Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-03-27
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TUESDAY, MARCH 81. 1855.


The principal aim of the people, in California,
is to get gold the chief object of the politicians
seems to be to divide the State, There is no
difficulty in understanding why poor men should
dig, and wash, and scratch day after day and
month after month, for the nuggets" ana "dust''
that lie hidden beneath the surface of California
but leaving one subject out of the question: it is
difficult to see what necessity exists for the d.
vision of California into two States. The popu.
lation of that State. in 1850, was about ninety
two thousand, considerably less than that OF
Rhode Island, and if we allow for the return of
emigrants, and the excess of mortality over the
natural increase of population, we may safely
venture to say, that the influx OF immigration
has not added fifty per cent to the amount of
the last census. The great majority of the peo-
pie of California are concentrated in San Fran
cisco and adjacent cities, in the northern towns
and at the g dggings." In the southern part of
the State, population is sparse and comparatively
unimportant.
The citizens of San Francisco, and the miners,
do not want the STATE divided, bu; some Of the
planters in the Southern part of the State do,
and that is the reason that bill for the division
Of the State has been ordered 10 be printed by the
California Legislature Since the admission of
California into the Union, with a free Constitu-
ton, the slavery propaganda have done all that
they possibly could do to subvert that Constitu-
ticn, or make it dead letter. They obtained
the passage of law, in 1853, which enabled
slaye-hunter to take any negro, upon whom he
might swear he had claim, who had escaped
into California before it became part of the
United States. 1t also gave permission to
shareholders to carry their SLAYER into the State
and hold them there during limited period
These pro-slayery triumphs were won by the
vgilant and persistent activity Of the slavehold-
ers who were attending to politics while the bulk
ofthe population attending to gold-dgging.
But the pro-slavery interest not content
with operating in the legislature; it extended its
operations also to immigration. The propaganda
caused to be conveyed, from the southern States
large numbers of slaves, which they established
in Southern California, under the temporary So
journment act, but with the evident intention of
remaining permanently in the country. 1t is to
these slaves, illegally held in slavery, that
movements are being made so actively, to divide
the State. If the State is divided slavery will be
made ''legal,' in the Southern half of it; and,
probably three or four other slave States will be
formed out of it. Such at least is the intention
of the trainers of the bill now before the California
legislature. The provisions of that bill are sue
cinctly these The new State is to be called
Columbia and is to embrace all that part ofthe
State south and inclusive fthe counties of Santa
Cruz, Santa Clara, Suolumne, and Calaveras. The
new State is to assume portion of the present
debt.
This scheme is pro-slayery and nothing
else. 1t is a political move to give the owners
of the slaves in Southern California, 'legal'
control over the poor bond men held there, at the
present time, illegally. 1t is meant also, 10 give
to few shareholders, in Columbia" the same
political power in the U. S. Senate that the free
State of New York or Massachusetts, has. The
only way to check these nefarious schemes is for
the North to insist against the admission into the
Union, ofany more Slave States