Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-01-31

however dark the hour, encouraged by for
mer success. We should not be driven
from our positions, because our opponents
AJAX them if they are to be driven from their
firm and stern opposition toa United States
bank, because those who once thought that
certain ruin would lay waste the land unless
such an institution was incorporated, have
changed their opinions, and stand with us
in opposition Are they willing to be drv-
en- in opposition to the independent treasury
because tho e who once opposed now support
itY Are you to be driven from all the past,
now triumphantly vindcated, because oppo-
sition has ceased? We should stand firm
in the support of right, truth, the Constitu-
ton of our country, no matter who shall
come to support, or desert; stand by them
to the last, and if they fall let us perish
with them. We should never survive the
existence Of this Government.
"There is one thing that I wish, in this
connection, Mr.. Chairman, to say to tie
gentlemen from the South, and the southern
Wings: if the bill for territorial govern
inents, silent upon the subject OF slavery,
shall be defeated, then am for the bills
with the Wilmot Proviso, in order to give
governments TO the people in the Terrific
ries; and speak for four of my colleagues,
assured that they will feel constrained to
pursue like course. And if General Tay-
Tor shall approve the proviso, then it will
have passed; and it is for them TO deter
mine what shall and what shall not be done
and let the responsibility rest with them"
l take this occasion TO say, that the santi-
ment last quoted, uttered in a moment Of
excitement, |, upon reflection, repudiate as
unjust and improper. thank the gentle
man that he has afforded me the opportunity
to give this public expression of my disop-
proval Of that statement. uniformly voted
against placing the WiImot proviso in any
territorial bill. voted against it, because
l believed it to be unjust to the people of
a portion of this Union.
The Clerk then read the third interroga-
tory, as follows:
cam right in supposing that his theory
is, that The Constitution of the United States
does not carry slavery to, and protect it in,
the Territories OF the United States? That
in the territory acquired from Mexico and
France, (including Kansas and Nebraska
the Missouri restriction was necessary to
make the territory free, because slavery exc
listed there under France at the time of the
acquisition; but that the Kansas and Ne
braska bill, which repeats that restriction,
hut lat IL
Territories nor excludes it therefrom, in his
opinion, leaves those Territories without
either local or constitutional law protecting
slavery; and that therefore the Kansas and
Nebraska bill promotes the formation of
slave States in Kansas and Nebraska?n
Mr.. RICHARDSON. The Constitution does
not, in my opinion, carry the institutions Of
any of the States into the Territories; but it
affords the same protection there to the in
situations of one State as of another. The
citizen of Virginia is as much entitled, in
the common territory, to the protection of
his property, under the Constitution, as the
citizen Of Illinois; but both are dependent
upon the legislation of the territorial gov
eminent for laws to protect their property,
of whatever kind it may be. Thus, it will
be seen, that though there may be upon this
point difference Observation-Disclosures
questions for judicial decision-yet there is
none, practically, among the friends of non
intervention by Congress, as the practical
result is to place the decision Of the ques-
tons in the hands of those who are most
deeply interested in its solution, namely,
the people of the Territory, who have made
it their home, and whose interests are the
most deeply involved in the character of the
institutions under which they are to live
If this great principle Of non-ntervention
and self-government is wrong, then, indeed,
the American Revolution was fought in
vain, and it is time we cease TO venerate the
memory of the patriotic dead, who purchas-
ed with their fortunes and blood the free in
stitutions Of the several separate, indepen-
dent, and .coequal States, forming the Union
under which we have SO prosperously and
happily grown to be sogreat.
Mr. FULLER, of Pennsylvania. Mr..
Clerk voted for the resolution offered by
the gentleman from Tennessee Mr.. Zolli-
cOferl yesterday, because cordially APP
prove OF the principle embodied in that res
olution. Early in the session felt it du-
ty, in justice to myself and to those with
whom | had been acting, to declare the opin-
ions ! entertained and the course of action |
should pursue upon certain questions OF
public policy. desire to say now, sir,
what believe is known 10 the maiority-il
not to all-of those who have honored me
with their confidence, that have been rea-
dy at any and all times to withdraw my
name from this protracted canvass. l have
felt unwilling to stand, or to appear to stand
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