The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-12

lornia would he injured by this union of her adj
mission with these other measures, and cited va
rous legislative precedents for such CASES and
said he had never heard that the dignity ofany one
offended thereby,
He then read at length and made running com
lnentary upon certain publications IN the Boston
AtaS and upon the late address TO his constituents
of Hon Horace MASN and published IN the La6e-
Tdi0r all treating upon the questions at present oc
/ cupying the public mind.
/ He then urged the establishment of Territorial
4 governments for Utah and New Mexico, and ex-
alnincd the various messages OF the President to
/ Congress on this subject He argued against and
replied TO the ground Of the President Of non action
I in regard to the establishment of territorial gov
\ ernnients. The main objection urged by the Pre-
/ sidcnt against these territorial governments was
the sectional agitation growing out OF any effort to
attach the Wilmot proviso to those governments
This reason, he said, existed no longer. The Will
mot proyiso now dead. IL was known now
that the Wimot proviso could not be passed through
Congress.
He argued. then, that the plan Of non action
could no longer be sustained He commented upon,
and replied TO, certain editorial articles which had
lately appeared in the Republic, in the New York
Courier and Enquirer, and other papers, IN which
the policy of the President sustained. He also
commented upon some passages in the speeches OF
the Hon. Mr.. WiSTHRoP, ON the same subject, in
the House Of Representatives.
The VICE PRESIDENT reminded the Senator
that it not in order TO aude to what took place
in the House of Representatives.
Mr.. CASS said that he forgot; he did not mean To
/ say the House Of Representatives, lie would say
hereafter, the House Of Commons. He then con
tnued his remarks upon the speeches; and said
that he thought the high and extravaganza compli-
nIcnts passed by that gentleman, the plan Of
the President, were in bad taste and showed want
of tact.
Mr.. DAYTON said that, before entering upon
/ the subject before the Senate, he desired to
! say word or two in reply to some observations
made by the Senator from Michigan, in respect to
] persons who not here 10 reply for themselves.
\ The Senator had said that honorable gentleman
had been wanting in taste and tact III passing
tain compliments upon the Executive. He thought
that the Senator should be the last man 10 speak of
taste and tact i'll such matters. Every must be
familiar with his frequent and his almost daily adu-
lation of individuals, and his continued, and doubt
less deserved, compliments upon the Senators from
kentucky ana Massachusetts,; and that too, not in
their absence, but in their presence, face to face,
and without the least regard to their modesty
bushes.
The VICE PRESIDENT called the Senator to
/ order
| MIR. DAYTON said that he would, when called
| to order, obey, and would not be wanting far in
taste and tact to violate the rules of the Senate
/ by adopting the subterfuge of calling this or an
other body the House of Commons.
Mr.. FOOTE called the Senator to order. In
charging subterfuge, the Senator had been guilty
/ of ii himself.
Mr.. DAYTON resumed, and proceeded to the
examination of the bill. He said that the bill had
not been in condition till this time to admit of re-
marks upon its general provisions. The commit
! tee which reported the bill selected to per-
form the great effort Of restoring peace and harmo
ny. They TO bring in measure that to
concilate all sections and restore harmony to the
i country They had not done They did not
even produce harmony among themselves. The
bill itself would have been crushed at itsbirth by
its putativc fathers and strangled in its cradle had
1t not been for one man, who held il alolt with
arm and received all blows upon the other. The
action of the committee not harmonious The
bill the offspring OF confusion and the child of
discord.
He said that he would not pretend to contrast the
plan OF the committee with that of the President,
for he knew of no plan which had been presented
by the President. The committee had proposed
scheme for the settlement of all these questions,
but the President had not The President had re-
commended that Congress do certain Legislative
act. He proposed that if California were entitled
I to admission, she ought 10 be admitted. This
! plain, practical, straightforward proposition.
The committee propose the same thing, but they
attach to it, from suggestions Of policy or political
strategy, other and weaker matters.
The President has also recommended non inter.
vention the subject of slavery; the committee do
the same. But the President recommends non ac-
ton in the matter OF giving territorial governments.
Here the plan Of the committee and the recommen-
/ dations of the President divcrgc But they
identical, SO far as the subject vi slavery is
cerned, and only separated upon other matters
which should not be connected with the slavery
question, and which are not gaping wounds. This
/ question of governments for these territories is
not part OF the distractng agitations of the day,
\ and it Is no gaping wound
! lie inquired into the subject of the locality of
! Utah, her population and boundaries; also. the
/ persons who have settled down in that region.
These were the Mormons. They had buried their
| prophet, abandoned Nauvoo, and had removed
themselves beyond the jurisdiction Of laws, and
had settled down in the great basin of the Rocky
mountains. He alluded TO their character when in
the United States and said they we're not persons
who should claim sympathy and our aid so
strongly as they had been invoked. file did not
consider them enduring such great hardships
from want of protection. He thought that, unless
they had Inended much of late, the Indians would
stand in more need Of protection from the Mormons
4 than the Mormons from the Indians.
/ lie did not think the Government was iinpera-
lively called upon To afford this people territorial
\ government, or to admit them as a State.
! He next alluded to the condition of New Mexico
| and the character Of her people; and defended the
conduct OF the present military governor stationed
/ at Santa Fe.
lie said that he might not perhaps be 20 much
opposed To giving territorial governments TO these
people, were it not for the necessary agitation of
4 the Wilinot proviso. The Senator from Michigan
had pronounced the proviso dead. III the Senator
depended upon vote taken in the other House carly
in the session, TO bear him out in saying the pro-
yiso was dead, then he would find himself msta ken.
/ That vote was no test II produced by the
Executive recommendation not 10 touch the Terri
tories. But when territorial bill raised, and
attempted To be legislatcd upon, il would be found
that the provisO still alive, and that reprcsen-
| tatives would obey their instructions
Mr. ID. then entered into the examination Of the
Texas boundary provisions IN tho bill, urging that
/ this matter was no gaping wound and was hardly
known a matter Of agitation ill about the com
Incnccment Of this session
! lie cited the Legislature of Texas as a republic
and as State, TO show that in part OF her lcgis
lative career had she pretended jurisdiction
/ over any part Of New Mexico lie showed that, I'M
/ I'll 1850, no counties had ever been organized by
| Texas in that country. That in her convention and
4 legislature no representative from New Mexico
ever provided for or invited to a scat, &c.
| lie then examined the treaties made with Santa
Anna and the acts of Mexico the acts of Texas the
acts Of the United States treating with Mexico the
Ola tofM Hall lfo
and the treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo all to show
that Texas bad not the slightest legal lain to any
part of New Mexico
Without concluding, Mr. d. gave way to the
I motion,
And the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The House met at eleven O'Clock, and imncd-
atcly went into Committee Of the Whole on the
n state OF the Union, (Mr. BoYD in the chair) and
rcsnmcd Llc ronsdern ton Of the sn1.laI rlcasa