Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1837-01-21


bill for-the construction of the Jetfcrsonvllle
and Columbus road was engrossed tor third
reading. The bill for the construction Of a
CLAY Turnpike from Vincenncs through Sulli
J. van county to Terre Haute, and the bill Tor
the construction of Il Turnpike from Mount
Vernon TO Princeton have been rejected. A
decision will soon be made Upon all the sup
Elemental bills Of internal Improvement.
The House is rapidly progressing with the
business and will probably finish all by the
second week Of February Dem. Jan. IL.
! MICHIGAN ADMITTED.
Correspondence Of the Baltimore Patriot
WASHING ON, Jan. 9th, 1886.
The Destfuctives have triumphed in the
Senate of the Uuited States! The Michigan
ELL, which is based upon principles, utterly
frepugnant to the Constitution of the Country,
and irreconcileable with the maintenance Of
any sound and regular government. passed
that body last evening by vote of IS to 10.
You will ask perhaps why was there aot a
better attendance of the opposition Senators.
They saw it would be ineffectrve-they knew
the majority had the power-and were deter
mined to exercise it. Nothing short Of the
numbers sufficient to convert their plans in
to laws could add TO the effect Of the splen-
did speeches Of Mr.. Calhoun and Mr.. Preston,
and the clear and forcible arguments of
Messers Bayard and Davies. Mr.. Calhoun
land all who spoke against the present bill
repeatedly declared that they were not OPP
posed to the admission of Michigan-so let
the miserable tools Of the dominant party
drop that topic of reproach!--so far from
Opposing the reception of the new State, Mr..
Calhoun was for admitting her at once-only
provided that the abominabe revolutionary
principles of the preamble be but disclaimed;
no, he did not ask the Destructives to repu-
diate these darling sentiments-but omitted.
He wished them only to forbear giving the
sanction of the Senate to such doctrines. He
proposed an amendment, informed you,
in order to remove all objections in the minds
of the different members to the admission of
Michigan. But the majority would have the
)preamble-the whole preamble bill.--With
what power did the Carolina Senator expose
the consistencies Of the party with regard to
this question. Last session they had con-
|tended in all their arguments, and proceeded
in all their acts on the assumption that Michi-
gan was State. Now they cry she is onlv
a territory and cannot be State till admit
ted into the Union. But if this is true. how
can they admit the gentlemen claiming adj
mission to seats on that floor! What right
had territory to elect Senators to Congress?
And If they, driven from this position, admit
the proceedings OF a meeting, got up without
even show of authority from the constituted
government Of the State. He denied that
they c,uld reconcile these questions. The
only ground on which the Senators elect from
Michigan could be admitted, was that under
the ordinance Of '87, Michigan had the right
to erect herself into a state. He denied the
assumption that Territory cannot be a
State till admitted into the Union. The re-
verse was the truth. 1t cannot be admitted
until it is state. The power Of Congress is
limited to admitting States. The reasoning
of the advocates Of the bill, therefore; he
was false, in fact as we'll at in ar
gument. He corroborated the remark that
the present is a question of form merely.
Forms in a government like ours are things.
minant and Liberty be destroyed!
He demonstrated that State alone could
give that assent to our constitutional COM
pact implied in the act If entering the Union.
No other view of the matter would be con-
sistent with the theory of our government.
If Michigan were a Territory, she would be
q dependent power, and come in bv CONSENT
OF the General Government, not by her own
His argument on this head was most lucid
and conclusive. He reinforced the argument
he had before adduced, to prove that the De-
cember Convention had no right to speak forl
The people Of Michigan. He show ed II was a
Party Caucus, got up for party purposes.
He declined his conviction that in a well reg-I
alated society such body Of men presun1-
ing to act IN 50 illegal and unauthorized al