The North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1834-1850, 1850-06-05

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premise BY assuming, in the first place. that every
friend OF his country must be anxious that all diff
fcuties be settled; and that should once more re-
store concord and harmony to this country.
Now, what is the plan of the President! will
describe it by smile, in manner which cannot be
misunderstood. Here five wounds-one. two,
three four, ive-bleeding and threatening the well
being, if not the existence of the body politic What
is the plan of the President Is it to heal all these
wounds No such thing. 1t is only to heal one of
the five, and to leave the other four bleed more
profusey than ever, by the sole admission Of Calfor
nia even if it should produce death ITSELF l have
| said the five wounds are open and bleeding. What
are they! First, there is California there are the
Territories second there is the question of the boun
dairy of Texas the third; there is the fugitive slave
bill the fourth; and there is the question Of the slave
trade in the District of Columbia fifth The Presi-
dent. instead Of proposing plan comprehending all
the diseases Of the country, looks only at one. His
Recommendation does not embrace and he says MOTH
ing about the fugitive slave bill the District bill
but he recommends that the other two subjects, of
Territorial Government and Texas boundary remain
and be left untouched to cure themselves by some
law OF nature, by the ussnaedicatrtr nar, or some
selfremedy in the success of which cannot perceive
any ground of the least confidence. l have seen
with profound surprise and regret, the Persistence
for so am painfully compelled to regard the facts
around us-of the Chief Magistrate of the country
in his own peculiar plan. think that, in spirit Of
compromise, the President ought to unite with US.
He recommends the admission of California. We
| are willing to admit California. We 60 with him
| as far as he goes, and make its admission COM
pose part of general plan Of settlement and COM
promise, which we propose to the consideration Of
| the Senate. In the spirit of compromise which,
trus does, and which know ought to, animate both
| ends of Pennsylvania avenue, we had a right to
suppose, when the committee announced in its report
that it satisfied with his recommendation, so far
as it went, but that it did not go, in our respectful
judgment, far enough, and that therefore offered
our measure to close up the four remaining wounds
II think that in spirit of peace and concord, and
of mutual confidence and cooperation, which ought
to animate the different departments of the Govern
ment, the President entertaining that constitutional
Difference to the wisdom of Congress which he has
proessed and absaining as he has declared he would
abstain, from any Interference with its free debera-
tions, ought. without any dissatisfaction, to permit
US to consider what is best for our common country
will go little further in this comparison, which
make so painfully. After the observations which l
addressed 10 the Senate a week ago, did hope and
trust there would have been reciprocation from the
other end of the avenue, to the desire to heal not
one wound only, which being healed alone would ex-
asperate and aggravate instead of harmonizng the
country, but to heal them all. did hope that we
should have had some signi6cation, in some form or
other, of the Executive contennent and satisfaction
with the entire plan of adjustment. But, instead OF
concurrence with the committee the part OF the
Executive we have authentic assurance of his ad-
herence exclusively to his own particular scheme.
Let US look at the condition of these Territories
and shall endeavor to do what has not been done with
sufficient precision, to discriminate between nonac-
tion and non-inervention in regard to slavery, and
non-action as respects the government of the people,
who, by the dispensations of Providence, and the
course Of events have to hands to be taken
Of TO refrain from extending to them the ben
eft of government law, order, and protection, is wide
different from silence non-interventon in regard
to African slavery.
The recommendation of the President, as I have
already said, proposes the simple introduction of Cal
ifornia State into the Unon-a measure which,
standing by itself, has excited the strongest symptoms
of dissatisfaction in the Southern portions Of the
federacy. The recommendation proposes to leave all
else untouched and unprovded for. In such aban-
donment what will be the condition of things The
first approximate Territory California is Utah, and
in what condition is that left by the Presidents mes
sage! Without any government at all. Without
the blessing curse, You may choose to call
| it, of a military government. There is no govern
nent there, unless such asthe necessities of the case
have required the Mormons to erect for themselves.
Until the common parent shall have spread its power
and its authority them, they have no adequate
government.
Then, next come to New Mexico and in what con-
diton does the Presidents message leave her! With
military government-a military government which,
administered as it is proposed to be, is no government
While upon this part of the subject, let me call your
attention what has been said by the delegate from
that Territory, in feeling address which he has
Gently published to the people of New Mexico.
Mr.. UNDERWOOD, at the request of Mr.. CLAY, read
the 1OlOWlnS eAtdcS'
j "-Why have our rights, which certainly indis-
putable been so long withheldl Why have we been
compelled to live under military domination, so re-
pugnant to freemen, and opposed to the acknow-
edged spirit and foundation of this government
Why, condition, instead of being improved by
the transfer of allegiance, was promised to ns, has
been continually getting worse. Why has this gov
ernment long neglected giving you that protection
) against Indian depredatons, which often
promised both before and since the treaty of cession?
f WHY, the connexion with this government, which
you have been encoul I'd to look forward to as the
beginning of your prosperity and improvement, has
had its opening with three years of depreciation, mis-
!, cradle misrule, and military despotisn."
# Again: sf
"H is useless for me to remind you that you have
other than military government to administer the
civil laws with which you into the Union, (and
under which you and your ancestors have lived fol
two centuries. What other executive have you but
3 the commander of the troops in New Mexico Does
he not absolutely control all the civil establishments
vour country! Is there civil officer but holds his Of
Zee by commission from the military officer during his
will and pleasure Has he not, indeed, assumed to
way prescribed their jursdictonf And when the Sec.
retsry of War commands him not to interfere, pre-
vent the officers from Texas to exercise their commits
sions in your Territory can that be called neutrality
Ia it not virtual abandonment of the government!
/; Mr.. CLAY. Mr.. President, with regard to Utah.
there is no government whatever unless 1t Is such
as necessity has prompted the Mormons to institute
and when you come to New Mexico, what govern
: ment have you! A military government, BY lieu.
!; tenant colonel of the army! lieutenant colonel
> subordinate of the army Of the United States
holds the governmental power there, in time o