Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-03-19
From the New York Tribnne.
Slavery on the Pacific.

Slavery on the Pacific.
Sir: Your announcement that Organ has
been marked for slavery will not startle those
who have watched her siow development
under her ex Missourian rule. Had any
othea Slave State than Missouri contribut-
ed its numerical strength, lis manners and
customs, Oregon would have been swifter.
though less certain to attain this end. But
her Border-Rufian Indian wars, her bogus
legislation, changes of capital, her lazy
squatter life, and her Indias concubinage.
have disgusted and turned aside emigration
from the States, even from States of con-
genial institutional and domestic discipline
with Missouri. The Oregonians have dis
couraged emigration from the Northern
States for some time past and not later
than February last, when theis Delegate in
Congress was addressed by some gentlemen
who have since formed an association for
the encouragement of emigration to the
Pacific, asking his cooperation TO secure,
the passage of the Wagon Read and other
bills (since passed) to improve communica-
ZION with California and Oregon, he main
,ained judicious silence on the subject, as
also did the present Governor of Oregon
Mr.. Curry, formerly one Of the editors of
ST. Louis paper in the slave interest.
Not Oregon alone, but California and
Utah are menacet by the Slave Power. 1t
will be no news to your readers that the
Senators Broderck and Gwin, recently
elected TO Congress- from California, have,
during her whole political existence, held
the State divided on abstract questions Of
n, ,rthern and Southern policy; that the
s-Chvalry " or Gwin wing of the dominant
party have been seeking the' geographical
as we'll as the political division oethe State;
that Gwin. hy transaction said to be as
| perfdious as it was persers >aisgraceful,
accepted his present seat in Congress sub
ject to restrictions imposed by his rival
| Broderick. who hid the choosing OF Sec
ond Senator in the California Legislature.
But though their chief is. as it is said bribed
TO remain inactive, the party will not and
already we see the question of Constitu-
tional Convention to amend the Constitution,
revived and discussed in the California
journals. Not thst they expect to carry
Slavery into California by popular vote, but
by dividing and remanding back into tel
ritorial condition the lower half (aiready to
a great extent jointly possessed by South
ern lawyers and land speculators who have
succeeded generally to the ownership of the
lands under Spanish titles) under plea OF
burdansome taxes. That this scheme will
be attempted again there can be no doubt.
Its success is by no means improbabla. The
Mormons of Utah, who have a large and
1ourshing settlement at San Benardino,
eighty or ninety miles from Los Angeles,
are not averse to the plan. They aim to
possess seaport on the California coast
have alr,afy line OF coaches playing be-
tween their settlement and Salt Lake City.
and draw most of their supplies from the
Pacific. As they are believed to favor a
Constitution legalizing Slavery for their
own States, whenever it shall be formed,
they may gard with just cenplacency the
working of the plot slowly enfolding South
ern California. Another, and the chief in
centive to this act, is the slow aggression
by emigration and settlement, by mi litary
posts and roads in process of construction
md occupation, and by Atlantic and Pacific
Railway tobe bult-of the South upon New
Mexico, loaking to an outlet at San Diego
and the building there. o: an important
Southern commercial city.
In view of these facts you have yell said
that it is time Tor the friends OF Freedom to
bestir themselves. The outposts of our
| country on the Pacific are all in the hands
of the enemy. But The road is free betsseen
Calf, rnia and Oregon need population
Appropriari ms have been made by the late
Congress for wagon roads North and South,
and orders have been issued for troops to GO
out overland with this Spring emigration.
1t is the cheapes: and healthiest route to
the Pacific. The presence OF the troops
will keep The Indians quiet. Soon weekly
mai, with passenger coaches, will be estab-
Iished, appropriation having been made for
the former, and erterprising contractors
being now busy with the project of the
stages. Let the same encouragement be Of
fered through the press to emigration to
California and Oregon that is pul forth in
aid OF Kansas and Nebraska-let Eastern
editors pay more respect to the solid aduan-
taoes OF settlement in these tUo countries,
and less to their gold adUsnturins g attractions
be more indulgent to the vices OF society
for which indeed another or a-greater popu-
lation is the ouly cure-and men may be
induced to 90 with their families and settle
on the Pacific, whose voice and interests
will very soon be felt in the laws and in
the regulations of society.
The Spring emigration TO the West viii
be very great this wear. From III parts of
New-England, from Pennsylvania, and from
some of the Western States, hundreds and
thousands are making ready to remove be-
yond the Mississippi. Iowa, Minnesota
Nebraska and Kansas are prominently in
the field for emigration, supported by the
railroad interests, by horde of land specu-
ators. and apart from these by intellgen
ststements in every newspaper of the oppor-
,unities they offer the laboring man, and the
excellence of their soil and climate to the
Western settler. California and Oregon
each offer all these inducements and more.
Shall tFey not be heard! FUTURo.
Close of the Illinois Legislature
The closing scenes of the Illinois Legis-
lature were rather exciting. An Apportion-