The North-Carolina standard., 1850-02-20

md people, constituting the limited and medley pop
,latop was allowed to stamp hundreds OF mies new
uodden by the foot Of the white msn with an Or
zanc Law which forever excluded The cid1ens Of The
southern States with their slave property. All this
was done at tbs invitaticn and with the encouragement
Of the Executive. How idle for him now to soothe
10 by the assurance, tnat after California shall have
been admitted, her people cannot be prevented from
changing their constitution at any dino and establish
inc our domestic institutions What chance, when
the property Of the South is not admitted and our
citizens without are practically, know, excln-
ded from settling to establish an interest feeling
which alone could induce such change! hwould be
beso,ted folly to expect such a result
Another result of injustice and wrong to the South
from this action of the Executive, was in preciudlng
us from our legitimate influence in Congress In de-
termining the time when the people Of the Ie.sofy
should be tree to elect in regard to our
and from the great power we welded, by resisting
all legislation for this Territory, to compel tar par
the whole question: In the Senate, the South Is still
potent, and even in this body are not yet power
fess Bv DELAYING the period for the formation oi
State government in California, all the chances OF
time were secured and at least probability AFFORD ca
that our citizens might 60 in with their property In
such numbers as to make our interest paramount At
30 early date after the acquisition when the ogina'
Mexican and foreign population constituted the ma
jorty of the population, this could not reasonably De
expected. But the discovery of the wonderful mines
of labor in California increased daily the likelihood
that slaves would be needed and introduced In num-
bers sucient to determine the choice OF the people
as to their institutions. From realizing this strong
probability, we eectuay prec luded by the Stale
constitution Of California.
oc resisting
the establishment Of civil government in California
is efec,ually cut off, That has been done In despite
of Us through the action of the Executive. "A great
means Of compelling the attention OF the Union 70
our claims is thus lost to as most poien ece' 'ot
satisfactory adjustment which at the past session OF
Congress moved so many to the support OF Walkers
amendment, has been snatched from our hands' II
NAV be asked, have not similar one IN the aoi'''y
to refuse admission! By no means 50 satisfactory.
or effective one because they enjoy civil govern
men,, and BY their constitution we are ust as
slly excluded previous to as after admission.
In consequence of the action of the Executive, the
alleged choice of the people of California is invoked
against us-a snap Judgment has been taken, and
now it is pleaded in bar. Our pretensions even to
the whole Of the vast territory of California are alleged
to be debared. Inweighng considerations for equit.
ble-ad;ustment or division between the North and
the South may be insisted that the vast expanse Of
California is kst ground, and longer even make
weight in the scale. Such has been the wrong and
custer of the South under this Executive usurPatlon.
In full view and with fresh experience Of these
disastrous results the of the South, we are
seriously urged Mr.. Speaker in the message on your
table, to endure unnumbered repettions Of them.
The same action and course of policy recommen-
ed to be acquiesced in, with regard to all the other
immense acquisitions from Mexico. What could be
more nsidious and fatal to the just claims of the
South The same subtle process that. against the
will of every State in the South, has practically pre-
6e1 na1 in
inevitably work our perpetual exclusion f:om all the
other Territories. The Mexican laws are equally ap-
plicable all the country, unsettled AZ well as set
tied, regulating the relations of persons. There is
to be Federal legislation, and no provision, conse-
quently. for appeals to test before the Supreme
Court the effect of those laws for the abolition OF
Slavery. Shareholders and slaves thus eectually
to ho kept out.
BY population thus naturally hostile to insti-
tatioas, fast petty nucleus Of emgants or ad-
formed, stamping vast circuits around the perPet-
ua exclusion Of organic law Thus are the rights Of
the slavehoding States to fair participation in the
vast acquisitions 50 largely won by their vacr and
paid for by their treasure, to be by stealth and ind
recton flched away. Sir, we shall be as inevitably
press law, fenced off by Gordon of bristng bay
onets.
To conten,ment under such wrongs, we of the
South are be soothed by the evasion, fosooth! of
the Wilmcs proviso. Why, that is but exclusion by
w and how differs it that We should be as inevita-
u worse than the Wimot prov:so. That is, indeed.
sheer robbery, but it is at least open and egaized
with the forms of law. This effects the same foul
wrong BY indifection and cheatery, adding insult to
understandings, and mockery of hopes. We Of
the South. Mr.. Speaker, not struggling against
name, nor we to be deluded by shadows. We
are claiming substance and reality. We demand
fair participation in common acquisitions, at
least equal opportunity Of enjoying them. l know
think the nature of these countries and the
cessties Of their cline and productions exclude
slavery. So do not l. In all new countries where
labor is dear, a9d domestic servants particularly
not to be obtained, if law allows, the convenences
and desires Of men will in my opinion demand slaves
In mining operations they would confessedly be
most valuable; and at this very moment, did the
South enjoy her rights, her whole slave property
would already have felt the appreciation of large de-
er it may, our honor and equality in this Union
will not allow the degradation Of express prohibition
or practical exclusion from the privilege of partici
patton.
The grounds on which this policy of the Executive
10 commended to favor, to be wholly unten-
able. The main one, as understand it, is to allay
the slavery agitation and prevent sectional issues
With the present evident purpose of the North in
sist on the exclusion of slavery from the territories
II 10 manifest this is only be effected with them by
the conviction that their end will be eectually at
tained by the policy recommended, as by the Wilmot
proviso and that affords but reason for our ac-
quisscence. Bot the North, it will only ag-
gravate. not alIay agitation. We're lust of po-
litca power the sole motive of the North in seeking
our exclusion, they know but too we'll the effect, in
the absence Of an express prohibition, its threat to
exclude. They would on that account keep legisla-
tive action always impending. To the like conclu-
sion would tend the anatical and political mo-
ves that so largely induce this pernicious agitation