The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-03-19
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.

1t is now quite probable that Congress will
proceed in the course Of Legislation in regard to
the territories which the President recommend
cd when he communicated the constitution of
California California will be admitted with
her assumed boundaries, and no territorial gov
ernment will be given to New Mexico or to Des-
erct There will be no Wilmot Proviso; and,
at present, no law interfering with slavery i'll
this district. The fugitive slave act will pass.
Onemore slave State will be created out of Tex
as, as an equivalent to the admission Of Califor-
n.
Tne compact for the creation of non.slave.
holding States, not exceeding four in number,
will not be very soon, if ever, carried into ef-
feet. The slavery agitation will go on till, as
Mr. Calhoun says, the northern people, who re.
pudiate compacts, shall become majority, and,
until they shall execrate the memory of Wash.
ngton as miserable STAKEHOLDER.
The same men who defeated the California
territorial bill last year, because they would not
trust the slavery question either to the commu'
nifty or to the laws of nature, will now refuse to
give territorial government to New Mexico,
without the Wilmot proviso. There is some.
thing behind all this apparent absurtlity which
was never exposed till Mr.. Seward spoke the
other day.
There is a deep and profound scheme OIL foot
for asserting the asccndancy Of an abstract sen.
iimcm over the constitution and al the ties rof
the Union. presume Mr.. Clay saw it when
he appealed to the North to yield this sentiment,
on their part. 1t is sentiment" well calcula-
ted to carry away the northern people, and it
begun under the auspices of religion and liber-
ty, and is prosecuted in those names Mr. &c.
ward discloses the fact that he allied himself to
the wllig party in order to carry out his views
and policy through them. Others have united
with the democratic party for the same purpose;
and, with both parties, these conspirators have
had partial success. This party is destined, |
fear, to acquire an ascendency in many Of the
Northern States. Massachusetts can resist it,
but will ride triumphantly over all the other
Eastern States Vermont included. The whole
deyelopment uaunot be expected Immediately.
We have hardly got through with the first act
of this evcntful play.
Mr.. Calhoun speaks of making the Calitor.
mia question the test. He cannot well do it,
California will come into the Union upon an
ONcTNuclIlHlIS, hlSolouUC VI Pol'u"'
opinion opinion sustained by every active emo
ton and impulse of the human heart Romance,
cupidity, consanguinity-every strong feeling
that governs man-will serve to promote the
admission of California, against any and all op-
position. 1t will come in, independently of all
other measures.
The test question must be some other than
this-and what fear is, that it will too soon
arisc-though not perhaps, while Mr.. Calhoun
is upon the active theatre of public affairs.
Senator Douglass has concluded, to-day. "A
very sound, able, and conservative argument |
suppose the discussion in the two houses will
continue till some time njuly. On such topics,
every representative of seventy thousand pco'
pie, and the representatives of every sovereign
State, ought to be heard, and will be heard.
Ion.