, that il was expedient that sucl
a line should be selected. and such al
exclusion and permission attached L
it; and therefore, out of these two pc
sitions followed the enactment con
tanned in that statute, that above Sc
so slavery should be prohibited. Will
the implication that south Of So so i
might exist.
\ That is exactly the view which
have Of what is meant in the amend
ment, which has now been incorporat
ed into the bill by the expression "prin
ciple Of non-intervcntion recognized b.
the Legislation of 1850" Some orig
nal truth, some proposition admitted o
assumed as being within the power O
the Legislature, and some position 0
expediencv to use it. must always b
: supposed. as the reason or foundation
upon which the authoritative rule Il
conduct.is given in the law.
Well, then, what was the course {
be taken. Here was an act which as
, sumed to fix line. and to prohibit sla
very on one side and implicitly to al
nit it on the other side Of the line. |
| applied to States as well Territories
| aud it was so intended. II was SUP
. posed by the trainers Of that law tina
. they had power to make it perpetual j
t its application to States as well a
, Territories. That is the first charac
/ teristic Of it. or rather one character
, istic divided into two heads. III
/, next is this: The Missouri compromis
E law intended to fix il as a rule for al
1 Territories of the United States. 1t
{ applied in terms to all that tetritor
I which was ceded by France; but "
: had no other territory. That was a
I the territory which we then had, wlos
! destiny was to be settled BY an act ,
Congress-. Therefore the further priI
/? ciple involved was this: They intent
: ed to compromise and adjust the que
r ton between the different portions I
V the Union then aud forever.
t Am | right in this think $
+ There is nothing in the act Of Congress
there is nothing that know Of in IL
,f contemporary discussions in either
! the Houses Of Congress upon the sui
t" ject, which goes to show that the tw
! Houses considered that there W;
n something particular in regard to Il