. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . vern-ment preparatory to admission into the people of California promptly acceptedthe suggestion, and a convention of delegateswas held at Monterey, in Sejitember of constitution prohibiting slavery was framed,.•submitted to the people, and adopted with butlittle opposition. Under this instrument Peter 86 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . vern-ment preparatory to admission into the people of California promptly acceptedthe suggestion, and a convention of delegateswas held at Monterey, in Sejitember of constitution prohibiting slavery was framed,.•submitted to the people, and adopted with butlittle opposition. Under this instrument Peter 86 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. H. Burnet was elected governor. Membersof a General Assembly were cbosen, and onthe 20th of December, 1849, the new govern-ment was organized at San Jose. At the sametime a petition, in the usual form, was for-warded to Congress asking for the admissionof California as a State. The presentation of this petition in Congresswas the signal for a bitter controversy. Thescenes attendant upon the admission of Mis-souri were now reiJnacted; but the parts werereversed. As in that great debate, Congressand the people were sectionally divided. Theproposition to admit California was in generalsupported by the representatives of the North. HENRY CLAY. and opposed by those of the South. Theground of opposition was that the MissouriCompromise Line, in its extension to the Pa-cific, crossed California, whereby a part of theproposed State wiis open to the institution ofdavery, and this by an Act of Congress whichno Territorial legislation could abrogate. Forthis reason the Southern Congressmen gener-ally claimed that California ought to be re-jected until the restriction on slavery shouldbe removed. The reply of the Northern Rep-resentatives was more moral, but less said that the argument of the opponentsof the bill for admission could apply only to axklH, and not tlie whole, of California; that the Missouri Compromise had respect only trthe Louisiana Purchase, and that
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