The southern press., 1850-09-09
Admission of California as a State.


Admission of California as a State.
This measure passed the House of Represen
tatives finally on Saturday last, as we expected
We have, during its tendency, discussed it il
full, and have nothing now to add to what w
have already said
The States most deeply affected by thi
measure will act according to their own judg
ment
The Legislature of Georgia has provided fo
the action of her people in this contingency il
the most authoritative manner
1t is not for us to advise her. We subjoir
the act of her Legislature. .. -,
The bill to establish a Territorial Govern
ment in Utah also passed the House on Satur
day.
The CoNvENTloa-The following is u copy
of the set of the last Legislature, by which il
certain contingencies, it is made the duty of thu
Governor of this State to call convention O
the people:
AN ACT to authorize and require the Governo
Of the State of Georgia to call Convention
Of the reople of this State, and to appropriat,
money for the same,
WHEREAS the non-slavehoding States have fo
a series Of years perseveringly interfered mos
wrongfully with the institution of slavery a
the South, by such aggressive measures q
| intolerance rs to render it no longer a cues
ton Of doubt that the Federal Legislature
will soon adopt such restrictive measure.
against the institution of slavery rs to trim
mel, ftter, and confne it within certain- geo
graphical limits never contemplated by tn,
| original parties to the constitutional compact
aId whereas Georgia, in her sovereign capa
city MS n State, has delegated no other power
to the Federal Government than those found
in the Constitution of the United States, and
believing that her best interests and hei
honor as n sovereign and ndepe dent Gov.
ernmeut, require that she should meet all EN-
croachments in n calm and manly spirit OF
resstance
SECTION |. Be ii enacted by The Senate ana
House of Representatives. of the State of Georgia
in General ASSEMBLY met, anil ii is herebg
enacted by The authority of the same, That should
the Congress Ct the United States pass any law
prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude in
any territory of the United States, or any law
ubolshing slavery in the District of Columbia,
or any law prohibiting the slave trade betw cen
the States where slavery may exist, or admit
into the United States as n State Of this Con-
federacy the sparsely peopled territory of Cali.
fornia or New Mexico, or should the Governor
of this State receive at any time satisfactory
evidence that any slave or slaves having escaped
from this State to non-slavehodng State, and
that such slave or slaves is or are refused to be
given up to the proper owner, by the authorities
Of the States in which such fugitive or fugitves
may be found, then or in either of the foregoing
events, it shall be and it is hereby made the
duty of the Governor Of this State, within sixty
days thereafter to issue his proclamation, order
ing an election to be held in each and every
county to Convention of the people of this
State, to convene ut the Seat of Government
within twenty days after said election.
SECTION :. And be Il further enacted, That the
counties now entitled to two Representatives in
the House of Representatives Of the General
Assembly Of this State, shall each be entitled
and shall elect four delegates to said Conven-
ton, and the counties which are entitled to one
representative shall elect two delegates to said
Convention.
SECTION 8, And be ii further enacted, That
said election for delegates shall he be conducted
and held in the same manner as elections for
members of the Legislature now held in this
State, and that all returns of elections shall be
forwarded to the Governor of this State who
Silal unoh aPPilchuon IurnlSn eacn delegate
elected with certificate OF election.
SECTION j. And be il further enacted, That the
sum of thirty thousand dollars be and the same
is hereby appropriated ont of any money in the
Treasury, for the purpose of de(raying the en-
pcnscs of said Convention, and that the men,
bars Of said Convention shall BY vote regulate
their peniem pay and mileage.
SECTION 5. And be ii further enacted, That
said Convention shall elect all officers necessary
to their organization.
Approved, February s, 1850,
I'D" 1t will be seen from the annexed cor
rcsponlcnce that public dinner has been ten
dcred to the late Secretary of War; by his friends
in Augusta, Georgia, and accepted by him. The
names of large number of the leading citizens
are attached to the invitation.