Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-07

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Her admission might have been contested with far
plausibiy, yet the South umphed and secured stious
lion engraed in the compact providing for the adusou az
four slave States to be hereafter carved of her
rory The Freeoers and Aboonisis Of the North called
then upon the savehodng States secede under what
they were pleased call this outrage These States were
wise enough be deaf to this invocation All that contend
for is, that the admission IF Isras furnished far greater
propocation the North 10 sce than The admission Of Cali
fornia does to the South, with the auxiliary stpulations in
cident 10 the former.
But is said the adoption of the inhibition Of slavery
in the constitution Of California the result of intrigue
Of the late President Taylor and his Cabinet to avoid the
sponsibiiy OF the Wimot provso. The recent testimony
furnished by Gen. Riley and Com. Jones would seem
place the strong denial Of this fact by the late President and
Mr. King beyond dispute cannot believe that men Of honor
should lie at ALL but especially without motive. But,
admitting the interference Of Gen. Taylor this might have
furnished justification for his impeachment but could
nnged the constitutional power Of Congress to adj
NIT now State into the Unionf fit. The truth Is fellow
citizens lost California by want Of concert Of action and
enterprise the part Of the Southern States Yearly suggest
to several distinguished in two three of the South
ern States that the Legislatures of the slaveholdng States
ought each appropriate bounty fund OF 800 600 to aid
emgrants go California knew without this extraor
binary stimulus match for the enterprise Of the
Northern people, We win empires by lying
backs and calling the Constitution and Jupiter to help
some not adopted by the joint action Of
the Southern States to counterva Northern enterprise
shall lose both Utah and New Mexico by the action of
the Mexican population for three hundred shareholders in
each of those Territories would control esctuay this por
ton Of their population. Yet, venture to predict the South
will do nothing But, after the catastrophe has upon
US, and shall have lost these two States we shall have
without STINT the most pungen resolutions and eloquent mani
eoes enuncated demonstrating and denouncng the signal
injustice Of this fresh aggression.
The boundary Bill. Let say few words on this sub
ec and they shall be very few for Texas sovereign
State has decided this question through the ballotbox for
herself.
The objections to this measure urged by South Carolina and
aotho hoo
eacherousy surrendered slave territory for the purposes Of
which the Congress Of the United States, by intrigue,
was able TO compass Next, that the acquisition
shed through the insrumenaly OF menace and that the
Government Of the United States approached Texas with the
sword in hand and bride of ten millions in the other
In other words that bued bought the
Now, in reference to the bullying, think that in this
fic the President match for Governor Bell He
could have given him six in the game and have beaten him.
As the odds largely in his favor Indeed to the
bold language and fearless stand taken by the gallant Cover
nor OF Texas, attribute pacific solution Of the whole diff
Guilty. In point Of fact acknowledgment Of the claim Of
Texas to the disputed territory and liberal indemnity for its
cesson the manifest results Of Governor Bells policy
But happen to know matter Of fact and not inference
that neither the President his Cabinet intended his
sage as threat to Texas but as solemn warning to the
whole country, especially the free States, that civil
war was likely Gas it would inevitably have ensued if the
boundary question had not been settled You may think
with Sir Lucius OTgger that ii pity to spoil by
accommodation so pretty quarrel, yet was question
Texas had right to settle for herself But ii seems that
Texas has surrendered four degrees Of latitude Of slave
territory to eesoism In point Of fac Texas has not
rendered inch Of territory in which slavery could exist
for two years Slaves might well be taken the Arctic
coasts the territory in question 1t would take gang
OF negroes from January Christmas to hunt buffalo 10
port themselves for the year, and do nothing else. Their
hunt for water for six months in the year would be far
successful for the clouds forget in that country to dispense
their beneacton from the vena the autumna equinox
Cursed with the ardy Of Arabia Desea the agreeable
alienation of climate which belongs to the Equator and
lenblas frozen coast will venture TO assert that premium
OF i've hundred dollars with the condition Of keeping him
there would not induce STAKEHOLDER carry his negro and
plant him above Ell Paso If he escaped the coercive grippe
and theft Of the Camanche, he would be to be invited
taste the sweets Of liberty under the aernng hug Of
Mexican Anacharsis Cloots The idea of slavery such
country is too reposerous to be entertained for moment
But is desirable exotic hot house plant that
should be reared in such unpropous SOIL the end easily
accomplished So far from slave territory being restricted by
the Boundary Bill has, in point Of fact been enlarged from
SO 80 to A. By express provision in the Territorial Bill
if the people Of New Mexico will It that slavery shall cons
tue one Of their internal institutions tits fully in their
the people Of South Carolina wish establish slavery
this Territory, and indeed in all Mexico, will stake my life
on the issue that thousand such gallant spirits know
be found among her and five thousand negroes
will accomplish 1t in six months should like to see the
Hamptons and the Heywards with their nations Of slaves In
full march for the Ell Paso The Jews in the wilderness
would be aght journey to this As in political
economy, il slavery had been permitted in California
by the silence Of its constitution this subject, have
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old slavshoding States
see that my esteemed friend Mr. Burt, of AbbeviIe, has
told his constituents that the inhibition Of slavery in Caor
MIA has prevented their realizing fifteen hundred dollars per
annum to the hand in her Mines Admit this to be most
veable vaticinaion would like to ask how many negroes
would be left in old Abbeve, under such tempting lure,
cultivate its rigid and reluctant soil Why, such pre-
MUM slave labor would have dpopulated the South The
Mississippi bottoms and the auvia levels Of this creek could
not have sustained the competition. We would have lost
our negro labor whilst ague and congesve fever would
have abded Many fertile portions Of the South would
be cursed by the blight of reversible desoltion The fern
and the enne would have taken the place Of the plant
and should have had restored for every negro transported
to California Of the aboriginal settlers Of the country
the fox and the wolf Does Mr. Burt suppose that the
hobs. who by going to California from Old Abbevle could
Long Cane, the far fashionable locality of the
Court House, to spend the pincely fortunes they would
realize in this new Ell Dorado No, Jenny Lind tunes
her notes in that locality No Toroni exhauss in endless
luxury all the opuence of gastronomy Of which old Hello
gabaus deamt in his stomach visions between
sueit and another They would go and spend their
wealth in New York. Philadelphia Paris, and London where
these vouptuous pleasures be bough and
dime would return erect tombstone in Old Alb
bevile. How shortsighted is man We urged to 90
into civil BECAUSE perhaps, hare been prouiden-
italy prevented from running ourselves!
II that another ustfable for secession is to be
found in the bill providing for the suppression of the traffic
transu in slaves in the District of Columbia It is to be
remarked this subject that almost every slave State in the
Confederacy has enacted far stringent restrictions
this trade within their limits than the provisions Of this act
which has been the object Of much odum the South
cannot say, for the passage Of such act which seems
to belong to the municipal police Of city like Wash
ngon ITSELF ought to dissolve the Union and precpitae
the country into all the perls Of civil war