The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-20

Iuiious tdliH Pollcy are Out hiuicduOnS OF u
'fanciful and fictitious suffering and distress. +"
But the end is not yet.
The Union begins a reply to some remarks
we made on Saturday, by saying that we ''seem
To deny that the adoption of the adjustment
brought forward by the Committee ofThirteen
would put a stop to the Wilmot proviso contro-
versy." Seem to deny If the strongest ex-
preston of an opinion upon any future event
that can be given without arrogating infalli-
bility constitutes denial, we imagine that we
have already given, and cannot hesitate to re-
iterate it. We can see no tendency in the
project of the committee to quiet that contro-
versy on the contrary, it seems plain to us
that its adoption would only serve to give in
creased energy and violence to the demand for
the proviso.
The committee would retain New Mexico
and Utah within the legislative jurisdiction of
Congress, for period which they regard as of
indefinite prolongation. During all this time,
even if the opponents of the proviso were to
take no steps to defeat the object of that mea-
sure--the limitation of slavery to its existing
confnes-what assurance have we that the
advocates of the proviso would not insist upon
prohibitory enactments by Congressl
The Union objects to the PRESIDENTS plan
that New Mexico and California would be '.shut
out to any experiment of the slave property OF
the South" Experiment implies trial with
doubt and risk. Doesthe Union fancy that an
experiment can be conducted by one party with
out its antagonist experimenting also to defeat
its object2
Good, easy souls, the Union must deem these
provisoists, when it ventures to forewam them
that it has found out plan by which an ex-
pertinent is To be made-not in hurry, but
protracted through some years-for introducing
slavery into New Mexico, and endeavoring to
naturalize it in that region, yet prognosticate
that ''the mad fanaticism" Of resisting the at
tempt will not be tolerated.
IF the PRESIDENT desired to keep this
question out of Congress-" says the Union,
she should have recommended some measure
which would settle it one way or the other.''
What question: The question whether sla-
very shall be allowed TO exist in New Mexico
and Utah2 This it is precisely which we I'M
( derstand the PRESIDENT TO have desired 10 keep
/ out Of Congress. But what measure of settle
ment was he to PROPOSED Not that Of the COM
mittee, certainly, for the Union informs us tina,
! their plan, so far from settling the question,
only provides that the opportunity shall be pre-
served Of experimenting for a series Of years to
ascertain how il is TO be eventually settled
''Settle il one way or the other" says the
| Union, declaring the PREsIDENT's plan nothing
more than disreputable evasion Of legitimate
responsibility, while almost in the same breath
it denounces that plan as a fragrant wrong, be-
cause. according to it, the Territories would ''be
shut out to any experiment Of the slave labor OF
the South" in other words, because it would
be final settlement 1t would be well enough
for the Union to make its objections TO the
| PRESIDENTS recommendation consistent with
each other.
The Union asks If we mean t0 say /" that il
| the PRESIDENTS recommendation had been
adopted soon as il was sent in, tine Wilmot
proviso controversy would have been stopped7''
We have no hesitation in replying in the at
| firmative. We are not certain that the pro-
visoists, of the Unon's own political household,
would have Immediately ceased their agitation,
but they would have been rendered impotent at
once, and would have soon ceased to be annoy
ing. SO far as the Wings of the North are con-
cerned, we are warranted now in saying what
they would have done in that contingency, for
we see what they have done They have, with
one accord, ceased the agitation for the provso.
The Wing party Of the North have accepted
the truly national, republican, wise, and concil-
atory proposition of their Chief Magistrate.
II opened to them the way for ceasing to insist
upon the enactment of the proviso, without
subjecting themselves to the imputation Of in
consistency, and an abandonment of their prin-
ciples, and they are following it,