The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-03-15

EhsrP i HaS sBbjeet 70 the Missouri
rSsiiictifn. and vAs incorporated IN
10 the Territory If Utah, where. IA
like manner. IL came under the COM
rrem o. 81 1850. Bat think the an
sners 10 be given 10 fhrss statements
are perfectly satisfactory.
Ia the first place. il Mas very small
portion Of territory very small. indeed.
compared with The ,asf residnum; and
can ne ssppose that the few hundred,
or il nav be the few thousand. square
miles taken uir from Texas aud the old
Louisiana purchase, and thrown into
New Mexico and Utah. can. by way
az principle ur. rule, or in any other
way. qualify. or modify. or repeal a
positive enactment covering the re-
naming space. as large as all the Bril-
tish Islands. France. Prussia, the Aus
trian Empire. and the smalIrs Germa-
nic States pat together. Tor that is the
factf
In the next place. in reference 10
New Mefico. IL I understand il. the
territory which was thus transferred
never Was subject to the restriction of
le20-t~ the real Missouri compro-
mise nov proposed 10 be declared /" in.
operative and void.r II was subject
10 the TEXAS annexation resolutions,
which extended the Missouri line, but
u was no part Of Louisiana. never had
been. and was not subject to the re
strie,ion which il is now proposed 10
repeal.
Then. in the next place. il was a
mere question Of disputed boundary.
I do not wish to do the statement Of
nv worthy friend. the chairman of the
committee on Territories. any injus.
tiee. but | think he was incorrec CT il
he said that "the United States pur-
chased this "trip OF land from Texas"
These are not the terms of the act.
They are very carefully stated more
than once. The United States gave a
large sum 81 money 10 Texas. not to
sell this strip Of land. but TO cede her
claim 10 il. That was all. Texas
claimed il. The United states did
not allow or ,lisallow the claim, but
they gave Texas large consideration
90 csde her claim. II was therefore a
matter Of disputed boundary and it is
not decided whether the coded terrific
~ originally belonged to Texas or
New Mexico.
Now. in reference TO Utah, il is true,
certainly. there 10 a small spot, very
email spot in the Sierra Madre that
was taken from the old Louisiana pur-
chase and thrown into Utah; but |
venture to say that probably not
member Of the Senate, except the wor-
thy chairman &C the Committee on
Territories, was aware of that fact. I
da not mean that he made any secret
OF II. but II was not made point at
all. The Senate we're not appraised
that il they did this thing, If they took
this little piece Of land. which Col.
freemont calls the Middle Park, out
Of the old Louisiana purchase, and put
IL into Utah. they would repeal the
Missouri compromise of 1890, which
covers half a million Of square miles.
! saw, sir, most assuredly the Senate
we're told no sueh.thing: nor do think
II was within the knnM ledge or the ina
Fination of an individual member Of
the buds.
! may seem to labor this point too
much; but. as il is the main point to
which ! solicit the attention of the Sc
nate. VII state one more considera-
ton. II has been alluded to already,
but propose to put il in little diff,
ferent light, which seems to me 10 be
absolutely decisive Of the whole SUBJ
iect. The proposition to organize Ne
braska Territory is not new one.
The chairman Of the Committee on
Territories has had il in view for Sc
rersl years--as far back, l believe,
- 1874 or IS45. II is so stated in
|iickey's edition Of the Constitution.
Whether it was actually before the Sc.
tate in 1850 | know not; but il was
,ertainly in the mind Of the Senator
rom Illinois. Now, sir, during the
'endency Of these compromise mca>
ures. during the tendency Of the Utah
I'LL and the New Mexico bill, in both
Houses Of Congress, was it supposed
hat they carried with them a princi>
lie or rule which was to extend itself
yer all other Territories RETROSPECT |
ivtly and prospectivelyf There is
at the slightest allusion in those bills ,
? the Territory of Nebraska, which
be. ,igilant Senator must have had so
frcngly on his mind. Is il not a DO. |
teal impossibity that If it vas con-
sivcd rthat time that measures were
mig through the two Houses which
ere to give a perpetual law to terri I
rial organizations, the Nebraska bill 4
ouId not then have been brought for. j
ard, and in some way or other made G
} enjoy the benefit Of it, it benefit it u
20 But not word to this effect was a