Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-03-30

calculated extend slavery but they dicued the idea
when expressed my deliberate opinion that slavery
would be excluded from the whole country under its pro-
visions Now thst have OF opinions by which
to test the question: willing that the people OF the Norh
shall decide between these and myself Time has
worked out the problem and the result has been announced
The country now has the OF determining who has
attempted mead and deceive the peope-in whom they
ought place their faith, and in whose honor and judgment
they ought to rely
Since the question has been decided be
OF to the whole country how any should have
ever entertained doubt upon the subject But the most
markabe feature of the whole u.s. that after all these predictions
should have signay failed in regard the State Of Cali
orna and since slavery has bcen excluded there by unan
votethere not being dissenting voice in Conven
ton composed Of more natives Of avehodng than free States
that the cry about the extension of slavery should be
kept in respect TO the mountain regions of New Mexico
and Utah. And by whom is this clamor sounded The
very men who united with the Senator from South Carolina
mr. CALuous) and his immediate associates defeat the
State bill of last session. II there be danger from that course,
who bu, they responsible for it Who but they prevent
ed constitutional prohibition of slavery being extended
over those Territories during the past year
But, sir there is no ground for apprehension this point
II there inch Of territory in the whole Of acqus
ton from Mexico where slavery could possibly exist it in
the valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, within The
limits Of the State of California should be borne in mind
tha, climate regulates this NATTER and that climate depends
upon the elevation above the much upon parallels Of
latitude Amy who will take the pains to follow Fremont
in his explorations wlfnd that the whole of the country
included in the State of California high mountain region
Even in the Great Basin the lowest point in the lowest valley
marked on the map Of those explorations being
than four thousand feet above the while the average
elevation of these valleys at least five thousand feet being
than twice the elevation of the tops Of the Allegheny
mountains Frosburg where the national road
When you ascend towards the heavens, twice as high as
the Allegheny mountains, in order get into valleys sur
rounded by many thousand and
vered with eternal SHOWS you think that you found
charming country and lovely climate for the negro and
especially for the profitable employment of slave obor Ard
yet the question to be left open for future
agitation kept up and the struggle carried into the next
elections to determine whether Congress shall pass prohb
ton OF slavery for such county And in the time
the people of those Territories be deprived Of the
fits OF government abandoned their fate and exposed
the horrors Of anarchy and violence The plan Of the Ad
manifestation favors this policy, and harmonzes with IT, al
though avows different motive. my opinion, any thing
is better than non-acon any form Of government better than
no government and any settlement preferable settle