The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-23
The California Message,

We published yesterday the Presidents message rea.
tive to California, communicating information in obedi
ence to resolutions brought forward in the House OF
Representatives by MIR. venable, Of North Carolina We
published the message in yesterdays paper without any
portion OF the accompanying documents, because those
documents had been opened the House
tves, and not therefore, accessible to u.s. But the
two organs of the Observation-Disclosures National InsH-
gsnsr and the Rspubicwere furnished from the State
Department with copies OF Mr. Buchanan's letter 10 Mr.
Voorhees, and MIR. Cayton's instructions to T. Butler
King-a fact which we do not in any manner complain
Of bat which think proper to state in order that
readers may know the that we are apparently
behind our contemporaries.
The documents accompanying the message were OPEN
cd in the House Of Representatives yesterday; and we
are enabled to-day not only to publish the letter Of Mr.
Buchanan to Mr.. Voorhees, and of Mr.. Clayton to t.
Butler King but add further extracts from the docu
ments, embracing among them extract from despatch
addressed by Mr. Marcy late Secretary OF War; Colonel
Mason, the predecessor Of General Riley, in the COM
mand Of the United States forces in California.
Ii is known TO readers that the present admins
tration. through its friends has for some time
been making efforts to induce the belief that the
late transactions in California were Justly charge.
able to the late administration. Mr. Smith, of
Connecticut the chosen leader OF the forces Of the
administration in the Senate, made the charge directly
and distinctly; and General Taylors message intmates
while il does not assert, the thing Now, after look
ing into the documents, say that there no ounda
ton for the intmation of General Taylor there is no
foundation for the assertion OF Mr. Smith, the senatorial
leader Of General Taylor; and there foundation for
the statements of the OF hrelng letter. writer's in
the nav of the government who ha We declared in
quarter that General Reys action in California was in
obedience to instructions from Mr.. Polk
We feel hesitation in saying, that the late ad
min sraon did not authorize the establishment OF the
Mexican government in California that did not appoint
Cen Riley the civil governor, and that it did not
authorize General Riley even to call convention much
less to district the Territory, and apporon the members
Of the convention among the different districts But
General Riley did these things and the present admin
isration now endeavos to itself by alleging that
the action in California was produced by the officers ap-
pointed by the last administration while il is known TO
General Taylor, and to every member Of his cabinet that
thsy have had sanction but what the present admins
sion has given by recognising these acts The extracts
from MI. Cmwfords correspondence which we published
yesterday expressly recognised, and by that recognition
endorsed the proclamation Of Cen Riley, and expressly
refused TO direct General Riley avoid putting the new
government of California into full operation without
waiting for the action OF Congress But we cannot now
20 fully into this matter We will take up at the first
convenient season and we mist Ike much II we do not
make the people blush at the exposure OF the duplciy
which characterzes the action OF the cabinet relative to
We canno, lay these extracts from the documents