Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-02-14
From the Washington Republic.
THE GAME OF FACTION AND
THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.


THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
Events tina, have already transpircd
10 Congress show that the Bi,ter.end
opposition TO President Taylor, is com.
posed Of the agi,ators and disunionis,s
of the North and the South. They are
the men who seek to foment sectional
jealousies, and TO throw affairs into con.
fusion, for no better reason than that of
embarrassing the Administration. The
Wings seek TO allay animosities, 10 avoid
extreme questions and measures, and to
adopt not merely calm and constitution.
al legislation, but legislation that will
restore tranquility to the Union, and
dlsappoint the schemes of faction and
agitation. Hence the recommendation
of the Message of President Taylor
with regard to California and New
Mexico, Admit them to the Union as
sovereign States. ADM, California
when she presents herself with her con.
stiluion. Admit New Mexico when
in the fullness of time she shall be pre-.
pared to seek recognition os a sover-
eighty and an associate. "By await
ing their action" says President Taylor
"all causes of uneasness may be avoid.
ed, and confidence and kind feeling re-.
stored"
This is the policy of the Administra.
ton and Of the Wing party. This is
the policy of wise, prudent, and mode.
rate men of all parties and all sections.
The people Of The country are not ia
natics. Here and there we find mad,
man, North and South. who curses the
Constitution and The Union, but it 10
only here and there. The universal
sentiment at The North is opposed to
slavery; but just men feel that. within
the Constitution and under the Consti.
tuition, they have no right to NEEDLE
with it. They feel that they must take
the blessings of union, with VIVA, they
mny be disposed TO consider its evils;
and that they have no right TO disturb
the relations which existed when the
Constitution was established.
But. outside of the Constitution. and
with reference to matters not contem-
plated by the Constitution, they con.
lend that they have right TO the exer.
else of their own Judgment and their
own will. But, even here. just men
and prudent men are not disposed TO
stand upon what they esteem their ex-
IRENE right. when The exercise of that
RICH, is calculated, much less designed,
TO disturb the fralcrnal relations and
interests which exist between the States
of the Union. Apices juris non stunt
iara. We may have no doubt as TO
the existence of right. but very great
doubts as TO the necessity, the expedien.
cy or the wisdom of exacting it with
nice and curious punctilio TO the last
hairs breadth.
No man denies that the States have
a perfect right to manage their do.nes-
tic institutions for themselves. Con-
gress may pass as many provisions as
ii may deem wise; but the moment that
California and New Mexlh shall have
been admitted as States they will stand
on precisely the same ground as ali
other States, and may manage their re.
served rights and their domestic affairs
in the same way. What difficulty is
there. then, in permitting them 10 re-
main in statp quo till, as organized
States, they shall ask admission into the
Union! Is it indispensable that they
should pass through territorial pnrga.
tory? There is as much constitution
for admitting them as States as for &C.
curing them at all. lflhere are any
laws in the way, the laws are under
The control of The men who are called
upon to decide this difficult question:
With regard to precedents, this precise
case has never been presented TO US;
and the Congress of ls49 has just as
much right to establish preceden,s as
any other Congress that ever set. And
as for the difficulty that these people
may suffer in getting along with their
existing institutions, they have better
law, and more of il now, than they
ever had, and are perfectly capable OF
holding together comfortably enough
till they can devise an organization tina,