The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-04-14

very, or, as the cant Benicia phrase espresso
it, who were sound on the velvet heads
Now, why, il the slavery question is not to D.
mentioned, this anxiety to have all the South
ern-born men TO vote on one side! If you d.
not know, we will tell you. II is, that wher
the bill is beaten in the House. the cry OF abo
litonism' may be raised against those wht
oppose it, in the hope that the deserved un
popularity of abolitionism may brighten some
of the timid into voting for the measure later
in the session It is a well-conceived game
and its authors deserve credit for their talent
but il won't win. Many OF the most unyleld
ing opponents of the Convention, ourselves
among the number, would use ten times the
energy to oppose anything tinctured with the
slightest particle of abolitionsm. We, ike
them, have lived in slave States, and have all
our sympathies there We know, as Southern
ers do, the luxury Of owning niggers, and the
comfort of having house and body servants al.
ways at call; but we also know that white ana
slave labor cannot prosper together, and we
are not willing that the welfare OF whole
State should be put in jeopardy because few
might live in greater comfort, and with less
labor. The greatest good to the greatest num-
Der is maxim that should be impressed upon
every Democratic mind"
A correspondent, writing from the mines to
the Alta California, says
" If the Conventionists are now successful,
and the question is to be submitted TO the Pco-
pie, there is but one course for those opposed
to it to pursue. The battle must be fought on
this issue--Shdll the State be diuided, and Sla-
rery introduced into the southern part The
Conventionists may deny that such thing is
designed or desired. But who are the men
that favor division Are they free laborers,
or capitalists, SPECTATORS and politicians?
Who favored q revolutionary convention in the
last Legislature 1t was the same class Of
men, who disgraced themselves and the Ameri-
can name by voting for the introduction of
Coolie labor. Disguise or derry it as they will,
the great object with these men is the intro
duction of servile and degraded labor. They
attempted Coolieism, and failed and not to
be baked in their desire of living on the sweat
of their fellow beings, they are now attempting
to gain by stealth a more revolving species of
servitude"
The EUening Journal of San Francisco, one
of the most Jealous opponents of Convention,
says
1T is quite useless for the advocates of a Con-
vention to attempt any further concealmont Of
the real objects which they have in view in
pressing forward this Convention and division.
They may save themselves the guilt of further
deception. Further attempts at concealmen.
will meet with no success. That man who
favors division must avow that he desires but
one ultimate object--that is, the introduction
Of slave and the consequent degradation of
white labor. To bring our own race-the An
glo-Saxon race-to a level with the negro
slaven
1t is said that if the scheme should succeed
the Conventionists would propose three States
Sierra, containing population of $4,000, and
about three millions of taxable property Cal
ifornia, with 2O7 900 people, and fifty millions
Of taxable property and Tulare, the southern
division, with $4,000 people, and seven and
half millions of taxable property
The opponents of Convention are against
any division of the State now, because they
wish to consecrate every foot of its soil to free
dom. New States, they know, must Ultimate
ly be organized; but ere that time the Slavery
Propagandsts will have been utterly over
whelmed.
1t is critical moment in the affairs of the
new world of the Pacific, and we trust the true
friends of Freedom will acquit themselves like
men. Victory now will give them permanent
security.