, 1859-05-07
ProErcAe OF the Movement for tits
Partition OF California.

Hy close examination Of tic California news
papers brought By the Inst overland 1nai1, we
learn ttlat the Assembly bill for the partition Of
the State has been reported to the Senate. An
attempt wns made to defeat it III the Assembly,
after its passnge, By motion to reconsider the
final vott. This motion gave rise 10 protract-
cd drbute, in which the slavery question was
discussed ut length, and with manifestations Of
strong feeling on both sides Twenty.sesen
voted in the affirmative aud tllTty-one or thirty
two in thu negative. What its fate will be in
the Senate VIC can only conjecture. The San
Francisco press. with the exception Of the 11nff,
seem to be indifferent to the result: That jour
nal assumes that the bill is unconstitutional, be-
the Constitution. But We notice that the Gull
! for q State Convention, to amend the Constltu-
tion, has been sanctioned by both branches Of
| the Legislature, and will be submitted to the
I popular vote this summer. Should it be ratifi-
/ ed, tic dis1ncsnbcr1nent could, nu doubt, be
effected, it the question did not enter into the
| canvass.
! The probabilities are that the Republican
| party will make II an issue, and this will elicit
| the sentiment Of the people i'll relation to its
exredicncy aud justice. There Gun be no dpubt
| that the Gwin- Buchanan Democracy will strain
oil their powers to accomplish It, because tue
organization Of Siase State OIL the Pucitic
| would be fortress to protect their decayil'y
fortunes. Tia. factiun, regarding slavery
| merely as I'LL element Of political power ttlcir
familiarity with the energies aud success Of free
| t4bor, furbid any other assumption), would mi
! crate to South California or Colorado, as they
Have named the unborn territory in the bill.
The inchoatc States of New Mexico and Ari-
zona, with the prospective ones Of Colorado,
Sonora. and chihuahua, wonld give the South
the continental grille which slavery demands
Between ocean aud ocean there would then ex'
tend one continuous eSpause Of slase sou. >. Ths
SLAVERY in that Territory. The hot haste with
whis the organization Of Arizona is prcsste
on t*ongrcss, is attributable 10 the design O
plan ing slavery III il. Senator Gwin is at tLt
bott,m Of this also. Lieutenant Mowry, who
c1ait7s to be the elected delegate Of that nebu
lous sovereignty, has moved throughout in hi:
Wa.ougton lobby operations in accordance
With the wishes and in obedience to the instruc
tons Of the California Senator. In the absence
Of negroes the poems, native to the region, vii
answer very well for slaves. Why not in Ari
zona as well as in Utall? There is no insupcr
able obstacle in these days to the cnslayenlen
ofth1s feeble hybrid caste, any more than in th
! day. Of Corstz. The Chinese immigration
might also be utilised in the samc fashion. Tn
Southern Pacific Raroad is as we have staies
in a previous article, leading feature in th
plot.
above The forticth parallel have taken the pre-
1i1ninars steps for procuring the organization O
nseparate government for that part Of the State
An Assembly bill for TINT purpose was referre
to q special cou.snittee, who reported it bac
with tic recommendation that it be referred i
the delegations from the counties which propos
to withdraw These counties ure named Suk
you, Del Sortc, klamath, Humboldt Trinit,
Shasta, Plumas, and Iahan1a.
lfthis movement did not appear au Offset t
the Southern one, we should say that Culiforni:
like Mexico, or the National Democracy, was i
| a state Of anarchy aud dissolution. Ii all tn
rural districts follow the example Of the Son.l
+ ern counties, tho city If San francisco and th
State Of California will be and the same b.