The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-03-28


enounee the war unnecessary and unconstitutional
In the second place he opposes the closing OF the war
,nd pacihcaton with Mexico the basis of the treaty
In the third place, he opposes any preparation on our
part to continue and keep up the war and he makes
main objection to such provision of military to be
in the fact that if the regiments rased tn,
Chief Executive OF the nation mus, appoint their officers
And in the fourth place, the speech denounces all
acquisition OF territory indemnity for the war Mr.
Websters first for this that New Mexico and
california Including. of course, ten degrees OF coast
md all the finest harbors the Pacic mot worth
oar His second that acquired, they will BE-
omitted at a suitable time into the Union States
that if SO admitted, they must each have two senators;
hat if four more States should. in time be carved Of
Texas they also must have each two senaoss that thus
Texas, New Mexico. and Cafomia-being realm
Yearly twice large the original thirteen Stateswbe
represented in the Senate by fourteen senator's and that
his is monstrous outrage the constitution OF the
United States-being in fact ths creation of great frame
Of unequal government!
Such is the whole argument, if argument it can be
allied of this the portion of Mr. Websters speech
Such is the best excuse which he find for taking
POSITION against adding the of institutions or
order to make this defence applicable, he is obliged
that the population of New Mexico will stand
It'll where it now stands, at about sixty thousand that
Texas when carved into four States more will still
continue to have but hundred and fifty thousand in.
habitans; and that California, with ten leagues of sea-
and five hundred thousand square miles of terrific
ry destined sustain for all time, or for an indefinitely
long time, just about seventy thousand people, and no
more II Mr. Webster such postulaes these to
be true and then proceeds to reason upon them above
ALL he believes that party in this country can be rallied
to sustain him any such grounds-then surely there
cause for the grave misgvings contained in the follow.
ing passage of his speech:
81 say sir that according to my conscientious convc
tions fixing upon the constitution of the United
States and upon form OF government monstroty-a
sfguraton-an enormity. Sir, hardly dare trus. NV.
self do knoo that Imay not be under dslsion
do ksog that my head not turned may be tha.
il is the eaknes of mine eyes, that forms this
1pparition."
That new States will probably be at first sparsey popu
lated in comparison with the older States and yet must
have upon their admission into the Union, each two
Senators-that-just that's the reason why Mr. Web
ser, if he stand alone, will stand to-day and always
against the acquisition of territory and the admission OF
Mr. Websters argument is most manestly just as good
against Oregon and against the whole unsettled region be-
tween the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains as it is
against California New Mexico. Not State can be
formed in Oregon, anywhere in the Far West, but most
Individually it will into the Union with compare.
lively sparse population; and them under the constu
on it cannot fail to present the "monsrous apparition
and the "fagrant outrage" of its two senators in tn.
Senate chamber!
But if we understand Mr. Webster, he is arguing
against too small population sending too many sena
tors This is, in his eyes, violation OF the elementary
provisions of the constitution" Now ask what by
"he elementary provisions OF the constitution, has pop
ulation-numbers-to do with the composition Of the
Senate' In the organization of that body, all coasde
ton OF numbers-of popuationis studiously EXCLUDED
and this purposed exclusion OF population basis Of
representation in the Senate, from the very fact
the great inequality point of population existing among
the old thirteen States when the constitution formed
Precisely because Delaware had small population, and
New York so large population, it was solemny or
iained that Delaware should always have two sena
tors, and New York never have any moreover /
though New York should grow to have within her 4
limits many cities each equalling, than equal
ing in numbers, the whole population Of Delaware y
And now comes forward Mr. Webster to say that
if California having but seventy thousand be admit
ted into the Union, and send her two senators II
the Senate, monstrous outrage is, in the very TACT
their presence there perpetrated upon the elementary
provisions OF the constitution! The obvious answer Is
that senators represent the constitutional sovereignty
the States and represent nothing else They represents
sovereign State OF confederacy. be its population
great or small And this idea is elementary in the con
stitution, if there be anything which may be called
elementary in that instrument.
But, after all, we Judge that the number Of seA'
tors to come in from the new States does not trouble
Webster so much the places in the Chamber who
they will probably occupy. More might come' IN wei
come if they would only take seats on the wing sms
the aisle. But there lies the difficulty and Mr.. WeOaa
himself raises it. He complains that the two distinguish
ed senators from Texas in just in time 10 VOW
down the tariff Of 1912. 1t squite true. And somen@
Of the kind is quite likely to happen again v"
only hope that when the Oregon California 'ena10'
present themselves, they will find some equally mp0
ant question before them, and will vote upon ju"
wisely and just as decisvely. n
The violence of the wing opposition must reooun 1r
On itself What chimeras not conjured up VIZ
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