The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-06-19
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
WEDNESDAY MORNING., JUNE 10, 1850.


The Presidential Platform.
The Republic Of Saturday last after indulgng in
remarks which think unnecessary to notice. INDUCES
in few sctufes on our article OF Thursday last, relative
TO the alternatives thai are before the country The
points which the government organ makes not In
our estimation worthy Of especial notice; yet remsm-
bering the words OF solomon, we will give them brief
consideration.
In the first place. the Gaphin organ 10 deny that
the adoption Of the Adjustment brought forward by the
Committee OF Thirteen would put stop 10 the Wilmot-
Proviso controversy In reply, we would ask. in the
event OF the adoption OF the Adjustment what territory
would be left for the basis Of this doctrine Would moi
all the territory acquired from Mexico be provided for
And does not the Missouri Compromise extend to all the
other territory of the United States But we will ask
another question Of the government organ and that it,
does General Taylor, or does General Tayors cabinet
oppose the Wilmot Provsol Will the one veto OF the
other advise the veto OF that Provso Perhaps the Re-
public means that efforts will be made, II the plan OF
the Committee OF Thirteen should be adopted, to keen
alive the free soil agation for the purpose Of coercng
Utah and New Mexico, and compelling them TO prohibit
slavery condition precedent to their admission into
the Union. We cannot believe that such mad fanatcism
would be tolerated at the North We cannot believe
that dangerous demagogues would be permitted to disturb
the treaty Of peace and amity But il the events Of the
future should be different from what we anticipate. We
feel hesitation in saying that the time will have come
when the people Of the South can rally as one man
against aggression, and they will be justified in marshal
Wing all their strength for their protection But this
Soule, adopted on Monday by an overwhelming vote,
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as now stands provides explicitly for the admission Of
Utah and New Mexico, without reference to the
which they may dispose Of slavery in framing their
stnton preparatory to admittance into the Union The
organ says that thus far he Presidents recommendation
has been adopted Now ask does that sapent print
mean to say, that the Presidents recommendation had
been adopted soon it sent in, the WmotP Pro-
viso controversy would have been stopped Would not
all that territory embraced in the limits Of California
be an open field upon which the freesoil excitement
might feed and find nourshmenti Surely il would and
il the Republic has any respect for its own character-if
il is not sold body and soul TO its empoyerst cannot
answer in the negative II the President desired 10 keep
this question out Of Congress, be should have recon-
mended some measure which would settle il one way or
the other but he has not done sol and not having done
80. no man has right to say that his plan is anything
more than disreputabe evasion Of legitimate response
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Again: The favorite organ states our assertion
that under the Presidents plan Utah and New Mexico
would come into the Union under antslavery consttu
tons. be assumption" and then il says, that
supposing the assumption TO be well-founded may not
the same result be confidently anticipated from the
adoption Of the compromise plan Surely this ia trifng
with The good sense OF the American people and surely
the government organ must be compelled to utter words
put into its mouth by the whom II servesthe Gal
phn men, whom Messrs Built and Sargent were too
proud Is not clear, TO the feeble sight OF
the Republic that BY the Presidents plan Utah and New
Mexico would be left open for agitation' And is it not
clear the sagacious organ. that such agitation
would exclude the Shareholder from those Territories as
edec,uay as the Wilmot Proyiso itsel' Besides, IL
they are left by the present Congress- without any or
gained government, how long will they remain soi Do
not late accounts from Santa Fe represent New Mexico
particularly to be in considerable confuson-scourged
by the marauing Indans-complaning Of the TEXANS
and proposing TO form government for herself What
government! The President suggests her admission into
the Union; and Of course he would advise her to pre-
sent herself TO Congress with State constitution. She
will in all probability. then. follow in the footsteps Of
California with constitution against slavery whereas
under the territorial government proposed BY the Senate
BILL the South would have opportunity OF trying, in
the course Of years. whether the soil and climate
would suit the system OF slavery Thus, according to
the Presidents wise plan, first California, and then Utah
and New Mexico would be successvely shut out 10 any
experiment Of the slave property Of the South
But we cannot close these remarks without calling at,
tenton to an assertion made BY the New York Courier
and Enquirer. and reiterated by the Washington Repub-
ie in which there is mol word OF truth The Courier
and Enquire! says
We particularly struck with the unanmitv which
peFyades the whig IN every section OF the union in
regard Pfesdsnts plan OF compromise The lead
ing wing journals ofevery southern well every northern
State n commanding IL by lar the truly
tona and the most satisfactory pan that has been pre-
sened It's tmpicity its feasibility, and the thoroue IN
government upon which IL ia based unite give
and strength with the great oil the people, which will
insure ~ success.
subsequent number Of the Republic states the same
thing substantially Now, say that the statement is
utterly and entirely false. and without the shadow Of
foundation. What say the phig presses themselves
We call them 10 the Witnesses stand efuie the
ton. Wequoe from a southern wing paper-ihe Sayan
nah Republican. Thalpaper says:
Thisis remarkable assertion, AMI must be attributed
either desire 70 m.sfepeson the soahcrn whiz press
70 tbs Ignorance Of the editor. Nothing could he
fiFthef from the truth. There single wing paper
/, one ia Aiibans. Mssissippi Louisiana Texas,
Florida, Arkansas South Carolina, North Caral.na. nor