The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-07-09

speaking of the Organization of territorial governments
Tor California and New Mexico, and the power OF Con-
gress to legisate on the subject OF slavery, says;
Wheher Congress shall egase not the people Of the
acquired Territories when assembled ia convention 10
form State win possess the sole and exclusive
shall not exst within their limits.
This doctrine OF Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Polk the people
OF California adopted, and have acted upon it. and now
as those gentlemen and the entire South said they had
right to form, and every obstacle that the ingenuity OF
man devise is thrown into the way OF their adms-
again in this chamber that California has large ma
orty OF senators in her favor II so, why not admit
her at once Why delay her for the settlement OF yexed
has her admission 10 do with the question of freedom
or slavery in the Territories What has il do with
the capture Of fugitive slaves with the boundaries Of
Texas or with slavery in the District of Columbia II
to that every air-minded must say at once
that California has nothing to do with these questions
and that she has clear right to stand upon her own
merits unembarrassed by any other subject II is unjust
both to California and the Senate to tack the territorial bills
and the bill for the settlement OF the Texas boundary on 10
the bill for the admission OF California. There many
senators who would vote for the admission OF California
in bill by herself who will not vote for her connected
with the other measures to which have referred can
vote for territorial bills without clause in them
nhibtng slavery. believer in the doctrine that
slavery Is excluded from California and New Mexico
by the law OF Nature Of physical geography the law Of
the formation Of the earth" Mo- sir slavery once exist
ed there, and will unless prohibited, in my judgment
exist there again Southern senators insist upon the
peculiar adatedness Of slave labor to the development OF
the mineral treasures OF the country Hear their Ian.
guage On the 23d OF February, ls49, Mr. FooTE, OF
Mississippi, said:
No one acquainted with the vast mineral Of
California and New Mexico and who Is aware Of the
mineral Treasures. can doubt for moment that We're
slaves introduced into California and New Mexico for the
progress and hereafter perhaps, 70 be carried on to an
extent coniectured Of by few, their labor wond result IN
the acquisition OF pecunay profits not heretofore realized
country -(Appendix TO Cong. Globe. p 262)
The honorable senator from Virginia. his able speech,
says that
We have heard here from various quarters and from high
quarters, and repeated all handsepeated here again
ro-day- by the honorable senator from Illnois, (Mr
southern people om every portion Of the State Of Caor-
mia. know Of no such law Of Nalure-none whatever
gained with territorial iorm Of only and for
which, the last sessions Of Congress- she has obtain
would have gone here freely and have taken their slaves
there in great numbers They would have done because
ed Them many hundred fold Why in the debates which
took place in the convention, in California, which formed
himself after the provision excluding slavery agreed
upon, It was proposed 70 prohibit the African race aogeth
ground distinctly akea, shown in those debates that
II the entire African race not excluded their labor
would be found valuable that the owners Of slaves
would bring them there, though slavery pohb
ited under contract to manumt them two or three
years And required very little reasoning, the of
those opposed this class Of population show that the
Of their labor would be such that
value Of che labor Of this Glass Of people, showing ,ha. il
would be increased such In the mines of Cali
the labor Of in any one OF the States from which
they would be taken worth than one hum
California would be worth from four thousand dol
lars They would work themselves free in years.
and thus the country would be filed by class Of free
blacks, and their have excellent bargain
In taxing them there.
The honorable senator from Mississippi IMr. DAvlsl
ala matt
climate like Mexico and that slave labor would be prof.
table in California and New Mexico. And he further
insists that slavery never has been legally abolished in
Mexico that il is now slave country.
But this Is not all. The following advertisement ap-
peasd in the Mssssppian Of the 7th March, 1850, pub
lished at the city OF Jackson, Mississippi:
CALIroRNrA--THE SOUTHERN sIAvE oorosy.-Citizens OF
the slave States. DESTROYS OF emgrarng California with
their slave property are requested to send their Names
the address Of "sournrss SLAVE COLONY" Jackson Mis-
sissppt. A&
Il Is the desire Of the friends Of this enterprise settle in
tho richest mining and agricultural portions Of California;
ery Il IS estimated that by he ls q May next tho mem
bers OF the Slave Colony will amount to about five thou
seciug Organization. &c, win be privately transmitted
JACKSON, Feb ~, 1850.
Now, Mr. President. who, ask, with these declara-
tons OF southern senator's and this advertisement before
him. say there is danger Of the introduction OF
slavery into California and New Mexcoi cannot say
willing rearm ordinance OF Nature TO re-enact the
will OF God to avoid it, and freedom to the Terri
tories
Hibere be an ordinance OF Nature or law OF God ex-
GLIDING slavery from California and New Mexico, il ex
cludes from the whole habitabe globe yes, sir, from
the&hols OF il:
earth hath no cod
Its Maker meant should not DO trod
BY man, the image oil God,
Erect and Free"
But governments is said by the Committee OF Thir
een must be forthwith established for New Mexico and
Utah. New Mexico, the honorable chairman says, is
under military ruleunder government enthusiastically
lieutenant colonel Well sir that may be true and the
government very bad one. II is not very desa-
thing better can be established in lis place What says
the President upon the subject In his message oil Janu
airy 2fh, $780, he says that Texas has advanced claim
10 very large portion OF the most popuous district OF
the Terrtoy and that remains for Congress TO devise
some mode for its adjustment He thinks II nexpedient
al the pending controversy with Texas is settled, espe
cay as the people Of the Territory still enjoy the benefit
and protection oil their municipal laws, originally derived
from Mexico, and have military force stationed there TO
protect them against the Indians And he further says that
II Il undoubtedly true that The property lives. Liberties, and
religion OF the people OF New Mexico better protected
than they before the treaty OF Surely
territorial government for New Mexico al this session
oil Congress- She appears TO be in the m enjoyment OF
her rights, and they TO be tolerably well pro-
tected, There is, think, great wisdom and forecast
In the views taken OF the subject by the President The
disputed boundary between Texas and New Mexico
government over the Territory But SIR, the President
another difficulty in the way Of territorial govern.
ment for New Mexico; and that the very difficulty
IN which we are now involved He apprehended that