Watertown Chronicle (Newspaper) - June 20, 1849, Watertown, Wisconsin o f WATERTOWN CHRONICLE VOL 1 WATERTOWN WEDNESDAY JUNE 20 1849 WHOLE NO CHRONICLE M BY J A HADLEY OFFICE OVEtt k th ill 50 a oo An will be Uie delivered by I he carrier par 00 i-o oo Quarter am 1300 7 uo S 00 H 50 JW Si Nu or until arc p B M N R WALKEK 8 Co HOUSE L Jeff II W HAMILTON I rur n al fun tli and GO B It IAMAN U the C T A i mi r I tf WM in A TIFFANY BOOT fc an t i M in k r Co Yoar face So fair bent Mine eye Mine eye To like Yoar Doth lead Your face Doth blind Mine eye Mine life Your lace O faeo itli frowns Mine rye eye Your fuce To nerve Your a So Then drew Mine eai Mine ear To learn Yoar tongi e Doth tongi e sound Doth lline Mi no cnr With feu it O Vex not Mi ue ea car Your long ie To Yoar wit So sharp Then bit heart Mine heart To love Your wit Doth move Your wit With art Doth rule lime Mine heart Yoar it Doth fill O wit With smart Wound not heart heart Shall swear Your wit To fear U k Ac n KNK fc Co i 11 r 1.1 i nod k SANTORD M i ol i W nn tf Ail but JAI Oil run In en if am tul It Clerk of -I will I'll ill if l t ax kilo in I II -I Atl J A of itl i to i nl ilic I nt In i Thomas H Great Speech To Ibc People ol Missouri have certain tions from iho General Assembly of ri denying the right of Congress to legislate upon the subject of in averting the right of the of every rate to remove to acquired by the blood and treasure of the whole Un- ion with their it to be an insult any of their citizens from so removing and settling vilh their such insult to be tho cause of among the and ultimately of disunion and instructing the Senators of the slate and requesting its Representatives vote m conformity the resolves so adopted instructions of which T now only give the substance adopted by the General Assembly after t ie adjournment of Congress and after the time that it must have been believed that subject to which they refer had been of in Congress and while oilier incompatible with them been given by the previous al Assembly and hud beet complied with by me and we're still on hand They are a mere copy of Calhoun in the Senate in February denounced by me at time us a fire 1 rand intended for er to legislate aa it pleases upon the subject of slavery in territories it has exercised the power and with the sanction of all ties slate and federal from the foundation to the present limp and never was it until Mr Calhoun put forth those un- fortunate resolutions from which he had to back out under his own mortifying tions It is absurd to claim it for the tories They have no form of government but that Congress gives them and no power bul thai which Congress allows Congress governs the as it pleases and in a way incompatible with the constitution and of this any slate that has been a territory is a complete example and our own as much so as any Congress has the power to prohibit or ad- mit slavery and no one else It is not in the territories for their governments are the of Congress and its deputies so far as any legislative power is concerned It is not in the slates separately and this leads to one of the grossest which has grown out of tlie political metaphysics of Mr He claims a right for the citizens of the states to remove to New Mexico and California with their slave erty This is a profound error The perty is in the law which creates it and the law cannot be carried an inch beyond the limits of the states which enact it No izen of any stale can carry any property de- rived from a law of that state an inch beyond the boundary line of the which creates it The instant he passes thai boundary to settle with his property it becomes subject to another law if there is one and is without law if there not This is the case with northern man with his corpo- rations and the southern man and his slaves This is the law of the land and let any one try it disputes it We in Missouri are well situated to make tlie experiment conveniently and in all its forms Let any one of Mr lowers try it ami he will soon see what be- comes of his property his slave Let him remove to Iowa he will meet there tlie 8th section of the act of Congress of March 6th Calhoun proviso and will in vain invoke elate rights and Missouri statutes Let him remove to Illinois he will find there the Jefferson proviso in the form of an ordinance of Let him re- move to Kentucky the law of Kentucky takes hold of hie slaves and converts the interest of the Missouri slave into real estate for in Kentucky slaves are made real estate and placed on the footing 1 mtr ai anil n y and on purposes and abandoned by him after introduction of as they are in i ever calling upon them for i reason which will be hi reafler shown I in to the ter I of and to show them to be itr give u toT of Nebraska when it shall be created the original of those 1 nave i lose of getting rid of very few 0 in love with it as to go that distance for he pleasure of having a with his negro and with the of coming ut second best in the contest There ia hen no slavery at this time either in New Mexico or California in law or in fact and vill never be law or in fact What hen is all the present uproar Ab- the abstract right of doing what be insult to the of the states where there is no in- and no reality sub- Uance or practice in it The Romans had disputes which 3d de lana is to say about wool and as goal has no the dispute was about nothing So it is of this dispute among us about excluding ry from New Mexico and California There s none there to exclude and the dispute now raging is about nothing The resolutions were copied from those of Calhoun and I do not believe there exceeded half a duzan members in two ses all told who were in the secret either nf the origin or design of that They were copied from Calhoun and tu see their design you must knew his His were aimed at the the harmony and stability of the at the members of the slaveholding states who would not follow his especially This it my duly to speak of him and to show his design in bringing the from which he was so suddenly ed out in the Senate and which some half a members have succeeded in passing through the Missouri Legislature This ries me rat her far back but I will make rapid woik and short work follows a portion of the speech moie and chiefly devoted to the long efforts of Calhoun bul the conclusion national as he speaks on the introduction of slavery into our other objects of vast and engrossing ment While we do not concur in all his we feel that he has placed the cause of Free Boil on ground more national and than any southern man since the diva of Jefferson and this is the reason why the popular heart so responds lo I have finished the view which 1 proposed to take of the subject which has induced my appeal lo the people but there mailers upon which my and a beautiful schedule it will be Let us eee some items of it a few by way of ple et hm to from in Let bin movc into his slaves will remain bul by of Arkansas law Hnd subject to its designation Finally let him remove and settle in the the y of Missouri follow The the General will J A II in Heavy Ul if ll i- ot il Lake idle cu JUDSON t iti no Pi t if I Sun r Cf Hi iy 1 1 A N I KL JON ES m i C Jl KT iff In- store uf sembly of Missouri on 15th day of ary four days before miJ the Senate of the United Stales his resolutions which I ed upon the spot which have been adopted by the Missouri at the last sion and from which I iow appeal to the i he whole slate How different how irreconcilably e to each other the two sets of resolut ons One makes the peace permanency and of our national Union dependent upon rence lo the spirit and teims of the Missouri Compromise in its application lo new tory that is to say upon the constitutional right to legislate upon i lavery in the new territory arid to admit it in part and prevent it in part the other makrs the dissolution of the Union dependent the same platform of fact and principle denying the right of Congress to permit or slavery in a ting ils to be a violation ol the Constitution of the United States an insult to the sovereignty of the states and tending to tl e dissolution of the Union Sad contradiction this when the tamo remedy ie both to cure and to kill and although the political doctor may prescribe both the p< patient who has taken one has a to talk a little wtih the doctors before 1 c swallows the er ind the Calhoun proviso will be on him airain and his will Thus a citizen of Missouri cannot get out of his own elate on any one of its f desire it is right they should be gratified And what aid I go to New York for summer but to use my utmost exertions to prevent Mr Van Buren and his friends from engaging in the Buffalo tion I went there that is certain My public speeches show that 1 went for that object and the newspapers in the if called nil assailed me un f rf fa with property without having k for character altered or holding it by another out of mv state contrary to the law and twice he lore two suit ce jn of his state on contiguous will IncA an rvi I hp mv had always been my friends My answer was that 1 came to use the privilege of an old give my opinion that the separate t contemplated was in power is the case of would be injurious to those ami liua i i J lose it nn act of which be- Mr and with the veto the Missouri in hia character at a council armed and been ever since JACOB J ENOS to nl ixl i HM nf Nrt n I A HOPKINS Put r ami Stall r 8 Block Milwaukee Km lull o Iim runn nin IDK Fire re- Ar WATERTOWN BOOK STORK in j Missouri was a stale and no one ever the state sovereignty insulted or felt himself to dissolve the Union on account of it the citizens of the state cannot cat ry the laws of their state with them to Oregon and California and if they could what a Babel of slave law would be there engaged in it and what was more injurious to the to which they belonged fc f j t jj York and such my reception The expectations ant disa inted l my deal of newspaper my condemnation into the bargain All this was public and i i a- j teen states each carrying a code different n n the and known many Irom each other and all to P bo nA nv 1 in t n J J be exercised by the same judge in territories where there is no law What ity thing can be done The only effect of carrying slaves there would be to set free It would be in vain to in- voke the Constitution and say it edges property in slaves it does so but thai is confined to states And now we arrive at a practical point Congress has the tional power to abolish slavery in territories but she has no slave territory in which to ex- the power We have no territory but remainder of Louisiana and west of in California New Mexico and of consin now Minnesota In Louisiana north and west of us it was abolished by Congress in In the north of Wisconsin now Minnesota it was abolished by the ferson proviso of 1787 In Oregon it was abolished by Congress in by what you may call the Benion you Store n aud all Co A B E B BOWEX at Solicitor In Land Agent Dodge n nn t A Hon Ira Harm A JLIeMM- an t do II W H d In A IT Mil J iii after fully demonstrating that had himself been time of Compromise in sanctioning legislation in restriction of and de- thai Calhoun and finally wilh by their bungling of Annexation he proceeds to state why all compromise is impossible The territory is froo and will have to remain so other inch of slave terrtl iry belonging lo jn New Mexico and California it was ami of course as deduction from his there can be no more slave states without a -e establishment of that institution Il see ns to us that does declare himself in favor of the object s to confine slavery to its present limits rnd thus attain groat object of every tri e disciple of son in selling impassible bounds to the ex- tennion of Yes Congress has tho power to legislate upon slavery in territories and lo admit or prohibit it existence in fact to compromise it She lias the al power but can never exercise it The new dogma of no power in to legislate on subject has killed all com- promise wiio the power not vote for it it would be a breach of their oath Those who want no slavery in new territories will nol vole for ise and thus extremes HK to inform tin that in MlM thoy arc w m IrM r If of m Mek price w 111 prevent body who Imi tried it bum It HERMANN full nnc winter of BOOKS STATION E- die lo wli rh he in- of nf and FOUNTAIN leeV in Book a OE by ilie box A rier seU MVO DUTCH STORE against the defeat all The resolutions Mr Calhoun have done this and lo talk about compromise now is to propose to c II his tomb The effect i not the design of his new dogma was to kill and it is The will not permit him and his followers lo vote for any compromise line Oppos lion to theextension of slavery will not perm it hern men todo il and thus no chance for any line Principle cannot be Compromised The souri Compromise was not of principle but of interest after the prim was established The first question put by Mr Monroe to his Cabinet was as to constitutional power of Congress over the t That being established in affirmative the application of principle ma ter of detail of emigrants from the parts of thf United the Brand I of the emigration and it U divided on thi It U to t Congren pow going for the express pur ished by the Mexican government in confirmed in 1837 and again in Here are the decrees original of which I have read in the authentic bound volumes of the Mexican laws and which were produced the Senate of the United Stales by Mr Dix of New Yoik follows the Mexican decrees ishing slavery in California This js the decree and this is the o Congress continuing it abolishing throughout the Mexican Republic Tnt constitution of 1844 docs not abolish slave ry for before but ture establishment Thus there is no slave ry now in Mexico and California and con sequently none in any territory belonging tc the United States and consequently ing practical or real in the whole slavery question for the people of the United lo quarrel about There is no slavery now by law in any territory and it cannot gei there by law except by act of Congress anc DO such act will be passed or even asked for The dogma of no power iu Congress to leg upon slavery in territories kills pretension No legal establishment of ela very in California and New Mexico is thei to for This is certain certain it will never be established in of them in point of fact The people of boll old unani against it Of the new emigrants all those from Eu rope Asia Mexico Central and South Amer ica and all those from t ho part of the United Staler will be unanimous ly against it There remains then to over balance all this unanimous only thi A j that docs not know it And now what are we to think of the language Why that it is a most thing for me It shews the character of the plotters and they will nullify and falsify public recorded history to vilify rne THK WILMOT PROVISO Well 1 I it is the Proviso the same Mr drew up for the in 17114 which was adopted in the Congress of Confederation in 1787 will the unanimous voice of tho was ratified by the Virginia Genera Assembly the of December 1783 was applied by the Congress of 1320 to al the upper half of which was ap plied by the Congress of 1843 to the Oregon which was recommended for new by the Missouri General As sembly Feb 15 1847 and never to be condemned until Friday the 19th of February 1847 just four day after the date of the Missouri Mr Calhoun brought in hi resolutions declaring it unconstitutional in suiting to the slates and subversive of th Union I think Mr Jefferson and not Wilmot was the author of this Proviso an that il should bear his name and not Davy's With respect to the character of the Proviso if it should be prescribed by Congress for an new territory I think it will remain jus what it has been for sixty a provision made in pursuance of th Constitution and that being so made it i binding upon all law-abiding citizens an thai its resistance by force and arms mil would be high treason against th United States and punishable by death unde the laws of the With respect to the expediency of the act there is no necessity for it and there are prudential reasons why it should not be passed California and New Mexico are now free from slavery both by law and by fact and will forever remain free from it both by law and in fact As a ral unnecessary taws ought net to be passed but if it ia passed it is in empty provision having no practical effect whatever To make an issue against it be- tween the north and south is unwise for it is an about nothing and on the part of the south an issue made for defeat for ware has instructed for it and that insures a majority in the Senate for the Proviso there being already a large majority in the House of for it But there is a stronger reason to claim forbearance This provisoes the last card in hand his last stake in the pery game which he has been playing Take that last card from him and game is up bankruptcy comes upon political he must be driven to take the act He will have to haul down his his up five jn a schedule of hia effects and slock in trade Imprimis States bank charter in 1816 opposition to it when he joined son in 1810 for 12 years to the bank he turned against Jackson 1834 Item Protective tariff and cotton mini- mum in 1010 and nullification and disunion for the same in 1330 Item General internal improvement by he federal government in denial of he who e power and admission f half the power at the Memphis ion Item Solemn written opinion in Mr oe's cabinet in favor of the power of Con to abolish slavery in territories and in avor of the exercise of power over the o upper Louisiana north and west of Missouri together with the resolutions in he Senate of the United States in 1847 de- lhat power in toto The is lost or mislaid but its existence an be proved and that is good both in nd equity Item Opinion in Mr Monroe's cabinet n 1820 in favor of giving away Texas when ve her and the London abolition plot invented afterwards to gel up a slavery for political purposes in getting her Item All the abolition plots invented for en years and charged upon Lord Aberdeen he Wo i Id's Convention incendiary petit ions ind communications through the nail Item Tha diplomatic correspondence with governments on the of slavery vhile of Slate under or over Mr Tyler and especially the autograph letter of to foolscap pages to the King of French o indoctrinate him in the new and sublime science of Hem Speeches and resolutions against he conduct of Great Britain in protecting and slaves guilty of piracy and an board American ships going from one port of the United Stales to another and for redress and subsequent contra- of all such speeches and resolutions at tho Ashburton treaty Item New mode of amending the Con- of the United Stales on sub- eel of improvements by making and seas out of a river and three stales in- vented fit the Memphis Convention Item Opposition lo the highway of ions between St Louis and San Francisco part of it will have to go through ree soil and besides when the Union is the road would be on the wrong side of the line Item The bonee of 3000 followers ed my political path since the first com- enl of and the disunion n 1330 Item The army of political martyrs pre- laring to march to the Southern Convention by the hope from souri and having for its banner the Accomac resolutions him to schedule and the country will peace My OPINIONS They are wanted public acts of public men have stood for their opinions it has been only the new men unknown by their acta that have been subjected to political catechism Thirty almost I have been in the Senate and during that timo have always been a voter and often a speaker on this subject of and with il in my own state 1 was politically born out of a slave out of he Missouri restriction controversy and have acted an open part on it from the time it began lo the present day My ings hal some influence on the formation of the constitution tn this state They were pretty veil known then though forgotten now They contributed to keep tion ard lo insert the clause in the for the sanction of slavery I urged the putting it in the constitution for the ex- press purpose of giving security to property and preventing agitation I wanted peace from tlie question at home and contributed to provide for it by contributing to put that clause in the constitution now it is hard that we should have an agitation im- ported or transported upon us to harrass us about slavery when we have taken such care to keep out agitation My votes in Con- gress have been consistent wilh my al no security to and tranquility to the people In thirty years I have not given a vote that has been complained of I have voted thirty years avoiding all extremes and giving satisfaction The old generation and tho generation that has been born that time ought to consider this so far as to let it stand aa the evidence of my opinions But it will not do Finding nothing in the past to condemn some people must go int to see if anything can be foum there and even into nay bosom to see i anything is hid there which can be con Very good they shall know my opinions And first they may see them in my public acts in my proposals for the ad mission of Texas five ago in which proposed to limit the western extension o slavery by a longitudinal line I believe tht j 1 business of amending the by putting three states and a If any one wishes to know my principles on slavery I will give him reference he may find them in of Blackstone's tn the second no- them forty-four years ago when t dent at and have held fast to them ever but remedy and the difficulty f tiat is one of evils of slavery nd one of the arguments against one set and while they are lifting imploring hands against it TJ the personal exposition I hare o say that my profession and thing with frail not I was born to the inheritance of laves and have never been without them have bought some but only on their own and to save them from execution I have sold some but only for ncl I have had from me by the and never inquired after the re nd a third who would not go with heri I have now in Kentucky elevated o tlie dignity of real estate iy moved from to Kentucky nd will have to descend next full to the low of a chattel interest in spite of the awt of Kentucky when I shall remove them ack to Missouri And I have alaven ift City the only member f Congress that has any am not he least a fen id that Congress wilt pass any aw to effect this either there or err I have maJe no slave speeches in Con- not mean to make them lo timid and slave property above all t if not right to disturb the quietude of the harass hint with groundless It B a private wrong to url a single individual by making him be- untruly that Ins property insecure t becomes a public evil to a It a generates deranges and often to hasty nnd en legislation I have seen no to he property of any state in thin Union jy the action ot Congress anci cannot rib ite to alarm the oy In assert or imply danger But I have a still higher reason for nol en- gaging in these discussions We are a Re- head of that form of example to ind agonized world All the American of Spanish origin in spite of the difference f religion language manners and lavo imitated our example Europe is now to imitate it Liberty is now struggling in ancient empires and her are looking to ud for the ion of the blessings of which she is m search and for an argument in favor of her efforts what do they wrangling and and bitter denunciations and of separation They see a quarrel about ery to them a strange and sible cause of quarrel They see disunion coupled in one eternal wrangle Thoy see us almost in a state of legislation left without violence outrage on the floors of threatened Their hearts are chilled at this sad spectacle their enemies ice at it and by every that eaves shores the representatives of tho crooned heads of Europe send forth the of our debates I o encourage the and to confound the friends of freedom parts of the stales all parts of the old and gloomy empire of Austria all all are 100th Degree of west in m votes upon the Oregon in which I op posed he introduction of slavery again in my letter to the people of Oregon in which I declared myself to be no of slavery These were public acts But ycu want public declarations of persona sentiments very good you shall have them My personal then are agams the Institution of slavery and against its in into planes in which it does no exist If there was no slavery in to-day I should oppose its coming in i there was none in the United States I shoult oppose its coming into the United States aa there ia none in New Mexico or Califor iiia I am it to those tories and could not vole for such a declaration which costs me but little th whole dispute now being about the right of carrying slaves there without thet exercise of the right No ona asks for law for the exercise of tha right and canno ask it in the face of forma which denies the power to grant it do as the please These are my and the reduce the difference between Mr Calhou and myself to the difference between refuting and to wk And for the Union ii t be subverted 1 On far better atick to the for liberty and turning anxious To us for aid and succor not by arms ror lhal they know to be impossible but for moral aid of a grand example They n vain Our example is against them f ide present struggle for liberty shall again miscarry in Europe we may take to selves a large share of the blame called the model republic by our friends wo are now so called in derision by our foes and the slavery discussions and quoted as Iho proofs of the impracticable of government which wo have adopted I cannot engage in discussions nor do anything to depress the cause of gling freedom throughout Europe Nor can I d sparage the vork ot abuse the gilt of our ancestors Never has there appeared upon earth a body of men who left a richer inheritance or a nobler example lo their posterity Wisdom modesty decorum for- bearance dignity moderation pervaded all their works and characterized all their con- duct They conducted a revolution with the order of an old established government they founded a new government with the of sages they administered it in day with temperance and judgment They left us the admiration and the envy of the of throughout the world And are we their posterity in the second generation to 5 pot I this rich this noble this great throw the weight of the republic against friends of republicanism in their deadly T cannot do it Taught to ad- mi -e the founders of our government in my eatly youth I reverence them now taught to value their wotk then I worship it now a Senator for thirty years I cannot degrade tho Senate by engaging in slavery and un on discussions Silence such debate In mj prayer and if that cannot be done 1 silonce myself Lowe of Iong prayers Elder Knapp When Peter was endeavoring to walk on the waters to meet hia master and was about to sink had his supplication been as lorg as the introduction to one of our modern prayers before he got half through he would been fifty feet water Men are made i n the i mage of God tie men are manufactured by and boot blacks Women is the latest most perfect work of God Ladies are the production of silk worms milliners sad to the or you nn t V hot that's to ax let alone Waif Oiu A down asks hip to pay tip he may a nil creditors 1
