The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-09

g citizen Of the SOUTH who earnestly desires that
our great republic may endure forever, as al once the
sincerely believes that perpetuty can only be given to
the Union by rendering justice to the South humbly
begs leave 10 submit to both northern and southern
patriots in Congress the following proposition of peace,
90 far as the question OF California is concerned:
l. Let California be admitted into the Union az a State
at once, and with her proposed boundariesas conces
LEI il be provided that the question OF the existence
or non existence. awfuness unawalness Of slavery
within her limits, under the combined operation OF the
laws OF Mexico and the constitution OF the United States
shall be and remain unaffected BY any article, Clause
provision in her present constituents concession 10
o. Let be also provided follows shat nothing in this
bill contained shall operate be construed TO impair her
sovereign right alter she has been admitted into the
Union as State by any subsequent amendment of her
constitution, other lawful proceeding 10 establish or To
abolish slavery within her lmtsas concession TO the
North
Lett be lastly provided that case one or more adj
ditona States shall hereafter be formed OF her terri
tory, they shall be admitted into the Union, with or
without slavery, the people thereof shall decideas
concession 10 the South.
MIA unit Let the South yield the point, with the GER
compensation that her, al least Tor the
present, against the admission Of more than one free
Salehe chances being against her that South California
could become or at all events remain, slavehold
s. The South, or highly respectable portion of the
South, regards the admission OF California into the
Union. with the ant-slavery clause 70 her constitution,
Cong ressthe more offensive because coyerty or ind
recy accomplished This is the soslyed point Of
homer Let the North yield It TO save the Union. II rs
triilenay, but dustin the balanceln so momenous an
ssue especa ly the chances strongly that Caor
MIA would almost immediately by constitutional or legis
ative action, re-eac her anti slavery provision Nor
should this mode OF adjusting the difficulty meet with
objection novel irregular; for the novelty or irreg
uari,y would scarcely be greater than that involved in
the admission of Cslllorm& without census, with two
representatives in Congress. and without having passed
through the probationary form OF territorial govern
ment.
doctrine that every State, when admitted into the
Union, has the sovereign right 10 prescribe and control
| its domestic Institutions The third branch oil The
proposition Is, then, wholly unexceptionabe yet its ex
press ennnciaion in connection with The bent against
slavery already exhibited by California Is somewhat OF
a concession to the North
In like manner, the fourth part Of the proposition,
although little nothing in substance yet heng in form
another denial exclusion OF the Wimot Proylso, may
be regarded somewhat OF concession TO the Duth
This proposition is made on the assumption that the
Senate bill for the organization OF the Territory OF Utah
will be adopted by the House OF Representatives part
OF the plan of Cancellation, and that the arrangement oil
the Texan boundary, and the orsanzaton OF the fern
follow to complete "e consummalion most deyout
| ~ to be wished"
The pillars OF the republic trembe in their socketshe
Union rocks its base how, then, patriots hesitate
A CITIZEN OF THE SOUTH
lin compliance with the request of the author who is
now in this city, but member OF Congress- lay
before readers this morning the above communca
ton, which received last night. Anxious we are
TO settle this agitating question, doubt, al the first
blush, whether this novel proposition be reconclled
either TO principle precedent Does il not specially
clash with the principle which established in the
case of the admission OF Missouri .-UHIoHl