Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1850-07-12


rian superstition and unallevia'ed despotsm.
The very head and front OF her offending hath
this extent.
The President of the United States recon
mcnds, nevertheless, that California shall be-
admitted Internationally, while a Committee OF
the Senate insist on conditions.
prefer tic Presidents suggestion; but moi
merely because it is his although honor his
patriotism and confi1c fully in his wisdom. Nor
do prefer his suggestion out Of disrespcct to
the Statesmen by whom it is opposed. My ven
eration for them has been abundanily mani.
tested heretofore, and needs no display Of pro-
testations now. We are in frame of things
disonred and in the confusion resulting from
severance cf parties aud new coniunctons Of
statesmen, each of us is obliged to rely on the
guidance of his own judgement and conscience,
submit, sir, that the conditions are unrca-
sonable injurious, and oppressive in regard to
California SO far as they are found in the
bill before u.s. they are:
/. The establishment Of Territorial Gov4
crnmcnt in New Mexico, silent concerning
Slavery.
@ The establishment Of like Government
in Utah
3. A Compromise Of border dispute between
New Mexico and ! eXas.
The garment Of compromise thus Quilted of
various fabrics with artistic skill. is Ingenious
ly pieccl out with collateral conditions in a re-
port. and two other bills concerning slavery in
the district of Columbia, the recapture Of fugi-
tive slaves, and other national interests or pre-
tensions Of slavery.
| 1t is not conended California needs aid from
these conditions, nor that they can give it,
California is t,Xcd tor superHuous power to
draw the dependant measures into port, which
i otherwise would founder and be lost. This
coetccd condi, ion therefore, binders and tends to
defeat the admission Of California.
Why is California subjected to this cmbar-
rassmeni? Does size come with right ? She
has a treaty. Is that treaty denied or Quc:-
Toned? MOI it is unanimously atii med. Can
California abide delay No! her anomalous
condition not only appeals To our Justice, but
touches the very virtue OF compassion WITHIN
us. Why, then, should California be kept
waiting while we make a circuit Throughout
the entire orb; Of slavery? California neither
brought the States into confederation, nor con
sructcd the Constitution. She neither planted
slavery in the Save States, nor uprooted it in
the Free States. She is not found by the side
OF Texas invading New Mexico, nor allied with
New Mexico in resisting Texas. She is guilt
less, equally, Of buying and selling. Of holding
and OF emancipating, If retaining aud Of har-
boring slaves anywhere. She has neither vote
nor speech here nor elsewhere where this an.
cry strife can be composed. She has severed
at a blow forever tie loose political connection
The only connection she ever bad With Utah and
New Mexico. Tire Slate States indeed. insist
on right to colunze new territories With a
caste. Bat all agree that the community in
any such territory may establish a constitution
prohibiting caste. Calf rnia already coloniznd
has done this already, and her maturity is no.
well questicred, although it has been as rapid
and as bewildrring as the presentation nt Mid
, summer Nights Dream" There is, therefore
neither community nor connection, nor ever
congtuity between the admission OF Call irnIa
| and the conditions demanded. 1t is binding
Eros to Ar,cros, contiding youth to qnerulou'
and wrang}lng age, the struggling hind to ra
venng hounds
/ We were told long ago that California wou'c
save time by yielding to this most unjust com
, bnaticn. have seen the errrr Of tha
hope. We are making The overland journey o
1000 miles between the iI'ars of Hercules
when we might have crossed the Straits OF vi
braltar over a smooth sca in six hours.
: We are told that "A minority in another par
of the Legislature mght prevent the admission
Of Ca orna and even bring the government Il
5 dead stand Bat it must work in its own DE-
:, mocralic and constitutional WY, or must ccas
to work at all No one or more of the state
can assume the responsibility Of arrcsting tn
government by faction. "OWimiS a0SPicos e
f geri qnR pro reipuhlieG geIeMu Ypr contraf
; rempub oUm JcrreHtNr oNra aHspicia ttrri"
\ submit now that the conditions demande
n are equally unreasonable, I'M nriou', and oI
Q pressiyc in regard to the other parte' aft
n by the combination Va: Texas. New NJ xico
! Utah, and the District of Columbia.
\ Each Of these parties ought to be regarded a
: asking only Just award, and Congress is TO b
n deemed read, to make nst one, and no othel
n Such an award can be made only by besown
: a distinct and separate consideration on eac
claim The same principle of dialectic pho
: sophy which forbds IN mlltii4riousness Of isSue'
and confusion of parties in the administrator
ofjnstce, condemns incongruous combination
in legislation.
I The bill before us seems al pied to enabl
Senators to speak one side, and to vote o
q the o.herj to comply with instructions. and
q evade them, to vote for The line OF 36 80, and
-. vote against it to support the Wilmot ProvsC
' and yet to defeat its application to 'he ony tel
: ritorles open to its Introduction, ! solicit
- stronger language were courteous, might de
mand from the majority here, subdivision c
the bill, to enable me to vote eiitcinaly i'
what approve, without voting equally tc
p, what my own judgment, concurring with in
- structions, condemns, and Thus to place my|el
where | should invite all others to place tnen
sclyes, under exact and full responsibility to tn
, States and to the People.
While have the interests of Texas in tn
N care of her honorable and excellent Sen tors,
" must be allowed to think that their consent t
. this bill betrays want of confidence in he
y claims or in the Justice of Congress a ln'
e claim ought not to need an III nst combiaatlol
) Those who assume that Texas has valid titI
to all Of New Mexico East of the Rio Grand
AS high as tho sd parallel, will necessarily r(
gard that State as surrendering, for p'cunitr
equivalent, an extensive region effectively st
cured TO slavery, 10 the equivocatonS OF hi
n Compromise. Those, on the contrary, who IT
gard the preensions of Texas in New Mexc
AS groundless, will as certainly protest agan
n the surrender of 1900 50. miles of soil preG
Q naut with liberty 10 the haz,rdS of this adlus
i mcnt. Both of these parties, think must agre
l. that the United States ought to pay Texas IN
@, equivalent unless her ii l. is good; and that