Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-07-06

hon ask Wnetnei 10 adopting we should not Do consult
ing higher considerations than any of temporary po
expedency ask whether reasons Of pre-eminen and
general importance do demand that we should sustain the
amendment OF the Senator from louisiana
But, Mr. President there still another claim for this amend
nenL Anterior TO the formation OF this State constitution by
California, Desere formed State Territorial constitution,
and established her boundary. Deseret which lies mme-
datey east OF California, has outlet the except
through the southern part of California They find their
outlet to the ports that have mentioned They have no
practicable commercial connexon whatever with San Fran
cisco. This most forciby shown while Colonel Mason
the military Governor of that Territory, wished TO obtain
troops from the settlement at the Salt Lake. An officer was
detached for the purpose but being able direct
be had TO keep the side of the Sierra Nevada
which stood covered WALL for distance OF more than
three hundred miles, before he found any opening through
which he could pass ae which he had travel north to
nearly the parallel from which started 1t Is best
think therefore, that this country of South California should
stand alone. She ought TO have distinct organization
but that is not done, then the proper and natural
thing remaining to be done is attach it Deseet which
has claimed part Of it. and to which belongs by nature
more properly than to North California.
But the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts, mr.
WEBsTER remarked yesterday that reduced TO an
aernatve-that have admit California State, or
that she will be separated from the Union Mr. President,
these words also from the shores Of the Pacic and
what foundation there be for them The people OF Cali
na knock at your doors for admission into the Union, at
the told that they suffering protection
and assistance They have State government, and
there interference prevent their OF all its func
Indeed, poItions OF the
Uni ed States kept there for their benefit They claim
in order to enable them to carry their State govern
men the aid Of the Federal Government With what face
them do they talk others for hem of their seeding from
the United States and setting Of their own
Why sir it is idle They need the protection of this Gov
ernment and wish them have it. the less because they
have attempted selgovenmen before they competent
sustain themselves With this connected another nqu
y. Were they prompted TO form State government,
it by their option appears have been because
they invited to il who had right to the exercise
the civil functions which he assumed with which be
improperly invested. They urged to it by the officers
of the army in California The proclamation under which
Convention convened makes strange declaration.
1t that the laws Of Mexico made the military
dant officio civil Governors
"The undersigned, in accordance with instructions from
the Secretary of War; has assumed the OF civil
affairs in California; not military Governor but as the
cuve of the existing civil In the absence Of
properly appointed civil Governor the commanding officer of
the department is by the laws of California; oco civil
OF country and the instructions from ashngon
based the provisions these laws This subject has
been mrepresented least msconceyed and currency
given the impression that the government Of the country
is still military Such is the FACT The military govern
ended with the war; and what remains is the chill gov
ernment recognised in the existing laws of California
Now that the doctrine which has been put forward
here that the Mexican laws in force in the Territories
But far learn, there any such law that
proclamation appeals Ia this volume contained
digest Of these laws, and will read section which be-
longs to this case, and believe decides it a*
In temporary default OF the Governor another shall be
named ad interim in the the proper III
should be Of DURATION the senior anguo)
member of the departmental legislature shall take charge
the Government he shall in like do during the
interval which may take place between the default of the
Governor proper and the appointment of his ad
Interim"
Thep sir was the oldest member of their Legislature
who became Governor ocio when the office
1t the oldest member Of the departmental Legislature who
should have succeeded If, indeed, the civil government
which the acquisition of that territory by the Uni
ted States continued why should the Mexican governor
have resumed bis duties with the restoration Of peace with
their in force and their officers restored their functons
American emgrants would have realized the full force OF this
doctrine. .~. .-s
But here sir is proof Of the aacy OF the whole ounda-
ton of this argument for supremacy of Mexican laws No
relied upon it has been willing follow his
gument the conclusion which it leads Else why
the legislature of the departments Of California called
gether No believed it them The thing has received
| life from political incubation here
But the Senator from Massachusetts, assumed another posi-
ton which wish notice. He stated in opposition
all those geographical facts which have presented that if
had the power arrange this boundary could make
better one than they have made Now, sir it would be
very surprising indeed if convention, without any know
ledge Of the country for which they to establish gov
enmen should chance to fall upon the best boundary that
could be established 1t would be strange they could do
the fist guess and would be stranger still it, after vary
ing with every extaneous thus received they should
finally by chance settle upon the boundary best suited to the
formation of The State First, in ignorance Of the fact tina.
the people of Deeret had formed government it pro-
posed include that country Then boundary adopt
including part OF the country beyond the mountains and
appears that the belief existed that the Sierra Nevada
down to the Colorado river After all this led the
conclusion, by what found in the debates Of the Conven
on that the boundary finally adopted selected because
the country which Gen. Riley had ordered dele
gates be elected They considered themselves bound
therefore, adopt that boundary, and they did claim
to inquire what limits Nature had prescribed Now, sir,
Senators of the United States to lock up their ineect
shut all of information and adopt the boundaries
of the State which Gen. Riley happened to select that from
| which he would call delegates to the Convention
The Senator also says that Southern labor could be pro-
fably used in this country. Why, sir Do white men
work in the burning Of south California Are the
products there of that tropical character which,
temperate climate, demand slave labor Those vaeys-now,
it is true, great extent deser-were prolific of pro-
ducts which form the staples Of the Southern States Even
now amid the ruins Of the old missions to be found aque
ducts that conveyed the from the mountains and irr
gated and fertzed the plains Wherever is found in
sufficient abundance, entepsng people will develop the
capabilities of The country and will again be covered with
the profitable productions to which its soil and climate is
adapted 1t may become the rival for the growth long
pie cotton which produced the islands of the
United States So far able to learn it is, Of the
whole country of the United States the best adapted
growth of the olive and the grape Why, them may MOI this
country become great in its agricultural resources permit
ted introduce that species Of labor which bear the scorch
ing of tropical sun Now they have it in the copper-co
oed Indians, who readily passnto serve condition. and
for the irregular demand which Is made upon them
the present limited cultivation but after those changes which
anticipate, whence they draw the labor
required for that climate from the slaves Of the United
States Without these that country must long remain un
cultivated will not repeat what have heretofore said
OF right to transfer this species of labor that country
and the which would result