, ,t;o44lV,;r*VPlZ4Mt.?'ll;qriA.tsS-44,P14',.11P.'",4f‘.: VrA5}37)4.-4'.'V!,41*444"4"--'67.4","*.r34i44.,Wt.A1ti41,47,7'Ank,t50.04'.4,iq • 4 1y, 414 - GM' 31M, Wtoa4 . 0 .1 10 'I6ALWOVEINV , • Plqiiii iticscongliesifio:llo On the 13th inst..,ahoMernorialocif the , Senators and. Representativeiliect , California was presented in [wench es of Congress, praying for the immedi— ate admission of 'California as a State of , the The memorialists lay be-. fore those bodies certified copies...of the constitution of California, 'togeth4 nrith .their credentials, and they requeSi l On the name of the people of their Sirite;4ier ad- mission into the Union. They expreOf “deeptioonishment and sincere regret at havitig learned, since their arrival in WaShington, of the existence of an or ganized, respectable, and talented - opposi• tion to the admission of the new State." They add : "This oppAtina is so unexpected, - so important in numbeksdLability, and so .decided in itsteldrial character, that they feel the, sholi d digihiustice . to their .constituents, to the cause of good gotr'erit, 7 ; ment, and to the progreeeive advaifce treedorn alid-eivilla i tion, did ther%ot at least attempt to a aver the many argu ments urged against the admission of California." Then follows, at length, a history of the territory and of the organization of a State. As regards slavery; the memo- rial says : i Much misapprehension appears to have obtained in the Atlant;o States relative to the question of Slavery in California.— The undersigned have no hesitancy in saying that the provision in the Constitu tion excluding that institution meets with the almost unanimous approval of that people. This unanimity is believed to result not so much from the prejudices against the system which are quite gen— eral in the northern portion of the United States, as from a universal conviction that in no portion of California-is the cli- mate"and, soil •of a character adapted to slave labor. Since the discovery/of the mines, the feeling in opposition to the introduction of Slavery is bolieied to have become, if possible, more unanimous than heretofore. The .relation of master and slave has never existed in the country, and is there generally believed to be pro hibited by Mexican law, consequently the original California population is ut terly opposed to it. ' Slavery is a ques tion little discussed in California, so set tled appears the public mind relative thereto. Public meetings have scarcely ever considered It. The opinion put for ward that the debision (4. this question has been forestalled, has no foundation in truth. And no more conclusive proof Of this can be found than the simple facts that fifteen of the forty eight members composing the convention which unani— mously inserted the prohibitory clause in the Constitution, were from slaveholding states, while twelve were California prop er, an,d twenty one northern men. Fur ' Alter than this, there is no doubt. that two fifths of those who voted- in favor of the