Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-02-07

from Washington, says:
am enabled to inform you that news has
reached here from several western states of the
willingness of the people to drop the proviso, as
producing dangerous and unnecessary aglia
ton for no rational ends. Senators and mem
bets from the west thus feel relieved, and begin
to act Independent on the subject. The result
is bet,oni The possibility OF doubt, decided and
unequivocal dcie 1t OF The Wilmot pfoviso in the
Senate, and the probability o: lis defeat in the
House OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The true version is doubtless this: Gen Cass
and his friends ,cish to lie relieved f-om this
question Accordingly in Michigan, the Gen
eral is trying to get the Leg stature to resclnd
I the resolutions of instruction. The sane hing
may be attempted elsewhere. Bet The gana"
ironl succeed Anxious as the poi icians OF tie
dough-!aced school may be TO crafty Gen. Cas-
and the South, we believe that public sentiment
is 50 strongly set upon this question that 1t will
be impossible for them 10 get the legislature
even If Michigan to back out from lis position.
| We believe that no Northern State viii for
moment waver upon this question iadced here
i but one course possible, other thin The adoP-
ion of the ProvlsO. Congress can safely ar,id
the y limo; provisJ, and all the excitement and
danger growing out of 1t, by adopting the course
recommended by the President. Let the terri
tories rest as they are, (uiM Siarery 'rciuiea by
the existing Mexican law. until the people them
selves have formed their cons buttons then
let them settle the Slavery question. The PEG
&c ,yi.bOut tho
sacrifice of any principle without mourning any
resi- possibility. But until this is done, the VII
mot Pfoyso must and will be insisted upon by
the North. We must continue to say,-and 10
Representatives undertake to settle this question
al all if they make as responsible for 1t they
must act Only iu ore direction: they must Fx
cLuDf SLAVERY ard clear our skirts ofall guilt
Woe will be the lot of every Northern man who
plays false in this matter. LIT tie south re
qnire her representatives TO insist upon the ad
mission of Slavery. if she choose; let her
threaten di>union a. strongly as she peases the
result of this acton on both sides will be pre-
cisely what the President suggests-the people
of the territories viii be left TO their own free
will, and come what will neither the North or
the South can find the slightest ground for dis
union, recrimination, or complaint
If this Is 10 be called compromise, it strikes
us ;hat it is the only one which - practicable:
a compromise winch keeps slavery out until the
people chonse to admit t-a compromise which
leaves all the responsibility where it ought to be,
70 wit, on TIE peope OF the territories M
Clay evidently believes that lis proposition
would amount To the same thing: he believes,
for 50 he asserts, that under his compromise
slavery never would enter The new territories -
We are afraid this IS not certain. lie proposes
territorial governments, without a restriction rel
alive to slavery. VIII il rot be said that from
The moment such a government is established,
The .Hrioan lac (which now excludes Slavery
grasses? Cannot Shareholders then enter the
territory with their slaves-and being there will
it not be SAID, whenever constitutions are form
ed, that Slavery crisis there a1d must not be
meJdled win: There certainly appears to
Us To be ossbjiity that Slavery MAJ thus
-''.0' ~" -'iSN'So' anu t'itt We Oh t.ie norm
may be justly charged with responsibility tor
the ex'ension Of avery, # we agree to this
Compromise. II these views are correct. it Is
not likely that the people the North VIII wayer
at all in their liberalization to afix the Wllmol
Pfoviso TO any act Of Congress which shall have
the fec, if the Proviso Is not annexed, to over
ride the existing Mexican law excluding Shve-
ry. We believe hit Northern representatives
may res, assured that such Is the sentiment of
the great body OF the people Of ali parties