Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-12-12
VOLUME 6, NUMBER q. .q,s:

circular letter, addressed to the collectors
| of customs on the 7th of October last. d
copy Of which is herewith Transmitted. ex.
ercised all the power by which he was I'M I'M.
vested by law. - -. = -. 5@
In pursuance of the act of the 18th Adt..
gust last, extending the benefit of our post
fhee laws, 10 the people of California, the
POSTMASTER General has appointed two d:
gents who have proceeded, the ollie to Cal
ifornia aud the ott er to Oregon-wftfl aftue.
thorlty to make the necessary arrange
ments for carrying its provisions into eff:
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The monthly mail line of steamers has
been required TO "stop and deliver and
take. mails at San Diego, Monterey and
San Francisco" These mail steamers
connected by the isthmus of Panama with
the line of mail steamers on the Atlantic
between New York and Chargers. will es-
tablish regular mail communication wits
California. si
1t is our solemn duty 10 provide, with
the least possible delay, for New Mexico
and California, regularly organized terri
torial governments. The causes of the
failure to do this at last session of Con
gress, are well known and deeply to be
regretted. With the opening prospects
oi increased prosperity and national great.
ness which The acquisition Of these rich
and extensive territorial possessions al
ford how irrational it would be to forego or
reject these advantages by the agitation OF
domestic question which is coeval with
the existence of our government itself,
and to endanger by internal strffes, geo
graphical divisions; and threatened con.
test for political power or for any other
cause, the harmony of the glorious Union
OF our federated States, which binds Us 10.
gether as one people, and which 70, sixty
years has been our shield and protection
against every danger. In the eyes of the
world and Of posterity, how trivial and in
significant will be al oe- Interval divisions
and struggles compared with the preserva.
ton of The Union Of the States, in all lis
vigor and with all its countless blessings!
No patriot would foment and excite pc.
ographical and sectional divisions. No
loVer Of his country would deliberately
ca culate the value of the Union. Future
generations would look with amazefnen,
on the folly of such course Other ma
tons at the present day would look upon
it with establishment; and such Of them az
desire TO maintain and perpetuate thrones
and monarchial or aristocratical principles,
will view it with exultation and delight, be-
cause in it they Will see the elements Of
faction, which they hope must ultimately
overturn our system. ...'.
Ours is the great example of free
seifgoverned Republic, commanding the
admiration and the imitation of all the low
ers of peace throughout the world. How
solemn, therefore, is the duty, and how
impressive the call upon all parts of our
country, to cultivate patriotic spirit of
harmony, of good-fellowship, Of compro-
mise, of mutual concessions in the admin
istration of the Incompatible system of
government formed by our Fathers in the
midst of almost insuperable difficulties
and transmitted to US with the injunction
that we should enjoy its blessings and
hand it down unimPared to those who may
come after US. ..,..s .-..---.:
. In view of the high and responsible du.
ty which we owe to ourselves and to man.
kind, think you may be able, at your
present session, to approach the adjust
ment of the only domestic question which
seriously threatens or probably ever can
threaten, TO disturb the harmony and sue
cesstul operation Of our system.
The immensely valuable possessions of
New Mexico and California are already ill.,
habited by considerable population. At
tracted by their great fertility, their miner
al wealth, their commercial advantages
and the salubrity of the climate, emigrants
from the Older States, in great numbers;
are already preparing to seek new homes
in these inviting regions. as,..rela
Shall the dissimHarity of the domestic
institutions in the different States prevent
US from providing for them suitable gov
ernments, as these institutions existed at
the adoption Of the constitution, but The
obstacles which they interposed were. o.
vercome by that spirit of compromise
which is now invoked? In a conflict of
opinions or of interests, realor imaginary
between different sections of OUR country;
neither can justly demand all which. it
might desire to obtain. Each, in thetrue
spirit of our institutions, should eoncede
something to the other. ss es4tua
Our gallant. forces in the Mexican war,
by whose patriotism and unparalleled
deeds Of arms we obtained those posses
sions as an indemnify for our lust de-
mands against Mexico, were composed of
citizens who belonged TO no one State or
section of our Union. slaas -z sayg
They were men from slave-holding and
non-slave-holding States, from the NORTH
and from the south, and from the east and
from the west. 41,i - aw sEas3T
= They were all companions in arms, and
fellow citizens eff the same common coun-