Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-22

the character OF citizens OF the Mexican repuDc
formally with what is stipulated in the preceding article
SHALL BE INCORPORATED UsiOS OF THE UNITED
STATES. and admitted al the proper time Ito be judged o.
by the Congress of the United Staes) TO the enjoyment au
he rights OF citizens of the United States according to the prfp-
cples ofhs constitution and in the time shall be main
tanned and protected in the free enjoyment their hSer and
property and secured in the free exercise OF their
without restriction"
That sir the provision of the Treaty Al the proper time,
to be judged of By the Congress IF the United Sfaaes, the
inhabitants of these Territories be admitted to the pv-
eges Of citizens Of the United States Something thus LEFT
discretion In the time they to be protected
Now, sir what the condition of these Territories First
there Utah. Where that is somewhat difhcut 10 say
II is at all events certain somewhere known few weeks
since Desert lying between certain portions OF the Rocky
Mountains Is southern boundary (Which is coterminous
with another rtory) has been SEN except with the
aid suppose telescope and by one M only explorer that
has been there. And when he il from his northern
line of route b saw but some Of the tonost cress Of the
high mountains Of the range That the assumed boundary
fixed by the bill coerminous between this Territory and the
adjoining And, now, who are tfsse persons, thus
reaching back their hands the American Government for
the extension Of its laws over them They are the SELF
expaiated followers Of Joe Smith, the Mormon They have
buried their prophet; they have abandoned Nauvoo they
have gone voluntarily away to relieve themselves from the
wholesome restraint of laws and for the enjoyment OF
special system Of their own And at last having squated
the great basin Of the Rocky Mountains least thousand
miles from every WHERE they turn around and demand gov
eminent hands Our sympathes are excited, and
patriotism is invoked to extend forthwith the benefit
Of laws to this wandering tribe Sir, if half that was said
of them be true unless their character has been hettered by
their residence in the Great Basn they little calculated
to do credit to the of American citizens We recollec
the which took place in Missouri and Illinois, and un-
less their morals and have improved, Git what were
then said of them be true far from their needing proec
ton against the Indians the Indians may soon have better
to demand protection against them still protection
against the Indians requires military force only and pIoec
ton they should have. But aside from this, the want OF
civil government constitutes suppose part at least Of one
IF The Eve uounds Sir s no
hardly outside 1t may tester and burst and
tester and burst again. and yet affect touch the
health of the body polite.
New Mexico is the other of these Territories. do not
pretend to know very much of the present condition OF New
Mexico. 1t is said that il is under military government
This military government, infer from what see is gov
eminent exerng its powers principally for the protection OF
the inhabitants of the country against hostile Indians sup
pose that the laws the magistrates the whole municipal re-
gulaions of that Territory, remain substantially
they before the country transferred to The
inhabitants the same, they live under the same SYSTEM
and protected in precisely the way not politically,
but civy and judiciay, in all the property, business,
and social relations Of life But then it has been said that
the military government which has been placed this
Territory is derelict lin its duty, and that when Texan
commissioner presents himself there assuming to exercise
jurisdiction, instead of dschargng its duty, abandons the
people. If this SO, it would not touch the ques-
ton but for what that military government or ra-
Their this lieutenant colonel with few troops, put there
TWAS before said protect the inhabitants from violence,
ron lndlan ana mattes OF tnal 10
suppose that military has ought to have any
thing to do with the civil government of the Territory and
the orders of the Executive seem SO to indicate.
When therefore, the Texan commissioner, solitary man,
without etnue even and without muske presented himself
with view to issuing ws for election for small county 9TH
cess what the lieutenant colonel to do To bring forward
guard to present platoon Obviously not This single
man was there to exercise character OF about
which shall speak fully directly which if it were ex
ecised wrongfuy would be void, and declared by the
and how pray this lieutenant colonel to interfere
and bring his power bear against this single individual who
was thus there for civil purpose only Why, submit
with great Difference that he should not have nterered that
he did right to leave the claimants to settle the question
of civil jurisdiction in the courts But had Texas thought
proper to 60 there with armed force, for the purpose OF
taking military possession Of the country, e1pelng judicial
authority then there she would doubtless have been other
met she would then have been taught that there was
another power besides Texas whose constitutional duty
protect her, and that Texas like every other State has
common abiter, Judicial tribunal by which her
civil rights to be decided Butte the Texan commissioner
coming he did, man. in the garb OF peace and upon
claim Of civil right the lieutenant colonel says, n sub
stance, will have nothing TO do with the questions will
not aid you nor will oppose you.
Sir, such is the condition of New Mexico Now, un-
der these circumstances the plan of the committee
mends the establishment Of Territorial form Of government
do not to say ought not to be government
for those Territories that aside from the difficulties con-
nected with its organization, would not even be better to
give them Territorial Government do not to say
that. But the difficulty in the way is that Wilmot
provso which the Senator from Michigan chooses to consider
dead Dead How so, sir Does he refer to the vote
taken in the other house If SO, know very well how
and under what circumstances that vote taken that
test Of what that house will do when this question
shall be presented upon regular Territorial BILL The Viii
mot provso dead Let tell gentlemen that the thing is
" scotched, not killed." And that much has been
done, not by their arguments, their reports, but It has
been done by the Executive recommendation to leave the
subject alone to stand clear of the Territories where alone
this ocalled has its lurking place. But if yos
to rummsge in its domce disturb its domain gentlemen
will see they do not stir up this thing life and tu action
again.
1t is grand mistake Of the Senator from Michigan and
others to suppose that this thing dead In assuming this
he deals in that branch Of dialeccs known petite prici
p begging the question. II is the very thing to be
prored And whatever may be the opinion feeling in this
chamber when the trial in the other House upon
direct Territorial BILL you may judge of the future from the
past The instructions Of the Legislatures of almost every
free State Indicate the result in advance. Those instructions
not that they should insist Territorial bills but that
in the event Of the passage Of SUCH the ordinance Of 81
should be inserted part This provso difficulty yet re-
mains. It is that great stumbling block in the way OF the
formation Of Territorial Governments which has existed from
the beginning, and exists yet Our treaty obligation was to
give the inhabitants Of the Territories the entire benefit al
proper tme Of the institutions Of the country to give them
all their rights American citizens Why, the President in
expressing his willingness that New Mexico shall speedily be-
come State has gone further in discharge Of these OBJ
legations than Territorial bill would go. He has not meted
out to them those rights the narrow contracted and snted
form Of Territorial Government but comedies to them so
far as his willingness goes, the full enjoyment and comma
nonshp Of American citizens II is idle therefore, to say
| that he has shrunk from the treaty obligations.
But sir appears, unfortunately in this in Others
that there persons sdous so sensitive that unless
the thing be done in their way, and according to their
own view Of what the treaty obligation is cannot be done
at ALL They say to us, What New Mexicoa State Why,
is buresque upon the solemn duty OF making States