Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-14
RICHMOND, VA.
Tuesday Morning, May 14th, 1850

RIG MOND, VA.
Tuesday Morning May 14th, 1850
az The great length of the Government adj
vertisement. on the outside of this days issue,
nlaces us under the necessity of materially cur
falling our usual quantum of reading matter.
The Presidents Policy and the Senates Com
promise.
The following portion of an important article in
the Washington Republic, of Saturday, we could
not get into our postscript yesterday morning. 1t
exposes so clearly the true issue at the present
iuncture, and the proper application of the Presi-
dents patriotic principle of sitting forever the
slavery controversy, that we insert it separately:
eve would not exchange the good fellowship, the
mutual tlust the entire and perfect confidence between
the several sections Of this Union which necessary
the complete success OF the Presidents plan regarded
as specific arrangement, tor all the law that could De
enacted for the guaranty OF the public peace we
would not barter one hour OF good Will between all
the parts and people Of the Conederacy for the whole
OF Mexico Yetwe fear the temper OF the tunes is not
adapted to the reception OF the whosomes1 measures
and most confding counses
1--WE predicate this opinion upon the tact that mem
bers of Congress and boast OF their determna-
ton to renew agitation and discomfort upon what
vernment. This VIGOROUSLY true nor can we conhne
this remark to Free Sellers per Sc Moreover, ii any
one who has yet urged the admission OF California as
an Administrative measure has announced his deerml-
ton to extend the principle OF the California message
10 the remainder of the territory and insist upon the ad
mission of New Mexico and Utah into the Union when
thew apply for it, shateuer disposition their constitu-
tions make of the question in controrerSy, we have not
been fortunate enough to hear it, And this is which
has induced many who the fast friends OF the Pres
dent-nany who rejoice in his name, and would go any
length short of abandoning their country to CONT
nuance of the baneful consequences OF sectional ex
citement-tojo join in an effort to have the whole dh
Guilty settled
an the different views take of the value OF the
signs of future trouble, apprehend the whole differ
ence between ourselves and the Courier ana Enquirer
consists; for quite satisfied our New ork con-
temporary would if it imagined that the agitation and
discomfort would be renewed upon whatever portion OF
the territory over which legal governments were not
extended desire to such governments gwen them
We at all nervous in regard to the cutlery that
has been made against the military establishments In
New Mexico Alarm tor Tor the safety ay, ana ah napp,
of things, has little to do in shaping our opinions
on this subject We believe they have better law, bet
administered than they before had Our views
are formed upon what we see around u.s. upon what we
know of the purposes of agation upon desire to see
the question settled, and its settlement fixed fact"
The strongest illustration of the justice of the
most important of these views is afforded by the
New York Courier and Enquirer (now under
stood to be an organ of Seward to an article
in which the Republic is replying That paper,
in a more recent article, published on Friday
last, uses this significant language:
These events demonstrate the absolute necessity OF a
prompt recurrence to the policy OF the President and OF
speedy, energetic, and effective movement to secure
its adoption That policy has two distinct features =:
first the admission of California; and second, absolute
non intervention in the government OF the Territories
except to carry into execution existing laws Each o
these recommendations, should stand upon its owr
merits The t,co should not be connected an any ,oay
The question, Shall California be admitted| shouIa
al once be taken up; should be kept separate from
every other question and every other ISSUE and every
member of both branches of Congress should be required
to vote upon in that shape Once bring that issue fair
ly before Congress- and should have slight appre-
hension the result. If Congress taed the coUN-
TRY would decide it speedily. The President aoiU be
sustained By overwhelming cote, IN ms Tec0nnaen
dati0nS upon thaS SUBJECT.
Here we see sufficiently disclosed the cloven
foot of that designing fraction of the Northern
Wing party, which is pretending to advocate, in
good faith, Gen. Taylor's recommendations. Cali
fornia is to be admitted first they say and then the
question will be, whether the Wilmot Proviso
shall be applied to the Territories. How these
false friends of the President propose to carry out
his policy may be learned from the following I'M
disguised avowals of the same Courier d En-
quirer:
at has been announced, from many conspicuous and
influential sources that the Wilmot Provso is dead
that universally regarded as an exploded humbug-
that the whole North is convinced that slavery cannot
under any circumstances, obtain foot hold in New
Mexico and that the whole North is ready there lore
to abandon the provso. Our own opinion Is mat a
greater mistake was never made. We do not believe
that Northern sentiment has undergone any such change
The people OF the North are not convinced, either that
the provso needless, that it is wrong In spite OF
all argument and all exhortaons to the contrary, they
believe it to be Just principle equitable in Its effect on
sectional ascendency, and demanded by the emergency
We do not believe there three free States in the
Union which would not, upon tar popular appeal al
firm that belief by an overwhelming majority
"Northern feeling to-day demands what ten years ago
would have been deemed tanatical. len years hence,
ifreated as it has been hitherto it will exact terms,
which the South would not treat as Justylng revolution
Nothing in this country stands slll. The census OF
1860 will not be duplicate OF that OF the present year
And Opinion such vital topics as that otsavery, ad-
vances faster even than Population"
The Albany Epening Journal, the special ora
Gle of Seward, bitterly opposes the Compromise
bill on like grounds with the Courier and Enqui-
rer, and suggests as an objection that it may des-
troy the local laws of New Mexico, under which,
it says, slavery is now prohibited.
The Philadelphia North American, heretofore
warm advocate of the Wilmot Proviso seems
really content to adopt the plan of passing no law
with respect to the Territories, and thus emitting
the Proviso, but it insists upon detaching the Ca
hforna bill from all other measures
SENATOR MASON.
Upon examining the full report of Mr.. Mason's re-
marks on the Compromise Report, We find that he
opposed all the important measures proposed by the
committee After saying that he concurred in the
Acknowledgement of the obligation OF Congress to
consent to the subdivision Of Texas, he made this
sweeping statement
81 desire only to state, because of the gravity and
importance of the questions to be considered humble