The North-Carolina standard., 1850-02-27
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Bayard Taylor, Correspondent Of the New York
Tribune in of His recent letters from California,
speaking of the Influences exerted by the Admins
tration to make California free State, says :e..
"The assertion of the Evening Post, which no
ticed in the Tribune, that the Government sought
keep the contitution of California silent tie sub
jec of slavery. IS entirely ase 1t is and was every
where understood here, that our Administration at
Washington eanestly desired that tho question should
be settled at and for ever The only objections
which were privately urged (none were made in the
conventon) against making California free State
were on these very grounds, from members of the
Locofoco party. - '5sst Et
Here it is asserted and on the best authority, that
tho statement that Gen. Taylor sought to " keep
the Constitution Of California silent the subject of
Slavery, IS ENTIRELY FALSE! The whole matter
has been made as plain, by the documents and the
facts, as the at MONDAY. Gen. Taylor was anx-
ious to evade the Wmot Proviso. He kne,S-for
Mr. Webster and nearly all the Northern States had
declared through their Legislatures-that no more
save States aUouH be admitted and hence in the Ian
guage of Bayard Taylor he earnestly desired that
the question should be settled at and for ever
by provision excluding Slavery from the Territory,
and the Southern people, matter of course, from
California soil. Mark what Mr.. Clayton says for him
in his letter of instruction to T. Butler King:
"You are fully possessed of the Presidents views,
and can with propriety suggest to the people @ Cdkfor
ma the adoption measures best caIeuafed to gtoe them
sfect."
And what did Mr.. King say to the people Of Cali
fornia Immediately upon his arrival at San Francisco!
He said this:
"Hon. T. Butler King, { says California paper,
reporting his remarks after defending Congress for
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the people of that territory to settle the question
of the Wilmot Proviso forever by forming state gov
eminent.
Said he, ,ce cannot settle it o., the other side of the
Rocky Mountains-it must be settled here. We look
to YOU to settle the question, by becoming State.
The people of the old States ardenty desire it. 81
sneak knowingly when [ say the Administration de-
sire it; and from extensive intercourse with the
bers of the last Congress, I am convinced they
more anxious for the question to be settled in this
way. You will have no difficulty in being admitted
as State. pledge myself for it, and I pledge the
administration, and think may speak equally
fdently for the next Congress. Form State gov
ernment send your Senators and representatives,
and then admission is certain"
And what said Gen. Taylor, in furtherance of this
fraud upon the South. Hear it! In his Message,
in reply to call for information by the Hoase, he
says:
eff the proposed Constitution shall, when submit
ted to Congress- be fonnd to be in compliance with
the reouisitons of the Constitution of the United
States earnestly recommend that it may receive the
sanction If Congress-"
He says nothing about the right of these people to
form State government-nothing of satisfactory
nature as to whether they citizens of the United
States, or as to whether census had been taken to
show how many there were of them-nothing as to
the fact that they were wanderers from all lands,
drawn tither the lust of god trespassers upon
the public soil and public gold mines. for which the
old States are now paying millions to Mexco-noth-
ing q, to any plan upon ,Uhieh the slavery question
generally ought to be adjusted; but 81 earnestly
ommend - that California may be admitted, and the
other Territories left without government, to pro-
vide for themselves! There it is. There is the Pre-
sident who was to protect the South, preserve the
harmony of tho Union, and, by his wisdom and
energy, settle forever this troublesome and fearful
question!
We were told during the campaign that General
Taylor was to PREJUDICE question whatever; that
he could not pledge himself to veto the Proviso, be-
he would thereby forestall Congress and inter-
fere with legislative action. But wha: do we see
now! Is he not pledged, tn adrance to approve bill
admitting California Stale? And is he not pow
eess therefore, unless he breaks this pledge to
the Union if dissolution should be inevitable the
result of the admission of California as separate
and Independent propostion7