Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-29
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alt has been aseeraned without doubt that no form Of
territorial government under the authority OF Congress- can
pass the House of Representatives without being ammeod
with the wmot provso slavery restriction 1t is equally
certain no bill with the restriction can become law. wha
then, Be done2 Is there any other mode ~ ,ohseh ne
difficulty can be soiped? In judg menf there n and
that mode is to provide at for the admission 81 he ae-
quired territories Of California and Neo MricO info the
Union Saes they shall form republican const,-
fuos as proposed select committee in the report made
by Senator DOUGLASS its chairman or as proposed IN the
minority report Of Senator DowSs' o. the oomm
tee. BIZ this mode the question Of the Wot prouisO IS
apoidd No member Of Congress, from the North or from
the South compromis any constitutional or other principle
Nothing said about slavery the Wilmot proyso-bu In
providing for the admission the acquired territories INTO tne
Union as States this we'll all other domestic munich
pal regulations is left the inhabitants who are to govern
themselves osouhern man can justify himself IN denyn
to them this right" 's1t
The reader will gather from the last series of extracts that
n February s49 the Union newspaper advocated earnestly
and with fervent hope the admission Of California into the
Union she could frame constitution; that this
he only feasible plan of extending protection to her
citizens and restoring the tranquility of the country that no
Territorial bill could be passed without the Wlmot estcfon,
and that fact the proper tribunal to decide the question Of
domestic institutions in Territory the tribunal of the
people Of the territory further that this plan, applicable
to California, was applicable to New Mexico also, the
being generazed in the phrase the admission Of the
t'AS~ASS
by name that only would the honor Of the South be
saved by the adoption Of this principle, consonar with
the constitutional doctrines of the South but excams the
Unon by this mode the Wilmot proriso is avoided " The
reader will also notice the emphatic expression Of the fervent
hope that will forever lose the benefit Of that
rangement by mseaieuous delay and By fatal uarais.
Now, what that arrangement was the very thing
recommended Congress by President TArLon, in bis annual
message transmitted to Congress December "a, ls49the
very policy which the Union for months past has designated
feeble and tempozng'-"t emporizng and despcable"-
miserable system !" We call the Unions attention to
the contrast here presented Wretched reve look in the
face Blush If the faculty yet remains, and hardened i'm
Pudence have not brazed it that it is proof and buwark
against shame bus if the baseness of this dupcy
blush least at the exposure of it What infatuaton of
self stuled You presume to call system
Of policy recommended by the PRESIDENT Of the United
States despcabe" miserable system" You to presume
call any thing despcable miserable when it is proved
by your words which, good evidence against no
else may yet be good enough to convict
is proved by your words that this very system of
policy, in your belief feasible plan Of ersend
ing protection her [Canial citizens, andrestoring the
tranquility of the country" With slpshod garruly Of
abuse, verbal darhea ofvitupeatve ueance assailng
;essanty the PREs1DEsr and his policy proved that
your allegations fall upon yourself and thus gain some
for the veness Of their language you compelled
% swallow your own venom To every point Of imputaton
you have made yourself secontradicory respondent while
The double series Of extracts which have given
exhibiting the imposure of political charlaan indicate
aso what you will dread most Of all to be told the weakness
Of a driyeller, a.,..