Waukesha Democrat (Newspaper) - October 10, 1848, Waukesha, Wisconsin VOL J WAUKESHA AVIS OCTOBER 10 1848 NO 13 NO i ill S rieni-i the air i thu ll V I 1 in i icel U oi 111 il bod J s- di ji 11 u i tin ol I il I IW Ell i in iff ii lit ill il s i AT is by her husband's manner she she A FROM GEN CASS thought spiritedly bit it was really harsh THE AM I I IK ISO Henry cast a glance across the table pushed J i i i- i T H back the plate and left the room have received letter am was the first error 1 were both shall answer it as as it was written You ask me w 1 am in favor acquisition of Mexican Territory and u ha are my sentiments with to the Proviso of it in a moment make the first concession both were plainly in the As walked down the street in unpleasant meditations and enveloping 1 have so often anil so sta in sell in the gloom a br in the upper r views oi the first in the tin window oi the village inn attracted notice it seems almost unnecessary to repeat ihei lie slept over a party young men w lrc J about siding down they him to join the club the te under of the ease was Supper over he delay d a little longer ami a Hubs longer taking h s leave was in- ami he drank music came next cards followed h he did not in the las i In game w renee dread of e ril he had been brought up in had been late at night his spirits heated wine and the n collection of his wife's As you request it how cvt r I shah bi Lolly give them J think then that no peace should be cd to Mexico till a indemnity i 1 obtained for the injuries she has den I us The extent of is in the first instance a subject of There the COM Inn it and there I am w to it not only because J have lull in ii judicious exercise but because in the eve r varying circumstances of the war it would b behavior hi fore found her retired and indiscreet by a public in o t In various respects the Territories differ from the States Rome of their rights are in- and they do not posses peculiar attributes of Their relation to the government is very imperfectly defined by the constitution and it will be found upon examination that in that ment the only grant concerning them is conveyed in the phrase Congress shall have the power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting ami other belonging to the Certainly this phraseology is very loose if it were designed to include ol ibis l are its destinies com conditio i which our institutions and habits u i IL not tin in nor niver slui I of our society hat he b if to iod t scribe tl e terms iif in en York or i a d va u n v power to in to regul tte the authority of u-i 10 atc u- treaty ui ivs to say in vania And tit would have done this or have you lei be as va n to seek one justifying the that nn Ion Our own dignity ami eneo of I he national in the cases re- j of nut unite to re pi I te in State or the Union j Mich a ion I speak here of the inherent power of Bit another important gress and do not the question of such tiou ough lube lost sight ol contracts as may be formed with Xew States the i of The when into confederacy Of tlie s that ran ite tion that itsi il is not a ot inert i-e but ol tlic ol in the errant the whole power of legislation i those are sectional i i or over persons as well thin The ex- the territory and ether Jirojx r anil the the TLo most to be depreciated m of restriction will neit one to fairly construed to the public lands of him u ho fiom bus and si he as such to arsenals dockyards forts ships and virtue bad the right to warn us MJV and all the various kinds of property which claimed to his countrymen m bis Fan w Ad- a t hat monument of fur him as nt Lor will its adopt u n i n to a being who is now the country to any of whici passed the in another room J he -i r i otherwise bo as ing brought a cool meeting the formal I of a few n oni Hhd a without an explanation or The seed of discontent was sown it bore the that might be expected I is home no longer of to Henry injustice of the enemy the with its loss of blood and It appears to me that the kind of sieal magnanimity which would all at the close of a bloody and the United States may and must surely the simple to dispose of and regulate does not extend to unlimited power of legislation to the age of laws in the general acceptation of the which by the vay is ded from the Anil if this so it numbers will so far of UP i vil so far th hope it will be of safety for compression with It much we hud lo apprehend from ivs of is ii be transporting slaves our country The grave in country and gh ing them a larger spa e which we an- now placed these w irds 0 words i f safety lor f am d from ill 1 have se MI ami heard hers that a companions were good-humored and at- sire war brought on by a 1 c upc i tractive and he left ie of his own troops by the enemy anil by i mansion which no lo iger him as s the club of succession ol acts fora of ear is as of the age in w i v liv another of the con- attempt to engraft the principles of tin in of the of UN i tn i r new u lint it may we II be Ml which grants to Congress the upon legislation of he h us ol the the and Xew Mexico to er to with the consent of the States to l over all purchased foi the lew be our seem it erection of forts magazines arsenals I our I do not nt unite in rep resell I ing being the or to foretell the s the United States if the power to mak nml lira would e for I trust and beli ye i- good sense anel feeling which he uus the ce itre ai d life f ilc it i- to the common sei fee at end er 01 was commit practice of mankind conduce t b their a dirk little to our future or indeed to 01 r cloud brooded o er the of our present reputation to declare that we repud young couple It gat until ale all expectation of compensation fiom tie to every eye and hen it burst Mexican government and are 11 1 ried antl desolation with it to for any but for some vagu of j perhaps which able men Henry all their I lny and must be by th e lie became a and a gambler The ho as this new principle of i was i and its All be tions itten ry nut her fated as ell by the statesman as iho harshness and with i They are great evils but a e and both began in error ind ils and te injustice s e so Thes occasioned loud mil them Tlie nation r long and co lisions a fearful to its lights and its wl tn pie tin i r children up j assailed soon e neither to delem anil passionate to w ar it is not by i them includes general power of tion then the grant of to regulate the and ether property of the Stalls is unlimited wherever subjects are found for its operation and its exercise ed no auxiliary provision If on the other hand it does such power of lation over the properly of the United States then il does not include it over other for the same terms which the one grant the other is here in the to avoid them by avoiding all regions tiv products to our Middle ami tor the of the is v lead to them slap v hch cun aline render slave labor If we are not grossly deceived and it is to conceive how we cun be then Iain to the exercise of any by over this c of regions ter an 1 I am in favor of to the upon their ploughs th ir of territory w hich may be hereafter acquired the right to n gulale it for j selves under the of the con- DC when employed in slave investment of large tion ot u lew iirtieb f H flow ot her father's and u ell do f ri D H i fi be I in ia 11 i Min ug J I i i of i -i i r tin visions i ti lit of I'm n pure and i K i h sire of In r i i i 11 in I ie soft and t s upon hi r cheek and i I in i 411 mist cars but i i i i 1 more distinctly than nd I er partne r i i i I i in r their ninds too i t cast finely 1 f i i ir life i f a long delightful and I f il -ei sued bright to -i to and lost in i i i forgot i ti i e I t e Imw much i and for- K was i ti r and 1 put burn of its light s p and in i d i i after the i i ii i i m e1 s ei w is i anil was a man of ml w of them a i Tii.'V wof tl pi of I'M small in MI i-ii d to the for- 1 i -i ics It 1 ui ii si after t a Hub tea of the v lage were i is nt en the rase j louir and the maniu r 1 g yen by one and another P i ir uh wives know what stu-h i am bow much value they fortunately 1 in aligned weary in v the labors of the d 1 fli his M no was i it ii that savon el noia r Alary be she d too before h-T clings we e though for impending bolt of ns Of and if died a and awful death nun was 13 ed jiust n their heads at asl that rational objects can 1 e best d fir other v lesst u of si for 1 lis estate was found t be bis manent peace are at war w itli Mexic up to and its vigorous prosecution is tin sure t beautiful and enchant rig Mary Conway j means of its speedy termination ind amp e oil her life in poverty and obscurity Thus fatal in its and natural an error n single error the spring rather of than of intention I leave moral for to trace out and apply nf ft appears to have been MI inherent idea in the human in all tions ami from rei antiquity that the future condition of tli who died in infancy the sure st guaranty ag the currence of such injustice as it The proviso has be en tl e country some time it has been repeated y discussed in by public pres I am ily with the o nti on th I a gnat has been going on in the pu lie upon this 1 as others ami that resolving thei selves into that the principle t involves be kept out of the nation 1 was necessarily liapp and it was left to the legislature and left to the people ol the co i- of modern to inculcate a in their respective keal i- assures us hat j among the is vas tiie custom r to bury their children ei her by night or in full day but at the first of morning that they did 1101 call their by the name of death bt t a softer appellation in respective menu The whole subject is a comprehensive on and fruitful of t would be ill-timed to discuss it here 1 not assume that responsible task bit two Urc k words importing bat general x ls a e they wore taken aw to the embraces of I y lo the fair of my opi i- rora as it v ere from a momentary I sleep 10 a glorious ruing in the sky j may well regret the y i in the stales and wish h d PKH here been ilb Hut the o don't want lew buy something in my it is and not by the act of the pr line I've got u now macbine for rind we must deal with it as i it bones out of Now 1 tell on practical tho meist in it's the d thing you evi r did ice i mentous e neither ll e you know i gn nt and the w is right nor the pow or to touch it when t e great and the whale is great but is and if we had both their greater than all of tl em it's bigger than a means inig it house it taki s in all it con- j lead to results which no wise mai won d parables thai tell you where to find I encounter and which no good in n the in a codfish it makes w 1 do not see in the any on ts a ui grant o the re to and I tlian the usual classed with properly and treated us such I am nol disposed to extend a doubtful t products more anl the object was evidently to enable the dent ond its general as a property j torli w hen t which fiom nc it must bo he all the right con age preserve and of w ith tl c they bear to the as it posses and which is t s- almost to its being But the lives and persons of our fhe vast variety of objects connected w uh cannot be con- I tni o upon to with Because I measure if caken if not impair union and sow the of trolled by an authority which is ed into existence for the purpose of j uLo nu h of rules and regulations for the disposition and management of properly wi i- the i or u which Tow up 1.1 i i i i i i- 1 to rv I would lie tin re for the to e from bis Such propel Such it appears to me would be the con- struction put upon this of the con- were this question now first pre- sented for consideration and noi controlled by imperious The of the of the Confederation passed in and which was the only act upon this subject in force at the adoption of the constitution a complete frame of government for the country north of the Ohio while in a territorial condition and for its eventual admission in separate States inlo the T a tuat a proposition would to an immediate withholding of the plies nd thus to a dishonorable of the var 1 think no dispassionate er at tl e seat of mu can doubt ri suit -1 however in this 1 am under a 1 am under none in the i cal of this restriction ss upon a treaty of peace making any of Mexican Such a I -A b n e rise in an v part of It is K to that oi th It i i itin of H 111 b i i ui our i- n ill its i i would be i ejected just as certain as i 1 i presented to the Senate More than t And lbe that this i n i mdy would vete it view anci within itsell all the nt well known attributes of sovereignty i is made out tew ly the aid his second ts Tdo of our nt -s cousin f made out tew dis- lhf lo mbi rs e d o of all the s w the all lo r thought but within tlu ir 1 tell you ere n achme for be ncs in cases y have surrendered to the general it a portion of their rights in order to lo the Union whether these co i- eern nations or the several stales thei i- o beats ui there is a go ng All you have t do i to set it on a table and turn a crank and the fish flies rite down jour throat and the bones rite down other way Wall there was a co got hold of it day ho got turnin the the wrong way and I tell you the bones dew i that ar feller's throat be beat ly il stuck filler so full of bones thai he gest his whir oil a hull week is a sii lar circumstance that Moore who is an man should wrile tin lift of an Englishman and dedicate il to Sir who w S a Scotchman Loc il institutions if I may so spea whether they have reference to or o any other relations or public a -e left to local authority either original or eleri Cong cess has no right to say tl at the c shall bo slavery in Now York or that shall be no in nor -t other human power bni the e stales which can i i- lations existing therein and they can s ly if they will will have slavery in the formi r and we will abolish it in the latter means of execution probably any reference to subject in the further than vesting in Congress the to admit the States formed under it into O the Union However circumstances which required its well over tho territory north of the Ohio a- over oilier litory both within and without the original ceded to the general government and at various limes a more power has been exercised over thereby the governments is conveyed by the limited grant re- to How an existing necessity may have operated in this and thus extending by rather a violent cation powers not directly t know not Dut certain it is that the principle of inter- ference should not be earned beyond the implication which produces it ll should be limited to the creation of proper nts for new countries or settled and lo the necessary provision for their admission into the Union ing in the meantime to the people inhabiting them to regulate their concerns in own v ay They are just as capable of doing so as people of the and they can do so at any rate as soon as their political independence is recognized by ad- mission into the Union During this rary it is hardly expedient to call into exercise a doubtful and insidious ty which the intelligence of a re- portion of our citizens and whose limitation whatever il my be will be approaching its authority which would give to Congress despotic er uncontrolled by the Constitution over the most important of our common try For if the relation of master ami I j f ure such a principle as an exclusion of the zens ol the States from a pation n the benefits acquired by the and exertions of all and w Inch should be com- mon to all J am 1 That branch of the subject not lie in my way and 1 not turn aside to seek it Tn this aspect of tin matter people of the United States must between this restriction and extension of their rial They cannot have both and which will surrender must depend upon their representatives irst and then if fait them upon themselves 5 after all it to bo g conceded that this restriction if carried into not operate upon any State to Iv formed from new ly acquired territory to the State ments would sweep before them any such barrier and would leave people to and exert their will at Is the ob- ject then of temporary exclusion for so short a pen I as the duration of the territorial an to of I lh has in t ie into the -1 should we beyond the of it inor impossible thai u ty the would i lo h rif They arc th ii colored ulal on lh m the docs n socially to this last remark Mr Walker fully s in his in 1811 upon the ami Nation of Texas and which every ro proe need so favorable an impression upon l ho pub ic mind as to have ally to the of that says Mr Walker slavery will not pass not only be- -e it is forbidden by law but because red race there in the often to one ove r tin whiten and 1.9 do the government most of the in posse ssi n thoy will not permit the of any of tho e w makes and s the laws of me con I he juestion ii will therefore be seen on examination docs the exclusion of from a region it now but i prohibition its introduction re it not and where from the of the inhabitants and the laws of is morally as Mr Buchanan s that it can ever re-establish itself worth the price at which it would be the discord it I It augurs well for the permanence of engender the trial to which it would expose that during more than half a our Union and the evils that be tlm w bird has elapsed since the certain consequences let that trial it i this many serious As to course which has been in- j and of the highest rather than proposed of the public mind and more than might upon any of the gravest 1 persuade myself it would find but little avor in any portion of this country an arrange incut would render Mexico a party having a right to interfere in our internal in- in left by the Constitution to the State governments and would inflict a serious blow upon our fundamental principles vant may be regulated or annihilated by its legislation so may the relation of husband antl wile of parent and and of any that they have all in succession passed away leav ng our institutions unscathed and com try advancing in power wea th and in all of al with a ia or modern days fn times of 4 excitement when and delicate qw tion present themselves for solution there would grant to a foreign power the right one irk rf for us and that is an hom it to into the constitution and conduct of il to tho fundamental of t the sovereign States Union arid if there arid a strong determination to tl
