The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-02

members Of the House--from deep love Of
the Union-and to save it from rupture, and
the train Of unnumbered calamities which
must ensue-have vowed in their hearts, be
the consequences what they may, to resist
her admission as she is, at all personal sac
rifces, and to the last extremity.
But am happy to relieve the minds Of
such of your readers as can place any reli-
ance upon the warnings and assurances of an
anonymous scribbler, that do not doubt at
all that MIR. Clay's bill must be defeated in
the Senate, unless such radical notifications
are made in it that it will no longer be Mr..
Clay's bill, or the Committees bill, but the
Senate's BILL The most indulgent estimates
have heard made-allowing Mr. Clay ev-
cry doubtful vote-has never brought up the
friends Of the measure beyond twenty-seven;
not countenancing, of course, so grave a
Jest, so bold a caricature, as the estimate
4 which Includes General Morton, of Florida,
and Messrs. Borland and Sebastian, OF Ar
kansas, who are as firm and steadfast in their
opposition as the Sierra Nevada ITSELF
Moreover, it is very far from being fixed
fact" that either Messrs. Berrien, Under
wood, Pierce, King, Rusk, Houston, will
give it their support without important
changes.
Besides the eloquent Senator from Loui-
siana, Mr.. Soule, has the floor for Mon
day next, on his important substitute for all
of the bill that relates to California; and if
the judgment of his intimate friends is to be
trusted, his reasonings upon the necessity Of
reducing her boundaries, and making an Or
dinance for securing the public domains to
the United States, prior to her admission
into the Union, will be altogether unanswer-
able. Contingently upon this, | could name
several Northern and Western Senators,
(both those who are for, and those who are
against the bill, who have declared, that
should Mr.. Soule make good his grounds,
either that the public lands will be lost, or
seriously put in jeopardy, by admitting her
as she is, they would oppose it, either in the
present, or separate bill, until the proper
conditions were complied with not that
their constituencies love the Wilmot Proviso
less, but that they loved the public treasure
more! Nous perrons!
The obvious corollaries, from what has
been said, seem to be these:
l. If Mr.. Clay's Compromise Bill passes,
we shall see an end of the Union.
2. If the Presidents plan prevails, and
California is admitted separately, and as she
$, the result will be the same.
8. Mr.. Cay's has not the smallest chance
of success, even in the Senate.
4. The Presidents separate bill admitting
!, Ca ifornia, can never pass the House, while
the Southern members there remain united
and resolved to save the Union from the in.
| evitable consequences Of that unwise ane
e most disastrous measure.
: S. No measure materially variant from
3 Mr.. Soule's bill, (the substitute running
the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific
, establishing a territorial government fol
= s'South California; and pro Getting the pub.
: lie domain from forfeiture and escheat to the
, State, can pass both Houses Of Congress.
6. If Mr.. Soule's bill succeeds, it car
only be because a concliatory spirit pre-
= walls, and then all else will be easy OF ad
d justment.
n 7. If that bill fails, nothing will be done
= and the wisest thing that Congress can do
e will be to pass the appropriation bills, ad
e journ over past the dog days, part in peace
: submit the whole issue to the people of tn
r United States, return to the Capitol will
, fresh instructions, and as they shall speak
decide.
1t is great evil to keep California in
suspense, and great evil to leave the terri
tories of Utah and New Mexico under mil
itary governments, and great evil to leave
the boundary dispute between the latter and
!, Texas unadjusted but all these evils shrink
, to the dimensions of atomies, compared with
the unutterable evil Of risking the existence
of this glorious Union upon some ominous
: finale to these distractng, turbulent, and
exasperating debates.
Take these speculations for what they are
: worth. If they are sound, make them
known. If they ere not, cast them away
Who has written them, matters not. If o.
value, he will hear them praised. If they
are not, he already disavows them. Hence
the incognitio; hence the stat nominis um
bra.
ANONYME.
From the "Savannah Republican," June Oath
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