Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-06-27


who voted for Gen. Taylor. The President recoIB-
nends the admission of California as n State, and to
leave the Territories Of New Mexico aud Utah with
out Governments. Al this country acquired from
Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. By
provision in that treaty the Government Of the United
States is bound to give the inhabitants such gov
ernnienal protection their situation required,
good. at least. that extended tu Louisiana and
Florida. Has this Government fulfilled that treaty
stipulation! Territorial Governments immedi-
aiely organized for both Louisiana and Florida; civil
Govern"rs aud Judges appointed, the laws faith
fully administered, aud the rights of persons and
property projected. This protection has been
tended TO the territories acquired from Mexico. No
territorial governments have been formed. the peO
pie had right TO expect and demand. Heretofore it
has been the just and humane policy of the General
Government to bear the expenses Of the infant cU-
mes during their minority. In some territorial
Governments have existed for than twenty years
Congress are now making appropriations, from the
National Treasury. To erect public buildings and make
roads in Oregon and Minnesota, appropriations which
could not be made we're they States Why have Cal
ifornIa New Mexico and Utah been neglected! The
answer is easily given the " imot Proviso and sla
very in general have prevented Congress from acting
upon the subject. Members of both political parties
have been tmid; they have not marched up boldly
and met the question statesmen should have done.
Two years ago the Senate passed what was called the
Clayton Compromise BILL which, if it had become a
law, would have given governments to California and
New Mexico; and. upon the platform of non-iner-
venton, the slavery question would have been pu, to
rest This bill however defeated in the House by
g II.
Cass, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency,
had defined his position The resolutions of the Con-
venlion by which he nominated before the
country, Gen. Taylor the candidate of the Wings.
He not committed on the question, and express
sion of opinion given by the Philadelphia Con-
venon. Il was necessary for the Wings to defeat
the compromise, and keep open the slavery question
as political element to defeat Gen. Cass. In the
North the Wings raised the standard of Taylor and
freedom In the South his three hundred slaves
pointed to as evidence of the security of their Pc
culiar institution. By this of political ccanery
he was elected. The slavery agitation had performed
ats mission; and he installed into Of
hce than his willy cabinet commenced plotting some
mode OF avoiding responsibility upon a question
which he could not act on without showing that Ell
ther the North or the South had been deceived This
could only be done by inducing the people of these
territories to organize State Governments, and de-
mand admission into the Union For this purpose
political missionaries were sent 10 California and
New Mexico In California, the people seeing that
Congress had failed give them territorial govern
ments either compelled to submit to the tyranny
of military rule, organize, at their expense
State Government The President In his annual
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not only non-intervention. but non-acton, far
the territories concerned He only adopts the
Democratic doctrine of noD-interveDtion, but goes
farther than any northern Democrat dared to have
gone, and recommends that governments may be
given to the unprotected people of the territories.
Military despotism may put its iron heel on the un-
protected. The farmers focks may be driven off and
his innocent wife and children murdered, or carried
into hopeless captivity by the savages rather than the
President be compelled 10 show his hand In his mes
sage submitting the Constitution of California he
says:
Seeing. then, that the question which now exciies
such painful sensations in the country will, in the
end certainly be settled by the silent effect of causes
independent of the action of Congress, l again SUBJ
nit to your wisdom the policy. recommended in my
annual message, OF awaiting the sautary operation OF
these cnuses believing shall thus avoid the
tiun Of geographical parties and secure the harmony
of feeling necessary to the beneficial action of
political system.
Here is q distinct avowaI of his do-noihing policy
The Wilmot provso has been defeated in the Senate
1t cannot pass that body. Colonel Benton, few days
since. in n most emphatic manner said il "tcas no
only dead but rotten.' Why not recommend the for
nation Of territorial Governments by which the PEG
pie would be protected, leaving that apple of dis
cords! The reason is obvious. The proyiso will b.
introduced and his political friends will have vot
upon it. This the cabinet who control the Admins
traton. desire to avoid. They wish to save the wing
in Congress from the Indignation of the South if thei
friends vote for it, OF the frowDs of their deceive
constituents. if they vote against it. Thus, by thi
temporizing policy the people are left under the yer
worst form of Government, military despotism
Governments which were organized during the wa
by the direction of President Polk for which be
denounced by the wings, deserving impeachment
and majority of Wing members of Congress wer
in favor of preferrng articles of impeachment
him for The act, although admitted to be war meas
ure-now the same party in favor of contnuin
these very Governments in time of peace When III
| Military Governments established, the countr
had been conquered, but not acquired by treaty. an
therefore Congress had no power to organize civ
Governments. To the people of New Mexico III
President says, if you do not choose to form
Government, and bear the burdens yourselves, yo
must live under military rule; and the very men VIII
rode into Congress under the Wilmot Proviso how
and anti-slayery agitation, who denounced Gen. Cas-
and his non-in,erven,ion doctrines. susainin