The Placer herald., 1856-02-02
EOote AGAINST California.

ZenS, and we presume not even by many o
our Legislators, that the candidate for Sen
ator of our State named above, who in the
| Know Nothing caucus at Sacramento, on
Saturday night, came nigh receiving the
nomination of that party did, in his place
in the Senate of the United States, when
representing the State of Mississippi, take an
active part 09djnst the admission of Calitor-
MIA into the Union.
On the lst Of August, 1850, the question
of the admission of California came up be-
fore the Senate, and was made the special
order by vote of 81 to 23. Mr.. Foote of
Mississippi, offered an amendment that Cali
fornia should not exercise her jurisdiction
over territory north of 35 dec. 30 min. At
ter some debate Mr. Foote's amendment was
egatyed--yeas 23, nays 49, On the 5th
of August, Mr.. Turnev, of Tenn, offered an
amendment dividing California into two ter
ritores, which might, hereafter, form State
Constitutions.
lMs amendment was supported by Mr..
Foote, for his own object in limiting the iu-
risdiction of our State to 80 deg. 30 min,
had the same purpose in view as that of Mr.
1urney. The latters amendment was re
.jected, ayes 90 nays 80. An amendment
WAS then offered by Mr.. Foote, erecting the
part of California south of SO deg. 80 min.
into a distinct territory, and rejected by n
vote of Is to 30 On the l2th the bill was
ordered to be cngrossed, yeas 33, nays ! O.;
and OH the 18TH after brief but warm de
bate, i'll the course Of which Senators Ber-
rcn and Clemens denounced the bill as
fraught with mischief and peril to the Union,
it was finally passed, yeas 81, nays IS, rs
follows:
Yeas. - Messrs. Baldwin, Bell, Benton,
Bradbury, Bright, Cass, Chase, Cooper, Davis
of Massachusetts, Dickinson. Dodge Of Wis
consin, Dodge Of Iowa, Douglas, Ewing,
Felch, Green, Hale, IIamIin, Houston, Jones,
Miller Norris, Phelps, Seward, Shields
Smith, Spruance Sturgeon, Underwood, Up
ham, Wales, Whtcomb and Winthrop-34
NayS-Messrs. Atchison, Barnwell, Ber-
ren, Butler, Clemens, Davis of Mississippi
Dawson, Foote, Hunter, King, Mason, Nor
ton, Pratt, Iiusk, Sebastian, Soule lurncv
and lulec--lS
The next day a protest against the adms-
sion of California, signed bv these dissenting
members, was presented with a request that
it be entered on the journal, which the Sen
ate refused.
Mr. Foote'S object, and those voting with
him, was to introduce Slare3y into Lower
California, and to accomplish this end he
advocated the division of our State. Wheth-
cr he was pursuing Il wise and beneficial
course towards California, we will leave our
readers to Judge. That he was willing to
dismember our State to accomplish his pur-
posc is enthusiastically apparent from his ac-
ton, and to accomplish this object he acaS
mWia7 to Ircp as fer an Ndefniie period ont
Of the Upjoa, as his vote and the protest
against our admission proves.
With these facts before them, we are GU
rious to know how the free soil Wings Of our
Legislature can so far smother their pretl-
diccs as to support this out and out slavery
man-ths leader of the south against our
State, because she did not adopt the peculiar
southern jnSHfai0n in her Constitution. AZ
ter iaboring as hard as any in the Senate to
represent southern Democratic views and
feelings, Gov. Foote has, in the autumn of
life, made the discovery that he had during
all his long past career been acting with a
corrupt party.
We think that neither California, nor any
party in the State, owes debt Of gratitude
to Ex-Governor Foote, formerly of MISSISSIPPI
pi; she has rather cause for condemnation
against him, and certainly no man more OBJ
.iectionable both by his past actions and ex-
pressions, could he selected to represent any
California party in the Senate of the United
States. S. +. SaR.
How AMERICA WAS FORMED, AND THE
CAUSE OF TIE FLooD.--Clarb Mills, Of Wash
ugton, states that the fountains of the great
deep being broken up, the waters must have
retired in great agitation to the east and
west from the sides Of the rising continent.
The various opposing currents caused i'm
mense deposits to be made, and the rush
Of water, with the flaming ocean beneath,
generated an immense evaporation. The
winds, which, before this, moved from east to
west around the globe, were suddenly OBJ
structed by The towering burning mountains.
They rolled back as if astonished at the new
phenomena, laden with the vapors Of a boil
ing ocean. The clouds, in their sublime
evolutons moving in the direction of the
waters to the east and west from America,
met in awful array over the Old World.
There they discharged their burdens the
vapors descending for forty days. and after
the earth reyolved $50 times in her cum
brous mantle, the waters retired to the cav
erns from whence our continent arose.
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