The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-12-11


lie bears Peoples woe. Let browning be
Salute him Priea-High Priest Of Saerifce
Upon his heart haplcss nation lies
He seeks not, needs not praise let praisng be;
That tributes meet for vainer men than he
Give him your sympathy, your aid-or, tears;
But mock not patriot grief with Prides salute:
Greet him with blessings but not revclry;
To him 'twere insult-shame, to these dread years
Receive him as Chrst's Freedmen should Kossuth
Pronounced Kozzute
NorE.-Grace Greenwood's noble letter on the Ex-
ile'sVisit to America suggested my thought. &C.
THE PROJECT OF DIVIDING CALIFORNIA
The advocates of division of California held
their Convention at Barbara on the Goth inst
The three counties of San Diego, Los Angeles,
and Santa Barbara were alone represented.
A single individual appeared from Monterey,
but the counties of San Louis Obrispo Santa
Cruz, Santa Clara Cantia Costa San Francis
co, and the several counties Of the San Joaquin
Valley, all proposed to be included in the new
Territorial Government, were unrepresented
Resolutions were passed in favor of seeding
from the State, and going back to Territorial
Government; but on the question of drawing
the dividing line and locating the capital the
diversity of sentiment was so great that no
conclusions were arrived at Divisions pre-
vailed among the few delegates present. Those
from San Diego withdrew, refusing to act with
the other two counties. The delegation of Los
Angeles was divided, and the President seeded
from the Convention.
The entire press of San Francisco is against
the proposed change. The Stockton Journal,
edited by an emigrant from slayeholding
State and the Times and Transcript, oppose it
We have seen in fact" says the Sonora Her
aid, :" but one article in any paper, except the
San Diego Herald and Los Angelos Star, in
favor Of separation, and that was iB the DAILY
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the Southern haitSof the State is agricultural
and the Northern mining and commercial, the
same kind of legislation is not adapted u
both-that taxes fall unequally upon them, as
the principal wealth of the South consists in
landed property. The Sonora Herald takes
occasion from this to suggest that land monop-
DIV is the real source of the burdens of the
Southern counties. Immense tracts of land
are monopolized by few thousand proprie-
tors. The Herald says if they do not consider
their land worth paying taxes on, let them
sell portions of it, and a Yankee and German
population will not only make living on the
same, and pay taxes too, but they will lay up
money rapidly. The sooner the present state
of things is done away with the better. The
five thousand Mormons who have lately settled
here will all make money. They will work
on new system, and with new energy, and,
instead of wasting time in Division Conven-
tons resort to that other and better remedy,
namely, well-drected industry"
The newspapers opposed to separation are
full of denunciations of the schemes of discon-
tented demagogues and politicians, who, they
say, are urging on this movement for the sake
of multiplying Offices for their own benefit.
But, they all agree that the formation of
slave State on the Pacific is the chief political
element of the agitation. The supporters of
this policy arc noWas bold as they are indie
fatigable. Disguise is scarcely attempted.
They are emissaries chiefly from South Carroll
na who, quick as lightning to resist any inter-
ference with her domestic institutions, does not
hesitate to interfere with those of another
State The Sonora Herald is explicit on this
point.
Missionaries from South Carolina have
been travelling all through the Southern val
leys, and industriously working to bring about
mated not in the Southern counties, but in South
Carolina, and among few slavery propagan-
dists who had previously emigrated here
Should we 90 to South Carolina to disturb the
peculiar institution there, they would feel very
indignant. We say to them now, take the beam
out of your olcn eye. Leave us alone in our
own policy, with our own chosen free institu-
tons. and we will leave you alone. But as to
changing the charter of this State, and COM
pelling our thousands of free miners to work
side by side with cringng slaves we can never
consent at least without making the struggle
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the design of not a few of the prominent actors
in the present comic drama. They kept the
secret TO themselves until they thought they
We're strong enough to whisper it among few
friends Why were they afraid to come out
openly like men, and tell us what they want.
ed, and let the question be discussed on its real
merits2 Why try to lug in their Southern
neghbors as bruised and dying from maltreat-
RI Al o,,I tryt 10 ka mo thipH fhov
themselves are the good Samaritan, ready to
minister to their comfort"
The California Courier, edited by J. M
Crane, who emigrated year or two ago from
Virginia, and who is in favor of division at some
future day, is no less explicit:
"The most of those in this quarter (San
Francisco) who advocate division do so for the
purpose of introducing slavery into the South
ern division"
This testimony is entitled to more considera-
ton from the fact that he has no insuperabe
objection to the introduction Of slavery pro
vided the people of California shall desire it.
The Stockton Journal, edited also by an en-
igrant from a slaveholdng State. holds the
following language:
+" There is question at issue here which
has not obtained elsewhere; and which it is
absolutely necessary to propagate in this coun-
try to give the question anything like interest
We mean the introduction of slavery INTO The
Southern part Of The State This is delicate
subject; but as Southcrners, we cannot be
cheated into position of support towards a
measure we see no prospect of realizing"
Additional evidence might be presented that
the organization Of slave State on the shores
of the Pacific is the great object proposed by
the Seccssionists and that the supporters of
this policy are missionaries from slave States.