Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. V. E Howard, of Texas: Against the Admission of California, and the Dismemberment of Texas, Delivered in the House of Representatives, June 11, 1850, in the Committee of the Whole on the California Message
It cannot be disguised, that attachment and loyalty to the Constitution are, in some sections of the Union, greatly weakened, and in danger of being entirely destroyed. During the present session of Congress, petitions have been presented from free States asking for a dissolution of the Union, on the ground that the petitioners could not conscientiously remain in a Union, the Constitution of which guaranteed slavery. A very considerable party openly take the ground, that the Constitution is opposed to the divine law in this respect, and must yield to this new rule of political faith. It is a novel revelation, and above the word of God, for the Scriptures, as well as the Constitution, recognise slavery, and pronounce it legal.
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