Washington telegraph., 1849-07-11
WHO EXCLUDED SLAVERY FROM CALI

WHO EXCLUDED SLAVERY FROM CALI
FoRNIA?-Our readers have not forgotten
the manner in which Buchanan endeavor-
ed toappease the fears of his Abolition
friends in Pennsylvania, in regard to
the conquest of slave territory In the
first Place, he assured them that slavery
could not exist in that climate, and
secondly that Mr.. Polk had sent out
No7th,rm Regiment who would be dis
handed in California after the war, and
who would of course preclude slavery for
ever from the territory. Well, the regi
ment vas sent, and has been disbanded,
according to the plan devised by the late
Democratic Administration. A meeting
was held 1t San Francisco. on the Oath
of February last, for the purpose Of max
ing preparations for a general convention,
to assemble on the first of August, to
report Stat Constitution preparatory
to an application for the admission of Cali
fornia into the Union. At that meeting
Col. Stevenson, the notorious commander
of Mr.. Folks alti-slavery regiment, figur-
ed prominently Resolutions were adopt
ed unanimously, excluding slavery from
the territory. Tie fifth resolution. it ap-
pears, did not go ia. enough for MIR. Polk's S
Free Soil emissary., SO he proposed the
following as an amendment, which was
unanimously passed.
"5th. That the delegates who are to
represent the district of San Francisco in
the Convention that is to be held at San
Jose for the formation Of a provisional
constitution, are hereby desired, requested
and instructed, By all honorable means
to oppose amy act, mseaSa11e, 2'roUaSsO7a or
ordinance that is calculated to further
the antroductaon of domestic slavery, or
Of free negroes as apprentices, by anden-
ture or otherwise, to beemployed IN Cali
for2aaa."
Now, San Francisco is California
There is concentrated there, nearly the
entire population OF the country, because
there the miners all assemble during
the winter months. They regard it as
their home, and exercise the rights of
citizenship there accordingly. Itfollows,
therefore, that the action of the aforemen-
toned meeting amounts to virtual eX-
clusioa of slavery from California.
We ask the Southern STAKEHOLDER,
aO7so Aas caused that e.Iclug5on? Com
mon honesty should have prompted MIR.
Polk to have sent half of his resident
regiment from the South and half from
the North. But, no! he was courting
the Abolitionists, and he sent out regi-
mnt of abolitienists with Free Soiler
at their head. MIR. Buchanan boasted
in advance to the Free Democracy of
Pennsylvania, that the Democratic Ad-
mi1istration had settled the slavery ques-
tiot in fevor of the North. He boasted
tha they had fixed it by means of this
very regiment. He declared that it was
no longer practical question, and that
the Free Soil Democracy could therefore
vote for Gen. Cass, Notwithstanding his
Nicholson Letter.
We ask again, a0ho has excluded slavery
from California? The answers plain
the late Democratic Administration di0
it, aid the whole Democratic party are
responsible for the result, because they
knew of Mr.. Polk's policy at the time
and yet approved of his administration
they recognized the treason, and yet en-
braced the traitor. Some of his support
ers in Georgia sought to prepare the
minds of The people to receive the poison.
by voting themselves for bill containing
the Wilmot Proviso; others of them
lodged that question but sanctioned MIR.
PolA's approva! of the principle of that
infamous measure. They did this under
the specious guise Of compromise, while
they knew that their own administration
had so managed matters as to exclude
Slavery forever from the qO/a0le Of the
acquired Territory. No wonder these
men have endeavored to raise "hue and
cry" against certain Wings upon the
Slavery question. 1t was the old trick
of the felon who cried "Stop Thief,
merely to attract attention away from his
own villainy. The proof is now out and
is too positive to admit of even the sha'
dow of contradiction. We beg our friends
to keep it before the people. Let it not
be forgo that Slavery has been e1-
cluded from California by means Of a
Free Soil Regime,at, sent out by the
late Democratic administration, t01
that e1press purpose.
Georgia Journal and Messenger.
WASHING CLoTHEs.-We publish to-
Jox, Gov +bo 1>o,oGt Of tho 1o1ioc tho (rrpat,