to
establish it in any State or territory where it does not exist;
but as an assurance and guarantee to promote harmony, quiet
apprehension, and remove sectional prejudice, which by
possibility might impair or weaken love and devotion to the Union
in any part of the country, it is hereby

"_Resolved_, That, as the people in territories have the same
inherent rights of self-government as the people in the States,
if, in the exercise of such inherent rights, the people in the
newly acquired territories, by the annexation of Texas and the
acquisition of California and New Mexico, south of the parallel
of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes of north latitude,
extending to the Pacific Ocean, shall establish negro slavery in
the formation of their State governments, it shall be deemed no
objection to their admission as a State or States into the Union,
in accordance with the Constitution of the United States."

On the 29th of January, Henry Clay, of Kentucky, submitted to the
United States Senate the following propositions looking toward an
amicable adjustment of the entire slavery question:

"1. _Resolved_, That California, with suitable boundaries, ought,
upon her application, to be admitted as one of the States of this
Union, without the imposition by Congress of any restriction in
respect to the exclusion or introduction of slavery within those
boundaries.

"2. _Resolved_, That as slavery does not exist by law, and is not
likely to be introduced into any of the territory acquired by the
United States from the republic of Mexico, it is inexpedient for
Congress to provide by law either for its introduction into, or
exclusion from, any part of the said territory; and that
appropriate territorial governments ought to be established by
Congress in all the said territory not assigned as within the
boundaries of the proposed State of California, without the
adoption of any restriction or condition on the subject of
slavery.

"3. _Resolved_, That the western boundary of the State of Texas
ought to be fixed on the Rio del Norte, commencing one marine
league from its mouth, and running up that river to the southern
line of New Mexico, thence with that line eastwardly, and so
continuing in the same direction to the line as established
between the