Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-03-29

and if Mr.. Benton would proceed 10 the matter,
he was ready 10 meet him.
AIR Dickenson moved to lay the motion pend
ing on the table, which was agreed to.
In the House, a. 81 small affair came
off between one of the Wilmot guard,
Preston King of New York, and Mr..
Speaker Cobb-the former having charged
the latter with mutilating the Journal
In the House Of Representatives..
Mr. THURsroN said he was the first represent
atlve from Oregon on this floor. lie came here
not as party man, though he belonged to par
ty. He came here not as sectional man, tho
he belonged to section. Oregon was deeply
interested in the question before the committee
He had been griev ed to hear California sandered,
and heaped all over with calumny, because she
has dared to use the first law of nature to pro-
tect themselves and form a constitution and ask
for admission. His opinion was that California
should be admitted into the Union without pluck
ing a single hair from the silver locks OF her
golden constitution.
He held that any State has not only consti-
tutional right to ask, but to demand, admission.
Mr.. Calhoun, in the Senate, took the ground,
that when State presents herself with pro-
per constitution, Congress has no right to deny
her admission. If SO, they run over the consti-
tuition and law. The question is, is the consti-
tuition of California republican? In the whole
history Of this country constitution cannot be
found more republican, and with more extended
views with regard to human rights. Objection
had been made to her boundaries; but she has
but the one good harbor that deserves to be so
entitled, and this he proceeded to show from the
book of Capt. Wilkes, and his own observation
She contains no more area than she ought to-
One hundred and forty-four thousand square
1,.l-. l., bah haIl IL l..
prove that California does not contain one-third
the arabic land of Ohio-not one fourth of Penn
sylyania-not one-fifth of Virginia, reckoning
those States as containing arabic land Captain
Wilkes thought that the amount of arabic land
does not exceed twelve thousand square miles
California, according to Mr.. Cotton, does not ex-
ceed the old Bay State in agricultural resources
The country for the most part was barren-the
abodes Of wolves and birds of prey, and their
appearance indicates thatthey are nearly starved.
He conten6ed that the convention to form the
State Constitution was not brought about by
Gen. Taylor; in other words that the constitu-
tion was crammed down their throats 1t was
purely matter of the people themselves. He
gave history of past events, TO prove that
neither Gen. Riley, Gen. Taylor, nor Hon. T.
Butler King had anything TO do with the forma-
ton of the constitution. The man who on the
platform of public meeting there, endeayored
to show that Riley was right, was Kissed off If
Gen. Taylor had endeavored to dictate one-haIf
he would have found himself mistaken Hon.
i. B. King never sat foot on the soil of Mon
terey while the convention was sitting. lf Mr..
King had endeavored to influence the people lie
could not have done so, for the Democrats were
suspicious that he came there to make California
a Wing State. He had no more influence with
the people than the man in the moon. II he
had made any recommendation, II Is likely they
would have acted to the contrary.