The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-30


THE cALIFoBNEAs MESSAGE.
We pablisl a ON 6ist psss tsan. Taylorsl
Message ID reply 70 Mr. Yesabls' eall for Informs
tion ia regard % California and anxious "a
lay the accompanying documents before our readers
but we could not make room for them.
It is quite obvious, from the Message itself, as
we'll as from the accompanying documents--especi
ally MI. Claytons letter Of instructions 70 T. Butler
King-that Gen. Taylor stimulated the people of
California to the formation Of their present govern
ment and, consequently, to the exclusion of Slavery.
1t was voluntary movement their part, but was
gotten up by paid agents of the Executive in order
that Gen. Taylor might thereby escape the Wilmot
Proviso. That is the secret, and this, we repeat
is the truth of the matter in nut shell.
The Raleigh Register and other Southern North
ern Whig prints, who make it point to go with
Don Zachary right wrong, affect to be wonderful
ly pleased with his California Message. We con-
gratulate these papers the company in which they
find themselves. The inveteaate Abolitionist and
Freesoer Greedy, is as we'll pleased with the Mes
sage they are. if not little better pleased. Mr..
Grcely quotes follows from Mr. Clayton's letter
to Mr.. King:
"The laws of California and New Mexico, as they
existed at the conclusion of the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, regulating the relation of the inhabitants
with each other, will necessarily remain in force in
the Territories. Their relations with the former
Government have been dissolved and new relations
created between them and the Government of the
United States, but the existing laws regulating the
relations of the people with each other will continue
until others lawfully enacted shall supercede them.'
Mr.. Greedy then says, speakingsof the above:
/" Enough said! That is the very proposition which
the friends of Freedom in Congress would have been
satisfied with last winter. but which the Slavocracy
and their Dicknsons would not consent to wherefore
they would not let California be organized all. 1t
is plain, unequivocal law, but the Cahouns and
Quitmans do not the less stoutly repudiate it, and
insist that the Federal Constitution carries Slavery,
or the right to introduce and maintain Slavery, into
every acre of territory acquired by the Union.'
But Mr.. Greedy goes further, and says:
ssThe President has spoken as wisely as he could,
if he must speak on the subject at all; and we are
quite willing he should talk so long
as he shall continue to act the side of California
with her Free Constitution, urging her admission as
she is into the Union, and long asihe shall sustain
by Military force the people of New Mexico against
the claim pressed with such effronterv by Texas to
The New York Herald, it is well known, is a
neutral paper with decided leanings to Gen. Taylor.
The Herald thus notices this Message Of Gen. Taylor
and the course he has recommended to settle the
Slavery question. We ask the particular attention
of readers to those parts of the article which we
have italcised:
sIn this great and dangerous dilemma the President
of the United States, under the advice Of his cabinet
instead Of advising immediate settlement such
dangerous eotrorer.y, counses delay and postponeme"'
and may probably bring about, at an esy day, col
ksi0n or civI .car, ending in entire disoution. We
very sure, judging from the patriotic principles.
the goodness Of heart, and the whole character Of
General Taylor, that he himself means no such alter
natiye-no such prospect as that which now opens
which he advocates. Why, then, does lie recommend
such course! Because he is guided by the same
same incompetent cluster s little poti-
clans and dangerous advisers who counseled him to
abandon the promises he made before his election,
in reference to other less important points. These
same men still in the ascendant in councils,
and haveehaked out a course which, surely and ine-
vitaby, if persisted in, will lead a confederation
of the Southern States, under the auspices of con-
vention-to ultimate nfaction Of the constitution,
which will probably terminate in treason nsurrecton,
war, bloodshed, and irretriexable disuni0h.
Such result, only short Of collision Of arms on
this important question, may yery be sought
after BY some Of the little politicians who govern the
cabinet, such as Clayton and Ewing. eis, nndoubt-
edly, their policy to bring about such ecriss in this
country as that which characterized the first term Of
General Jackson, at the time of the Notification ex-
citement of South Carolina. By stimulating the fac
tons in tie North, the excitement Of the South aOiN still
be kept alve and augmented, ill., at lest, all prudence,
good temper, and discretion .c be roUn to the dogs,
and our Southern fello,o-citizcns OiN be urged and
goaded to such pitch, to make It necessaryfor Gen.
Taylor to order out the militia, and put things to the
dreadful alternative and arbiirament Of the s.oord.
of that weakly and miserable policy which
was carried out on small scale at the massacre Of
the Astor Place Theatre, may perhaps, then be got
up and managed by the cabinet on larger field,
thereby 10 consolidate power and acquire glory for
themselves and the President, under their auspices
By such policy, republic Of public opinion will
be changed into a republic of military domination.
Such is the prospect before u.s. It is dangerous in
the extreme, and ony looks bAaeke and darker
sequence g the negative osston taken by the President
and his imbee,le qdnisers. In such dilemma, what
ought Congress to do! What should the leading
members in both houses attempt to accomplish Now
is the moment-now is the time-now is the crisis.
The great of country, both in tho Senate and
in the House-those who are great statesmen and
greater patriots-should now d1he forward at once,
and arrange plan such as would dispose of the
whole question before the end of the present session
of Congress. such compromise Is nsy no,c agreed
upon by Congress, the policy darkly deuelsped by the
cabinet, the Presidents message aciU neoiabty ead
to and agitation, driuig to an ertreme and
more dangerous resunot unlikely, perhaps to cipiI
,uar-to ultimate dssoiution and disunion, sOihin
fen bris years. - j