The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-09-05
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THE PRESIDENTS, S,CALIFORSIA PRO.
CIAMATION.4

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We lay before our readers the Proclamaiiod
issued ia California Ly Gen. Riley.r e,f raurss
it is no, the production of tha, stern old solder.
hut Of the Cabinet at Washipgtons We ba~e
been slow in publishing it, because we were dc:
srous of seeing what the Goyertfpent, organ
and the presses in the interest Of fhe admins.
lralion, would say in its defence, The, Wash
ing,on Union, and the New York Egening Posts
in repeated articles, urge anddenounce,;;s un.
consi.u,ionality, buf not one g~Srd car, they
wiring font the Administration tfsns. .ip sreply.
Gen. Riley Processes to be acting tlge,er ins.ruc'
tions from tire Secretary 5f War and the Sec.
reary of State. He need moi have referred to
any particular members Of The Gshinei, Every
body will understand that this is the Admins.
tra,ion expediem for settling Ire WilGoi Provisn
question. 10 have a bill win that measure
incorporated ia ii thrtst on Sen, ayfsf a5 ,ht
next session, would expose The hollow doplicfty
by which he drew 10 bis support hpih sides Of
this question. and managed .byihis support to
reach the Presidency. Mr.. Thomas Butler
King goes out as Minister Plenipnlep,iary and
Envoy Extraordinary from the Adininisratioh
TO get California into the Union asa State. and
perhaps 10 return rs one of her Senaiors. We.
wish him and the Administration all success, It
they design 10 uphold the rights and h9Hor OF
the South. But if, as we, sppEShspd to be, the
case. the exiricatioBM M Gen. Taylor from the
dilemma 10 which be is placed and not any
regard to The interests Of iirp South is the mo.
tive Of. this movement ia, California; if BY The
fundamentally ofyhe AdHinist .asiqn California
becomes State. and appIies for admission into
the Union, With a Gonssitntt lsding slave.
ry from her lmiis-elhen the South will tader.
stand precisely what she has gaiSed BY Eaing
Gen. Taylor to power, and by what unworthy
ars she has been betrayed. The Administrs.
tion has unde,takenio bring Caiifotnia into the
Union, aud they canaol escape The fssPonsbil'-
ty they rave Tins publicly assumed. We be-
lierp from first to last. the Soath waI ind her.
self in this whole matter, cheated and betrayed.
II we have thus little con6denee in the de-.
signs of the Administration in California, the
method it has taken 10 carry them 6nt would
certainly no, tend t. strengthen it. The e6Ire
Proclamation, from beginning to end, is nat
outrage upon the Constitution. To attempt To
create an office of any kind isbeyond the com:
potency of the Executive. Yet here is civil
Governor f,r California, and dozens of other ot.
ticers, who are created and installed in Office
by the President. No money can, be drawn
from the Treasury of the United States without
an appropriation by law; We, here are thou.
sands 10 be taken out Of the hands Of the Col.
l.c,or of the Customs in California, placed there
by law of Congress, 30 pay Gen. 'Faylor's horde
Of officers, according TO the scale toi salaries
declared by the Proclamation. The money in
tn. hands of the Collector of California is u"
truly in the treasury of tie Unitel States as that
which lies in the Sub.treasnry al, New York.
That our readers may see The fuH extent OF
this outrage on the Cnns,iintion, We add the
clauses of that instrument which bear upon. the
subject: 80. .f,.....,s vE.,,, :,
Art. 2. sec .. cl. 2. "'rbe President shall
dominate, end by anil piLh the alriee and con.
sent of The Senate shall eppoias ssy.ssssadors,
other public Mini s,ers and Gonsuls, Judges OF
the Supreme Court, and all other officers OF the
United States whose appointments are not here.
in otherwise provided for, and ,chich shall be
| csab!ishci by 1ap: but tie Congress may hv
law vest the appointment Of such inferior off.
GERS as they think proper in the President alone,
in the Courts of law, or in the Heads Of De.
par,mcnts." $50 -.
AIT. ], sec. 9, c I. "No money shall be
,l,awn from the Treasury bu. In censeqnei isca
Of appropriation made by law. "ssE g