Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-12-21
CaIifOrniamThe Southern Game,

The Albany Atlas publishes the following ar
ticle:
On the first day of the session, Mr. Douglass. of
Illinois, gave notice that on the morrow he should
bring in three billsseveraly to establish the terri.
tories Of Minnesota, Nebraska and New Mexico
and fourth for the introduction Of California
as State ofthe Union.
Mr. Douglass is, through his wife, a savehod-
er. His sympathies are Southern. If we arc
to believe Senator Foote, Of Mississippi, he is
pledged to do the work Of the South, and to as
sure them by his acts this session, that the course
of the Northern Senators on the Oregon bill was
a harmless abstraction.
There are now fifteen slave and fifteen free
States in the Union. Mr. Douglass proposes to
bring in California without the intervening pro-
baton to which he proposes to subj ect the other
territories, and which all States organized under
the compromises of the federal government have
had to 90 through with. California will decide
the question of the balance of power as between
Freedom and olorory. Gan thcro be any doubt
as to which scale the Illinois Senator proposes to
place her in!
The object is to evade the question of the Will
mot Proviso; to bring California in as a State
the subject of slavery untouched by her Consttu-
ton, and then to give a sanction by her State
laws for the introduction Of the accursed insttll-
ton. This once effected, the balance of power,
that has heretofore been evenly suspended, in the
Senate, between the two sections Of the Union, is
decided in favor of the South Instead of re.
alization of the dogma Just enunciated by the
people, "No more Slave States" the practical
doctrine Of our legislators will be ono more Free
States"
We believe this to be the deliberate purpose oil
the Senator from Illinois. The armed troops
stationed by the President in California (Ieaving
Oregon deIenceless) will contribute to the con
summation of the scheme. The gold-mania will
be powerful instrumentaity in its aid and it is
with this end that the President, his Secretaries
and his organs are blowing up the bubble of spe-
culation in that quarter. There is gold there;
and gold digging is almost the only industry in
which the capitalist absolutely requires the labor
of slaves, lie cannot hire laborers for the labor.
err works for himself He needs being who
lives under the whip, whom, if he suspects of Sc
cretng his precious gain, he can make work il
nakedness and whose chattel condition makes
theft oflarge amount an absurdity.
The appetite for gold destroys all conscience
fla cargo of slaves were exposed for sale to-day
on the Sacramento river, they would be purchas
ed at once, and no emigrant, whether from thu
North or South. would scruple to avail himself O
his chance nor would he care whether the wei
come sinews came from the legitimate market
Of Virginia. or were clandestineIy shipped from
Cuba, or were even fresh gathering from tn
Eastern coast of Africa.
1t was in the mines of the Spanish islands tina
slavery first saw light We repeat that we fear
is to have second birth among the gold region
OF California that the bill of the slavehodin
Senator from Illinois has much to do with its in
tended re-establishment