The Arkansas banner., 1845-03-19
The following is CODY of their report:


 li~h2d wlthn the iml;s ol lbe United Sac
 uaE De d ..ant.f bg Inc Legislature iago tai
 Government; hut taalrua a-nsssion lae roa
 sen, o. two-aHIgd5 et the members present !
 e4ca I5uae shall be Heress@E. l. a ney
 o.ale s.a.i arse Wstam me iiug.j5 O. any .
 sle Hesea Sales, taa consent of the Legs ia,utes ol such States shall be also necessary 10 is atm!s ion. il the admission ne COT .seated to, tic new jesshail he aGmi'ted 0l the same teGas wild the original Safes. bui l the Legislature may make conditions "lta
 tae na# Sales eeuceeniug the Fa1lic Ge5t
 which shall be thea subsisting.2
 Oa the 23.h August, l7SZ, t was moved and seconded 10 agree 10 the following pro ! position as a substitute for the article 10 which
 have just referred;
 "New States may be admitted by the Le- cislature into the Union; but no new States ahaIi be erar;ed within the limits of any oi the present States, without tHe consent of the Lag.siause oi such State, as well as of the general Legislature
 The restriction was thus abandoned, and the power lel unlimited to admitnew States, whether within the limits of the United States or composed oi foreign territory and the article in the consultation was finally adopted as i how appears iu the instrument.
 Thus il appears that from the 29th May. until the 29jh August, 1882, the convention had adhered to the proposition of putting a limitation on the admission clause, but had finally rejected this iIlbesal proposition and stricken | out of their draught And thag had acted wisely for no human foresight could then, or now, tell what Was 10 be the destiny of the new born Republic, whose constitution they were entrusted 10 prepare i; and to Aaee limited t in the manaarptoPosed by gentlemen on the other side, WoulI have accordeauaithcr with the wisdom nor the pro- lound staicsmanship oi those eminent men.
 Bat te 20 further What was the c0nsefa- poraueons construction of that instrument Mir. 5. Was sorry his friend from Ky. had not gone so lar in his quotations from the Fed elalist t. to the 43d number, where the sHb- ject was expressly treated on. II the gentle man had bat proceeded ac ftr as that, he would have found the astonishing fact that tie olI eonlcdratoa had no power to admit any otie' than d foreign Sae. 'fheirpoWer ot admission was confined within this limit. The only clause ii the articles of conftdefa- ton referring 10 tle admission ol new States was this
 "Caaaaa, needing to the confederation, and joining in the measure ol the U. States. shall be admitted mo and entitled to all the adylntages' of tae union; hutno other colony shall be admitted into the sane, unless such admission be agreed ta bv nine Sales
 4.f. Madison saitl that by ..eoionyn ii this article Vas meaata British colony; and that il was iof ihs veHy reason ,hal tae clause was leIt in as broad aud unrestricted teems.as we now faund t. How would that states man be astonishea could he hear his own language HoW invoked to prevent ide United Sh.es Government from ever admitting Gaa- ada as u s.sto inc tIe Unioni
 "Fo admit new Safes iata tae Union; =lf8a no naw o.a,e shail he formed or erected with in the iufisdiSuoa of any other Sa,e: nor any Sate be formed by the junction of two or more States, O paris of Satee, without the consent of the Legislatures ot' lde Siates concerned, as wei as of the Congress-,
 ''In the articles of confederation, no pfoyi- sion is found on this important subjeet.- Canada was to be admitted of right, on her joining in the measufes of the Uniled States {. and the other coionies, by which were eYi- deniy meant the ether British colonies. al the discretion ol niGe States. fine eventual establishment of ne5s States seems to have been overlooked by tho compiIers of that in- strument We have seen the inconvenience oi tas omission, and the assumption of pow er into which Congress have been efi hY l. Wih cal propiety, therefore, has the new system supplied the deoct,o
 Now, 3lr. E. asked. co0i1 language be palmer Heretofore the confederation could admit none but foreign States. and these Bri- tsh colonies; but, expressly 5o o5via.e this very difficulty, the tramss ol the conslita- ton struck out all limitation of every kind, and Jeff the provision in such unreslrcted terms as enabled Congress to admit any S.aie whatever that had adopted republican form oi' 'tiovetumeul. Then eyes were fixed on Cana4a; aud this WIS Mir. Madison's allusoa when ite spoke of States that might arise "jn our neighborhood. Thef had desired, above all things, that Canada might unite with them lu the War, and. ln order that s6e might now come in, the provisions of the constitution were enlarged. Who would contend thatin- stead of beng enlarged, the powers formerly enjoyed by the confederation were abridged and narrowed down in the new constitution, so restricted that Canada never could be re- ceiyea 10 the end ol time IS a Sate of thc Union?
 Nearly contempoEneous with these expo si6ons oi the constitution lived the venerable Nathaniel Atacoa, celebrated patriot of lhe strul-eoastruction school--a statesman in whom was no guiie--a man who, fer pFae- tical wisdom and sound good sense. never had his superior among us. He was the liak that connected the pas age with the present: ami safe 8lf B. #as that there was no gen lrman here who would not accord 10 hm all he had saitl, aud more.
 The first time the Interpretation of this clause had eome up 6elore Congress Was oa the admission oi Lousiaua inlo the Union as q Staie. Ar. Macon male a speech oa iaal subject in Inc House of Representatives on tiie lth oi January. 6&ll, aad which Ms loUe.t reDo.tei iu ttp N.fio5+a1 t,f..i g..,,5.,