The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-12-04

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length Of time she had been kept with
out regular civil gorernment--her
case was one Of extreme hardship and
emergency. and appealed to Congress
for prompt and favorable action. He
says California gave but about $4,000
votes in passing upon her Constitution.
Has he forgotten that Michigan. Indi-
ana, Arkansas, Wisconsin, and several
other States gave much smaller vote
lin some instances not more than one
fourth as manyf Would he have ex-
cluded these States for such a reason,
or would he have remanded them to
their state ofpupilage that they might
come in with fairer showings The
truth is, it only required the time it
took the gentleman and those who acted
with him to give birth to their lengthy
speeches against California to enable
her to remove such an objection as this.
Every day carried hundreds to her
shore-and the routes through the wes-
tern wilds we're alive with thousands
of enterprising families vending their
way to this land of golden hopes. What
her population now is it is difficult to
, tell, but cannot be far short Of so. 900.
1t seems, however, that the strongest
objection to her admission was the pro-
, vision in her Constitution prohibiting
slavery. Now, l insist that the people
Of that Country had notonly the right tc
|. form a Constitution and ask admission
into the Union, but also to frame jusl
such Constitution as they wished, and
the only inquiry for Congress was, I" L
ii republican in its form" They had
D a right to incorporate in it a clause pro
. hibiting or establishing slavery as t.
T them seemed best. Congress had ns
more right to force this institution upor
t her against her will than it had to de
e priye her of il il she desired to establish
{ it. This is the true doctrine. This II
:, the Republican doctrine-this is til,
: doctrine .contended for by those VIII
t opposed the Missouri restriction-thi
: is the only safe doctrine for the South
y 1t is what Southern statesmen hay
t ever contended for, and surely the gen
tleman has not so soon forgotten tn
Q Resolutions Of his favorite, Mr.. Cal
n houn, introduced in the Senate Of tn
t" United States in l847 He advocate
. these Resolutions with that abilit
d which characterized all its efforts. On
u Of them is in the following language:
:. "Thsi II is Fundamental principle in our pc
liticsl creed, that the people, In forming const
tuition. have the unconditional right to form an
I adopt the government which they may think be-
calculated to secure theii liberty, prosperity, an
i happiness; and that, in conformity thereto, n
: other condition is imposed by the Federal Coz
stitution on State. in order to be admitted inl
the Union. except that its constitution shall be n
: publican and that the imposition of any 9th.
: by Congress wsuld not only he in violation of th
: constitution hut in direct conflict with the prir
If cple on which our political system rcsts."
: Now can any man mistake the mean
i ing of thisf Is it not too plain to ad
d init of doubt or cavil? Were not til
d inhabitants of California, ga people
: in the sense Of this resolution IL SO
: then did they not have the right t
: form and adopt the government whic
g they considered best calculated
IS secure their liberty, prosperity an
: happinessf' But this is not all. 1t !
J, asserted as part Of this " creed" tina
n when this people" have thus forme
t government or Constitution and as
: for admission into the Union no othe
t condition is imposed by the Fedora
e Constitution except that their Consti
IT tuition be republican" The same doc
! trine was advanced in the Souther
/ Address Of l849, in the putting fort
, of which document, the gentleman him
It self bore most conspicuous part. Ha
: he so soon forgotten these things? Hav
e the responses of his great oracle passe
J SO speedily from his memoryf Melan
% choly indeed is the reflection that oil
5, friendships and associations should $
seldom visit our minds, and when the
s come be permitted to fade SO quickl
l. away!
d Let us test this matter little furtt
q er. Suppose the Constitution Of Cal
ID fornia had been silent on the subject I
le slavery, or had contained clause re
le cognizing and establishing it--woul
rs the gentleman and his friends have OF
l. posed its admission? Would they NJ
70 have been quick u revive the doctrin
r of the South in the Missouri Controvel
Or sy-to give full vigor and efficacy
n /" ample verge and space enough
~ the " creed" of MIR. Calhoun as 81
Do forth in his Resolutions and Speech
of 1S47f He well knows that if Califo
n MIA had presented a Constitution eith'
id silent as to slavery or establishing
to and the North had attempted the gan
+ they did in reference to Missouri, "
Sc should have heard nothing from hll
a aboutextensive boundaries, sparse p'
or on,-irregularity of proceeding
is and that exploded humbug, Executl'
m dictation NO, all would have bee
ch as regular as clock work, ,-inhabitan
nu ,vould have been manufactured fastt