The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1850-09-14
From tlc Hos'on Aths.
CALIFORNIA AND NEW MEXICO,

The electric telegraph has already appraised
our rUndrrs ihn' ilr- areat--tliu all salaurbing
uurstioua Of tie das have, los the action Of
the fiuuvr, brru- fiuHiiy u'itu-tttis Ntili-t
mpidiy which hai taken every one hy sur
prise, the successive passagcs of these mo-
mcutuus bills have followed close upon each
others heels The passage NJ tn Boundary
iiiti ~ Nirt'UHrrr, with n tcrrtturIul f.dNer,'-
mcnt for New Mexico. hls hcCu followed, at.
ter only tht most brief interval, by the pas
sage ola hill giving territorial government
"a pb,h, nul -h} tho admission of California
a. free State, with her tree Constitution.
her tcrrilor, uudiuinishcl and her hounda-
rirs a. she herself has fixed them. The last
il the great crowuing act in this important
Isslitifal drama, aud rccOnriles ~, ~ part At
least, 90 much we wish had been otherwise ia
the adjustment Of these important questions.
California j. admitted ~ Free state. That
important point il gained. \ question of mo-
ncntou, Importance has therein been adius-
ted m the most satisfactory manner so far a.
that question alone !. concerned. IL "a true
that this act of Justice has been long imprdp-
Crly DELAYED We hail IL with none the lees
satisfaction on that account The whole Ia
ci6c shore, from the tarthcst northern point
Of Oregon 90 the EXTREMIST south of Calitor-
MIA, is forever secured to freedom! That At
least l. something substantial gained in this
great struggle. Happen what may elsewhere,
tt.ft-t RIM tEIyi't' OVrf lii- nitirN TsTH'i
IL j., indeed, mumcutuus, glorious result
We cannot well over estimate IL importance
IN all coming time. California, dcstincd,prob-
ably oven in orr dav, to become the largest
aud most powerful State IN our ruuii'dcrtry;
il forever secured to freedom. The whole
Pacific shore Is uupolluted 10y slavery. Thus
much AZ least il secure. The rest is vet be-
fore us 90 gain or 20 lose, ag the North shall
prove true or false Ia her duty.
The boundary question between New Mex
leo aud Texas has been adjusted hot entire
~ ~ has been wished, but still much more
satisfactorily adjusted than We at one time
apprchcndrd il might Ice. New McNicb re-
taius all her inhabited territory, and it we
may rely upon the best information, all the
inhahitablc territory that ever belonged to
her. IL is true that she parts with n large
tract of land claimed ms hers; but IT, as we
believe, this is not only without inhabitants
but destined 10 remain so in all coming time,
by its sterile and unproductivc nature, the
objections to this division lose nearly all their
Importance. 1t is hut a small sacrifice in so
great aud important an adjustment.
We cannot, however, disguise how much
tratiftatit,ti cite adjustment the.
boundary question is alleged 10y the incorpor-
atoh with il of provisions for n territorial
government for New Mrxiru,- without any
prohibition of slavery. This great, we hope
il may not prove to have been "A fatal omis-
sion, turns our rejoicing, il not into deep
grief, certainly into painful and anxious APP
prchcusions for the hrtttrc 1t makcs an un-
certainty where we might and ought to have
had a ccptUuty. II keeps open the agitating
question of Freedom or slavery in New Mex
leo, which might and ought 10 have been de-
cidcd now in favor offrcedom. We had hop
ed that the House of Representatives, in
which is majority of fifty northern men,
would have consented tn no territorial gov
crnmcut in which the curse of slavery was,
mot rrrrrrit f,unrvirtt-,+--st,f,-t. Ie7tl'is we
have Eecn most painfully Disappointed. 1t
remains now only with the people of New
Mexico, themselves, TO determine, as the pto-
pie Of California have done before them, that
this great evil shall he kept from their Dor
dcrs. lfthey will but do this, and we have
great confidence they will, all may yet be we'll
Had the House but made il secure, and left
nothing to chance, it would have been much
more satisfactory; and though il might have
delayed it could not have prevented the final
contamination of all these important results.
eS DIEp--On Tuesday, Sept. g. in the
State of Vermont, "Free Democracy" young
cal SON of Ilnrl,ir Sinnsbury Eastman. appd