Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-20


the indications the present condition Of things
in this district afford, no military force will
scarcely ever be needed here to sustain the
law, among the people Of North Carolina, with
out any aid Of United States soldiers, there will
always be found q standing power sufficient to
vindicate the majesty Of the laws, and to pun
ish treason to the Constitution, whether con-
templGted by individuals or bodies Of men,
however numerous or fanatic
When the Grand Jury of North Carolina
shall next attempt to play the part Of oversecr
and censor general, it may be as well for it to
present the State Of South Carolina for its wan
ton imprisonment Of citizens Of Massachusetts,,
and the mob violence which drove from its
borders the counsel employed by the Legisla-
ture Of that State to test, before the United
States Court, the constitutionality Of such i'm
prisonment.
SLAVERY IN CALIFORNIA - PROSPECT OF ITS
HsTABLIsHMENT
/ Two years ago o law was passed by the
California Legislature, granting one gear to
the owners of slaves carried into the Terri
| tory previous to the adoption Of the Constitn-
ton, to remove them beyond the limits of the
State. Last year the provision of this law f0ds
extended ticeire months longer. We learn by
the late California papers that bill has just
passed the Assembly, by vote of 33 to 81,
continuing the same lar an force until 1855.
| The provisions of this bill embrace siaves aoho
haze been carried to California since The adop-
hon of her Constitution, as well az those who
were there previously. The large majority by
which it passed, and the opinions advanced
during the discussion, indicate a more fdpora-
bic state of sentiment an regard 10 the rights of
Shareholders IN California than zoe supposed er.
isted-Mississippian.
Look too, at the character of the Delega-
ton in Congress from that State-just as thor
oughly Pro-Slavery as if representing Missis-
sippi itself And then, its Legislature has the
bad distinction of being the only free State
Legislature that has instructed it's Senators
| and Representatives to vote for the Nebraska
Bill illinois we consider no exception, as the
resolutions Of its Legislature were adopted by
minority Of its members
1t is easy to see that the political power of
California has been monopolized by scheming
Pro-Smvery politicians. They have tried re-
peatedly for amendments Of the Constitution,
designed either to expunge it's nti-Slavery
provision, or to divide the State, so that the
southern portion might be converted to slave
holding uses; but failing in this, they adopted
the more insidious policy disclosed in the para
graph above quoted. AT first, the act authori-
zing shareholders to carry out Of the State
slaves conveyed into it before the adoption Of
the Constitution, was advocated on the ground
of equity, and as means of Kidding the State
of colored population. One year, however,
was certainly enough for the operation of the
act What stakeholder could need more than
that for tho removal of his slaves But at
the expiration Of the time the act was renew
cd, and now again it is to be in force till 1855,
applying, as it is said, to slaves brought into
| the State since the Constitution was formed
as well as before it If this be true, the An
ti-Slayery clause in the Constitution Of the
State is, in fact, dead letter, and Slavery is
now domestic institution in California. II
slaves brought into the State at any time may
be carried out Of it within twelve months, and
the act authorizing this is to be renewed al
the expiration Of every twelve months, the Sla
very -propagandists have gained their point
and need seek no longer for the removal Of q
clause which they have practically nullifed.
The love Of money here, as in other cases, j,
the root Of all evil. The great majority Of tn,
People Of California we know, from the con
current testimony Of all intelligent witnesses, arr
unfriendly to Slavery, have uniformly bafilet
every undisguised attempt to introduce il, and
to-day, if the question were submitted to them
would return decided negative. But, Their
passion for gain seems to have subordinatet
every other sentiment. They betake them
selves to traffic, speculation, or gold-dig
ging, with single eye TO money-making, ant
leave legislation and politics to the mer'
politicians, who are nearly all Slavery propa
gandists.
Il is to the Generalization Of the mas
Of respectable citizens in California, by tn,
insane appetite for wealth, and the consequen
ascendency Of corrupt intriguing scheminl
politicians that we are to attribute the villa
nous Legislation that has disgraced the new
State. IT, in consequence Of their devotion =
Mammon, Slavery should at last domiciliat
itself in the empire Of the Pacific, they woul'
deserve to be held accursed by God and man
as traitors to both.
| To- The Methodist Episcopal Church Soutl
has recently expunged from the Discipline tn
rules condemning Slavery. This i could no
do, il those rules had not been there. Yet il
quarrel with the Old Church was because o
it's Observance Of those rules. We believe it ]
our Pro Slavery fellow-citizens who think tina
all laws should be implicitly obeycd, ever
though enacted by the chicanery OF knaves, an'
enforced by the violent arm Of tyranny