Show from the steamer alta aha the main purpose of tho the abu 4 expedition the statement that the main purpose dilli of I 1 A sonora expedition was tab toi duce dace slavery into sonora hu his been receive i some bome ine incredulity dulity and well it might for fort 9 quixotic proceeding has not been taken than that of forty six men going hob take an extensive territory w wah ith a I 1 I 1 a hundred thou thousand and atil and to change K aft a I 1 free fiew to a slave st state unreasonable a ble 0 tow appears at first it may be worthy ly ha I 1 49 animation we wal premise ise do evidence in our oar passo essi on is condid at aw 0 we cannot make it public 1 it is well weh k kaohn biown to every person faina l the history of california Cah fornia during the hibl I 1 years that there is a party professional profess iong in i favor of abo ml tion of truty hu has had bail my so in I 1 has baa more than hb one public journal M ia ca its it has had and it now lif IT I 1 i share of high hiah and lucrative offices in the state the party leaders e deis hive have labored strenuously for the introduction of slavery info into california directly or indirectly by the division of the state a constitutional convention and other means and many of them were hopeful if not sanguine of final Pue access precess cess until last winter when they found that all their plans were foiled they did not advocate slavery openly they did not dare to lo do so for they knew that if their scheme were submitted to the voters the laborers of california a majority of sixty thousand against them would appear upon counting the seventy five thousand votes during the winter the plan for the invasion of sonora was concocted slavery propagandists were cognizant of it were consulted and nd perhaps planned it they encouraged it some of them gave as one reason lor for favoring it that it would be the means of introducing slaver yinto sonora about the first of Sp september a person prominently connected with the expedition who gave money as well as other aid to it said that adueh was the principal purpose of the head the new york herald published something to the same effect before the Caro caroline litie sailed from this port but the strongest evidence and it is entirely conclusive conc sive is of walkers first kovs after declaring lower california free sove sovereign and independent was to proclaim the civil code of L louisiana ui sian a to be in full force in that new republic mr walker has lived in louisiana and is a man of intelligence and a lawyer and of course knows that that code recognizes and protects and legislates for slavery as may be seen by referring to sections 17 1775 1783 and many others under that code the son of a slave woman horn in louisiana is made a slave and a person held as a slave in another state stale taken to louisiana remains a slave by walkers decree slavery is made quite as lawful in lower california as in louisiana it is entirely useless to say in the face of this fact that walker is ia opposed to slavery he expressly sanctions it by adopting unchanged the law of louisiana though four lines in his il decree would have sufficed to have abrogated so much of the code as provides for or permits slavery it is improbable that the rank and file of the know or approve of the schemes of their leaders but the many always were managed by a few persons acquainted with i walker and the expedition say that thai the purpose I 1 was adopted long before sailing from this port to proclaim the code of louisiana and the legalization liza tion of slavery in such a vast territory could abe be no secondary purpose I 1 having I 1 never lived if in louisiana lid and knowing little of its code I 1 except by its irame me as a very able and liberal system i of law very simi similar larto to the code napoleon it did not occur to us at first that the promulgation of this code was in itself a legalization of I 1 slavery I 1 it has been rumored that the two associations known as the gila steam navigation company and the gila mining and manufacturing company were intended to f furnish arnish aid to the this report lepori may be incorrect hut but it is not very plain what encouragement there would be for navigating I 1 mining or manufacturing fac turing on the lila ala where there are now no population no raw produce to be manufactured and no productive mines however it may be there are certainly some of the principal slavery propagandists in tile the state among the stockholders there may be no sin in believing that slavery is a blessing wid and our purpose is is not to find fault with any person for his belief for that is involuntary and we respect it but to give a plain statement of the facts of the case and to inform the people of california of the plans of these men who are secretly so busy in sowing the storm and are blind enough to hope to harvest barvest the gentle zephyr the papers in the pro slavery interest may now raise raise the hawl 0 of abolition or charge us with anti and american feeling as is they please all AH we have to say is ia that we have ever set our face against the abolitionists of the ahe east and if this be abolitionism or anti americanism make the most of it |