Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-20
/ tax of five cents on each one hundred dol

lars worth of real and personal property
THAT is warlike recommendation. H.makes
war upon property.
SENATORIAL AND ASSEMBLY DIsTRIcrs. He
hopes that early action will be had upon the
apportonments of Senatorial and Assembly
Districts among. the different counties of TIE
State according to the white population. The
interest OF the State would be served if the
number of Assemblymen and Senators were
reduced SO as to approximate to the mini
mum number designated by the Constitution.
Mlieage should be abolished, and actual tray
cling expenses only allowed.
FEDERAL RELATIoNs.-The notification of
the Fugitive Slave Law, and the passage of
Personal Liberty Bills by many of the sover-
elgn States, cannot be viewed in any other
light than subversive Of all amicable relations
between those States and that portion of the
confederacy interested in slave property
These enactments are unconstitutional, are
founded upon injustice and bad faith, and are
in violation of the federal compact The aus
thors OF them have been forewarned of their
evil results, and now that they see the dang
| ger, 1t Is hoped that sense of returning ius-
tice, and the patriotism that so eminently
| distinguished the citizens of those States, ia
the earlier days of the Republic, will cause
them to repeal those obnoxious statutes, and
| by this means restore peace to the country
and permanency to the Union.
| The estimation in which California is held
! by both of the contendipg sections-her citi-
zens, as it were, beinS a Congress of the
whole confederacy--fitsh her for q mediator
and this is the position she desires to occupy
1t is folly to suppose thatshe desires sep.
aration from the Union, and while She finds
the border States of Maryland, Delaware,
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for the Union, the voice of California will
greet them, and her example will encourage
the other free States to make any reasonable
sacrifice to preserve our liberties, and the
! blessings which fow from united nation
| ality. The people of California desire no
change in our form of government; they de-
sire no dismemberment that would weaken us
as powerful people; our vast seaborad un-
protected requires the fostering care of
powerful maritime nation, such as the Amer
lean Union has become; they desire to remain
in the Union, and grow with its growth and
strengthen with its strength, and while any,
thing exists worthy of being called an Amer.
| lean Union, mistake much If the people &C.
California will not cling to il with patriot
lc devotion worthy of men who can appre-
ciate the blessings of self government. While
California will thus cling to the Union, she
will expect justice from her sister States, each
to the other as she, confident in her own re-
sources, and justly ppoud of her vast domain,
her unparalleled mineral wealth, her com
mercial position, her unsurpassed fertility of
soil, and geniality of climate, feels she would
have the right to and would demand, in the
event of encroachnents being attempted to
her injury.
Having suggested the steps that the North
ern States, which have passed through their
Legislatures unfrendly acts towards the
South, should take towards effecting an ami
cable adjustment of the existing differences,
the South should he satisfied with this, and
the entire removal of the slavery question
from the Halls of Congress- Let the people
of the Territories alone settle the question of
domestic slavery within their borders, and be
admitted into the Union with or without o
slavery clause in their constitution The pre-
else time at which the people of Territory
| should be enabled to decide this question can
be settled by the act of compromise Itself
This difference certainly is not of sufficient
Importance TO cause dissolution Of the I'm
ion, and although |, in common with very
large proportion of the people North and
kSouth, as manifested by the recent election,
have always believed that the people at all
periods oftheir existence have control of this
subject, yet an abstract question like this
should not fol. one moment be placed in com,
parison with the greatest of all earthly bless
ings, the preservation of the Union of the
American States. and that Constitution which
has secured to us such need Of ecivil and
religious liberty as never before in ancient
or modern times has been vouchsafed to man.
1t is natural that much interest should be
felt in the position that California should oc-
cupy in this unhappy struggle, The rich
domain and littoral advantages of the Pa
ciic Empire have been acquired by the
blood of the common country, and purchas
ed by the treasure alike belonging TO ALL
Let US show them our gratitude for this in
hertance by our patriotic efforts to preserve
it for the enjoyment of proud and prosper
Gus nation, and let the commerce of China
and Japan, and the great Australian Empire,
and the Spanish American Main, already at
our doors, enter our ports, and pass through
our Territory to the East on national rail-
road. Let our inexhaustibe supply of gold
flow with it, there to build up cities, enrich a
nation and make us that powerful people
that our position entities us to be-the glory
of the age, the wonder of the world, fulfill
ing the destiny awaitin g Us in ripper years.