The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-06-11

slave trade in the District of Columbia, that
policy is held up by the Senator as antagon-
isiic 10 these two last mentioned measures
These two " wounds the Senator represent.
the President as proposing to leave open
Now, where Is the incompatibihty between
the Presidents recommendations, referring
as they Do, expressly and solely TO the terri
tory acquired from Mexico, and the fugitive
slave bill and the question Of the slave trade
in the District of Columbia? Who has the
shadow Of a right TO assume, from any thinn
the President has anywhere said. that he is
opposed or Indifferent TO the adoption oi
either of those measures? We are not a
ware that he has expressed an opinion fa-
yorable or adverse TO those measures. or ei
ther of them. How can either be in any.
wise affected by the adherence Of The Pres
ldent to his plan in respect TO California and
New Mexico? Could they not beth as well
90 hand in hand with the policy recommend
ed by him, in reference TO our newly ac-
quired Mexican territory, as with the policy
recommended in the Compromise" in re-
ference to the same territory? These two
wounds" it may he sufficient here TO say,
he President did not open: he has not rec.
commended that they should be left open; nor
has he offered the slightest impeliment to
their being healed up.
The subjects Of the government of the
Territories, and the question of the bounda.
ry Of Tevas--thc second and ;hifd "wounds
in the order enumerated will consider
together These Two subjects, or "wounds, :"
the Senator saws, the President recommends
should remain and be left untouched TO
cure themselves by some law Of nature. by
the ris medicdrir ndiura. or some selfrem-
edy, in the success of which The1 canno.
perceive an, ground of the least conf
dencc.' Elsewhere the Senator saws
The Presidents plan proposes the admis-
sion OF California. lie proposes further
non-interventioh in The establishment of
territorial governments; that is to saw.
that we shall neglect 10 execute the obliga.
ton of the treaty of IIidalgo-fal to gov
ern those whom we are bound 10 govern
leave them without the protection of the
civil authority of any general government
leave Utah without any government AT
all, but that which the Mormons may insti
'ute-and leave New Mexico under the
military government of Lieutenant Co.
lionel. His plan fails to establish the limits
of New Mexico east of the Rio Grande,
ami would expose the people who nhabit
it to civil war, already threatened, with
Texas"
a formidable array Of alleged defects and
omissions in the Presidents plan Let us
turn for few moments TO the plan itsolf
aud see whelhert is justly liable to the grave
objections urged BY the Senator. That plan
conte mplaed the immediate formation OF
State constitutions by the people of Caliior,
MIA and New Mexico and their early admis-
son into The Union as States. Wirh this
view, the President states in his message of
the 2lsi of January, that he had not hesi>
tated "to express TO the people of those ter.
ritorlcs California and New NleNico7 my
lhsl desire that each territory should, if
prepared TO comply with the acquisitions of
the Constitution of the United States, form
a plan Of a State Constitution and submit
the same 10 Congress, with prayer for ad-
mission into the Union as State Cali
iornla, accordingly, proceeded to form a
State constitution, and is now applying rc
Congress for admission into the Union As a
State. Nothing has existed, or now exists
to prevent New Mexico from following the
example of California. She NAV, ard prob
ably will, do so before The close of the pres
ent session of Congress, unless she is deterr
ed by the declaration OF the Senator that he
will not vote for her admission into the I'm.
ion at present as a State. With what fair.
ness and justice them can it be charged up,
on the President, that he proposes TO leave
New Mexico under the military government
of Lieutenant Colonel without the pro
lection of the civil authority of anv genera
government, and in utter disregard of tn,
obligation Of the United States in the trea
~ of Guadalupe IIidalgo? Leave them il
that condition ? For how long period
For such brief space only as will be requi
site for the formation of a State constitution
and their admission into the Union as
State, The President proposing to neglec
to execute the obligation of the Unite,
States in the treaty of Guadalupe Why
he states expressly. in his message, that "tcit
a riew 10 he faithful erecuiion ofhe treat,
so far as lay in the power of the Executive
and to enable Congress 10 act at HE presen
scssisn with as full knowledge and as it'll
difficulty as possible" he sent certain pei
= sons to California and New Mexico, with in
structions, among other things, TO max
known 10 the people of those Territories hi
"a desire thar each Territory should. il pre-
pared to comply with the acquisitions of III
Constitution of the United States, form
plan Of n State Constitution, and submit tn
same to Congress, with prayer FOR admi,
sion into the Union ns n State :" 1t wi
not be preiended,we suppose, that the pcopl
of New Mexico are not prepared to compl
with all The acquisitions OF the Constiir
ton in this respect.
Another of the objections Of the Senate
to the Presidents plan is. as he alleges. ih'