The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-04

carried INTO the ceded Territories the principle Of freedom
which they from policy have chosen adopt within then
limits ~
/ Upon another occasion, during the session. Mr.
Soule contended for the constitutional right carry slaves
into the Territories. Mr.. Clay replied: f.al
'H by the constitution Of the United States there is
right on the part Of every STAKEHOLDER Of this country
carry slaves into the ceded Territories (eih certainly do
not beere admit does senator rant
. DOES he ,ssh the consultation to Dc re-saarfedf caa e
a,ameg@ authority strengthened byen oet ef sabordnate
lie went to say that he could agree To an amend
men which assumed in point OF law, that under the
sttnlon OF the United States there right carry
slaves into the Territories He declared most emphatic
language that he could vote for such proposition
The same sentiment advanced on the noor Of the
Senate by the great Mssourian the sth March, 1850
lie said: 7NM rf
slavery ia extinct in New Mexico, and in all Caoraa and
eanno % rorped IL ether many part Of esther ,otAo
out any provision upon the subject of slavery"
In addition all this give the opinions Of some Of the
courts
has been decided in the State of Mississippi walkers
Reports page s6 that the right of the master exists
by force d the law Of Nature of nations but by virtue
ONLY OF THE POSITIVE LAW" And again, in the State
slavery is condemned by and the laws of Nature
IL EXISTS AND CAN ONLY ExisT, rnnouGH MUNICIPAL REGU
LhTIoSs.D
In I'd Marshas Kentucky Reports 470 it is laid down
that slapey exists only "by positive ap Of municipal
Wriaen and common lac" And in celebrated in the
Supreme Court of the United States Prigg the State
Of PENNSYLVANIA see Peterss Digest vol 2 page 6lol it
laid down, that the state Of slapery deemed be
munripal regulation founded upon and limited TO- the
range ef te territorial ia,c." s,Ym ai
As the Dill stands all laws In relation to slavery Of
every description whatever Except in reference TO slaves
escaping from their masters into the Territo repeal
ed 6y.s5E
If therefore, slavery exists only by virtue Of municipal
law, and all existing laws in relation to it repeal
ed by this BILL how slaves be legally held in these Ter
rtores uless the people first adopt the institution Let
any nont out the authority which would authorize it
nfiu If tha lawn la ttcf
the master and in favor of the freedom Of the slave for
il has been held by the crcutco of the United States
sevent circuit that nheye sary not expressly esab
hed By la evry person ,cou distinction Of color Is pre-
suoea be free I'D McLeans reports page 607) In the
case it declared by Judge Mclean that slavery
law of the State where Is established And if person
held in slavery go beyond the Jurisdiction where he is
held and into another sovereignty where slavery not to
1t win be borne in mind that speaking of a case
where the would voluntarily remove into Nebraska
Kanas TO reside with his negroes to hold slaves and
not to any other The of slave escaping from his
MASTER and fleeing into Of these Territories is alto
geher different for that is expressly provided for
the constitution of the United States and the laws of Con-
gress .s
think then Mr. Chairman that it is clear beyond the
possibility Of doubt that BILL will stand
the proposed substitute be adopted sapy cannot legally
ezia either IN Nebraska Kansas unles he people Me-
sclres first gisiae into being through ne regulyy-con
tated iau-,aallg porer Of tho Turifory
Daniel Webster il has been said had declared that the
Missouri act irrepealabs law. He never was guilty
Of making any such assertion but Mr. Webster said that
every foot Of territory in the United States fixed
It's character for freedom or slavery by rcpeaHbe law
BIC then inquired 1t was in regard to TcAas lie
went on to prove that because he said there
compact in express terms between Texas and the United
States He said the parties capable of contracting
and that there valuable considerations and hence he
contended that in that case there contract binding
in honor and morals and law; and that IL irrepeal
BILE without a breach Of faith
He went on to say
"Now California and New Mexicv hold slavery to
Be excluded from those Territories BY law superior
That which admits and sanctions in TexasI the
law OF Nature physical geography the law of the forma
ton Of the earth"
That the rrepealable law which he said prohibited
slavery in the Territories of Utah and New Mexico He
next went to speak Of the prohibition Of slavery in
Oregon and he said 1t "entirey useless and in
that connexion, sersoless provisoS
he went further, and said
"That the whole territory Of the States in the United
States In the newly acquired territory of the United
States has fixed and settled character, fixed and
without violation OF public faith, and be repealed
by any human power in regard to California New Mexco
that under other Of these as every foot Of territory
in the States Territories has now received fixed
and decided character"
What irrepealable laws One or the other of those
which he had stated. One was the Texas compact the
other the law of Nature and physical geography; and he
conended that the other fixed the Character of the
whole American continent for freedom for slavery lie
never alluded to the Missouri Compromise unless il
by the ausion 10 the Wilot proviso in the Oregon bill
and there he said il useless and, in that connection
sonseless thing Why was ii useless and senselcss thing
Because 1t rc-enactng the law of God because sa-
very had already been prohibited by physical geography
Sir, that was the meaning of Mr. Webster
II will be observed that the accompanying Mr.
Wehsters opinion just read those OF the of IL
nois and not mine.
The following Is said 10 have been lately written by
Charles Dickens, an English author; II !.
',Corros.Charlcs Dickens in late number Of House
hold Words, after enumesing the striking fac Of cotton
ay let social physical convuson visit the United
States and England would feel the shock from Lands End 10
Ihp Iirpx pf fuI ,vtllj inf
counymen dependent upon the cotton crops
their destiny be said without Of hypcrboe,
hang npon thread Should dire calamity bcfn the land
Of cotton thousand Of merchant ships would rot idly
in dock thousand mills must their busy looms and
million mouths would sorvc for lack Of food to feed
them" #a
According this statement II the fanatics Of the cou-
try should succeed in carrying their base designs Of
ovorturnng the institutions Of the South millions
white must sarve in consequence, and in addition
that you would set ahost three millions OF blacks whose
condition would be than now; beside The rnpne and
murder that would follow 1t would land with
enfod crimes and food your southern plains with rivers
Of blood and all this to CRAFTY your Greeleys, your Phil
ipses your Garrsons, your Abby Keys and Mrs Mots,
and the motley who dange the tail Of this band Of
snaticnl disunonists inquire in the Of Heaven
prepared for ths7 trust not No small share in
the TRADE against the United States both openly and
crctly has been wogcd in the OF the Acknowledgement
and the consequent destruction OF the institutions Of this
glorious country bya foreign power and which receives
benefit from than from any other nation in the world
Her rodus operand IS OF two ndst consists ofsympatby
and gold. Wonder If Horace Greeley tell how il is
about the gold7 OF course refer Great Britain Yes
Great Britain What Great Britain sympathizing with
the oppressed Of America, whilst she allows her own
whites to starve at home Great God wha, consurnmatc