New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-09

4, trro,. uc inew. however that since then rrsa'
change, lid aten poce on' enls happened on 1he ia
ciee Which could noi hrye boon 6.,l-tn. nov 81 D
I'D b,,n cfcatcd beyond this Indian country commlui
cation with e nocogfary, Rnd ae nl 40 oNpnota'i11
N|r~dr tac ,ircomstaucc. iArt lhis luiian bnr oli
tc tfc.,,v,d ga ta,t II however il was 60 4 '.el
mad he ohi, 'uabie pi Of NECESSITY, be h1~ TIE
Cnvrrrmort Il hc I'll. States w0l'd Tcal th' Inlfu5
with moro than ius.i c. more than clgt'. How colll
he say wi ether the bill di this not ia wauei nior
nation ON thee, IOinf rud he hcped some Senator fl
itrwih fo fcts would furnish ho nio-maii1n before he
debate WIS closed Uiloss Ito oiGcutcs rpec'ny ne
Indians removed he would &c compelled 90 v,tsRJ.
his stpo from any Territorial biz for brasa y ( sas
With cspect The other provisions Of the bill he had also
oli,cions bat hc thought that be might have supported
n bi which passed. the House lest session II he rights
of tho indiana were properly secured. Tho bli, a. u
stood EXCEPTED from tie laws % be in force m these feF
ioIs the sih section of The Missouri ec when - 7s
20 have been suporsod,d by the C1mprOmse acts q" lS
rId is therefore declared imperative. The Amendment
row proposed hy the naor from llno3 Is - chin5e
thcsc a ia and ;pseft that the Missouri bong inrol
sisicnt with tie gisioon Of 1880 is declared in.peaie
and void lie said there was no change Dl in tie para
zoology tie Coet and meaning OF both were me same
The reason for this proposition was staten IN s Dhnt
zee rcort wherein Il was said that the acts Of l55S we're
rot confined merely 20 Mexican territory Out WeF1 de-
signed 10 ciahh certain principles Tor All tno 70 Gon'
IN e rcope of the territories full power "a the subject
ma LANGUAGE of both the bill and the amendment were in
dircf What is the condition Of enactment declared
by an act Of Congress TO be imperative and void Il does
not remain in force it is void and imperative. II
o:I "a irrprrotive and not in force II il r..
r more dhoct and psrlamonayt to ray SO many words
thai the Mistog act be- and hereby is, repealed The
subsanc, OF the provision was more Objectionable than it,
haseoogy. He did not quite understand these worls,
'incorssttnt with the principles of II satiOn of $3.50
lie took for granted that the legislation Of $50 meant
the New Mexico and Utah acts These acts he did not
tirk established any principle applicable to any other ter
ltory These bills measures enacted fOr the terri
res therein named and described and the boundaries Of
which we're specifically laid down and did not enact any
principle FOR the government Of any other territory in
other part of the country Those acts in oil particular
were confined in their application TO tho territories they
were enacted fer lie did not find in these measures the
epacmf nj Of nonnerventiOn by Congress with Slavery
in those territories either principle or measure On
the contrary they expressly to Congress the rgat
TO dsopprove of any act Of legislation by the territories
How could Senators hnd In those specnc neasu pissed
in pecifc and referring to specific territory in
them described and marked out the enactment Of prn
cipe hch TO act retrospectvely and prospesyey
UPON ell other territories then acquired or hereafter to Oe
acquired In The act relating to Missouri, Congress eE-
prsaly required Of the State, the condition OF her sd
mission al the pablo lands sold in the State shOUd
not be taxed for five years after its sale. Thus would II
b said that because AK lnsas could take the public lands
aid in that State from the day It's sale that the pruc
lie tlis act in any way applied TO the compact with
Missouri could be tortured into such application
The ordinance If s7 prohibited Slavery in the Northwest
Territory. shortly after Congress accepted an accession
of territory from North Caroline, with expr stPula-
ton that Slavery should no beIfohi6ed therein DID any
suppose thu; the acceptance OF territory win sch
suulatior by any means established principle apphca
be to the Nortl.West Territory, where Slavery pro
hibedl If So the ordinance of 81 being inconsistent
equal propety be said intended to be suspefsedef ~
repealed He understood the report Of the Committee itself
stating that the acts Of 1850 produced no such results
The Committee state that in the case Of the Mex
can Territories it asserted the one hand that
the Mexican law repesllng Slavery was in force,
and the other hand that that law superseded by
Il constitution and laws of the United States and that
III this asserted the hand that the Mis-
souri, pohl on III force in Nebraska, and by others
that that prohibition void and not in force and that
ag CODgTGfs in 1850 did not undertake TO decide the dill
Guilty then, Congress would not do 50 now IL Congress
in 1850 did not decide the question whether Slavery was
not excluded by Mexican laws then congress eit
Tie que ton found H. AMI II left It a. found H.
established principle. lie was called upon shortly
otter the adoption Of the Compromise measures OF 1872
in the performance Of literary task to dra" up nara
tive Of lilo eyems attending them. lie was nos IN Con
cress at the line had he heard the debates Which al
most necessarily form pa! OF the measures but nc mad
conversCd with some OF the ocuve participants IN Veir
formation ard adoption He had read The debates, and
alout tie whole time lie had never heard the least
iLtimatOn or received the slightest lHpresl ION from
any verbal or written, that those acts had any
eject beyond q specific territories Of Utah AMI New
Mexico. He could not but think that If there had
Leon ary oLer feet intended or supposed to be Gccomp
Eshed by those act the fa twoud have been notorious
he acts gave Ae boundaries of Ctah and New Mexico
AID declared that neither those boundaries certain
state Of things should oxst There was nothing sa'din
en- that this state Of things shoud exist Tetospecye{
and prospectiyoy in all ie other Territories o. ne Cncd
States Those acts would carry the condition Of this
question in the limits of those Territories TO any other
Territories where nothing stood in the way an how could
tev carry ii 20 Nebraska where different sta-e Of hiss
vi oxpressly provided by the Missouri act II it should
lie said the it unnecessary to state IN * u maj me
principle ofthose extended to oil other Territories the
Missouri act Notwithstanding he could hardly see the nects
sity for declaring it lftheTo was any necessity i)r II
necessity for such adecaraio IN 1917
So far he had been able 20 read the debat he not
found word said in either House that these act IN any
Day In uliacipe by analogy Othtwise intended
supposed 10 operate On any 0tler lciItoy tnan shl
-ouired by Mexico, and included in those bills for Uial
aud New NCxico But he lad found much the other way
lie CcmTromse Of 1850 consisted in not vong on the
Nimot Iroyiso. Iho' proviso was voted down. anu III
ter had been voted down tho Senator from LOUISIANA
row in the foreign service Of the United Stat9 offered
le alncn at providing that the Territories shOnld be
emitted win without Slavery as they at the il1e
should deem proper The Senator who offered 1t sad ne
no did 10 iCe ho pule of the SeRGte II was adopted
Mr. Webster who had voted against the NInpt fIO|So
favor of and voted for the Soule amendment ana
IN doing so said, Be il remembered that SPEAK oil O''h
and New Mexico, and Of them alone In the great
sreCch IF ar ebster the IA Of March, he SAID tll
al that moment there net one foot OF territory belong
ing the Unitcl States whose character as II reAle9 10
Fee Soil ~ slavery, is not clearly defined ~ some IRE
"a alabe law AferWard, Mr. Webster told him that ne
second eeh Mr. Foot resolution was the one in which
be thought he had best succeeded but that his speech
7th of March last the one which would be most re
csJed BY the country after his death 10 that speech ne
had given his whole mind. lie styled g. spee2hm 90
Tense Of the Constitution, and dedicated Il % we P'o
nc eff Massachusetts, aXng to it that most be ulfll ex
IT, ssion from Lvy, True things instead OF pleasant
.imCs-rCra pro gratis In that speech Of TN Marc1
Webster had gone to the very verge OF Northern semi
ment. hey, nj which not even he would have venurea
hen therefore Webster said that there was not one 1901
Of erOry belonging the United states whose cAarac
m es reIet,d "a flee soil AID Slavery no. defined b.
an rroreaiaIie law he certainly undertook that the Ms
sour act extended this territory and was rreP.alaDie
10 then referred M Dou as point thai ptt 81 eA's
ortb OF sc deg 80 min and made free by annexaonres9
uons, was ow off and put into New Mexico end relieved
from the operation Of the line, was also that part oil
Louisiana Territory included in Utah. and argued
ffcs did not obvste the objection that the Missouri hne
was affirmed b. tie Texas UJns, which resolutions
were affirmed b. tie acts Of 1880 The Nebraska olu had
been before Congress for years both before ana SINCE me
sc.s of 1850 Diving the debate the Compromise in