The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-15

NO sLAvERY I'M CALIFoRNI..

on into, the territory Of California The
scovery Of GOLD in that distant region has
iectually solved it, and in favor Of its ex-
usion forever from the vast extent OF its
lriferous area. No earthly power can re-
arse this peaceful solution Of this important
Question. II will be as eternal as the exist
nee Of the great globe itself
When California was bought by Amer
ian blood and treasure poured out freely in
le field, and rebought for price which is
ow in course Of liquidation, her vast terri
ory was devoid Of people. Her few nomad-
tribes and exiled whites, could not be
allied population. The question was forth
with agitated with much rancor, whether hu-
man slavery should be permitted to darken
he already free soil Of the newly acquired
possessions. In the midst of the discussion
\ bf this question, that threatened the dissolu-
ion Of the Union itself, the cry Of GoLD,
boM, gold, IS heard from the base Of the
Sierra Nevada, and Immediately the angry
dispute is hushed, and thousands Of white
lreemen are on their way to the gold region.
EAnd the stream Of emigration thus suddenly
begun, has sweed into huge caravan,
that now stretches its length almost from San
Francisco to Independence. BY sea and
by the Isthmus, thousands upon thousands
have gone and now are going on their wind
ing way, to reach the haven Of gold.
No one now hears Of the introduction Of
slavery into California, unless it be from po-
liticians, who are in want Of hobby-horsc
TO ride. The attention of the whole nation,
is riveted upon the priceless treasures Of Ca
liiornia, and capital and free labor have
taken possession Of the field, and they will
hold it. Even before the first rush Of immi-
grafton had reached the shores of gold, the
people already there--a mere handful
raised the flag of. free labor and Of prohibi-
ton Of human bondage. To carry slavery
into that country now, and to expect to pre-
serve it in full force, would be as absurd as
to plunge piece Of iron, heated to white
heat, into the Atlantic, and expect It to re-
tain its caloric. The masses Of cmigrants to
California, carry with them their antipathies
to slavery, and the very presence of slave
among them, would strike of his letters in
an instant. But even il the gold-seekers
were ever so much in love with slavery, and
each one had carried with him two or more
slaves, slavery could not'exist day, an hour,
in such country No law could ever be
enforced to keep men in bondage, when by
the mere act Of STOPPING to the earth, the
slave could possess that which reduces him
to slavery, and by the possession Of which
he could free himself from his condition.
Free men in California, could never be found
to enforce the law Of slavery, for the simple
reason, that the slave could not be prevented
by human power from picking up gold The
time and labor employed in enforcing slave
laws, could never be paid for. AS easily
could slave be prevented from breathing
the air in South Carolina, as he could be
hindered from possessing gold in California.
There is physical inpossbility against the
existence Of human slavery in that country.
But, in addition to all these considerations,
the mental education Of the gold diggers and
inhabitants Of California, will never permit
the introduction Of slavery into that country;
we believe, that her people will present
themselves at the door Of the next Congress,
the very day, perhaps, after its organization,
and demand admission as State of this
Federal Union, with republican constitu-
ton in their hands, whose pages will not be
sullied with the backness Of the evil Of slave
ry. What them An old question in a new
shape will arise. How will Congress decide
it, 1t requires no prophet to predict. The
constitution will be adopted and California
will be admitted as the thirty-Grst State Of
this Union, by the thirty-frst Congress. -
Wilmot Provsos, Calhoun Provisos, Benton
Provisos, Free Soil, Pro-savery, Dissolu-
ton resolutions, ct id omne genus, would
disappear like mist before the morning sun
Freemen would be demanding admission into
the Union, with republican constitution IN
their hands. Who would dare refuse them ad.
mittance, Not the Congress Of the U, States,
for the only question for them to consider
would be, whether the constitution isrepn6h-
can? Not the Executive Of the United States
for such constitution is not unconstitutional
and he is pledged not to return constitutional
bills, as his predecessors were in the habit OF
doing.
Gold has been wonderful agent in al
ages Of the world, but among all its trlumphs
there is none, that is equal to its victory owe
slavery in California. II ,cas the founder o
slavery, but il now is, in one portion Of thu
earth at least, the destroyer Of human bond
age There is more philosophy in this an
tithesis, than meets the eye. It is worth,