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

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mony Of the Union, we say let the neonls h nar-
their way We are always willing r. .L;s lave
the will Of the people but we are ever sn,' Ie
c,ous OF the movements of certain politiciaIa
ihey are for slavery, or anti-slayerv or 90
thing else 1T it will serve their purnose
terest only governs the rabid pro-slayerv man
and the fanatical abolitionists3 ''"
Or course, no man who rests his onros;.;o.,
to the organization of a slave State a. a.
eihc, upon these low grounds, cannot be relied
upon
ine STOCKTON Journal says it cannot be
cheated INTO the support of an impract;cob,o
measure, and such it regards this movemont
to extend slavery. The views of the Journal
are instructive:
I" Even were it good policy for California
still 1t never will succeed. There are ob;ac
tons to 1T in nature and in politics. that arc
lnsurmountable and the effort must fall st;Il
born to the ground
" In the hrst place, there are too MANY FREQ
white men in this country, to ever allow this
question to be carried at the ballot-box. This
may seem doubtful, but it can be demonstrated
Every Northern man, and a majority of the for.
eigners IN the Southern mines will vote against
1t. They Will get strong aid from men who
have emigrated to California from the extreme
Southwestern States for all sensible men who
have lived in those sections know that i'm Ala.
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana. Texas, Tennessee.
and Kentucky, there are hundreds of voters
who are opposed to slavery in the abstract.
Numbers of such men have removed to this
country and Of course they will oppose its in
PRODUCTION in California. These men never
wilLconsent to introduce into the mines such
tremendous mon0pOlies as a Spectator and his
hundred negroes would constitute Where
would be our boosted free mining with its
privileges and immunities! All these votes in
opposition will reduce the majority in its favor
to "beggarly account This would be in
the San Joaquin valley but when the question
is sprung upon the 5000 Mormons on the San
Bernardino Rancho, what will be their answer
An undivided but emphatic negative backed
by another 900 from the votes along the coast,
and in San Francisco, will so etfectually crush
this step, that its supporters will stand abashed
at their own folly. The question of creating
a slave State on the Pacific is utterly visionary,
and nothing more than trap to catch South
ern votes iI favor of division of the State, and
S'~'o nare rrtareu ims n,avtse, e.,v,..>.>,, 81,
without any desire TO create division in the
|
! or South. IL was necessary to say to those
who look to this project as u nroans of ine-odu-
cling slavery into this State, that they are most
seriously humbugged, as they can plainly see
| by making their own calculations not emitting
the 5000 Mormon voters at Los Angeles who
- Forbidden by their regulations to hold ne
gro property. To those opposed to the creation
OF a new slave State, we can also say that such
is the design Of your Southern friends in de-
string this separation, and they will oppose it
to man. This will institute inquiry, and then
| the subject is bound to be defeated Before
the light this movement becomes transparent
and resolves itself into stupendous deception,
| designed for the creation of new officers. We
are at war with all kinds of trickery, as all
trickery is at war with the true interests of the
State. We do not wish to see friends embit-
tered in the discussion of principles that are
intangible; and the only way to accomplish
this, is to frown on all attempts to introduce
| them God knows that slavery has produced
| enough trouble in the Atlantic States without
| introducing it here to reopen the ranking
wounds that are now nearly healed We can
get along without it. and build up firm and
| deep-seated country, if we have no element
thrown in to produce discord and disunion;
| and it is the duty of every lover of California
| to discountenance this movement"
Forewarned, forearmed" We rejoice that
we had the means of exposing this infamous
plot at so early period. Our friends in Califor-
MIA have been put upon their guard the ques-
ton is now fairly before them the plot Is re-
vealed South Carolina and other slave States
have been conspiring against their peace inter
meddling with their domestic institutions, plot
ting to dsmember their State, for the purpose
of manufacturing slave State on the Pacific,
utterly reckless of the antagonists that would
necessarily spring up between the two systems
of free labor and slave labor on the Pacific.
They are so well pleased with the reign of dis
cord on the Atlantic coast that they would
extend it to the Pacific Like the Devil, whose
envy was fired by the peace and purity OF Par
adise, they would blast the Eden they cannot
enjoy.
The Caliiornians can battle these wicked
movements. They have established freedom
as the universal law of their State, they have
now but one kind of labor, and labor with them
is honorable They have no slaves to bring
down its dignity or rewards no masters to ty-
rannize over their councils, no antagonstical
interests no States with different institutions,
generating unbrotherly discussions They are
one People, under one system, and so let them
continue, until freedom and free institutions
shall be so Incorporated with the ideas and hab-
its of the People, so rooted in the very soil as to
bid defiance to all attempts to eradicate or i'm
pair them Then, should division become ne
cessary or expedient it could be accomplished
without danger.
THE BosToN COMMONWEALTH newspaper has
changed hands It will in future be edited by
Ezur Wright, assisted by Charles List who is
one of the proprietors Mr.. Wright in his salu-
tatory makes the following remarks;
at will be understood that the Common
uealh ceases, of course to be the official organ OF
the Free Soil party say this distinctly, not
because the political sympathies of myself or
my associates are in the least withdrawn from
the party, with which all of us have acted zeal
ously from the first, but simply to prevent the
new position of the paper from being misunder.
stood and to save our friends from being held
responsible for any doctrine, political or other
which it may advocate Our hope is that the
Free Soil party will find it as valuable to Their
cause as il il we're their official instrument. Az
any rate, if they ever find it false to Freedom
let them starye it into dishonored grave
| MIssIssIppI-A State Convention was held
at Jackson, the capital of the State, and on the
18th ult The Convention endorsed the Union
platform, usually called "the COMPROMISE