New England Religious Herald

The California Sentiment.-The Hon. Edward Gilbert, M. C. from the Gold State, at a public dinner given him at Albany, last week, said that whatever might be the course of Congress as to her admission, slavery could never enter California. "The population of California for the most part, was composed of free laborers from the North and the South. They had taken a solemn oath against slavery of every kind—that neither black slavery nor white slavery, nor any other kind of slavery, should be tolerated in California. Thus far they had accomplished this. They felt that if African slavery were introduced into California, it would degrade free labor. They would never submit to that insult. Above and beyond that, they felt that the spirit of the age called for freedom—universal freedom, and they would be derelict to what they believed to be their constitutional duty, if they did not provide for that. The question of slavery then, so far as California was concerned, was settled. The decision had gone forth. It could never be changed."