Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-29
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alt has been asceraned without doubt, that no form O
territorial government under the authority OF Congress- car
pass the House of Representatives without being rammellct
with the Wmot proviso slavery restriction. 1t Is equally
certain no bill with the restriction become law Wh0
then, be done? there amy other mode IN 'ohiea IN
difficulty be soiped? In our judg msnt there IS AND
that mode to provide at the admission 81 he &C
qured territories of California and Neio MeE.co ino M
Union Safes they shall form republican consti
uo proposed The select committee in the report made
by Senator DousLAs its chairman or as proposed IN the
minority report of Downs, Of the Judiciary Commit
tee. By this mode the question Of the Wii,aot pror,so
GpOded. No member Of Congress- from the North or from
the South comprois any constitutional or other principle
Nothing is said about slavery the Wilmot provisobut in
providing for the admission Of the acquired territories the
Union States this well all other domestic munich
pal regulations left the inhabitants, who to govern
themselves No Southern man can Justify himself in denyin
to them this right"
The reader will gather the last series of extracts that
in February s4s the Union newspaper advocated earnestly,
and with ferven hope the admission Of California into the
Union she could frame constitutions that this
ihe only feasible plan of extending protection to her
citizens and restoring the tranquility of the country y that
Territorial bill could be passed without the Wimot resrcon
and that fact the proper tribunal decide the question Of
domestic institutions in Territory the tribunal of the
people of the territory further, that this plan, applicable
to California, applicable to New Mexico ALSO the
same being generalized in the phrase the admission Of the
Territory in the form STATES" and applied to New Mexico
by that not only would the honor of the South be
saved by the adoption Of this principle, consonart with
the constitutional doctrines of the South, but exclaims the
Union, "by this mode the Wlo roriso avoided " The
reader will also notice the emphatic expression Of the eent
hope s'tha will forever lose the benefit Of that
rangement by miscellaneous delay and by fatal uhraism"
Now, what that arrangement II the very thing
recommended Congress by President TAYLOR in his annual
message transmitted Congress December a. lS49the
very policy which the Union for months past has designated
"fsebe and emporizing temporzing and despicable
"miserabe system z" We call the Unions attention to
the here presented. Wretched eve look in the
face Blush, if the faculty yet remains, and hardened inn
Pudence have not brazed that is proof and buwark
against shame blus if not at the baseness Of this duplic
blush at least at the exposure of it What nfauaon OF
selfstutied assurance You presume to call system
Of policy recommended by the PRESIDENT Of the United
States despicable, miserable system" You to presume
to call any thing despcabe miserable when it is proved
by your words which, if good evidence against
else may yet be good enough convict yoursewhen
it proved by your words that this very system of
policy, in your belief, "heonly feasible plan Of ertend
ing protection to her Cania citizens and restoring the
tranquility Of the country" With slpshod garulity Of
abuse, verbal darhea Of vuperave uerance assang in
cessanty the PREsDEsr and his policy, is proved that
your allegations fall upon yourself and thus gain some
for the vleness Of their language you compelled
swallow your To every point of mputation
you have made yourself seconradctory respondent while
the double series Of which have given to our read
es, exhibiting the mposture of political chaatan indicate
also, what you will dread of all be told the weakness
of driyeler ..' d.. ~. '...t'