The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-06-28

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Yesterday we presented lev remafks suggested 10
the news The inhablsn. 81 New MsxicO had sszsm
bled in convention aud Adopted STATE caastsssoD. We
find that we are not singular IN me views presented
Other persons and other presses regard that mesement
as important. and argue from most important eonse
quences The New oresns Coulter. anticipating ths
news which Published yesterday. speaks n follows
Tm NEW srarK.--We apsrehead lad Consequences
from the late ~, mentioned IA yes.
erdays COURIER intelligence Of which was bonght w the
Palmetto from Galveston Under oIn the
Presiden, Of the United sass. Colonel Moasos. assuming
the title OF military aud civil governor ~ New M~naco d.
reefs The people hold election ,he 18th Of Mny er
the choice Of delegates 20 convention 70 frame San
stution, and 80 upon Congress the admission o.
this Territory into the Union State"
The said military civil governor proceeds 10 assign
the number OF delegates 10 which each eoa1y tnatning
them) sha be entitled lie also pfescribes the manner ~
which the election shall be conducted and the retains
made.
This IL a usurpaton OF cvil authority by ihs military
power unparalleled hi the United States There 10 no act
Congress- law whatcseE that authorizes the President
TO proceed in this only contrary 20 law,
but il impugns the spirit OF Institutions Hitherto. t
has been the people who determined The time when
was necessary TO frame constitution twas agents chosen
by themselves designated the place and mode OF hold
ing the election OF Delegates. and assigned 10 each county
parish or district number oil delegates that should
send TO the Ia this all this trouble taken
of the hands OF people by officer appointed by The
general government and acting under military orders
framed in this way ought to be binding
We shall be surprised IL all the proceedings Of the COM
venton by Col Monroe should be dsgarded by
Congress. We trust Old Zack will he disappointed Ia his
calculations defeating the Compromise by this measure
Il W III have no effect hasten the adoption OF the
Compromise This usurpaton Of power by Old lack is
very serious matter which calls for amin
ii not Impeachment.
AS to results il matters little whether Colonel Monroe
-. u a. ~. ~
partmen He knew, from the action OF the adminisira-
ton California, that he acting in obedience TO the
wishes OF the Executive, and that his conduct would be
approved at headquarters Indeed the Presidents annual
message and his special California message. and the
course pursued by the organs of the administration and
by its friends in and out Of Congress. direct ndca
tons not only Colonel Monroe, but TO the people OF
New Mexico and Utah. that the President and his cabinet
desired that they should speedily as possible, hold con-
venons and apply for admission into the Union II was
well known that neither Utah nor New Mexico had any
plausible right apply for admission Their population
did entitle them TO such admission Yet that
obstacle. The great object to enable the President
to evade positive commttal on the Wilmot Proviso
TO enable him 10 fail to reveal which section Of the Union
was aeirauded and cheated in his election. The cabal
and its friends desired exclude the South from all par
cpaton in the Territories acquired from Mexico; and
some of them were afraid to meet the issue boldly.
They wished TO do by indirection what they had
not the manliness to do by direct action Hence the
policy Of non.action was adopted-every effort being
made in the time TO induce the Territories to form
State constitutions and apply for admission into the
Union. 1t was known that the free soil agitation had
prevented shareholders from removing with their slave
pr opety into those Territories and the conclusion
inevitable, that the Territories would frame constitutions
nhibtng slavery, they could be induced to frame
situations at The first step in this line Of policy
was taken by Messrs Ewing and Seward, when as the
authorized agents Of the Executive, they nerfered with
the deliberations OF the last Congress- and procured the
defeat OF Mr. Walkers amendment That was the first
movement The Presidents policy, and subsequent
events under that policy, were but its natural con.
sequences.
The free. soil influence and the free soil organs will of
course, rejoice the action OF New Mexico; and they
will congratulate the friends Of the administration with
whom they acting They viii be inspirited, too to
make further exertions to defeat the Senates Adjustment
AS proof OF this quote the following from The New
York Evening Post the most bitter and rancorous Free
soil journal with which we are acquainted
THE NKw Msxico The tidings from
New Mexico, that the inhabitants Of that territory have
formed themselves into STATE and adopted tion
OF the provisions Of which Is prohibition OF sIa sery
will surprise nobody except, perhaps, Mr. Webster who
will doubtless be astonshed that they should have the
presumption 10 do what he Is taking much pains 70
suade the country Is absolutely unnecessary. The people
OF New Mexico-negected by Congress session 10
sion; their delegate repused from the Capitol; refused
what they have demanded by the lstest tiea territorial
government threatened by Texas, State already TOO
large, with the loss Of the finest part their country
neesed over by The insolent agents of that STATE invaded
by the sayehodes, who have planted colony In the
Try, IA despite offs ancient lawshavc sought from
voluntary organization that protection which the federal
government has withheld from them.
The formation ora State government, with regular ex
ecuuye, Judiciary, legislature, and militia will give
them the means OF and defending their right 10
the domain they fairly claim, while the federal govern
ment is passive Il will put Ia their power to deal sum
marty with Major Neighbors, IL he should again make
his appe within their mts and will enable them to
break up the slave colony at III Paso and er TO
further encroachmen,s ofthe kind.
The people Of New Mexico, wc presume, saw clearly
that the time had arrived when they either form
State government DO absorbed into Texas From the
federal government they had nothing expect One Of the
measures kneaded Into that foolish projecthe Omnibus
btls scheme for purchasing Of Texas claim has
set mp to New Mexico but who is wise as 10 know when
the omnibus bill will pass Il may be kept In tho senate
Tor months 10 eoms and when gets through the Senate
win 20 TO the House OF Representatives be rejected in
all probability, debated to the end Of the session. and
then postponed.
But this is not all. The Philadelphia North Amer-
canone OF the special organs OF the cabnespeaks as