Reply of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, to the Speech of Senator Douglas, in the U.S. Senate, May 16 And 17, 1860
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It thus, in reality, adopts what is called the Wilmot proviso, not only for dregon, but, as the bill now stands, for New Mex- Tco and California. The amendment on the contrary, moved by the Senator from Mississippi, near me, [Mr. Davis.] is in- tended to assert and maintain the position of the slaveholdlng States. It leaves the Territory free and open to all the citi- gens of the United States, and would overrule, if adopted, the act of the self-constituted Territory of Oregon and the twelfth »...ection, as far as it relates to the subject under consideration. We have thus fairly presented the grounds taken by the non- slaveholding and the slaveholdlng States, or, as I shall call them for the s;)ke of brevity, the northern and southern States, in their whole extent, for discussion.'" — Appendix to Congressional Globe, Thirtieth Congress, first Session, p. 868. I will quote also one of the speeches which he made near the close of his life, at a time when he was so far wasted by disease that it was neces- sary for him to ask the Senator from Virginia, ■who sits before me, [Mr.
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