The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-03-11

tory or Stale shall be Where the POW declare what
one hundred. or even ihty four years before n organ
cation and that such laws shall be perpetual, and ToS
EYER" binding upon the people OF such Territory. and
upon the people OF The States TO be formed from such
Territory Neither oil the senators from Massachusetts,
or from Ohio or the senator IRON New York, has al
tempted TO enlghen the Senate OF The country upon those
points
win il be said here elsewhere this power is con-
feed by the provision OF the constitution which declares
that
The Congress shall have The power to dispose Of aud
make need rules and regulations respecting the ierrl-
tory and other property OF the United States"
No, sir such power cannot be lodged here The power
delegated extends the disposal and regulating, BY need
fu rules the properly OF the United States whether II
be territory or otherwise To that the power is strictly
ljmiled--there il stops IL contes authority upon
Congress interfere with the property OF the citizens al
The property Of The United States has Passed 10 Them
not the least.
Then this power is only given here. where il
seems it would have been given If intended TO be con.
fered but the inference that the trainers oil
the constitution intended 10 limit the power oil Congress
The public property only Sir, Congress is but The
creature OF the constitution u derives therein nov oniS
lis powers but lis existence. II has powers, IL can le
gally exercise but what given in the constu
II is body of strictly delegated, aud not OF auto
craiical functions.
Now sir if Congress has the authority TO make sacred
aud rrepealabe compacs between the States, the PEG
pie of the States, between different sections OF the
country, where upon any ground OF legitimate consiruc
ilon is il 10 be found Will The senators who talk so
much about such compacts tell mel Have any more
constitutional power 10 declare that domestic slavery
shall not forever exist north OF SO deg. 80 min and that
may exist south of that line, than have TO odain
that it may exist both north and south OF the line Tor
ever? No, sir no. Ii possess such power, Then,
sir have aso The power to ordain by fepealable
compact. that poly gamy shall forever be tolerated north
OF such line, south OF the line, or on both sides OF II
forever or that what Is called the Name liquor law
shall forever be in force throughout all the territory OF
the United States and the States 10 be formed om such
territory.
But the great name of Jefferson has been invoked into
hi Jat hxttb nd
Messrs. CHASE and SUMNER. And for what purpose
Why, sir, 10 show his adherence. morally, OF the in
sltulon of slavery and lis bad effects upon The commu
ny-upon the social system. Now. while agree with
that illustrious in all this, submit that is not the
matter in controversy here oday. And now, sir, VIII
invoke him into this debate upon the very matter in con-
troversy What did he say TO the Missouri Compro-
mise That is the point
Let this illuslrious witness speak for hmself In his
letter of April 49, 1890, to William Short speaking OF
this matter, he said
Although had laid down law 10 myself, to
write, talk, think OF politics. to know nothing of
pauI the Missouri aroused and filed me With
The old schisn OF federal and republican tire
osehs hs hui hs
dence OF marked principle, moral and POLITICAL and
Goss Be- oai,..raea from The mind that it would be re.
curing oeNery occasion. and renewing limitations, until
separation preferable discord have been
the sanguine In believing that our Union would be OF
great distance and the direct OF this ques
by the line which has been confidently counted
Ohio and Missouri. or. more probably the Mississippi up
wards 10 our northern boundary. IS
call attention to the following and commend 1t par
ticulay TO The senator from Massachusetts, Mr. sum
KER:
"My only comfort and confidence is, that shall not live
ibis and envy the generation the glory
throwing away Of fathers sacrifices OF
life foriune and OF rendering the experiment.
which was TO decide ultimately whether man Is capable
Of segovernment. This treason against human hope VIII
the medal OF their predecessors
will read one or more extracts from Mr.. Jefer-
sons letters. In letter 10 John Holiness dated April
%, 1890, he said
any public affairs confident they IN good
hands aud content passenger in our bark the
question, like hrebe in the night awakened and hied
Union. Ii hushed, indeed, The But this is
repricye only, not final sentence"
How true a prophet he was, Mr.. PRESIDENT How
sooR after he departed this life was this agitation CON-
menced, and it has been continued from that day until
this
- geographical line coocidng with marked prinoi.
Pile. moral and political once conceived and held up 10 tue
angry passions OF men, viii never be obiterated"
What he thought never would be done is now about
TO be done. lie proceeds:
And every irritation will mark IL deeper and
deeper can with conscious TRUTH that there Is
eye us rom this heavy repronch In practicable way
The cession OF that kind Of properly to so it is usnamed)
H. in that way, general emancipation and expatriaton
could be ELECTED and gradually and with due sacrifices
think might be- But as II Is have the wolf by the
ears and we can neither hold him safely let him
Justice is In SCALE and self in the other OF
thing certain that the passage of slaves from
one State TO another would no, make slave OF single hu
man being who would be without IL, their dfu
sion greater surface wosld make them individually
happier, and proportonay facilitate the plishment
OF Their emancipation by dividing the burden on greater
number OF coadiutors ~
Now, what succeeds; #s..#.at .#.
IAN abstinence, too, frem this OF power would
move the jealousy excited by the undertaking OF Congress
to regulate the condition OF the different descriptions of
men composing State This, certainly is the exclusive
taken from them, and given the general government"
Here he denies its consututionaliiy directly:
"Could Congress, for example, say the non feemen
oil Connecticut shall be eemen or that they shall not emf
crate into any other State ~
will read but one extract more although il is not all
that have marked In letter to John Adams dated
January ~, 1921, he says;
Our auYeties in this qua,te all In the
question: what does the holy alliance in and out Of Con-
gress mean TO do with the Missouri question Aud
this, by the by is the the 1t only the John
Doe Richard Roe OF the eectment The real question
seen In the States affected with this unfortunate popu-
ton is Are or slaves TO be presented with freedom and
dagger For II Congress has the power regulate the
viii be but another OF that power declare that
all shall be free Are We then, 70 again Ahenian aud
coniedeacesf To wage another Pelopou-
nessn war 10 ee the ascendency between ihom1 Or is
~ the tocsin OF merely serve wsr3 That remains be
seen Bot not hope, by you Surely they will
What a bedlamite is mani
Hare hi Il L.