Washington telegraph., 1850-06-05

repuDllC. Iney were both Ceded to the
: United States by the same treaty. And
in the same article of that treaty the
United States solemnly engaged to pro-
? tect and govern both. Common in their
origin, common in their alienation from
t one foreign government to another, com.
) mon in their wants of good government,
and conterminous in some of their boun-
daries, and alike in many particulars OF
physical condition. they have nearly every
thing In common in the relations in which
they stand to the rest of this Union
There is then general fitness apd pro-
priety IN extending the parental care OF
government to both in comm0n. Ii Cal
ifornia, by a sudden and extraordinary
augmentation of population, has advanced
so rapidly as to matpfe her for State gov
eminent, that furnishes no reason why
the less fortunate territories of New Mex
leo and Utah should he abandoned and
left ungoverned by the United States, or
should be disconnected with California,
which, although she has organized for
herself State government, must be le-
galy and constitutionally regarded as
territory until she is actually admitted as
State into the Union.
1t is further objected, that, by combin-
ing the two measures in the same bill.
members who may be willing to vote for
one and unwilling to vote for the other
would oe placed in an embarrassing con
dition. They would be constrained, it is
urged, to take or reject both. On the
other hand there are members who would
be willing to vote for both united, but
would feel themselves constrained to vote
against the California bill ifit stood alone.
Each party finds in the bill which it favors
something which commends it to accept
ance, and in the other something which
it disapproves. The true ground, there
fore, of the objection of the union of the
measures, is not any want of affinity oe-
tween them, but because Of the favor or
disfavor with which they are respectively
regarded In this conflict of opinion, it
seems TO majority of the committee that
a spirit of mutual concession enjoins that
the two measures should be connected
together; the effect Of which will be, that
neither opinion will exclusively triumph,
and that both may find in such an amica-
BILE arrangement enough of good to recon-
| cile them to the acceptance OF the COM
bined measure And such course Of
legislation is not at all unusual. Few
laws have ever passed III which there
were not parts to which exception was
taken. 1t is inexpedient, if not impracu'
cable, to separate these parts, and en-
BODY them in distinct bills, 50 as to ac-
commodate the diversity of opinion which
NAV exist The constitution Of the Uni
ted States contained in it great variety
of provisions, to some of which serious
objections were made in the convention
which formed it by different members of
that body; and when it was submitted to
the ratification of the States; some of them
objected to some parts, and others to other
parts of the same instrument. Had these
various parts and provisions been sepa-
rately acted on in the convention, Or sep
arately submitted to the people of the
United States, it is by no means certain
that the constitution itself would ever
have been adopted or ratified. Those
who did not like particular provisions
found compensation in other parts of it,
And in all cases of constitutions and laws,
when either is presented as whole, the
question to be decided is, whether the
good it contains is not of greater amount,
and does not neutraliZe any thing excep-
tionable in it, Ard, as nothing human
is perfect, for the sake of that harmony
so desirable in such confederacy as this,
we must be reconcied to secure as much
as we can of what we wish, and be con-
| so,ed by the reflection that what we do
not exactly like is friendly concession,
and agreeable to those who, being united
ic n q
should always live with us in peace and
concord
A majority of the committee have, there
t fore been led to the recommendation to
the Senate that the two measures be
united. The bill for establishing the two
territories, it will be observed, omits the
. Wilmot proviso, on the one hand, and, on
the other, makes no provision for the in
PRODUCTION of slavery into any part of the
new territories, That proviso has been
, the fruitful source of distraction and
| agitation. If 1t were adopted and applied
to any territory, i: would cease to have
t any obligatory force as soon as such
TERRITORY were admitted as State into
5 the Union There was never any occa-
, sion for it, to accomplish the professed
object with which it was originally offer
ed. This has been clearly demonstrated
bv the current of events. California, of
all the recent territorial acquisitions from
, Mexico, was that in which, If any where
r within them, the introduction of slavery
/ was most likely to take place; and the
constitution of California, by the unani-
nous vote of her convention, has expressly
5 interdicted it. There is the highest de-
5 gree of probability that Utah and New
Mexico will, when the come to be ad-
l mitted as States, follow the example,
, The proviso is, as to all these regions in