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GEN. CAss ON THE wILMoT pRovIso
The following extracts from the recent
letter of Gen. Cass, will give clear idea
ofits pith and substance. We quote only
from the part relating TO the Wilm6t
Proviso:
1T VIII not surprise you, but it will
many, who have viewed my course only
IN party aspect, to be told that in that
very letter to Mr.. Nicholson I expressly
stated my opinion to be, that slavery
would never extend to California or New
Mexico; and that the ''inhabtants of
those regions, whether they depend on
their plows or their herds, cannot be
Shareholders" | quoted with full ap-
probation the opinions of Mr.. Buchanan
and of Mr.. Walker, the former of whom
says; Otis morally impossible, therefore,
thata majority of the cmgrants to that
portlon of the territory South of 36o
3O' will ever re-establish slavery within
its limits. +" Mr.. Walker maintains that.
"beyond the Rio del Norte slavery will
not pass, not only because it is forbidden
by law, but because the colorcd race
there preponderates in the ratio of ten
to one over the whites; and holding, as
they do, the government and most of the
Offices In their possession, they will not
permit the epslavcment of any portion
of the colored race, which makes and
executes the laws of the country" And
to these remarks Iadd: The question, it
will therefore be seen on examination,
does not regard the exclusion of slavery
from region where it now exists, but q
prohibition against its introduction where
it does not exist, and where, from the
feelings of the inhabitants, and the laws
of nature, "it is morally impossible, /" as
Mr. Buchanan says, chat it can cycrre-
establish itself"
81 have never uttered to Il human Ee-
ing sentiment in opposition to these
views. And subsequent events. the
events indeed of every day, confirm their
Justice, and render it more impossible
that slavery should be re-cstablishcd in
the region ceded to us by Mexico. Such
is the general opinion in the non-slavc-
holding States, among those who are
most attached to the compromises of the
Constitution, and most determined to
maintain them. And do not doubt but
there are many person in the Southern
States who resist the yYilmot Proyiso
with all their power, as offensive to the
feelings and Injurious to thoeiights Of the
South, but who still believe it is ques-
ton rathef7'of principle than of action,
and that circumstances arc preparing an
exclusion which Congress has no right to
pronounce.
In the view here taken, the effect 10
cngraft the Wilmot Proviso upon am act
of Cou,rres,s, even if Congress had the
requisite power, is useless attempt to
direct the legislation of the country to
an object which would be just as certain
ly attained without it. If Congress,
have not the power, 'as believe they
have not, in common with a larger por-
tion Of the people, it becomes worse than
useless by becoming unconstitutional
And in addition to this, it is peculiarly
offensive to one half of the States of the
Union, who see in it an attempt to cir
cnmscribe their rights, and to mortify
their pride of character. No man can
look at the signs Of the times without
being satisfied that the prosecution of this
question is producing the worst state of
feeling; and though | trust that happen
what may, our Southern brethren will
still cling to the Union, equally their ark
Of safety and ours, still there are evils
short of separation which every good
gitizen should seek to avoid. lie should
seek to avoid all occasions of unfriendiy
ceilings: to avoid SO far as may be the
agitation of questions hostile to the senti-
,nents or interests Of different sections
Of the country, and thus tending to array
one of them against another. THERE'S
cnough passing in ghe Old WGid- and il
there were not, there is enough passiag
around us--to teach lis the inestimablc
value of our institutions, and that these
ought not to be hazardcd bv internal dis