The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-01-23


over to the Wings, and the game, countenanced
if not nstigated Mt Washington, is, to kill Benton
by combination Of Administration and OPPOSE
tion Hunkers He is recognised rs q man OPP
posed to the extension Of slavery, ard no friend
Of the extravagant pretensions Of the slavehold-
ing caste-and this is enough TO concentrate upon
him the combined malignity Of Wing and Demo
cratic Conservatives
The conspiracy does not stop here Fremont
his son-in-law, sympathizes with him in his oppo-
sition to Slavery Extension. He would set his
face against the introduction of Slavery in Cali
fornia, and therefore must be destroyed The
latest advices from the new State reveal the par
tial suscess of Hunkerism and Slavery Propa-
gandism. A Legislature has been elected in
which, it is confidently claimed there is major
ity of Slavery men-of men in favor of repeating
the Anti-Slavery provision in the California Con-
stitution. This result has been brought about by
the same corrupt influences which sought to
manufacture demonstration in Southern Cali
fornia in favor of division of that country, and
which are now contemplating a future irruption
into Lower California for the sake of opening q
new field for slave labor. The conspirators have
played an insidious game. The question was not
carried before the People. They rested 10 peace
under the impression that the subject had been
finally disposed of. Nobody dreamed of asking
the opinions Of candidates for the Legislature
and yet the shareholders boast that the majority
Of that body is in favor of converting California
into slave State!
While We are in danger Of losing California,
what security is there for Utah and New Next
coz Certainly there is nothing in Mormon char
acter and history to authorize the conclusion that
Mormon virtue will resist the sggressions of Sla-
very. Hear the intelligent correspondent of the
New York Euening Post:
ain recent conversation with an intelligent
person from Salt Lake, learned that many of
the emigrans from the South had brought slaves
with them into the Territory, still held them
there, and entertained no fear whatever that they
should be disturbed in what they called their
property, before Utah should be ready for adnis-
sion as State, when she is just likely to be q
slave as free State. The population is ascer-
tanned to be about twenty-five thousand. pre-
sumo the same statement of facts will apply to
New Mexico, except as to population, which is
As to New Mexico, read what our "relsble"
correspondent says in another letter Slaves are
there now. slsyss ra,e ssss cr--i1S :.he-s-the
native population accustomed to peonage, have
little sensblity on the subject and, as if to ia
vor the plot of the conspirators, the President has
selected for Governor Of the Territory, citizen
of Georgia, who, We must presume, entertains
the opinions current in that State
Thus, from Maine to Texas, from New York to
California, the Slavery Propagandists, with their
Hunker allies, have marshalled their forces, with
adesperate purpose, under professions of devotion
to peace and union, to establish their domination
in every State, and to unfurl the black flag of
Slavery wherever floats the star-spangled banner
betting the Continent from the Atlantic to the
Pacific with iron-linked Oppression.
We beseech our countrymen to think Of these
things. Shall we ground our arms, and retire
from the field Of battle or meet our enemies
boldly with an organization as efficient, as united,
as vigilant, as unrelenting, as their own2 They
will give no quarter to us. Give them no quar-
ter. On the altar of Liberty let us swear that,
never shall heart falter or hand rest, till Liberty
be established as the controlling principle of the
Federal Government, till every rood of territory
under the jurisdiction of the Government be con-
secrated to Freedom, till Hunkerism be crushed,
and the Slave Power stripped Of its usurpcd
patronage and It's potency for mischief