New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-16

Boundary WA G0n9lQeFed more I@VofaUle ~
Mn.Meaico than Air. Clay'g, aud We let
that pass, because the wo1d, were true
though the impression conveyed by them
was false. New-Mexi3o-that is, the pop
ulation or political community 50 designated,
jig situated on the uater5 Of the Rio Grand9
and its chief tributary, the Paero0-the up
per portions Of both If c9urse NowMezic0
that il, the present population Of New
Mezico-oare more for an Goro on the Rio
Grande and Puerco than for a square mile
on the sources Of the Red River and Cana.
dien-territory which they never visit norez
pect to occupy. Now Mr.. Pearoe's bill gives
New Mexico frc thousand square miles more
than Mr. Clay on the Rio Grauda and Puor-
co, but gives to Texas soma thirty thousand
square miles more eastward of those rivers,
on the Red River, Canadian and thsir upper
tributaries. New-MeaicO geta q little mora
land that she cares for by Pearce's bill, but
FREEDOM loses many thousand square miles
by it. The Gazette can be satisfied of the
fact by an examination Of maps by look
iog to the journal Of the Senate, it may be
assured that every Free Sol Senator voted
to substitute Mr. Clay's for the Pearce line,
which motion failed by one yoto-to @iE,
Daniel S. Dickinson's. The success of that
motion would have in time secured one more
State to Free Labor We are confident it
would have prevailed in the House but for
the most outrageous Juggling from the Oh>'r,
whereby 40 Free Soil man was allowed
chance to make the motion, bat the bill
rushed through as It came from the Senate,
1t is Mr.. Duer, aided by such friends
IS The Gazette, who stamps himself a re-
creant to the Free Soil principle. If he
vent for the Omnibus as we did to secure
the largest attainable area to Free Labor,
what did he mean at Syracuse? What is
he about now? The moment We found
that the WiImot ProyiSO aud the restric-
lion Of Texas within her rightful Bounda-
ries could not both be carried, we were
ready and offered to vote to organize New
Mexico without the PrOyiso if We might
thereby secure the running of the right
Boundary between her and Texas. We
made that offer privately TO influential ad-
yersarieg year before Mr.. Clay proposed
his Compromise, and stood ready to act
upon it. We avowad it nearly or quite
year before Mr.. Clay introduced his 0m-
nibus.' We meant exactly as Mr.. Duer
said in bis Speecb-that while (n the hope
of securing more for Freedom, tnan we
risbed by it) we would consent, for valua,
BILE consideration, to aUaive the ProviSo, we
would never abandon it, Our views did
not prevail with our friends, and the Proviso
il waived, while Texas, beside getting Ten
Millions from the Treasury, is carried up
to So so, when she should aud might have
been kept down to 32o.
We have freely blamed our earnest
Free Soil friends for not acting as we thought
best in the premises, full of difficulty and
perplexity as they were; shall We then con-
ceal our conviction that the miscarriage we
deplore is due in great measure to the
course of Mr.. Webster, Duer, and our
Northern Wing members who voted to lay
on the table Roots motion early in the ses-
sion to instruct the Committee on Territor'
es in favor of the WiImot Proyiso? Ad,
NIT that the motion was ill-timed and the
mover no better than he should be-still we
say the vote against it Of men relied on as
firm for Free Soil was most disastrous It
was wantonly throwing away our only
means of efeoiipg favorable adjustment
Of the Texan Boundary. 1t was proclaim
ing to the South and the Country that the
North did not desire the enactment Of the
Proviso, and that no concession on the
Boundary question was necessary to insure
the defeat Of that measure, 1t was stag
gering vote MIR. Webster's Speech in the
same vein followed and completed the mis-
chief The Proviso was given up and the
Boundary bewitched also. We pointedly
differed with Gov. Seward as to the wisdom
Of his course on this subject, though we
laboTed to the same end as he did we
should gladly have placed our difference
with Mr., Duer in the same category but he
will not have it so. When he insists that
the Adjustment such as it is, must be
respected by the North as final and uuques-
tionabIe-thaS the Pearce Boundary Of Tex
as is not to be caviled at; the defeat of the
Proyiso regarded as its final surrender; and
the Fugitive Slave bill accepted as Peace
measure and no effort made to repeal il;
and even an ayowal of our intention to re.