Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-12-06
VOL. Xiv, NO. 4.---WHOLE NO. 225I.

greater than was required for the admission
OF ota'es IN the North Western Territory
ana greater than were contained in seyera
OF the Free States at the time of admission
INTO the Union! And as to their character
are they not now our peoplel Was it an,
objection to the admission of Louisiana tina,
her population was almost entirely of French
descent! Is Free Soil only importan,
when the population are of Anglo Ameri.
can descent! Is it principle with these
tr'cksters To advocate Slavery wherever the
Anglo American population does not pre-.
Ponderate, and Free Soil only for the PEG.
pie OF our own blood! WHY this same ed
ltor, IN another part of the identical article
from which we quote, raises the question
whether under the treaty with Mexico. the
Calilornlans could exclude Indians and Ne
groes from the rights of Citizenship The
weakness and Inconsistency of such argu-
ments make them unworthy of refutation.
anu only tend to prove how utterly without
principle is all that these would.be Free
Sollers advance in favor of doctrine which
at heart they repudiate, and to which they
have resorted solely for the qualification of
personal revenge and the spoils ofoflice.
In the article from which we quote. the
writer proceeds TO find some uew reasons
why California should be denied admission
as Free State We quote again:
| Among the provisions ofthe California
constitution agreed upon by the convention
IN Committee of the Whole, is the follow.
ing, which is given as the result OF a dis
cussion had on the 18th of September
Every white male citizen of the Uni.
TED States, and evey male citizen of Next
co, (lndians, Africans, and descendants of
Airicns excepted,) who shall have elected
to become citizen of the United States
under the treaty of peace exchanged and
ratliled at Queretaro, on the Both day of
May, oil the age of twenty-ene years, who
snail nave been resident of the State six
months next preceding the election, and
the county or district IN which he claims
his vote thirty days, shall be entitled to vote
at all elections which are now or hereafter
may be authorized by law"
If this provision be substantially retain.
ed III the constitution which is to be pre-
sented to Congress, it will give rise to some
interesting questions. 1t will be for Con-
gress to consider whether any man, whatev-
er mag be his color, who resided in Califor-
MIA as a citizen of Mexico at the time of its
cession to the United States, can. according
to the terms and split Of that treaty, be
excluded from the rights Of a citizen in the
nc'D State Of California, if he elects to re-
man aud become IA citizen of the United
States. 1t will be for Congress to consider
whether 1t be expedient to admit California
with constitution excluding from the rights
OF political citizenship, those who are citi-
Zens of other states in the Union. Another
question may arise--the same involved inMr
way toms refusal to grant Il passport TO
colofed man-the question, namely, wheth-
er man with African blood in his veins
may be Il citizen of the United Stntes, and
whether the United States will allow any
class oil Its own citizens to be DISTINGUISHED
ny the constitution of the new state. These
are grave matters, on which earnest couiro-
uerSieS may arise to deloy the decision of
Congress on the application of CaHforaia
to be rcceicGd into the UniOn."
Never has there been exhibited such
specimen of self debasement as this entire
article presents. The writer of it pretends
to be the advocate of Free Soil. Upon this
preience, he and his associates. for other
and baser purposes seeded from their own
party and united with The abolitionists in
getting up an excitement which threatened
to dissolve the Union. And now when the
Administration succeed is persuading the
inhabitants of the newly acquired terrific
RES to ask admission as Free States. we
find them coniessing that such was not their
pnrpose--that they only pretended to be
Free Sellers and Abolltionists for selfish
ana corrupt purposes-and doing all in
their power to prevent the establishment of
free States simply because it will deprive
them OF the only ground upon which they
claim the right to agtate They point to
the prospect that by raising difficulties in
regard to the character of the population it
New Mexico, the efforts of Mr.. Clayton to
exclude agitation frym the floor Of Congress
may yet prove unsuccessful, accompanied
with the hope, that this agitation of the
question "may yet outlast Gen'l Taylor's
1t is wicked wish-a nelarions, unprin-
cipled, and unpatriotic wish. The purpose
is base, and the means by which it is sought
to be achieved, worthy of those only who
resort to 1t. Our hope is-it is the hope of
every honest man who loves the Union and
desires to see slavery forever excluded from
territory now free-that the honest and pat
riotIc objects of Gen. Taylor, himself
Shareholder, to admit the recently acquir-
ed territory as Free States and thus put
down all agitation upon the subject of
prove entirely successful
No friend of his country--no man who is
At heart the enemy of slavery extenson-no
statesman who knows the value of Union,
and feels how much it depends upon the
cultivation of brolherly feelings between the
North and the South--can desire under
any circumstances whatever, to see this
question occupy the floor of Congress dur
ng the remainder of "Gen. Taylor's Ad-
The attempt therefore of
he Post and its co-laborers in evil, to get
ip " controversies which may delay the de-
'lslon of Congress on the application of Cal
iorna to be received into the Union," in
order that the Abolition question may be
lgitated on the floor of Congress, and shake
he Union to its centre, that they may be
to participate in the spoils of office,
will, we hope and believe, no; only be pre-
enied by the two great powers of The coun-
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