Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-17
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IA, AS5O ~
THE CALIFORNIA STATE BILL PASSED THE
SENATE.

IhE CALiFOhNlA DILL fAccED uE
SENATE.
From the feelings of Joy and delight with which,
few days ago. we hailed the passage by the Senate
of the Bill for the settlement Of the Texas Boundary,
as the first of series of measures of pasfcation
and quiet to the country our readers may well con-
ceive Of the qualification with which we are en-
abled to announce to them the consequent passage,
by the Senate, yesterday, Of the second great mea
sure, the Bill for the admission Of California INTO
the Union. The vote upon the bill was more de-
cisve than we anticipated: that is to say, it was
passed by hirty-four votes to eighteen, being very
nearly two-thirds of the Senators present.
Once more we, say, as we said of yore, when the
truly national and wise conduct of that elevated body
saved us from the catastrophe of needless foreign
war-again we say, to the ,widely-expanded circle
of our readers, and to the people OF every State OF
the Union, Look TO THE SENATE Admire the
selfsacrifcing spirit in which that body has acted
in the passage of these two great bills-she same
spirit Of compromise under whose influence the
Government OF this Union itself was built up! Ad-
mire, applaud, and initiate the Senate, and in the
spirit Of compromise uphold its work The Senate
has but obeyed what we believe to be the general
will Of the People and it is for THE PEOPLE to
sustain the Senate by such expressions of their ap
probation as may incite the popular branch Of
: Congress--if indeed the Senate have not already,
by its recent votes established for Itself at least
. an equal title to that honorable distnctiono carry
out TO completeness that work of Fraternity, Peace,
and Union, which the Senate has SO auspicousy
begun.
And now, too, is the time for THE PRESS to speak
out. Let every Press throughout the land, that is
for cultivang spirit Of brosherly affection, instead
of one Of fratricidal hate and enmity every one
which prefers the enviable prosperity and domestic
happiness which pervade this whole realm to the
mere hazard even Of civil war, with all its horrors
the devastation, the desoladon of the domestic hearth
the rage, the fury, and carnage OF conflict which
might in its progress become war of extermina-
ton; every Press, in word, which is for the
Union and against all attempts to change this Gov
ernment from blessing it is, in order to over
whelm this People with the curses unspeakable Of
dire anarchy let every such Press now speak out!
Let no excuse remain to any man, in any department
Of the Government, for the injurious suspicion that
the mass of the People in any quarter Of the Union,
North, East, West, or South, do not understand the
value Of the Union, and are not devoted, heart and
soul, TO its preservation.
Happily, the case is one in which response to
this appeal, in behalf of Peace and of the Union, in
wolves no party principle, clashes with no party OBJ
legations The measures which are in progress
have indeed been recommended to Congress by a
Whig President, but they have received the support
equally Of Democratic and Of Whig Senators !; and
already, we are happy in being able to say, that the
expressions Of qualification at the passage Of the
Texas Boundary Bill by the Senate are confined to
no party. In the general satisfaction, SO far as we
have yet heard party lines are wholly obliteraed.
May this noble sentiment spread over our whole
land From the more distant as well as the
nearer regions of our common country from the
shores of the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, and
from the Rocky Mountains to our possessions on
the Pacific from the Bay Of Fundy to Cape Sable,
and from the sources Of the Mississippi to the Gulf
into which it pours its floods and thence, from the
States and Territories bordering it, let there
forth an acclaim SO universal in favor of the pending
adjustment that there shall remain no loop to hang
a doubt upon as to what is the PEoPLE's WILL on
this subject.
We shall see, and the world will see, in the
unanimty Of the response to this appeal, that the
foundations Of this Union, far from being shaken
by the tempest OF excitement into which the pub
lie councils and certain primary assemblies and
gatherings Of the people have been wrought, stand
with a irmness which shows that the cement
in which they were first laid has, in course of
time and by the action Of the elements, become a
rock Of adamant. s
In expressing our unfeigned qualification at the