The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-03-01

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prohiblon II does aude 70 " in the remotest man
ner The ordinance Of 1851 had been passed years be-
fore Il had been accepted BY the old confederation The
of that territory Ia actual existence under
Inc old confederation with the right secured Congress
20 appoint lis officers The constitution adopted,
and Congress met in 1882 BY that constitution Congress
hound by all contracts Of the old government and
Congress passed this act;
whessa order that the ordinance of the United States
Congress assembled or the q the territory
requisite that should be made
States"
That Is what bill proposed To give effect to the
dnance adept il to the present constitution they say it
is necessary pass this law, and what WAS III
tire saoessd de-, That in al 10 which, by the said
s%s s. hs governor y the said territory to the United
States In Gong assembled, to OF their officers, 1t
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Uuca atrs and the PRECEDENT shall nominate and by and
81 IT, nd o,du.nos we're to have been ap
pointed by the Cnited States Congress assembled and all
officers % appointed sh. b oy him ana ID
might by the said ordinance revoke commission OF re-
from any Office the Preside-t . hereby declared 70
have the same powers OF revocation md renewal
This section does nothing but confer the powers which
the gave to the old government to the new one
subject to tbs restrictions Of the constitution Again. IN
The second section find the following:
sEc. 81 Asd be farther enacted. That in case Of the
DEATH rssxnaion necessary absence q the gov
sc sic =. q ii the
en- .uS Ss dats. q DO governor during The
vacancy ocond BY the removal resignation, or necessary
Approved August 7, 1885,"
! have read every word Of the act.
Mr.. HALE i wish To ask the senator from Georgia
whether he does consider that the ordinance Of 1857
eectualy renacted BY that Congress as set out
in totidsm perts In that act
Mr. TOOMRS. certainly do not 1t not re-enacted
nj ALL There effort to reenact it. The ordinance
purpors on face be contract between the people Of
Virginia. the inhabitants Of the Northwest Territory and
- St. .teaI2 al md nal
teraLe except by the consent Of all parties 1t was accept
ed by ali three Of the parties y was contract executed
The first Congress found it in existence The constitution
had affirmed the validity OF contracts made under the
federacy The original ordinance provided for the APP
pontent Of officers by Congress The act which the sena-
tor quoted and which have read simply made that pro-
vision conform to the constitution Of the United States How
can Congress be said have adopted the ordinance
of 1887 that acon BY whak construction can that be
oontended II said they accepted the grant with the pro-
hioton slavery They did not even do that But that
Same Congress which Madison and the other great
men whom the senator from New Hampshire named did
accept FROM North Carolina grant Of the territory winch
now constitutes the State of Tennessee with prosa-
very clause aud carried that clause in the territorial Dill
Your territorial Tennessee not only carried out that
sau IF he Ohio ryer There was tract
territory in the Southwest which the United States
claimed Independently OF any State control or authority
and that territory in 1898 in the time OF John Adams
territorial government was established and the act
pened the ordinance OF 1857 In words excluding the anti
slavery clause The honorable senator from New Hamp
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him. say the prohibition Of slavery cannot be found
on the statute book, implicitly, from the establish
Of this government under the constitution, until
ls20 and stand ready at all times to make good the as
seriou aud demand proof Of single to the
trary Such prohibition cannot be found in the statutes OF
the United States The right 20 prohibit the people OF the
different States Of this Union to go into the common ter
Ttories with their eaye prope was never asserted by
the Congress Of the United States from Ts9 TO 1890 The
CIDER Adams Of Massachusetts, signed bill establishing
territorial government country claimed BY indie
pendent shoritythe only foot of territory which the
United States claimed in their own right, without grant
unfeered by the conditions OF any grant and in regard
to that territory they struck In words the sixth
nntisavery secon OF the ordinance Of 1884, and extend
residue Of ih ordinance It, y is tEue that upon
each division OF the Northwest Territory the whole ord
applied each of It's parts but that was In
pursuance Of the with the old confederation
In 1903 under the administration Of Mr. Jefferson we
established the territorial governments OF Orleans and
Louisiana and subsequently in the region the Terri
tories of Missouri and Arkansas In 1919 we obtained
cession Of Fords from Spain, and established territorial
there Ia ali these Gases there was no
1920 upon the proposition admit Missouri as State
The Congress- Of 1870 the FIRST that assumed and
since the formation Of the constitution. Almost all the
fathers Of government bad to their graves Then
that ambition defeated hopes blasted political pros
poets brought strife and mischief into the public councs
then it was the equitable and just policy Of faith
ers was abandoned then asowed the wind and are
reapug the wbirlwiad@ Then Il was former dis
tnguished citizen If Massachusetts, though that time
senator New York. Rufus King, naugnrated the pol
icy OF prohibition il bad support no pretence OF
foundation in the practice Of the ahes from 1889 TO
1870 Eight territorial set in operation
by Congress by the fathers Of the republic without the
assertion in any OF them Of this power Of prohibition
When il then proposed hose OF The fathers who were
living Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison, aud others came
forward and put their condemnation upon that assumption
OF Unconstitutional authority.
am very happy observe the tone OF moderation ex-
pressed by the FROM New Hampshire upon the gen.
ersl question cordially rccprocate il II be only de.
sires be assera that there shah be no aggression on
either side will strike hands with him, and let the ques
lion be settled that basis now, finally and forever
The country will rsep0nd to the sentiment Let there be
no legislative sggrvssion either side. Look through
the of the country, and show single act from the
beginning OF the 10 this hour where the South
have poretra,cd any aggression the North and would
claim il es privilege strike 1t from the statue-book
Nor do complain OF any the other side until 1870
hut do affirm that the hen said We should be
shut the territories OF the Union unless
we abandoned slave property II was aggression 1t
is aggression exclude fifteen States Of this Union from
the territories purchased by the common blood
that proposition. This wrong submitted TO by the
South for above thirty years. when similar questions in the
march OF events again in the national councils
Aeauiescence claimed not only sanchfyng the old
wrong but as precedent for inhic.ng new ones The
country the question spread from the halls Of
lerislaton to the homes Of ths people and upon full
and fair hearing patriotic Or the North pronounced
against the patton and united with TO defeat the
attempted repetition Of the wrong and to bring back the
legislation OF the eouniry ancient landmarks by the
repeal Of Missouri restriction therefore, upon this most
important aud dangerous of all the forms in which the
slavery question presented, now without ag
erosion either side II the senator from New Hsmp
shire Is sincere be will stand there The common property
IL open the common enjoyment Of all; let II remain
and u unite and firmly support fho%e which