Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-29
Watchman. what of the Night,

the important bills, contained In MI Ciay'S Omnl-
bus have already passed the Senate single or isO
lated propositions. This is the most correct man
ner of legislation and the celebrated Omnibus bill
never would have had being but for the non-acton
policy of the Gaphin Cabinet. But when Mr.. Clay
saw that this conclave of rascay politicians were
determined to risk every thing-the peace, the hap
piness and the very safety of the Union itself, TO
keep open the abolition excitement, he, and many
others, both wings and democrats, threw themselves
into the breach, and by combining certain measures
together were determined as far in their power,
to settle the question.
The policy of the Galphin Cabinet, it is well
known was to admit California, and leave the Terri
tories and Texas TO take care of themselves Our
readers know that against this wretched do-nothng
policy, we early entered our most solemn protest
Not that we opposed the admission of California
far from it. She was coming into the Union in the
right way, Congress having refused to give her
territorial government. We prepared to see
her admitted at once.
The object of of the Galphin Cabinet in opposing
Territorial governments and refusing to settle the
Texas boundary question, is well known. General
Taylor was committed in the South, as opposed TO
the Wilmot proviso, and in the North in favor of
it; or at least he was solemnly pledged in the North
to sign any bill with that provision contained in it.
Territorial bill would commit the President on
this question He would be compelled to sign or
veto it, it being his duty TO do so under the ConSti-
tuition. The cheat practised upon the American
people, by designing politicians, would have been
discovered.
Another object of that Cabinet was, TO keep up
agitation on the slavery question: in order to reelec
General Tavlor to the Presidency, some other of
the Cabinets friends. They had obtained power, by
a fraud upon the people, and they were determined
to perpetuate it in the same manner The Seward
organ in New York,-the Albany Evening Journal,
was already declaring that no other whig but Cen
eral TAYLOR could be elected or should be thought
of, for the next Presidency.
The whole power and patronage of the Galphin
administration, it will be therefore perceived,
used against the settlement Of the slavery question.
Mr. Clay opposed this wretchcd and ruinous policy,
and the whole efforts of his great intellect de-
voted to ts object. As he himself expresses it, he
took counsel with distinguished democrats, and men
of the two great political parties, wide aSundcr al
most the poles, many questions of political
policy, were found acting together for the purpose,
as they thought, of saving the Union. Mr. Webster
united with Mr. Clay in his opposition TO the admin
istraton on this question. He took the ground that
the Wilmot provso, the great obstacle to the pas
sage of Territorial bills, was useless appendage
He Said in his first speech, taking ground against
the proviso, ''I hold slavery to be excluded from
these Territories New Mexico, &c..l by a law
even superior to that which admits and sanctions IL
in Texas: l mean the IG,o Of nature, of physical
geography, the law of the formation Of the earth.'
In addition to this, Mr.. Benton, who has always
been found in opposition TO the Wilmot proviSo
proved most conclusively, by unanswerable
speech, that, as slavery did not exist in the terrific
res it could not be brought there without positive
law This position was also taken by Mr.. Clay,
Gen. Cass and others. 1t is the position of the In
diana Democracy. 1t was the position of the Hon
Robert Dale Owen, taken throughout the whole
State, as State elector in l94S position that en-
abled him TO quiet the fears of the opponents of sla
very extension in the Northern part of the State and
made his speeches popular in Northern Indiana
during that canvass II is position that makes the
Wilmot perfect humbug, even did not the barrier
brought 10 light in Mr.. Webster's Speech-'ths Iat
Of nature, of physical geography, the law of the
formation of the earth, mot exist.
There are now two clogs'to Legislation in Con
gress, in the House of Representatives-one is the
movement Of the Southern Representatives-ant
the other the friends of the Wilmot proviso. 1t i
well known that bill, containing the Wilmot pro
viso, can pass the Senate. A mighty struggle viii
shortly take place TO append the Wilmot provso tt
the territorial bills of Utah and New Mexico. /
successful, territorial governments will be formed
and the whole distracting question will be thrown
over 10 another Congress. II is true that the passag
of the Texas boundary bill will, if accepted b,
Texas, prevent collision in that quarter; but tn
failure of the Territorial bills will do great inustic
to the people of Utah and New Mexico, who will
be surrounded with innumerable difficulties withou
some kind of civil government. No one can 81
down and candidly urge the present admission O
New Mexico as a State government; neither woul
any one be willing TO Utah admitted, withou
some territorial training.
We do not hesitate to say, that were the question
submitted TO the unbiased judgment of the peopl
of Indiana, tomorrow, at the polls, three-iourths
the votes cast, would be found in favor of terroris
! governments without the Wilmot proyiso and 70
the settlement Of the whole slavery question.
The present Cabinet, unlike that of General Tay
lor, stands committed, with perhaps one exception
in favor of territorial governments without the pro
, viso. This makes il much easier to pass them, i
this manner, than under Gen. Taylor's administra
tion, where the Cabinet-tle unscrupulous Galphi
Cabinet-were opposed to any territorial govern
ments at all. Mr.. Benton's plan of taking up IN