The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-09-02
e. Cor Eastern New Mexico, to submission

"a Fe Cor Eastern New Mexico) TO submission
y force as Ie ws Tessn sens
tors seeM 10 have materially modified the course
which they had previously pursued. UP 10 that
time they had supported the GomPronise OIL,
which proposed TO buy of their claims OF territory
by pay me Mt in money TO an amount OF not less
than ten millions of dollars: On learning, however,
the decided step upon which the New Mexican
Assembly had ventured, they appear to have be-
come alarmed lest their right to compensation
should be njurousy affected by proceedings which
were evidently grounded on the assumption that
Santa Fe was not Texan dependency at all. Ac-
cordlngIy they at once declared war against that
part Of Mr.. Clay's measure which related TO New
Mexico; and their hostility was the more import
ant from the tenderness with which the whole
South is known to guard the interests of Texas as
the nursing mother of halfa-doZeu future slave
States. On the Both ult., Mr.. Dawson, the Senator
nom Georgia, moved, as an amendment to the
earlier clauses of the BILL that the operation of the
Territorial Government which they constituted in
New Mexico should be confined TO the districts
west OF the Rio Grande, l. e., 10 Western New
Mexico. This amendment, which retained Santa
Fe in its dependence on Texas, was carried by the
votes of the Texan Senators, aided by those RON
the South and South west, and by the low from
she North who are Systematically lnfaVor OF every
thing which will embarTass compromise that is
condemned as Instantaneous 10 the sacred cause
of free soil On the next day. July 81, Mr. Pearce
of Maryland, protested friend OF the measure
after pointing out that the virtual effect of the
amendment carried the v before would be TO EN-
power the scanty settlers west of the Rio Grande
10 make laws for the UGH more numerous popula-
tiOn dwelling east OF the nver-moved that so
much of the bill as related 10 New Mexico should
be struck out the understanding that the clauses
removed should be Te-nuoduced in their original
form, and without Mr.. Dawson's proviso
This course, which was rendered necessary
by the mode OF procedure in the Senate
seems strange enough, but It's results were still
stranger. Mr. Peace's hrst motion, TO eliminate
the clauses bearing reference TO New Next
co, was readily carried His second pro-
posal, TO restore the clauses they originally
stood, was rejected-the supporters of Mr. Daw-
sons amendment voting against HIM to man.
The moment that the general scheme of the mea-
sure had thus been locked of It's principal ingre-
dent, the Senate eems 10 have been carried away
by movement resembling that impetuous rush of
men or buffalo in one continuous straight line
which, In the language of the prairies, Is demo-
minated a Stampede" With brief intervals of
debate and amid exhibitions of the utmost levity,
the clauses relating TO the payment of money to
Texas, those referring 10 the pursuit and recovery
OF fugitive negroes, and finally those constituting
California State, were successfully rejected by
decisive msjorities. Nothing was eventually left
but the portion which gave a government TO the
colony established by the Mormons on the Great
salt Lake The result will probably furnish the
successor of Joe Smith with the text of irucu-
lent homily. We must hold him excused if he
breaches that the heathens are about TO extermi-
nate each other in ntenecne combat, and that the
remnant of Israel in Deseret will shortly be called
10 take possession of the American world and of
the fulness thereof
& The more hopeful of the American journals are
FenuTng 10 anticipate that the Dill, IN It's mItilated
state, will be sent down TO the House of Repre-
sentatlves, which will restore the omitted clauses
and remit them 10 the higher chamber for acqu-
escence. Our caution will not suffer us to be be-
irayed into predictions; but We cannot help seeing
that this is exactly one OF the matters in which the
lower House, returned by the collective population
OF the Union, will scarcely be- permitted TO dictate
10 the Senate which represents the aggregate of the
States. On the other hand, difficulties OF all kinds
are accommodating, and il seems incredible that either
house Of Congress will be willing to adjourn with
out some KIND of provision foi their settlement.
The Texan militia are positively stated to be
marching on New Mexico, and nothing that we
have lately heard leads us TO attach a slight i'm
portance 10 the explosion Of discomfort which will
inevitably follow the announcement in California
Of the Senate's decision. The worst symptom of
all rs disclosed by the altered tone of newspaper
controversy in the older States. Ii is hard TO be-
lieve that the sectional anupathies of North and
South, which seem 10 have gained fourfold their
ancient intensity in the single week between the
beginning OF August and the departure of our intel
lgence, will exhale during the winter in nothing
mere serious than words.