The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-06-04
CITY OF WASHINGTON, TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 4. 1850.

stution and OF the not less plain executive trust
the dominion OF the United States large and yaua-
Bile Territory the property OF all the States, quietly hand
ed TO the first occupants who went upon H. and who
were invited and stimulated to take and as II IN sport
with grave an occasion, the General ends the matter by
agreeing TO defay all the expenses Of the convention out
the public money in his hands tSee his letter TO the
Hon. G. I. Bolts, chairman" &C., dated at Monterey,
Strange passing strange Mr. President that such fla
grant usurpatlons OF power such wanton-l had almost
said wicked-dsregard Of planest constitutional duty
Anything. everything, constitution and all, 10 male
secondary 10 the great end Of saying Oh the discussion
and the necessity Of settling BY the constituted aathori-
ties OF the land the rights Of the people OF The southern
States as co-proprietors in the Territories
| The key to all this is with becoming simplicity given
in the annual message Of the President rd Of the
property with which it was connected. The summary
disposition It was to make Of the rights OF the people oi
The southern States weighed as nothing with he es
French emprc which certainly carried off the disease BY
Sr, an honorable senator from Florida mr. YuLEEl
brought before the Senate, former day, an occasion
somewhat similar, that arose, think, in the case OF
Arkansas when the legislative council OF that Territo
~ petioned the governor 70 issue hs proclamation CAL
the days, believe, OF President Jackson. The gov
ernor-who to have had proper idea Of the posi-
ton in which he stood to the Territory submitted the
question to the President and he again to the Attorney
Genera and the latter advised the President that the
governor bound TO administer the laws OF the coun
try; and that he only could not originate, but that ne
could give countenance TO any revolutionary move.
Of that kind apprehend, Mr. President that there
who will doubt that the true federal relation of
Territory to this government is that q property; ana
is always the Of property held BY sovereign that
it carries with not only the right TO the soil except
where private right nteryenes, but also dominion over
the people inhabitng that soil.
II was under such guidance that the convention as
sembed in California, and framed the constitution which
has been submitted TO US BY the President-under the
lion of the Congress Of the United Saies but in deroga-
ton OF its authority And this constitution, with the exact
boundaries pescrbes for the new States, we are called
on to sanction amatter Of political necessity Sir.
have looked somewhat into the report OF the debates IN
convention in California which were placed some days
tables able and ss ohs, NJ na, wall
which guided their deliberations all the great ques.
ons TO be determined SO to adjust them as would
best insure speedy admission 81 Their state INTO tne
Union. On the question OF boundary, OF domestic ser
vtude and of the exclusion of the African altogether
from California everything seems 10 have been affected,
OF proptatng the majority in Congress- the subject OF
African slavery One of the earliest propositions in the
convention in relation to the boundaries was that they
should prescribe as the boundaries OF the new State the
existing boundaries oi California; those boundaries by
which the Territory ceded by Observation-Disclosures
which would embrace an area nearly equal to that OF the
thirteen original States; and the gentleman who moved
this proposon gave his reason for it, that, they un-
detook cut and for themselves, so as prescribe
more convenient boundaries for the State Of California
the effect would be to produce dssension at w ashingon
and difficulty and delay in gaining admission into the
union That gentleman said IN substance: II we take
the whole OF California, il will never be considered
by anybody that this immense area OF hundreds OF
thousands OF square miles should remain as one
State but that il would necessarily be divided
the number Of the population required it, and formed into
different States and his proposition that the terrific
ry when the proper time arrived should be divided INTO
six States. each one of them having front upon the Pa
eman nS s who was one Of The most M ns
gent and enlightened members OF that convention Those
views, however, ovenuled unjust TO the twenty
s mes wSO
ignorant that such convention in session, and
on the ground that 10 take the whole territory for the
sw mGS than Il Sis arbitrary Souasass were
ed The result was that the idea Of embracing the entire
territory abandoned and feeling at liberty to choose
for themselves the convention eventually agreed TO take
such boundaries as would be OF most seeming advantage
to the coast population which done by line embra-
cling the entire Pacific 'front.' from the boundaries OF Ore.
gon to those OF Mexican extent of ten degrees OF at-
tude and extending eastward to embrace the mountain
range called the Sierra Nevada Thus the coast popua-
ton in California, by mere dash OF the pen, exclude
from the OF the Pacific ocean the immense and
boundess territory which lies behind them, with the mill
lions of population which will swarm there at future
day And this is done, although Nature herself would
ocean, between the parallels OF - and IS degrees where
the chains OF mountain subside into the plain
will not detan the Senate by reading from the debates
points alluded to above as well as on others hereafter to
be noticed, and append il TO my remarks when in print
'ApPENDx, oonaining quotations from hs report Of the
debates in tie California convention.
ON THE BOUNDARIES OF CALIFORNIA.
Mr.. GwIS said, (page l96 OF the report Of debates)
III understand the gentleman from Sonoma, tMr. SsM
he stated this morning that establish bounda-
Congress will be forced admit with the bouDda
res we now have. l cannot admit the argument do
Congress- they forced give all OF the boundary tina,
we have described that they forced TO give IL TO us
do not describe IL. think gentlemen abong
der greet mistake In regard the power Of Congress
this subject when they that " we pronounce
tain line the boundary o California IL shall be the
have the idea that the Congress OF the United
States would give this great Of boundary IL
expected that IL should remain State. And when
uemen say that they will give up inch OF tho Pa
cic coast they what they out. SO far
am concerned, should like States fronting on
the Congress Of the United States OF Twelve senator's instead
OF four for IL Is notorious that the State OF Delaware,
smaller than our smallest district has much the
senate the great State Of New York 1t Is not the pas
sage Of bill through the House OF Representatives that
makes law that bill has go through the Senate and In
body the ssie Della much power as the
State OF New York And the past history OF country,
SIR develops the faot that will have State Stae
here--probably as many the Atlantic sde-and
we accumulate States accumulate strengths inst-
tutions become powerful to do good, and do
evil. have doubt the time will come when we will
have twenty States this side OF the Rocky
want the power, and the population When the pop
ulaon comes they will require that this State shall be d-
vided." III Aa tN frD t
As evidence that the inhabitants residing south of The