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The Plan Of haping no Governments in the Ter
ruories until then become States.

The Plan Of haping no Governments in the Ter
rilories until they become States.
1t is said by the advocates of the Presidents
Territorial policy, that it dsposes forever of the
Wilmot Provso. We do not doubt that the Pre-
sident desired his recommendation to have that eff
feet, but what security is there that his desire will
be fulfilled? His plan consists of two very SIM
pie propositions, one positive and the other mega
tive. The first is to admit California as State;
the second, not to pass any law providing govern
ments for the Territories. All that the plan asks
Congress actually to do, is to admit California
and that much is against the South. The Presi-
dents aduice, that Congress should leave the Ter
rtories to themselves, creates no understanding
on the part of those who vote tor the admission o
California Gas some have reasoned,) that his ad
vice will be followed. The Free Soil interest
being strengthened by the accession oftwo Sena-
tors and two Representatives. the proposition will
Immediately be made to establish governments in
the Territories loih The Wimot Prouiso Per-;
haps it might fail to pass the Senate and if it
should pass the Senate, we have no doubt that the
President would apply his veto. But, in either
event, let rejecting men consider what would be
the effect. The Free Soil party would be nothing
daunted by their failure to get the Proviso en-
acted. The question aoould be left open, and that
is precisely what they most desire. 1t would en-
able them to keep alive their agitation and rally
upon another Buffalo platform in 1852. 1t is
through the Presidential elections that the Adolf
tonists chiefly love to act. For them by mingling
an contest which engages the thoughts and feel
ngs of the whole country, their exertions to pro-
duce excitement and turmoil are most efficient
1t is, therefore, the inevitable result Of the Presi
dents policy to sustain the existence, and ultimate
iy to increase the evils, of Abolition agitation.
But when these objections urged to the Pre-
sdents scheme, they met by the argument
that the Territories, if Congress leave them to
themselves, will soon enter the Union as States,
and then all will acknowledge that Congress can
not interfere with them. Now, this is an evasion
OF the question in issue, to which, in our judg-
ment, the South ought never to submit. We
showed, the other day, in regard to New Mexico,
that the result would probably be to create sove-
reign State of the Union, which would immediate
ly be deprived OF her capital, two-thrds of her
population, and most of her arabic land If this
Sesut should not ensue, and the Supreme Court
should decide that the Eastern portion Of New
Mexico belongs to New Mexico and not to Texas
OF course the whole argument urged against the
compromise BILL that it cedes slave territory in
Texas to become free territory, must fail TO the
ground we dc not believe that the South will
assent to the admission of New Mexico as State.
in either view OF the case; whether she retain the
integrity of her territory, or be curtaed of the
better part of it. For what greater act of folly
could there be, than for the South to assent to the
admission of Free Soil State, before she pre-.
tends to be prepared for that condition? ltwoud
be simply meeting the evils of Northern prepon-
derance by bringing them precipitatey upon us
In regard to Utah, which has applied for State
government, whilst New Mexico has deliberately
declined to have one, the Presidents recommen
dation seems to contemplate different policy from
that which he commends as to New Mexico. In
his California message, of January 2lst, he in.
formed Congress that he had not hesitated to ex-
press to the people of California and New Mexico
his desire that each Territory should form plan
OF State Constitution and submit the same to
Congress, and he urged Congress to admit those
TWO Territories as States in order "to remove all
occasion Tor the unnecessary agitation of the pub
tic mind. But with respect to Utah. or Deseret
ihe only suggestlons of the message are present
cd in the following passages:
" The part of California not included in The nronosed
State Of that believed 10 be uninhabited exceD