Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1850-09-26
The Finale.
From the Ner York Tribu

FROM the AeE YORK lf10une.
The House Of Representatives did
another hard days work on Saturday,
The California Admission bill and the
Utah Territorial Organization bill were
both passed through all stages, Just as
they came from the Senate, and now
wait the Presidents signature to render
them laws of the land. California final
ly passed by the decisive vote Of 100
to 81, and Utah by 81, to So. Amotion
to atiix the Wilmot Proviso TO the latter
was defeated by 7S to 50,
All the measures embodied in the de-
featcd Omnibus have thus received
the sanction of both Houses. Their on
ly essential alteration is that Of the Boun-
Diary between New Mexico and Texas,
whereby $4,000 square miles were TAX
en- from the former and given to the lat
ter. All that remains 10 be done by eli
Their House is the sonction by the SEN
ate of the junction of its Texas bounda-
ry and New-Mexico Territorial Organ
ization bills by the House. No doubt
that will be assented TO this day, and all
the bills signed by the President by to-
morrow at furthest. We presume the
Senator's and Representatives from Cal
ifornia will be admitted to their seats
tomorrow possibly they may be to-
day.
The bills as passed provide as fol-
lows:
!. That the Northern Boundary of
Texas shall be the parallel of 36 80
North latitude for three degrees of
longitude westward from the old line
between the United States and Mexico,
or to the l03d meridian of longitude
due west from Greenwich; thence fol-
low that meridian down to the 32d par
allel of latitude; thence due west to the
Rio Grande, which is made the wcster-
| ly limit of Texas, thence to its mouth.---
As a compensation for surrcndering her
claims TO territory North of this line,
Texas is TO receive Ten Millions of Dol
ars in five per cent bonds of the Uni
ted States, whereof Five Millions are
made specifically applicable to the pay
ment Of the Public Debt Of Texas.
2. New Mexico, including all the Ter
ritory acquired from Mexico North ard
West of the above line East of Rio
Grande, and all Of said Territory West
said River, is organized into regular
Territory, for which Officers are to be
appointed and Courts organized as for
other Territories of the United States.
3. All the Territory acquired by the
United States from Mexico lying West
ward Of New Mexico as aforesaid and
East of California is organized into ano-
Their Territory under the appellation of
Utah. (This Territory includes the
Salt Lake Region, or great Central Ba-
sin Of our Continent, in which the Nor
mons have set up their Ebenezer.)
a. California is admitted into the I'M
ion as a State, with her chosen Bounda-
ries and her Free Constitution; so that
her two Senators and two Members al
ready chosen may take their seats forth
with.
8. The Territories OF New-Mcxico
and Utah as aforesaid are to be admitted
into the Union MS States, with or with
out Slavery as their People shall decide.
Now we know that they will both de-
eide against Slavery, promptly, surely
emphatically; but il would not be bad
thing to be sure of it. The Anti-Sla-
very Proviso in these bills would have
been a great damper on the passion for
Cuba Expeditions and Mexico Hunting
Parties wherewith the acquisition Of
Texas and its consequences have de-
bauched the South and South West.
-" All is restored u was the joyful
exclamation Of Napoleon, on his access
sion TO sovereign power in France.
" Yes was the surl response of an
old Republican maitiare--''all but the
Half Million lives sacrificed in subvert-
ing all this"
We cannot but feel that the protrao-,
ted struggle just closed has been badly
conducted on the side of Free Soil.
that many champions Of that side have
been more anxious TO preserve their per-
sonal status and their reputation for
than TO save Territory for
Free Labor. Had they acted in the
spirit Of the true mother in Solomon's
famous child-case, who preferred that
the false claimant should take the child
rather than see it destroyed, we are
confident better result might have
been obtained. Have we not reasoD9
II was most obvious, from the OPEN
ing Of the Session, that neither Free
Sellers nor Slavery Extensionists ,ould
have the whole controversy settled as
they wished. II was clear that some
sort Of iix-up termed Compromise
would ultimately prevail. The history
Of like controversies in the past--in-
creasing public WEAKNESS Of struggle
which promised no result--the anxiety