Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-22

formally with what is stipulated in the preceding article
SHALL IscoRPoRATED INTO THE Usios or THE UNITED
STATES, and admitted al the PROPER time ito be Judged OF
by the Congress of the United Staes) TO the enjoyment al
the rights o csens Of the United States, according % the ai-
cipes ohs consato, and in the time shall be main.
tanned and protected in the free enjoyment OF their 6be and
property and secured in the free exercise OF their religion
without restriction"
That sir the provision of the treaty. At the proper time,
to be Judged Of bp the Congress Of The United States, the
inhabitants of these Territories be admitted to the prvl-
eges Of citizens Of the United States Something thus ie
discretion In the time they to be protected
Now, sir what is the condition Of these Territories First
there Utah Where that is is somewhat difficult to
It is at all events, certain somewhere known few weeks
since Dessert lying between certain portions OF the Rocky
Mountains. Is southern boundary (Which is cotermnous
with another toy) has never been sem except with the
aid suppose telescope and by th only explorer that
has been there And when he saw IL from his northern
line of rone h saw but of the tonost cress OF the
high mountains Of the range That heassumed boundary
fixed BY the BILL coermnous between this Territory and the
adjoining one. And, now, who these PERSONS thus
reaching back tLe hands to the American Government for
the extension Of its laws them They are the self
expaated followers Of Joe Smith, the Mormon. They have
buried their prophet; they have abandoned Nauyoo they
have gone voluntarily away relieve themselves from the
wholesome restraint of laws and for the enjoyment OF
special system of their And at last, having squaed in
the great basin of the Rocky Mountains at least thousand
miles from every WHERE they around and demand gov
ernment at our hands Our sympahies excited, and
patriotism is invoked to extend forthwith the benefit
of laws to this wandering tribe Sir, II halt that was said
Of them be ue unless their character has been hetteed by
their residence in the Great Basn they little calculated
do credit the of American citizens We recollec
the which took place in Missouri and Illinois, and
less their morals and have improved, W what were
then said of them be true far from their needing proec
ton against the Indians the Indians may have better
demand protection against them; still protection
against the Indians requires military force only and poec
ton they should have But aside from this, the want OF
civil government constitutes suppose, part at least Of one
of the five gaping wounds. Sir, this is wound; it is
Ja I foster
tester and burst again, and yet it affect touch the
health of the body polite.
New Mexico is the other Of these Territories. do not
pretend to know very much Of the present condition of New
Mexico. It is said that it is under military government
This military government, infer from what is gov
eminent exeng its powers principally for the protection Of
the inhabitants of the country against hostile Indians
pose that the laws the magistrates the whole municipal re-
gulaons of that Territory, remain substantially as
they before the country transferred to u.s. The
inhabitants the same, they live under the same SYSTEM
and protected in precisely the way not politically,
but civy and judiciay, in all the property, business
and social relations Of life But then it has been said that
the military government which has been placed over this
Territory is dereict lin its duty, and that when Texan
commissioner presents himself there assuming to exercise
jurisdiction, instead of dchargng its duty, abandons the
people. If this so, it would not touch the ques-
ton but for what was that military government or ra
ther this lieutenant colonel with few troops put there
was before sad protect the inhabitants from violence
from Indian outrage and for Of that kind do not
thing to do with the civil government of the Territory, and
the orders Of the Executive seem so to indicate.
When, therefore, the Texan commissioner, solitary man.
without retnue and without muske presented himself
with view issuing wts for election for small county o
ces what the lieutenant colonel odo To bring forward
guard, present platoon Obviously not. This single
there exercise character OF jurisdiction about
which shall speak fully directly, which if it
ercised wronguy would be vod and declared by the
and how pray, this lieutenant colonel to interfere
and bring his power bear against this single individual who
was thus there for civil purpose only Why, submit
with great Difference that he should not have nerfered that
he did right to leave the claimants to settle the question
of civil jurisdiction in the courts But had Texas thought
proper to 60 there with armed force, for the purpose OF
taking military possession Of the country, expelng Judicial
authority then there she would doubtless have been other
wise met she would then have been taught that there was
another power besides Texas whose constitutional duty was
to protect her, and that Texas like every other Sae has
common arbiter Judicial tribunal ny which her
civil rights be decided But the Texan commissioner
coming he did, man. the garb Of peace and upon
claim Of civil right, the lieutenant colonel says, in sub
stance, will have nothing to do with the question; will
not aid you, nor will oppose you.
Sir, such is the condition of New Mexico. Now, un-
der these circumstances the plan Of the committee
mends the establishment Of Territorial form of government
do not mean to that ought not to be
for those Territories that, aside from the difficulties con-
neced with its organization would be better to
give them Territorial Government do not mean to say
that But the difficulty in the way is that same Wilmot
povso which the Senator from Michigan chooses to consider
as dead Dead! How So sir Does he refer to the vote
taken in the other house II so, we know very well how
and under what circumstances that vote aken that
test Of what that house will do when this question
shall be presented upon regular Territorial bill The Will
mot provso dead Let tell gentlemen that the thing Is
6 scotched, not killed." And that much has been
done not by their arguments their reports, but 1t has
been done by the Executive recommendation to leave the
subject aone stand clear Of the Territories, where alone
this socalled monster has its lurking place. But If yos 60
rummage in its domce disturb its domain, gentlemen
will if they do up this thing life and fu action
again.
It is grand mistake of the Senator from Michigan and
others suppose that this thing dead In assuming this
he deals in that branch Of diaectcs known peo prince
PHI, begging the question. II is the very thing to be
prored And whatever may be the opinion feeling in this
chamber when the trial in the other House upon
direct Territorial BILL you may judge of the future from the
past The instructions of the Legislatures of almost every
free State indicate the result in advance Those instructions
that they should insist Teroral bills, but that
in the event of the passage of SUCH the ordinance OF 81
should be inserted part. This proyso difficulty yet
mains 1t is that great stumbngblock in the way Of the
formation of Territorial Governments which has existed from
the beginning and exists yet Our treaty obligation to
give the inhabitants Of the Territories the entire benefit at
proper time, Of the institutions Of the county to give them
all their rights American citizens. Why, the President in
expressing his willingness that New Mexico shall speedily be-
come State has gone further in discharge of these OBJ
legations than Territorial bill would 60 He has not meted
out to them those in the narrow contracted and snted
form Of Territorial Government but comedies to them, so
far as his willingness goes, the full enjoyment and comms-
nionshp Of American citizens II is ide therefore, to say
that he has shrunk from the treaty obligations
But sir appears unfortunately, in this case, in others,
that there are persons asdous sensitive, that unless
the thing be done their way, and according to their
own view of what the treaty obligation is cannot be done
at all They say to us, What, New Mexcoa State Why,