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1 E. G. Spaulding, Speech, Together with Others, in Favor of Whig Principles 1 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/speowhip0001 and id is 1 raw text is: MORNING EXPRESS -EXTRA. HON. E. G. SPAULDING'S OTHERS, IN FAVOR SPEECH, TOGETHER OF WHIG PRINCIPLI WITH ~S. ERIh COUNTY IVIIIG RATIFICATION MEETING. At a meeting of the Whigs of Erie Co. con- vened at the Court House on Saturday afternoon, pursuant to notice, for the purpose of ratifying the proceedings of the Syracuse Convention, and to consider the subject of repealing the Fugitive Slave Law, On motion of H. S. LOVE, Esq. the meeting or- ganized by the appointment of the following offi- cers: PRESIDENT, ABSALOM BULL, of Black. Rock. Vice Presidents JAMES MILLER, Buffalo. War. H. BOSTWICK, Lancaster. Z. DURKEE, Alden, HORACE HOLMES, Wales, AsAHEL, ROBINSON, Aurora, Wm. H. PRATT, Eden, E. N. HATCH, Boston, HENRY LAMB, Black Rock, J. B. YOUNG, Amherst, SILAS SAWiN, Buffalo Secretaries, SAMUEL WILKESON, Buffalo, MYRON STILLWELL, Hamburgh, GREGORY RHETT, Buffalo. On motion of JOHN L. TALCOTT, Esq., the chair appointed a Committee on resolutions con- sisting of the following persons: JOHN L. TALCOTT, of Buffalo, GEO. W. BULL, EZRA P. GOsLING, of Newstead, STEPHEN WHEELER, of Hanburgh, CHAS. H. BAKER, of Colden. S. C. HAWLEY, Esq. said that he observed our Representative in Congress present and he thought it was a proper time for him to give an account of himself. Mr. SPAULDING responded substantially as fol- lows: MR. PRESIDENT: The death of a great and good man has produ- ced vast and important changes. The lamented Taylor died on the 9th of July last. Since then his Cabinet has retired, and a new one, formed; his plan of admitting the territories as States cast aside; the Jeffersonan ordinance to prevent the spread of ,lavery abandoned; the Omnibus bill cut asunder anl p-1 ssed in separate bills, togrether with the odious fugitive slave law, and with the appro val of his successor, in less than seventy day - from the happening of that mournful event. Sad changes for human liberty and the friends of equal rights! Ten millions given to Texas when we owed her nothing; seventy thousand square miles of free territory surrendered to Texas and slavery. New Mexico and Utah, compriing territory enough for a large empire, thrown open tq the spread of slavery, and all done under the false' pretence that this shameful surrender was necessa-. ry to nationalize the whig party and appease the wrath of a few slave-holders who threatened to get up a civil war and dissolve this glorious Union. The north has given up and slavery has again tri-I 'umphed. The Southern men are now boasting of the great advantages they have gained by the passage of these compromisg.measures and the chances they now have for forming new slave States from these territories. Senator Berrien, of Georgia, in' letter to his constituents, after saying that the passage of the Compromise Laws would strength- Pen the south, and that the payment of ten millions to Texas would develope her energies, adds: I consider a strong slave-holding State in that quarter as of incalculable importance in itself, and P necessarily leading to the formation of others. Senator Clemens of Alabama, has written a let- ter in which he says: If Texas accepts the offer made to her, instead of making a part of Texas free soil, we kave made the whole of New Mexico slave soil. We get clear of the Mexican law abolishing slavery, which is said to prevail in New Mexico, and ex-, tend the laws of Texas over the country. The in- habitants of New Mexico nearly all reside on the- east bank of the Rio Grande, which if it be a.part of Texas is slave soil, and will come in ai a ilave . State-the number of inhkbitants west of the Ri d Grande being too inconsiderable to have any- Wi- fluence in determinino the character of thi' law. In the National Whig Address signed by IMr- Duer and his associatet who Seceded from. the Syracuse Convention, it is stated that in .their-,. opinion the whig Senator and sixteen whig Rep- resentatives from New York were wrong in !ot- ing against the Texas boundary bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. Pierce, and which was amend ed in the House by adding a territorial govern- ment for New Mexico without any prohibition of slavery. This bill surrenders to Texas 70,000,, square miles of free territory and gives her S10,- 000,000 to silence he threats. Read from that ad- diess the following paragraph. The President of the United States reconmet- ded the settlement of the controversy relative tom the boundaryof Texas,by fixing a line by asreoumnk of the parties,and allowing an equivalent in maAsY

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