Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-02-18
ADMISSION OF TEXAS.
Missouri Compromise Rea6irmeel.


on OF said territory lying south of $50 ao north lett
tude, commonly known the Missouri compromise line,
as the people Of each State asking admission may desire
And in such State States shall be formed out Of
said territory north Of said Missouri slave
y or involuntary seryitude Except for crimes shall be
prohibited"
The joint resolution for the admission of the State
Texas passed December 30, 1916, admitted the new
State the people thereof having by deputies in Conven-
ton assembled with the of the existing Govern
ment, adopted constitution and assented and accept
ed the proposals. conditions and guarantees contained in the
first and second sections of said resolution.
l And on the same day act was approved extending
laws of the United States the State Of
OREGON TERRITORY
AUGUST 10, 1s4s.-The Oregon bill being before the
Senate Mr.. DoUGLAs moved amendment recogns-
ing the Missouri compromise in the following words:
"That nasmuch the said Territory is north of the
parallel of 500 30 of north latitude usually known as
| the Missouri compromise line" sc.
! The vote on this amendment was as follows:
YI.sIessrs Ahison Badger Bell Benton Berrien Borand
% b s pi Of Msspg
SSh'Gn q Maryland johnson Of Louisiana johnson Of Georgia.
| Sturgeon rurney. and Underwood-a3.
cosin Davis Of Massachases Dayton Dix Dodge Pe
Hale Hami Miller Miles, Phelps Gpham, walker Webster2
will be here that every Southern Senator voted
read third time and passed.
The House of Representatives disagreed the Senates
amendment above noted) by vote Of 121 to 80, most
Of the Southern members voting concur with the Sc
nate in establishing the Missouri compromise line
AUGUST IL, 1s4s.-In the Senate Mr. DOUGLAS moved
committee of conference. The Senate eventually re-
cded from all its amendments among them that extend
ing the Missouri compromise line to the Pacific by vote
OF 20 to 26a the Southern Senators present. except
hessrs. Benton and Houston voting against receding
] The bill establishing the Territorial Government Of
Oregon finally became law on the 10th August, 184S
the following clause having been inserted reairming
the ordinance of 1887 which excludes slavery from oil
4 the Northwest Territory:
Sec H. That the inhabitants of said Territory shall
be entitled to enjoy oil and singular the rights privileges
advantages granted and secured the people of the
territory Of the United States northwest of the river
Ohio by the articles of compact contained in the ord
for the government Of said Territory the 18th
July 1885, and shall be subject to all the conditions and
restrictions and prohibitions in said articles Of compact
imposed upon the people of said Territory"
This measure was approved by President Polk. The
Territory has since been divided and the Territorial Co
vernment of Washington established in 1862.
THE COMPROMISES OF 1850
The several of Congress embraced in this series
| of measures were five in number.
ment Of her northern and western boundaries the ren-
qushment by the said State of all territory claimed by
her exterior said boundaries and of all her claim upon
the United States and establish Territorial Govern
ment for New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 9, 1885, In the
fifth clause of the first section of said is the follow
ing proviso, introduced the motion Of Mr. MASON Of
| Virginia, viz:
'Prorded That nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to impair or qualify any thing contained in the
third article of the second section of the Joint resou
ton for annexng Texas the United States approved
March l. 1S45 either regards the number Of States
that may hereafter be formed out of the State of Texas
or otherwise"
In the second section establishing the Territory Of
New Mexico, is the following proviso
And provided further, That when admitted State
the said Territory or any portion of the same shall be
received into the Union Nth Without slavery, their
Constitution may prescribe"
! 3 An act to establish Territorial Government for
| Utah-[September 8 1851 This act contains the
same provision in regard to slavery the preceding
An act for the admission of the State of California
This has reference whatever to slavery the Consti
tuition Of the State, however, prohibited it.
T. An act to amend and supplementary to the act
titled An act respecting fugitives from justice and per-
sons escaping from the service Of their masters ap
proved February II 17e3.-[september l6, 1851
g. An act to suppress the slave trade in the District
Of Columbia. September 20, 1850.
These FIVE acts constitute what called the compro-
mise measures of 1850.
They the Missouri compromise in regard to the
territory north of $50 30; agree to admit New Mexico
and Utah States when prepared, Nth wihom slavery,
the people thereof may determine in their respective
State Constitutions admit California with her Consti
tuition presented prohibiting slavery within the State
abolish the slave trade within the District of Columbia
and stringent for the recovery Of
fugitive slaves
Mr. DOUGLAS, in his amendment to the Nebraska bill
pending declares that this legislation is nconsist
with the Missouri compromise of 1920" and there
fore inoperative and void" And upon this issue the
debate is proceeding in the Senate.
STATE AND PARTY ACTION ON THE SUBJECT.
Joint resolution of The Legislature Of Missouri an
relation TO The Compromise Act Of 1921
Resolved by the General Assembly Of the State of Mis-
souri,, as follows:
II Sec i. That the peace, permanency, and welfare of
our National Union depend upon strict adherence to the
and spirit Of the eighth section of the act of Con-
gress OF the United States entitled An act to authorize
the people OF the Missouri Territory to form Constitu-
ton and State Government and for the admission OF such
State into the Union equal footing with the original