The Arkansas banner., 1849-10-02
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.eovernmsns Of Californin.

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 The gEeal blander in the mail arrangements, by which lhe maih ffom California, by the Empire Cay, ware carried past this city 10 New Yosk, de- pves us ofa connected view of te political affairs ia that region The latest sccoant is received, and i gives the sesat of the elections n the city Of Ssn Fsaisesco About sixte eeu hundred votes were cast, which sh0ws considerable population n thai place We saFPoses however, that the RnmbeV of non-vo- lsrs mast be small, There are very few women aad children or gfowns males under age. The mass of the population is composed, we doubt not. of iuli gfawn snea Of middle fife Indeed. California pre- sents Ne suppose the single instance ia the history of State--ior Ssnie t IS soon to be--.hich has started instantaneonsly into political existence, framed hy men of mature age, Os whom thr prepon- daFAtlag majority have been accustomed To study the Rasure and take part tn he administration of re- publ can governments. Setting aside some con flietiag tbe0fi~s which prevailed among them on subiees of temporary policy and local controversy when af home. the population of California, wild, it nay be tn The adventurous character of many that compose it, will be found. we think. unahmious in its views upon alt the material and fundamental principles Of republican insitutions, and much bei- ter qualified to establish such frame of govern menl and administer it PrHdently and wisely than the best educated classes of the most civilized Flu rOpean nations when just emaneipated, by revou- ti0u, from the forms habits and long associations Of despotisTn. The insensible culture in the duties ofeitixenship and the rights of citizens in self governing community, which is acquired even by the unfsneetng in well ordered republics, is wo5'h more Tor the laying of fonndatioh for new and stable commonwealth, than all the learning of the most subtle of philosophers elsewhere. plain observant voter in one of onf States would be a better counsellor in the making of constitutions than Locke, the Abbe Sieyes, or Lamartine.
 Weget 10 positive intimation ot what the people of California will do on the slavery question; but aiithe signs point 10 the conclusion that it will be prohibited in the new constitution. This will, oi course. be the end of the Wimot Provso eontro- veFsy, az respects that portion of the newly acquired
 territories; fof we believe no patty ia the country denies the power of the people of State 10 pohibiI slavery in their organic law. There IS party, and we tear large one, which would not admit the right of California to sanction slavery in her con. sttuiion and who stand ready io insist upon graft ing the ressrctoH upon the act of admission under the penalty Of exclusion from the Union. There Is determined number who will never consent to the admission of . slave State into the Union on any terms. lt Is the doctrine of he new party of Tree s0iifrs and of the old whigs of the North The free soilers \ M not be conient with ihe silence of new constitution. They will demand prohibition by act of Congress. The agitation of this question, tAeseiore will not with the formation o State, unless the Stsie is free Satenot merely by force ot the non-enaetment oi law authorizing slavery. but by formal act ierbldding il. The ony presenf end Oi the conflict that subject to which the a,l- mission Of California as State can tehd requires the constitutional exclusion of slavery and we are constrained 10 say that all the appearances in Cai- fovnla indicate that such prohibition will be adopted.
 We have no doubt that tlds is! the settlement 10 which General Taylor alluded several times in his speeches. in his late tour, as likely to take place, and which would be satisfactory 10 the pecple ol tue North. We afe confined io this opinion by a passage in the address o George P. Marsh. oI Yer. nOnt, to his constituents. issued on taking his leave ct teln to go abroad mission 10 Constantinople to which he has been just appointed by General Taylor. He makes a statement oi the policy oi the Administration, upon the correctness oi which he adds, |" l am content 10 risk whatever may pos sess of reputation as of verscity and honor.' In this he says hst neither he tihe Presdent) nor ' hts cabinet expect desire ,he extension of sla- very into California oi New Mexico--but that on the contrary, the Administration is now enconra- ging the formation ot constitution ih these terri tories, with view 10 their immediate admission "into ine Union States, and that not with bare expectations, but with almost certain knowi-
 edge that Their constitutions will contain absolute "prohibtioas of the existence of slavery in any "po''ion ol the territory lately eeded to us by "Mexieo"
 lhss is high authority for the expectation Of the government, and the strongest indication we have seen oi what is likely to be the character of inc new constitution ot California, in respect to the admis- s'oaor exclusion of sIasery.--N. o. Crescent.