The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-02-26

tains $4,000 inhabitants. have doubt that there
at this day from $4,000 to ZOO American inhabitants
there, besides the of the country. The latest
shows that abou 900 per month going there
by ship and each succeeding week shows that the num-
Der is increasing. My from the West, by letter.
less than 100 900 expected the pra
res this coming have received no letter in
which the oumber stated to be less than 100000 per-
The senator says this conjecture. IL is
that it is conecure but sir the fact that there is large
American population in California is conjecture. The
fact that there probably legal in California
to-day than were IN oneenth of the States OF the Union
the these respective constitutions formed,
altogether probable. | have doubt of the fact.
Again, the constitution requires SPECIFIC number to
enable them to come into the Union State. The sena-
10 saen IN supposng that 60, 900 the old rule
relating the number required before State shoald be adj
miled True that number specified in the ordinance
of 49, That gave them right to come IN Whilst they had
right under that ordinance when they had that number,
still Congress had the admit them and Con-
gress did that power My State had only about
thirty thousand inhabitants the when
the Union Scarcely any of those States had sixty thousand
when they came IN. believe Wisconsin, and perhaps
Michigan the only that had that number There
this day in California than there in
either of those States at the time of admission. And, sir
think the question should be to the number OF
polers that were 10 frame the constitution, not how
many individuals there there The government
is be erected by the voters. 1t is the that
form the government. You object that they have not
their wives and children there. Why have they not I?
Ii appears that they would have their wives and
children there, but you refuse give them laws TO
those wives and children when they get there. II il
because refuse to them aW-hat you refuse to
give them protectlon-that they not there. | think
therefore, that it does not become say that they must
have government because their families with
them, since is because withhold protection thai
they not there.
Sir there fearful responsibility resting upon the Con-
gress of the United States The United States sent its
troops heresent its navy there II was the deserers from
those very roopsthe very whose expenses have
borne there-who committed the murders, the accounts
of which have lately to There was one family
from my Stale, who has recently met with a mean-
choy fate. They started for California before The with
number of their ghbors. Being caught in the Sierra
Nevada mountains the winter and prevented from pro-
ceedng by the SHOWS they reduced all the horrors
of starvation. They their mules and horses and
the bodies Of those who had expired from hunger until
onehd Of the party had consumed the other two-,hrds
AT length the family succeeded reaching the Sacramento
about the time Col Fremont raised his battalion. The
head of this family served through the war; and last year
made for himself fortune by digging gold Recently this
had his throat cut and also Of his wife and two children
and six servants the deserers from your and navy
his is but Of the many instances of the murders that
have been committed by your own agents for the lust Of
gold and yet you refused to provide laws for Furnishing
their crimes Sir, you have sent the vicious characters
there Of whom gentlemen complain. The senator from
New Jersey, and others who opposed to government
in California complain that there bad characters there
vicious men, dangerous If so, sent them there
They are the regular population of the country They
are not the emigrans who have gone there. They are
deserters from your army ard navy
MIR. A1CIIISON (the senator from Illinois giving way
for that purpose) moved that the Senate adourn which
motion agreed TO, on division.
| The Senate then adjourned