The examiner., 1849-11-17
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The slavery Question In California.
Our readers will learn from another column
that this question has been met, discussed, and
decided in the convention assembled In Califor-
mia for the formation Of State Constitution
The question was felt to be Of vital importance;
the discussion was thorough and the decision
unanimous. The convention, without a dis
senting voice, has declared that slavery shall
never exist in California.
We rejoice at this decision. twill save tina,
new country, country destined to exert an in
cAloulable influence for good or i'll over the hu-
man race, from the whitening effects Of the pc
culiar institution. The people of California
have reason, above every other people, to dread
the Introduction Of slavery. They will have
necessarily fearful ordeal to pass through, and
appalling difficulties TO encounter. The popu-
lation Of California will be Of the most mongre
character. Every nation and almost every
tribe will be represented there, and such is the
raPidity with which the country is filing up
that the population will be large enough to form
mighty nation before its various elements will
have lost any Of their discordancy or even have
begun to eoalesce.
This population, too, will be restless and ex-
citable In the extysme. Imagine what the con.
dition Of our State or any State would be II
every citizen should purchase tickets, and thus
become personally interested In an immense
lottery establishment, whose prizes were moi
hVe or ten thousand but hundreds Of thousand,
lOllars and 4
condition Of the people of California. Cali.
fornia IL vast lottery establishment, with LI
the evils and dangers attendant upon such es
Establishments. Its inhabitants are and long will
Re in state Of continual, intense excitement
For years to come, life there will alternate be
tween the chilis Of disappointment and the fe
'ers OF success To community in such con
oition' sober, steady industry can present n,
charms, and its exposure to gambling, intemper
ance and kindred vices will be fesrfully great
Surely people in such condition will have diff
hculties enough TO contend against without In
cifhculties which follow in the train of the pc
euliar Institution.
The people of California have acted wisely
they have consulted their own true interest \
securing themselves at the outset from the evil
OF slavery. They have also done good ser
vice to the cause Of freedom. They have con
ferred favor upon their country and upo
mankind. Ii is great and good thing that tn
question of freedom or slavery has been answer
ed and so well answered in those remote regions
thet country, upon which the eyes of tn
world are turned with eager interest, has bee
csnsecrated to freedom. The friends Of free
dom every where will rejoice. We trust tha
the CslifOrnians will always maintain the posi-
ton which they have taken and be true to lib
erty.
We observe that the telegraphic reports stat
that free negroes are to be excluded from Cali
fornis, but they do not inform US whether tn
prohibition is constitutional regulation o
not. We should regret to learn that any sucl
clause had been inserted in the Constitution
As we have often said in the E Iaminer we re
gard the problem Of slavery as the great problem
OF the day, and one, in the solution of which
all parts Of our widely-eStended country are in
terested. Ii lisa problem undoubtedly yery diff
cult to be solved, but the difficulty, great al
-
II may be, will not be found insuperable if IN,
mental and moral resources and the wealth q
the whole nation can be brought to bear upor
its solution. We would therefore have all part,
OF the country feel interested in the problem
and willing % bear their share in the burden,
and difficulties incident to Its solution. But 4
Is in vain for the free States TO profess an I'm.
terest In the matter, If they deliberately shut ou
the colOred man from their limits. One of IN.
greatest difficulties in the way Of the triumph
Of freedom is found in the compression of IN,
colored race within comparatively small bounds
Were the whole race equally scattered through.
out the length and breadth Of our vast national
domain, its presence would hardly be felt Lei
then the free States, instead Of excluding th,
free colored man from their limits, receive him
kindly and give him opportunities of menta
and moral improvement. The colored man will
thus have the strongest induce nents presented
to him to do well, and the free States will thus
prove to the slave States that the Interest which
they profess to feel in the welfare Of the coored
race is deep and genuine.