The Arkansas banner., 1850-03-19
A Card fsom Hou. r. Butler Klsr.

Card Hom Hon. T. Butler King.
 The National Ialelligsnces contans ths fofowinx letter, addressed ie its editors, from the Hon T. BsTLkR KiSs:
 wAsHIxGToN, Feb 23, 1850.
 Geltgemea; Permit me to state ia voaF columns that my illness in California aud subsequent long centiaared debliity--my numerous pressing en. agreements since my arrival here. aHd the effects of receut i8dispositSoa, which has psFalyzed my euergiss for some days. have delayed much longer than intended or expected my report oa CaIfor- ais. But eaneet longer permit the pubic mind assalled. perhaps n,sled hy iaunssioas, inquiries snd in1endoes, which, fl not promptly answered, may be considered as aequiesced iR, or bold asser- tons, if misreprssent has assumed that lorm-- to pass uneOntrao eted. l. therefore assert that did not receive, in conRexioR with my duties in California, nor have l at any time received secret instructions whether verbal or written from the President of the United States. or any menrber of his cabinet, the subject of slavery or any other subject. l did not attempt to influence the people of California to decide inc question of slavery one way or the other, and any assertion that did re- eeive such instructions or attempt to exercise suyh
 influence is false, Any insinustious or iassdioas inquiTIes which e framed or intended as io tn ducc the people to believe that the President, or any member of his cabinet. did give, or tha. could be base enough 10 receive, such instructions, de clare to be totally without foundation in fact ana without the shadow oi truth
 beg leave to call the attention of the public to some facts, which will show what vas done by the late admin nis,raiou to induce the people of Caor- mia to form State government. ] arrived at San Francisco on the foaT.h oi June, in the steamer Panatria; we did not sop st Monterey; nor did zee or hold any communication with General Riley until about ihe middle of tist month, when he cams to San Francisco. His proclamation calling a con- ventSn of the people of Cs!fora;s te form State constitution, Is dated at Monterey-one hun red and thirty miles from San Francisco = the Gird of June. The last paragraph of this proclamation is in The following words
 "Tbe method here indicated to attain what is desired by all, viz: more perfect political organi- zation is deemed the most direct and safe that can be adopted. aud one fully authorized by law IL is the course advised by the President and by the Secretaries of State aud Of War of the United States and is calculated to avoid the innunierable evils which must necessarily result from any attempt at illegal local legislation. It is, therefore hoped il will meet the approbation of the people of Caior- nia and that all good citizens will unite in carry ing il into execuiion."
 The steamer iu whih I was a passenger to San Francisco the hrst conveyance 10 carry to the people of California the In diligence of the inaugu- ration of President Taylor and the appointment of his cabinet tlai, at the date of General Riley's proclamation, Il was not possible that he could have received any communication from the present Ad- mini.traiion. The President of the United States to whom he refers was MT. Polk. the Secretary Of State Mir. Buehantn, the Secretary of War Mir. Marcy. l, was in accordance with the recommen- daons of this proclamation, sustained they are in President Polk'i last anuna message, that the people of California acted in forming their State constitution. always addressed the people of Cali fornia in my privae character. and never assumed any official position among them. Interested US l in slave labor a Georgan and Southern citizen. was prepared to expect that the objects of my mission would be perverted at the North; and 1 fiud accordingly that during the last fall elections in that quarter vas there represented South ern saveholder sent to California to indoctrinate tho people in my opinions about slavery This base fllsehood; but il is half so base as an attempt to imp upon the public mind that sent to coercs or influence California to ex- ciude slavery T. BUTLER KING