Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-13

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gress shall have power to lay and collect
taxes, duties, impOsts, and excuses FORE
venue necessary to pay the debts and carry
on the government of tho confederaCy, and
allduties, impostsand excuses shall be un-
form throughout the coufederacy.
All the other portions of the coustitu-
tion are almost identical with the Cousti-
tuition of the United States.
Winter Davis and the orIttenden
Cape Horn by Compromise.
From the Speech OF the Hon. Henry Winter Davis
Of Maryland, in the House, on Friday last.l
The next subject is that of Territories.
Now, 1t is certainly marvellous that, hay
ing settled this question in 1850, and no
intermediate law having been passed by
any body, excepting the law of 1854, re-
pealing the Missouri Compromise, allowing
slavery to go north of the line 500 30k-
the South having boosted of the law of
1850 as their triumph, and having pledged
themselves to abide by tit is above all
things passing strange that now we are to
be told that the Union cannot endure I'M
less this law is repealed and the very prin-
cfples of the Missouri Compromise be
again adopted. The exclusion of slavery
beyond the line which the South de-
nounced, they say now shall not only be
restored, but that provision extending it
shall be engrahed forever in the Constitu.
sion. This ltue, which was denounced and
abandoned by Southern men as q bnlge of
inferiority as a mark of inequality, rs a
stain and dIshonor to the South, they now
demand shall be restored, not by a tempo
rsry act OF legislation, but by the act of
the people as the supreme law of the land.
A moro fragrant, inexcusable Inconsistency
has never come within my knowledge from
my readings of political history.
A proposal Is made on the part of the
minority OF the committee that there shall
be division of all the regions; that all
North shall be dedicated to freedom, and
that all the region South to Cape Horn-to
Cape Horn, sir-shall be dedicated to At
ric0n slavery, Over the whole of Mexico,
all the regions Of Central America, in those
regions where slNveFy is uninosrn it must
in time to come, exist by Yirtne Of the Con-
sutution of the free Republic of North
America, If gentlemen wereaware of the
history Of the past years in this country,
they would see how utterly impossible
such scheme as this is-the absolute i'm
possibility of guaranteeing the establish
ment of slavery in every inch of territory
we may acquire. 1t matters not whether
the scheme is right or wrong, liberal or IL
liberal that Is not the thing; but it is i'm
possible, and that ought to satisfy. them.-
cannot imagine such Compromise as
this; and this Is what the Southern minor
ity offer to US, and demand our compliance
/ with, as to some extent their ulttmatum.
/ as to New Mexico, 1 am willing with the
/ majority of the committee, that slavery
should be recognized there, as it already
4 exists. have been informed by the gen
tleman who represents that territory, that
the people are ready to decide that ques
ton for themselves, and they are about
seeking admission into the iUniouy and
/ when they decide what form Of eo6stitu-
ton they WIN adopt, fwhether Tree or
slave then this controversy be set at
testAt'once and forever. If this does not
| satisfy gent emeHiof the South Il tell them
thatitWill satisfy thOif e6nstitneuts-and
that they will ind ont before they are ma
ny months older.
THE ravages .of!dlplhsria hare been
dreadful in Somerset county, Maine. In
one small neighborhood at Chesterville,
ten Petsons hare fallen victims within a
brief period, In one family the father
diedaWhtle his child yvas being. Conveyed
ttS the grave Ia lan6thef, three children
lay dead in the house at one time, and -four
more PROSTATE with the disease. Scores
q Notwithstanding lie l6ss Of one
OF more loyed opes. Five, were lyiiiis dead
1 ff one tiPs IN famtHek sOps entire
family has been carried away, and all the
childreu, seven in ,u1mber, in another =
| Ihe skill of the best physician is totally
| AccouNTs from Charleston. S. c., state
that Major Anderson had been permitted
by the State authorities to obtain supplies
Of fresh provisions from that city. /,
would appear that the chief reason why
the Major has not heretofore Obtained sup
plies from oharisalOn is, that the dealers
there would not make contract, fearing,
as Is alleged, personal violence from their
tellOw-citileus. The gaFriaon at For.
Sumter were in cheerful spirits, and fully
prepared for any emergency. The State
troops were actively engaged in prepera-
tons for an attack upon the fort
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