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nt independent of State assistance in the execution of the law. 2. An Act for the admission of California, as a free State, into the Union, embracing its entire territory, as well that south as north of the Missouri Compromise line. Ibid., Sept. 9. 3 and 4. Acts for establishing Territorial Governments in New Mexico and Utah, under which both these Territories were to be admitted as States into the Union, with or without slavery as their respective Constitutions might provide. Ibid. 44 and 468, Sept. 9. From abundant but wise caution, the first of these Acts declared, in conformity with the Constitution, that no citizen of the United States shall be deprived of his life, liberty, or property in said Territory, except by the judgment of his peers and the laws of the land. These two Acts, in addition to the old Missouri Compromise, embraced all our remaining Territories, whether derived from Mexico or France. They terminated the agitation on the Wilmot Proviso, by depri