Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-09-21
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the senate lnOSe DOp6S ana wishes have
now been fulfilled in a manner which has not
only given ourselves the highest qualification,
but has spread general JOY thro'out the land
In one particular we were at fault We
mistook the time. Il was not the elast week
in August" But the first week 10 Septem-
Der, which was destined to witness the success
of the measures Of pasification There seems
to be something not inappropriate in this. All
know that it was on the 7th day of March that
a speech was delivered in the senate, of which
we now need say no more than that it treated
OF all those great topics, and treated them in q
manner, with a power, Cancellation, a nation
alIty, which guarantying, as it were, similar
conservative views IN the great body Of the
north and west, first inspired the friends of the
union with confidence in an ultimate happy
termination of fierce and threatening contro-
versy. Exactly six months from that day, that
| is, on the 7th of September, the general senti-
ments and principles of that speech received
the final sanction of both houses of congress
1t has been a half year of overwhelming in
terest. To the friends of union and the con
stitution in congress, it has been series of in
cessant labors and Of excitement and anxious
hours; and to all lovers of the union out Of
congress period of deep concern and depress
sion, sometimes approaching to hopelessness.
The measures that are about TO become
laws are such as to change the entire face of
public affairs; to give strength and stability to
our institutions; to diffuse confidence through
out all the channels of commerce, and to cheer
and gladden. all the aboGes of industry; to en-
courage all lawful and honorable enterprises,
and to discourage all such as might be perni-
cious either to the national reputation or the
national peace.
Even already the telegraph, from north,
south and west, gives us in its reports of the
general Joy, the assurance that in this enurner-
alton of its probable influences we do not over
rate the immediate advantages, as we trust
we do not the more remote ones, of this ac-
ton on the part of congress.
One of the gratifying circumstance attend
ing the whole case remains to be named--and
that IS the extraordinary good temper and kind-
ness with which the great body of the mem-
bers of congress- and every one else, saluted
each other when the controversy was over
All rejoiced that it wos over, and as we have
stated, large majority rejoiced at the particu-
lar result It was indeed refreshing to see
and to feel that breeze, We had almost said
| gale, of old fashioned American feeling per-
vaded the house, filed as it was, besides its
members, with anxious crowds Of senators and
others. Nat. Intel
From the N. Y. cour. &, Iquirsr.
Congress has completed its work Of com
promise and Cancellation We chronicled on
Saturday the passage by the house Of repre-
sentatives, of the bill fixing the boundary of
Texas and establishing territorial govern
ment for New Mexico, and our report on the
next page shows that on Saturday the house
passed the bill admitting California, by deci-
sive voteo of $50 to 81, and the one establish
ing territorial government for Utah, 81 to e5.
The whole country will receive intelligence
of this action of congress with satisfaction. Il
promises to settle the difficulties from which
the most serious disasters have been appre-
dended The position which Texas had assu-
med, and the extent to which she was likely to
be supported by the southern states. were
such as to inspire alarm even 10 minds not ea-
silly disturbed or excited.
That the great body Of the people. either of
Texas, or of the SOUTH had any fixed purpose
to secede from the union, we do not beIieve-
The movement was started BY political dema-
gogues and was simply an attempt to bully
the general government and especially the
northern states, into the adoption Of such
measures as they desired. By diut Of coutin-
ued agitation, they infused something Of their
own spirit into the people among whom they
were at work.
1t seems probable that it nothing had been
done by congress. Texas would have made an
effort to take forcibe possession of the territo-
ry which she claims, and there are two or three
southern states which, in such contest would
probably have gone to her aid. Such collis-
ion would have made difficulty have
inspired alarm and distrust-and although the
result could not have been doubtful the strug-
gle was nevertheless, to be avoided. So felt
and so reasoned many members of congress
who did not approve the provisions of some Of
the bills. They voted not so much forsfhe
bills themselves, as for the peace. They voted
under the pressure of assurances constantly
held out by the National Intelligencer and 9TH
er high authorities, that to vote against these
bills was to efVote for cipZ aear.'' The phrase
was somewhat strong in the the mouths ofmen
not accustomed to use strong language it was
calculated to carry weight.
The passage of these bills leaves southern
fanaticism no peg whereon to hang further
menace or agitation. The Wilmot proviso has
been abandoned, as far as the territories are
concerned. The people of California have
been permitted to frame such constitution as
they saw fit. And Texas receives ten million
of dollars for relinquishing territory to which
not one in ten believes she has even the shad-
dow of valid title. That Texas herself viii
accept the bill the course of her Representatives
leaves no room to duubt.
Mr. Kaufman, one of them has always been
for it; the other, Mr.. Howard, to be against
it, but the agony of bis apprehensions, when
he found it had failed, betrayed the double fa-
ced hypocrisy of the game he was playinp and
prepared the way for the part he took the
next day. The vote was reconsidered, the de-
cision of the speaker overruled, and the bill
passed under the vigorous and anxious leader
ship of the very man who had voted against It
the day before.
We look now for peace-for qpiet-for the
freedom from agitation and excitement which
have all along been promised as the result Of
those bills. Now that all these yexed ques-
tons have been settled and that too, in aceos-
dance with their own views we have right To