Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-09-14
From Washington.

Compromise measures. Inns been conflict
ing atnl contradictory dutilE the pas
week. One day the telegraph would III.
forni ts that the Texas Boitidary Bill hat
been rejected by the House, and theft. again
the whole mhtter would be involved ii
doubt Then n report eaine, throhgli the
satle source. that the House had pissed
the California Bill, Including d Territorial
Government for Utah, by d majority 81
twenty votes. or the truth Of this latter
report we have little doubt, for the des.
patch that brought 1t spoke Of the illutnina.
ton Of New York, and the firing If one
hundred glt,is in Washington. IN honor Of
that event. Tie people reiuieed over the
triumph Of two measures Of eolieiliation.
nndhopeI. We doubt not, as patriots should
that The whole Of the grand p'at, Of recon
c~iliation would eventually he crowned
with success.
Later dispatches, however, bring cheer !
ing news from tile political metropolis. Iii
the morning edition Of the Delta, Of the
18th instant, we find a despatch whicl,
will enliven the heart Of every lover of our
glorious Union throughout the land
B%.tt,NuRr, Sept. 9. 1850.
NfI4. Fvsa-.A .AJ NJ 1870 4 Iiti'I 4. t.E 4
ceited BY tie Senate frptn the House the
amendment Of The latter. providing that no citizen
is to be deprived Of his life, liberty, or property.
except upon the judgment Of his peers, was con
eutfed in. Yeas 30, nays 10.
From the above despatch, which seems
to he authentic, it would appear that. in
stead OF rejecting the Texas and New
Mexico bills, the House had merely attach
ed an amendment to them, whirl, was
readily coneirred in by the Senate. This is
good evidence that the House amendment
did not materially change any important
principle Of either Of the bills.
In confirmation of the above. we find
The following in the evening edition Of the
Delta. Of the satne date. The passage of
bills is now put beyond question or cavil.
for the despatch from Washington to the
Collector of New Orleans. hardly admits
Of mistake. Here Is the paragraph, alluded
to
erEC1AL MESSENGER 10 rExAs
Col. J y. Walton let in the Portland. yesterday.
with dispatches for Gov. Bell. ANNOUNCING Tie
passage Of the Texas ati New h1evirp bil. lie
was sent Ivy express order sent by telegraph from
The Government al Washington TO The Collector Of
this port.
The California and Utah, the Texas
and New Mexico bills. have now pa ssed
both houses Of Con gress, and, ere this. are
WIS of the land. The only remaining
measures, recommended by the Committee
Of Thirteen, were the Fugitive Slave bill,
atid the bill restricting the Slave trade in
the District Of Columbia. and by our teie.
graphic dispatches in another column. it
will be seet, that the Fugitive Slave bill
the House Oh tile i2tl, instant. by
u vote Of 1OD to TO-
The grand plan of Compromise, for
which Clay. Cass, Webster, Dickinson.
Downs aud Foote, 50 tioblv struggled il
SENATE, has at length succeeded ,
Thank Con for that, It's effect will I've
forthwith throughout the length and
of the confederacy. Angry section
al discussions will cease. sectional aui-
will, in a great measure, disappear.
and the great brotherhood of States will
march onward in the fnlfIlment Of their
destiny, IN harmony and fraternal
May it ever continue SO.
Bad men will attempt to keep up the
agitation. The traitors Of the South and
he traitors of the North. will work to.
as heretofore, to produce alienation
md bitterness Of fec. i between the two
But their foul labors will avail
hem nothing Their occupation gone
nd into the abyss Of political obseurity
viii they descend. remembered only. if
enembesed at all. az men who plotted to.
to destroy the most glorious fabric
I free aud enlightened government ever
cared upon earth.