The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-03-08

we're not intended Tor this case but
foF the other
Sir. l have. nov shown that, from
the time 4 have had seat in Congress,
in common With ny friends generally
have ebdezrored 20 obtain a reeogni.
tion and prrpetuation AZ the principles
which we're iasslsed in the eompro-
mise &c 1890. We have signaliy failed.
Whether xe thought the rule laid down
Was Just or unjust. favorable ar snfayor-
able. however much. or however little,
we thought il mighthass trenehed %
what We might consider liberal or iair
in our northern brethren. we asked
for nothing but the bargain fsulyrar
ried out, and we were at all times rea.
DIV TO be content with it. Now, after
II has been utterly repudiated. after q
totally different system ef Legislation
has been adopted, in defiance Of our
votes and our circumstances. 4 think
IL is little unreasonable, and little
absurd, that gentlemen should callupon
US TO respect compromise which they
themselves have Observation-Disclosures
just as eilectually. though not as direct
ly. as IL thes had applied their oppo.
sltion To the specific case TO which the
Missouri compromise line was applied.
They have destroyed the principle ON
what the legislation was based, as de,
monstrated By the circumstances Of
the time. and the subsequent recogni-
tion in the annexation Of Texas. They
have refused 10 carry out the contract
IN its spirit and fair meaning. They
seek to maintain whatever of IL is ben.
ehciai 10 themselves. and to disregard
all the residue.
Mr.. President, believing, az / do.
that the proposition contained in the
words OF the amendment which has
been Incorporated into the bill is true.
that the form Of Legislation is appro,
pirate, what is there that calls upon me
to vote against it. or against bill con.
tanning it: | have shown, / think.
that there is no principle Of plighted
faith that in the least binds US. The
legislation now proposed is, IN INV
Judgment. right. II is what / have
always desired, il il coSld have been
freely obtained.
My position, as you, Mr.. President.
are aware. has never been an extreme
one upon this subject. | was always
content with the Missouri compromise
iine--always anxious for it-aiways
voted for IL; but nav own individual
opinion upon the subject always was.
that the principles adopted in 1850 are
the true principles. What are they ?
They are announced IN the amendment
which has been adopted.
We have among us a. population of
three millions Of slaves. Nothing. il
more idle than for gentlemen to trouble
themselves with az Investigation into
the propriety Of those slaves being
here, into the rcctitude aud Law fulness
OF keeping them in the condition Of
slavery, or into the misfortune or Gala.
nifty which may result from retaining
them in slavery. We are dealing with
a fact. they are here. They are
slaves. They cannot remain here ex-
cePt as slaves. Everybody knows that.
They csnnot, BY any operation of mans
wit, be put into aay situation in our
country which will not be vastly more
imurjoas to them, physically and mo.
rally. than the identical state and con.
dition which they how occupy. They
cannot be sent away. Where are your
means to come from to make an pxo-
dus across the ocean of three millions
Of slayes--to buy them and to remove
them 7 And il you could buy them,
and remove them, permit me to saw
that more cruel act Of tyranny and
oppression could not be perpetrated
upon any budy oil men. a very large
Of them would reject with
horror the idea Of being transpnrte,sto |
those barbarous aud foreign chimes of
Africa, for which. though their fathers
came from them, they cherish no feel.
ing Of attachment for this is their
country, as well as ours. You cannot
remove them; they are obliged to be
slaves. That is clear.
Now. sir, can anything be more evil
lent than that the true course for PEG.
pie situated in this way, is not to ag-
,ravate the incidental. evils uf such a
condition by exasperating inquiries,
harges, and counter.char~es The
'eople Of every portion Of the United
'tatas should meet this question as in
diving common interest, and so far
$ there is calamity, a common Gala.
aitv.
What then are YOU going to dos Is
net obvious that the tue policy, as
veil as the true Christian philanthropy
involved in this matter, is to allow this
'opulation to difdse itself in such por-
ions Of the. Territories as from climate
nd soil are adapted to slave cultiya-
ion You can have no injurious /.
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