Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-01

the recognition of the Government, OF
n Territory, which in fact leaves open the
door to slavery? 1t is obvious that the ques-
ton, so far from being settled, is now so COM
plicated and circunstanced, as to furnish the
u%pholders of slavery an opportunity for en-
forcing a most dangerous compromise.
Who advised the People of Deseret to form
a Territorial, instead of State Constitution
And how happens it, that emigrants as they
are from free States, they have studlously
omitted any reference TO slavery in their new
Constitution? Are the opponents OF slavery
extension willing TO recognise and establish
the Territorial Government OF Deseret, ,ctth-
ont the Propiso, because California has pro-
hibited slavery? Have they not hitherto re-
jected all projects of compromise, ana WIN
they now give up one-half or more than hali
of the Territory of California to slavery, Tor
the sake of saving the other?
1t is clear that the whole subject will come
up in a new form, under new relations, and
in such a way as to threaten a most ruinous
compromise. We hope the Tribune, amid its
rejoicing, will not overlook the perils which
yet threaten the cause of Freedom.
Need we add, that the question will be
further complicated by the boundary contro-
versy between Texas and New Mexico
When MIR. Polk ordered Gen. Taylor 10 the
Rio Grande, the whole Wing party, South
and North, protested against the act, as an
outrage OH the soil of Mexico and during
the progress of the wal that followed, both
wings of this party united in denying the alb
surd claim of Texas to the country between
the Nueces and the Rio Grande.
But the war having resulted in the acqui-
sition of new territories, the Southern wing
of the party has undergone a sudden CONVEX
sion, and now ~sustains the claim of slave
holding Texas, which, if allowed, swallows
up the better portion of free New Mexico
At least, so we infer from the attitude taken
at the last session of Congress on this sub
ject by the Wing representatives from the
South. Their policy will doubtless be that
of their successors in the next Congress, and
we shall see the entire slaveholding delega-
ton standing up for a claim which, If enfor-
ced, robs new Mexico of one-halt her do
main. Some of the citizens of Texas have
already pledged themselves to maintain the
claim by force, against even Federal author
ity, and Members of Congress from the slave
States, in full view of the fact that the Su-
preme Court of the United States have just
decided a question of boundary between
Missouri and Iowa, ridicule the idea of a SOW
ereign State submitting to this tribunal its
claim over its own assumed territory! What
makes the matter worse, is, that the Demo
cratic party, North as well as South, driven
by party necessity to sustain its President
was involved in the support of the Texas
claim, although perhaps the majority of them
believed it to be untenable.
Here is another question of great difficulty
and danger, which will complicate still more
f~ormidably the questions just noticed.
In the face of these facts, how can any ONT
dream that the great subject which has Sc
long agitated the American People, is dispo
sed of? Politicians, anxious to keep peac,
in their respective parties, or to suppress al
movements calculated to disturb or eribar
rass the Administration, may try to sooth
the public with this agreeable illusion, bu
no honest or intelligent MAJ will be impose
upon.