The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-17


the PRESIDENT Acknowledges courteous
communication enclosing to him the proceed
ings of public meeting held at Cazenovia,
in the State of New York, to express con-
currence in the speech of Mr.. DUER In sup
port of the line of policy recommended by the
EXECUTIVE on the subject of slavery IN the
territory acquired from Mexico. To this cour-
teous communication courteous reply was
given-and that is the amount of the correspond
ence. But the Union is not satisfied; the Pre-
sIDENT, it seems, will not act in way calcu-
lated to please it; il will find fault with the
Executive either for doing too little, or for do
ing too much, or for doing things which il does
not desire to have done at all. So, the queru-
lous individual known to anecdote-who, un-
dergoing at the hands of the agent of the penal
law flagellation which he no doubt richly
deserved, was continually complaining of the
mode of the inflction; the blows never fell in
the right place; they were now too low, now
too high, and always too hard; he was not
satisfied once during the whole process.
The PRESIDENT acknowledges his indebted
ness to the citizens of Cazenovia for the ex-
pressions of confidence and esteem which the
occasion has elected, and for the approval which
they have given to the course of their able
representative in Congress. Now, inasmuch as
Mr.. DUER's course, as here referred to, was in
support of the PRESIDENTS own recommended
policy; and as the citizens of Cazenovia, in
giving their appreciation to Mr.. DUER's course,
were at the same time approving that OF the
PRESIDENT, the Union is shocked that General
TAYLOR should render kind and respectful
acknowledgment to these fellow-citizens for
their cordially expressed approval Of his views,
and of Mr.. DUER's support of them 1t as
sumes an indignant air, and throws itself into
the attitude interogative: ''No,c, zoe ask, Is
not this an interference Nth Legislative PROPOSE
lions before Congress9 Is ii not direct pro
clanlation to Congress and TO The people, that
the President has done and is doing more than
merely TO make his erecutipe recommendation?
Does 1t not bring him before Congress and the
country as the earnest aduocate Of a particular
potcys"
We leave these questions TO be answered by
Echo, or any other responsive volunteer, and
proceed to correct mistake into which the
Union has fallen; it seems liable to these little
slips. The Union says that General TAYLOR
endorses Mr.. DUER's policy" The truth is,
that Mr.. DUER sustains General TAYLoR's
policy--for which the people of Cazenovia sus-
tain Mr.. DUER. That is the proper sequence;
the people are the endorsers. The support upon
which General TAYLOR relies always comes
from the people, however various may be the
modes of its manifestations nor are the people
disposed, we presume, to see, i'll his frank and
grateful acknowl Judgments of those manifesto
tons, any such designs of usurpaton as those
which seem to alarm the patriotic sensibiitles
of the Union. The people are more likely u
recognise in such acknowledgements that cor
diality of communion which they desire to cult
vate between themselves and the PRESIDENT Of
their choice.
The Union, however. has another item in
its catalogue of grievances. That item is com
prised in the announcement, that ''Mr. DUEB
has just brought in bill for the erection of q
State in New Mexico" and, il adds, ''thus fol
lowing the footsteps of California, superseding
all resort to territorial government, and in.
viting the new Territories to form State consti
tutions opposed TO slavery, and cutting of tho
South from all opportunity of trying whether
slavery could be established there"
We have called upon the Union to give its
reasons for the assumption that the reference OF
the questions of slavery to the people of the
Territories to be by them decided when they
shall form State constitutions and apply for ad-
mission into the Union as States-we have
called for its reasons why the policy of such re-
ference should be regarded as more adverse u
the South than the policy of establishing terri
torial governments would be-since the ultimate
decision OF the question, in either case, must be
determined by the people of the Territories them
selves. We have called for reasons, but to cal
for them is one thing and TO get them is an
other; and TO get good and sufficient ones diff.
ferent thing still.
BY what authority of proofs it asserted that
New Mexico and Utah, under the policy re-
commended by the PRESIDENT, would ''form
State constitutions opposed to slavery" and
upon what grounds is il maintained that they
would not do 50 under the policy Of the com.
promise plant Let us hear the reasons on both
points.
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