Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-17
from the National Era.
Hanger Acknowledgement Faltering

WHY Is II that We nave no SATISFACTORY III
tclligence from California in relation to sla-
very? That slaves have been carried there,
we know; but what has become of them ?
Have they gone free, or are they held in bond
age? Not n word is said about them In let
tiers from that country. What are the pur-
poses of the people ? Is there a man in the
Territory who takes any interest in the ques-
tion? Why is it that the anti-slavery adven-
tIrers, now settled there, communicate no.
thing on the subject? The People of the
Territory know that the only reason why a
Government has not been granted TO them is
that the shareholders will not consent TO the
exemption of their soil from the curse of sla-
very and yet, in the files Of papers we re-
ceive, in the numerous letters published in
our exchanges, we can detect nothing that
indicates any serious attention of the Cali
fornia public to this matter.
What means all this z Is gold hunting so
absorbing an occupation as to leave no time
for considering great questions etlecting the
permanent interests of the new State Have
all the people there become sordid and grow
cling, willing that demagogues or emissaries
from the States should shape the Government
to suit themselves or their employers at home,
&c that they be left free to hoard their golden
treasures?
We said last week that northern men have
gone to California 10 dig for gold, slavehold-
ers to rule; power being the god of one class,
pclf the idol of the other. Is it not so P
Who are the prime actors in the movement
for a State Constitution? Thomas Butler
King, of Georgia, DR.. Gwyn, of Mississippi,
Peter Ii. Burnet and ex-governor Boggs of
Missouri. They are all men of position, all,
pro-slavery men. What Northern man of
position and influence is there on the spot
TO represent the claims of Freedom?
The pro-slavery ticket, it is understood,
uiumphed in San Francisco: why should it
not? Is it to be expected that the blacklcgs
who infest that place care anything about the
rights of man?
The last accounts reported that DIR. Gwyn
of Mississippi would be chosen President of
the Convention-but this is the man who in
the primary meetings of the People, had
the hardihood TO denounce the anti-slavery
members of the Congress of the u. States
for attempting to apply the Ordinance of
1857 to California. Next it is reported that
Thomas Butler King, DR.. Gwyn, EX-Gover-
nor Boggs, of Missouri, who wrote Il letter TO
Il relative in that State telling him that a few
slaves could be used to good advantage i'll
the Territory, and Ex-Governor Shannon, a
Hunker Democrat, are talked OF as Senators
from the new State, God deliver us! And
would the People of California, if hostile TO
slavery, commlt their interests to the keeping
of such mem
But, we are told that slavery canno exist
in California. Who says so? He who wo'd
hull the public mine into false security
Slavery does exist there. Who attempts to
disprove it? An extract of u letter from Ii.
III. Robinson, late of the Ohio Eagle, a Hum
ker Democrat, informing the People OF the
States that they need not trouble themselves
about the matter-the C~alitornians won't
have slavery there, &c,,-has been going the
rounds of the papers. Mr.. Robinson has al
ways been hostile to the anti-slavery cause ;
he was and is a Neutrality-suspicious. and,
we doubt not, could he nave his way, the
Constitution of the new State would contain
no restrictive clause against slavery, His
testimony on this subject, which he does not
understand and in which he feels no interest
has no weight with us. Nor do we attach
any credit TO the loose paragraphs OF a SINH
lar kind from unknown writers, every now
and then started by some newspaper in favor
of the non-interyention policy. Who are
the writer's? Give us their names, and we
shall know what consideration their opinions
deserve.
A letter i'm one of the New York dailies
Informed us that there were three parties in
the Convention, one in favor OF recognising
slavery, another for positive prohibition, the
third IN favor of saying, doing nothlng-in
other words, non-inteIvention, How hap
tens it, if the people of California are so
Unanimous against slavery, that tAeir repre-
sentatives should be so divided? NoN-lN-
r%ERvENTIoN is equivalent TO the positive re-
~cognition of slavery, We know all about the
law of the case--aboutf free territory remain
ing free, until made otherwise by positive
law-but we know, too, that slavery despises
all these distractions in favor of liberty, ey-
cry principle of Common Law, every doc
trine of National Rights. Where the doori is
now shut in its face, it enters boldly, without
asking leave, and, once in possession, pleads
an inalienable right of property. Non-In-
tervention is the trick of de~magogues, the
subterfuge of towards. it will lind plenty
of advocates in California, and we should
: not be surprised if the next arrival brings the
Cintelligcnce that a Constitution has been
formed for the new State without a word in
it relating to slavery, Has not this thing been
done already The sanity brotherhood of
Mormons, settled in the southern partof Cal
fornia, TO be called the Stale OF Deseret.-
youteir Constitution contains not n single pro-
: vision against slavery, They ask admission
into our Union, hoping, no doubt, 10 gam the
support of the Cass member of Congress
from the North, md the slavebolding MEM
bcrs by this prudent and atiable policy of set
ting up no barrier against the irruptions OF
slavery. Aye-inay they not hope for the
support Of Northern Wings who recognise
the National Intelligencer as their organ p
Has not this paper, solemnly, emphatically,
speaking in behalfof the Wing party, pledged
il to abide by the decision of the People. of
California on the Slavery Question, whatever
rhat decision may be-whether against, ORR
favor of slavery, or non-interyentien in rela-
ton TO il? 1t has done so, and we have yet
TO hear the Wing paper, North or South, ex-
press dissent, The editor Of the New York
Tribune, whose professions are all ardent