The true Democrat., 1856-07-29
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. TUESDAY

py tneIll OH all Sdes, slavery should be abolish ca. what would be the effect of granting their requests? You would thus erect citadel m the very heart of these states upon territory which they have ceded to you for far different purpose, from which abolitonsts and incendia- res could securely attack the peace and safety of thelr citizens; you establish spot within the slaveholding states, which would be city of refuge for runaway slaves; you create by law a central point from which trains of gun powder may be securely laid, extending into the sur rounding states, which may at any moment pro duce destructive and fearful explosion. By passing such a law you introduce the enemy into the very bosom of these two states, and afford them every opportunity of producing a servlle lnsurecton Is there any reasonable man who can for moment suppose that Vir- gnia and Mary land would have ceded the Dis trlct of Columbia to the United States if they had entertained the slightest idea that Congress would have used it for any such purpose? They ceded 1t for your use, for your convenience, and not for their own destruction. When slavery ceases to exist under he laws of Virginia and Maryland, then, and not till then, ought it to be abolished in the District of Columba."-- See Congressional Globe, vol. 2d, pages 78-79.
 On the l lth of January, 1886, Mir. Buchanan again urged the svme objection to similar me- morlal, and asked for reference by which all such petitions could be disposed of without de- bate, ESQ as to put the exciting question at rest" Cong. Globe, vO!. 30, page S5.
 On the 4th of April, 1856, MT. Buchanan urged the passage of the bill admitting Ar kansas into the Union as a state with consti- tuition establishing slavery.-Cong. Globe, vol. So, p. 279.
 On the 25th of April, 1836 Mir. Buchanan on the presentation of memorial of Society of Friends of the city of Philadelphia, remonstrat- ing against the admission of Arkansas into the Union with her pro-slavery constitution, stated that he had informed them that he was opposed to the memorial; that he had been requested by the delegate from Arkansas to take charge of that territory to be admitted into the Union, and that he had cheerfully taken upon himself the performance of that duty He moved that the memorial be laid on the table, which was done.-Cong. Globe, vol. Sd, page BPS.
 On the 2d day of March, 1886. Mr. Buchanan made an elaborate speech discussing the whole question involved in the abolition petitions, con- tending that the fright of petition required their reception, but that they ought to be laid on the table without debate. The discussion embitter- ed the feelings of the parties; no report could be framed so as to meet the views of the differ ent Senators, and while he thought that the south was entitled to the strongest vote upon the strongest proposition which gentlemen can give, without violating their principles, he be- licved that continued discussion would prove injurious and dangerous."-See Appendir to vol. g. ofhe Cong. Globe pages 184-5.
 On the 9th of February, MT. Buchanan again moved that seven petitions presented for the abolition of slavery in the District of Colombia be laid upon the table without debate, as a re- newed discussion would keep mp the excite ment between the north and south, which he wished to discourage.-C. Globe, vol. 3d p. 159.
 In January, 1888, Mir. Calhoun introduced into the Senate series of resolutions which, after several amendments by MT. Clay and oth- CTS, were finally passed as follows:
 "1. Resoluel That in the adoption of the federal constitution, the states adopting the same, acted severally as free and independent states, and that each for itself by its own volun- tary assent entered the Union with the view to its increased security against all dangers, do- naestic as well as foreign, and the more perfect and secure enjoyment of its advantages, natural, political and social.
 2. Res0lUel, That in delcgating portion of their powers to be exercised by the general go- vernment, the states retained severaIly the ex- elusive and sole right over their own domestic institutions and police, to the full extent to which those powers were not thus delegated, and are alone responsible for them, and that any intermeddling of any one or more states or combination of their citizens with the domes- tic institutions and police of the others, on any ground political moral or religious, or under any prcteXt whatever, with view to their al tcrnation or subverson, is not warranted by the constitution, tending to endanger the domestic peace and tranquility of the states ntcrfered with, subversive of the objects for which the constitution was formed, and by necessary con- sequence. .Atendlng to weaking and destroy the Union itself
 3. Reso1red, That this government was in stituted and adopted by the several states of this Union as a common agent, Tn order to carry into effect the DO Wers which they had delegated by the constitution for their mutual security and prosperity, and that in the fulflment of this
 
 so to exercise its powers not to interfere with the stability and security of the domestic insti- tutions of the states that compose the Union, and that it is the solemn duty of the govern ment to resist to the extent of its constitutional power, all attempts by one portion of the Union to use 1t an instrument to attack the dOmes- tic institutions of another, or to weaken or de- strov such institutions.
 A Resoluea, That domestic slavery, as it exists in the southern and western states of this Union, composes an important part of their domestic institutions, inherited from their an- cestors, and existing at the adoption of the con- stitution, by which 1t is recognized as constitut- ing an important element ir the appointment of powers among the states and that no change of opinion or feeling, on the part of the other states of the Union in relation to it, can justify them or their citizens in open or systematic attack thereon, with view to its overthrow, and that all such attacks are so manifest viola tion of the mutual and solemn pledges to pro- tect and defend each other, given by the states respectively on entering into the constitutional compact, which formed the Union, and as such are a manifest breach of faith and violation of the most solemn obligations.
 "5. ResOlued, That the interference by the citizens of any of the states, with view to the abolition of slavery in this District is endan- gering the rights and security of the people of the District, and that any act or measure of Congress designed to abolish slavery in this District, would be a violation of the faith inn piled in the cesson by the states of Virginia and Maryland, just cause of alarm to the peo- pie of the slaveholding states, and have direct and inevitable tendency to distract and endan- ger the Union.
 "6 Reso1yed That any attempt of Congress to abolish slavery in any territory of the United States in which it exists, would create serious alarm and just apprehension in the states sus taining that domestic institution. would be a violation of good faith towards the inhabitants of any such territory, who have been permitted to settle with and hold slaves therein, because the people of any such territory have not asked for abolition of slavery therein, and because