St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-02-09
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youngest born of Virginia, and il
whatever sense the honorable Senate
used the term, should never be pro
voked to use any opprobrious epithe
toward that State. a.. ID ...
believe, however, that Slavery il
sucking the life-blood of that Com
monwealth. At the beginning of oul
Government, Virginia was in advanc,
Of New York to-day she is far be
hind. Even Wisconsin, the younges
born of the sisterhood, formed from
the domain ceded to the Union by Vir
ginia, is now the rival of her mother
IN all the resources of wealth and pop
ulation. 1t is slavery that makes this
difference between the flourishing and
declining States.
THE ORDIN ANCE OF 1857.
Mr.. Harlan. of Iowa, (Rep, dis
cusscd the Presidents Message, tho
Slavery question and the power oI
Congress over the territories, at great
length. Mr.. Harlan said he was sur
prised by the position taken by the
Senator from Ohio, that the ordinance
of lIS7 was binding compact be
tween the States, and could not be re
pealcd
Mr.. Pugh, of Ohio, Dem, } said the
Senator misunderstood him. The
States were equally represented and
the States ceded land to Congress.
Mr.. Harlan-If the Representatives
had no power to make a compact as
an act of legislation, it was useless.
Mr.. Pugh said it was void as an act
of legislation from the beginning.
Mr.. Haran-Then it was certainly
not binding ON the subsequent Gov.
crnment.
Mr.. Pugh-It was not as an act Of
Legislation, but was as compact. 1t
required nine votes for an act of con
federation, not compact.
Mr.. TrumbulI, of Illinois, (Rcp.,
denied that it required nine votes fol
an ordinance. ..
Mr.. Harlan resumed, and argued
that the Republican party was i'll fact
to give the Territories to the white
men of the United States. He read
from the scientific works of Agassiz
and others to show that none but the
black race could live in tropical eli
mates. He contendcd that the white
race could live anywhere, and that the
negro did not flourish in the climate OF
the United States In the course OF
his remarks he said that if man held
slaves for gain he 'loathed him, but il
he held them with sincere desire OF
beneiitting them and improving Their
condition, then lac did not hate the
stakeholder .... .....
SOUTHERN PRESCRIPTION.
Mr.. Foster, of Connecticut, (Rep.,
followed, aud said the Republicans
were not obnoxious to the charge of
Slavery agitation, for the question was
introduced in the Presidents message
and upon the floor by gentlemen on
the other side. However he did not
intend to discuss that subject. but
would consider that branch of the
message referring to our Mexican re-
lations.
He differed entirely from the Presi.
dent as to the course he proposed to
pursue. He did not dispute that
great outragcs had been perpetrated
on American citizens in Mexico, and
they ought 10 be rcdrcsscd. But he
thought this an unfortunate time to
undertake to redress our wrongs there,
when in our own country, and even
in the thirteen original States, Ameri-
cans were suffering wrongs, not dis
similar, equally atrocious and equally
calling for redress. Citizens, living
in slaveholding States, whose views
on Slavery differed from those of the
communities where they were residing,
had no more security for life, liberty
and property than American citizens
resident in Mexico. He read state
ments of numerous acts of outrage
committed on Northern people in
Southern States, and of the general
prescription Of all Northerners, from
which even females were not exempt.
This illtrcatmcnt was not exercised
toward Abolitionists only, but towards
all Northerners without discrimina-
ton. He then referred to the condi-
tion of Utah. where no man was safe
who was obnoxious to the Mormons
and also to the bad faith observed by
the Government in carrying out trca'
ties for the protection Of the Texas
Reserve Indians. He honored the Sec.
retary of the Interior for the manly
manner in which he brought the out
RACES on those Indians to the atten-
ton of the country. Under all these
circumstances, when Americans were
suffering so much wrong at home, nc
thought it mistimcd to undertake to
reform other Governments. We should
set a better example ourselves, and re-
dress home grievances. He referred
also to the offers made in Southern pa
pers for the heads of members of this
body. lie thought that even if the
Presidents recommendation was ac-
cedcd to, it was doubtful whether the
Government would last long enough
to enable him to get an army there, as
threats were made from the other side
to dissolve the Union when a Republi-
can President is elected. That event
would take place within a year, though
he did not think the Union would be
dissolved. 1t would be wise to wait a
year to see il the exigency arrived
which the gentlemen had referred TO-
and besides these objections, he op'
posed the appropriation on the ground
that it was unconstitutional and viola
tive of international law. The pow
er the President asked was to make
war. That power belonged to Con
grcss and it could not be transferred
to him.
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION.
In the House of Representatives,
of the 10th ult, Mr.. Gartrell of Geor.
gia (Democrat) said
will, in the first place, announce
solcmnly, disagroeable though it may
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