The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-02


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Congress asking her admission into the Union !!
Deseret had a larger permanent population than
California at the time they respectfully formed their
constitutions for II was unanimously conceded
in the California Convention, that she had from
30 900 10 10000 inhabitants; and, what rs most
remarkable her constitution was unanimously adop
ted, while that of California hardly reached $4,000!
But another astounding circumstance Is, that
California stretched her boundary line across
the heart Of Deseret, and appropriated to herself
! fully 10000 square miles OF that State.
The application OF Deseret is still pending be-
fore the Senate; it has not been acted upon--still
less has IL been rejected; and yet here IS the COM
nlitee's bill, cutting OH from Deseret these IO,OOU
square miles, and extending California s bounda-
ries over 1t.
| Let 1t never more be said, then, that Congress
does not at this moment possess all the powers
and rights over the boundaries OF California that
| II ever did or does now possess over those OF
| Utah and New Mexico
II Is obvious that there Is not an obstacle IN the
way of Congress running the line of the Missouri
Compromise through California to the Pacific, but
its own WILL;
The North knows H.: Inc south knows II; ana
she expects that 1t VIII be conceded TO her, and
will insist upon 1t, and accept OF no adjustment
that VIII fall short OF II. there is not Journal
of either party, nor have seen Southern man
who, In yielding 10 the one or the otner OF ne TWO
plans presented to Congress-the one by the Execu-
tive, the other by the Commlttee OF lhlrteen-has
not declared of either that was not what should
| be; that the North got all ana gave nothing.
There is scarcely one journal that does not avow
| Its preference to the missouri compromise over
all others. Some OF them add, II Is true, I'VE
can't get it, which must think would be far
more appropriate II coming from those VINO DO
not cant it, or, having the power ,nont yield 1t.
But, sir, evidences that the universal South favors
| the line OF the missouri compromise above All
other plans have been amply displayed within the
very walls OF the Capitol; ana here, SIR, IN the
Senate, when that distinctive measure shall come
to final vote, shall be both surprised and con-
cerned if the Southern Senators shall not attest
their sense of what their respective States desire
most, by casting something like unanimous vote
in It's favor. .1. 49,. NE.-=..
| Congress possesses all the power over the
boundaries of California no,o that 1t possessed at
the last session OF Congress, and has exactly the
same right to extend the line Of the Missouri
Compromise through 1t that 1t had then.
Ii follows from this, that 1t is entirely at ITS OPP
| ton whether the Hilmot Proriso shall be estab-
lished in California south of 81 deg. 30 min. or
not 1t is not established yet; 1t cannot be estab-
lished unless Congress says 1t, shall. And, Mr..
President, do not expect that the South can be so
easily deluded. She knows--she will know
that if Congress limits California by 80 deg. 30
min, it will have refused to establish the Uilmot
Proriso; if it does not, and admits her into the
Union as sne Is, Congress UtH HdCe eSdOtlShed u.
| Will not the admission Of California, then, be
identcally, in substance and in fact, the establish
| ment of the Wilmot Provso south Of Sc dec. 80
min. bu Congress? There cannot be doubt of it,
Well, sir the mere menace of doing so heretofore
threw the entire South into flame, and united
all hearts in resistance Is it hoped that the con-
summation of that odious measure, through the
virtue of this bill, will not unite them again, and
kindle the flame that will blaze up fiercer than
evers :.. ... 10 =. #
Have our brethren of the free States sufficiently
pondered upon the consequences of putting the
South to the WALL and forcing upon her the adop-
ton of desperate measures' viii they shut their
ewes on the clouds that rise on the horizon? Will
thew brave the dangers that surround us when
thew can avert them forever by adhering to
Compromise which they themselves contrived
against and imposed upon the South and when
the South is willing to abide by it, Sir, is the
permanency of this republic of so little value to
them that thew will not secure it at such price :
Methinks can read the characters which mys-
terious hand is writing upon these walls!
! Yes, sir, bad as think this measure, disas-
| trous as will be the consequence, and strenuously
as may struggle against it while it is open to
debate my opposition to it will end here may
think no less OF the wrong it occasions, the injury
it inhicts the oppression it menaces, and the dis
memberment that awaits it; but whenever that
controversy passes beyond this chamber, and
reaches the point OF co'nslon ana rupture, aeeP
sense OF an owe my aaoPaeG o Gun VIII oa
sons and to that aliwise Providence that holds