The southern press., 1850-10-09

|r;eE 6ins5s 81 a. VI III cr;S L bsionrsd 10 .
lyo9 ind u4sand ~ the p4Dls z common Of ahs
tIuieed 0,61is. Those wl]n would intruds them.
ssI5s4 upon she d6untry apd take exclusive pos
essen un~ar th4eic'um e their own will, mass
as he agent Of the States. IN alone constitution
ally authorized 70 specify the regulations by which
the country coutd be rightfdiy settled uP--and
none without such intervention of the General
Government Congress eading) could be entitled
to any immunities in California, except the orgi-
nal inhabitants who conquered with the
country, and whose possessions were secured un-
der the Mexican treaty Nor would thay have
any right to depart from the regulations OF the
provisional government gwen them ny their con-
querers until Congress- the agent of the people Of
United States, should enact other regulations for
them.
Again Mr.. Crawford says: g Congress has no
right 10 even examine into the municipal arrange
ments Of a State applying for admission into the
Union only as u her republican, form Of govern.
ment." We aak ~ not Congress sworn TO sup
port the Constitution? And Is it not about the
first named object Of that sacred instrument, to
| secure justice to the people Of the States Of the
Uniona Would il not then be the constitutional
obligation OF C0ngresn TO pry into the character
| and conduct OF any people assuming the right TO
form pretended State organization for admission
into the Union, and il found 70 have proceeded
without authority and 10 be most grossly pervert-
ing justice, Congress would be constitutionally
bound TO reject the application of such spurious
organization and to infict upon them merted
chastisemeet But to be short, why did not Mr..
Crawford come out with confession Of that most
| abominable fraud which has cheated the South out
Of her just share in California, and has smuggled
that vast empire OF territory single State into
the Union under circumstances, fraught with in
| evitable ruin to the whole South; Why did he
not tell the whole truth in the case, and say at
once that the reason of non-ncton in reference TO
NJ. a. L.. ~. L.
Gen. Taylor first year (the balance Of l049) was
because he stood pledged to the North to carry
out their WilmOt scheme, to exclude the South
from every foot of the newly acquired territory.
While on the other hand, in the mean time,
certain Southern States had pledged them selves by
| solemn resolutions to secede from the Uni IN, If
he snould not veto such bill' and that it took
Gen. Taylors abolition cabinet, with Mr.. Seward
to help them, during the balance OF l849, to con-
coct and execute the ad ninistration provlso which
was to post off Mr.. KING, Of Georgia, with secret
dispatches to California, directing them to form
for themselves State cnbstitution--tO include in
their boun iares the untold region Of the Caifor-
MIA Territory-extending upon the Pacific coast,
about thousand miles and embracing an area
sufficient, so far as any body knows, to form
n dozen States Of ordinary size, to say To
them that the Wiimot Proviso must be affx-
ed to their constitution, as the sine qua non to
their admission into the Union, and to the success
OF the Abolition majority IN Congress, in carrying
out their determined purpose to exclude the South
forever from thatimmense and invaluable country,
tor the conquest and purchase of Which the South
had poured out her blool and treasure in common
with the North, but in far greater proportion. .l
But MIR. Crawford beg an to feel somewhat sick,
and had to wind up without particuarzing in the
case Of New Mexico and the dismemberment Of
Texas. Had he not been so unweIl, and felt ut
liberty to reveal secrets, he could perhaps have
informed his hearers that the same Cabinet in
trigue which sent Mr.. King to California to in
duce her to assume the attitude Of State claim
ing admission into the Union. also sent another
| special agent to Santa Fe, to influence them, in
| connection with New Mexico to form similar
organization for the like purpose-pu.ting up the
people Of the Santa Fe country to resist the in
iention Of Texas to extend her Jurisdiction over
that part of her State--that the General Govern
| ment, by the aid of her sword and purse, would
compel that weak and embarrassed State to yield
TO this predatory measure against the South, aud
thus enable the Aboitionists not only to appro-
pirate to themselves New Mexico territory on the
West Of the Rio Grande, common to the people
Of the United States, but carve ofr and give to
them the large portion Of Texas, slave State,
enough to make, perhaps, several free States OF
the slave territory of Texas lying up and down
the Fast side Of the Rio Grande secured to the
South by the treaty Of annexation. But how
happens it that the Cabinet scheme Of getting
into the Union, State, New Mexico,
with this severed portion Of Texas tackled on
it, failed and that Congress has made territory
of it, as we are trumphantly told, without attach
| ing to it's government the offensive Wilmot Pro-
visoi Was not the organization Of New Mexico
,,ld this part Of Texas " a new State, and enti-
tied equally with California to come into the
Union? Oh, but there some little difficulty
here. Texas likely to kick up a small fuss
Besides the inhabitants Of New Mexico and Santa
Fe composing this proposed State, although per-
hars about as numerous as the legal voters in
California, were molly mixture Of races-In-
dians, Mustegoes, Gamboes, and, and what not
rather less respectable than the others; and it may
be this explains Mr.. Crawford Is saying with some
considerable emphasis, that Congress has the dis
cretlon TO admit new States into the Union. That
authoritative body then is not obliged, in duty
| bound, to admit all new States applying. They
exercised their discretion in the Of California
| fhvorably to her admission, because it would al
once secure that immense and valuable country to
the AboIitionlsts and that very circumstance be-
came the great and certain means Of getting the
balance Of the territories filled up with Abolition
lists, as few shareholders would care to venture
into any Of them, since they would border upon
the great free Stute of California;; besides, espe-
cally as Congress have invariably evaded every
attempt Of the Southern minority to get repealed
the old Mexican law, which Messrs. Stephens,
Clay, and Benton, and all the Northern members
have all t.1e while alleged be in full force in the
wtroe Of the acquired territory, and which they
thus held up as bugbear to frighten savehold-
erS tTOH CarVytnS tnelT properly 70 california;;
and will as efectually kesp them out of all the
rest.
Therefore, as the deep laid plan of CALIFORNIA;
admission would Incidentally secure all the terri
tory to the Abotionsts, Congress in its discretion
thought it best not to hurry New Mexico into the
Union, lest it might become the means Of opening
the eyes Of the Southern people to the scandaous
fraud Of General TayIor's abolition Cabinet, and
prevent certain political aspirants to high Office,
from being able through their well directed efforts,
to gull the South into tame submission. But how
could Mr.. Crawford sum up the hardhood to as
set in his closing remarks that the South had not
been wronged by Congress in all this matter;
that no aggressive act or offensive proviso had
been passed against us' Did he think the South
so dull as not to believe herself wronged in being
cheated out Of the whole Of her dearly bought
territory-deprived Of all political equality in the
Union--and to have her institution Of slavery so
trammelled as to compel it 10 anguish under its
own impedments, till it necessarily become an in
tolerabIe burdens That all this is wrong
Moreover that the act of Congress in the adn,is-
sion of California has placed the Southern States
in position where to lie--stiil must in the pro-