Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-09-01
PIE PRESIDENT AND THE CALI
FORNIA QUESTION.


The New York Evening Post Of the 2lst IN
slant contained an article. abiding to The Presi'
dent and his Cabinet, from which we quote the
following passages;
WThe following letter seems to indicate that our
views on the principal question OF the day (thc sla-
very eneon) are not 20 the taste othose gentlemen:
40 as Proprietors q The Nese Yerk Erening Posi:
"GrxrtsaES: am directed u inform you that
the subscription 10 your paper on the part Of this
Department is discontinued.
you will please transmit your account 10 the date
Of voar reception O. this notice for payment.
II am, very respectfully, your obcdient servant
sEpwAEp SruBBs, Register.
oWhen we consider the desire Of General Taylor
that Congress should adopt the scheme Of Walker,
which con empated the erecting Of California into
an absolute prlnepality under the President, who
was to be The arher Of the slave question within its
boundaries, we could no, hava expected shat the
Evening Post should be regarded with particular
favor by the State Department. The fact that, after
he came to Washington il February, Gen. Taylor
interested himself in favor d the scheme, and was
anxious that It mould get majority in the House
Of Representatives is not denied BY any paper in
Washington nor will It be-
And in speech delivered by Mr.. J. X. Gid.
dings, at Warren, in Ohio, since bis return home
from Congress- and Published in tho Cleveland
Herald, we find the following assertion
Notwithstanding tho Allison letter. and the pre-
tending pledges Of Gen. Taylor TO leave all gpes-
tons Of legislation entirely to Congress he gasf5uad
personally argipg members # Congress 10 pass Mr.,
/ Walkers amendment through, attached as It was
| to tho Appropriation Bill. The first movement Of
the fast friend Of the Wilmot provso after he had
arrived at our nations capital, was 10 gips his per-
soaal iqaaaes 70 alsasarede eject q 'ohiea ices to
ertead siarery"
The above articles reached US from different
quarters about the same time, and satisfied tha,
they misrepresenied the motives and conduct Oh
/ The President in the matter referred to, we have
taken some pains TO ascertain the facts in the
case, and nos beg briefly TO state them.
! Il was very natural that the President and
bis friends should, in common with all the friends
Of the country, anuou5ly desire that some law
should pass Congress to enable the Executive Ia
govern California : 10 prevent those scenes Of
rot and hoodshed which have disgraced the
new Territories in their present state of unbri,
died anarchy; to subject the people, and espcci
nlly the muItitudes now proceeding to the gold
region, TO the saluiary restraints OF law and or
der; and 10 redeem ctr solemn treaty obligation
with Mexico 10 maintain n government for The
protection If the country we had obtained from
her. The President aud his friends wete doubt
lass earnestly DESTROYS that Congress should fully
enable him 10 see the laws faithfully executed il
California aud New Mexico. But we can tax,
,p,oa o4f8elt 10 say, that il Is untrue that eth
or he o. they expressed any preference for Mr.
Walkers amendment over Mr.. Websters or an
other proposition equally effective with either L
attain the desired end. His object was the es
adjustment Of government of some sort anC
either provision would have satisfied him which
appeared most acceptable TO Congress. IL II
untounded and malicious TO represent him NJ
having souqbtlo throw his weight either for O.
against tho Free Soil party.
Should the Free Soil panty or any portion o
it. hereafter be detected in any act evincng I
deliberate parpos, to prevent the formation o
any civil government in California or New MEX
leo, so as to keep mp The agitation between tn
North and the South for sectional party Objects
the President may find tito be his solemn dut
to lrown Indignantly on that, as not merely th
first dawung, but the "periect day" OF an al
tempt to ALLEVIATE one portion ofth Union iror
another.
A word to the Evening Post as TO the discon