The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1848-04-19
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10 be above twenty FIVE thousand men, bot
undoubtedly, this territory should become
ours, persons from O,cgou, and from our
Western States, will find their way 20 San
Francisco, where there is some good land,
and we may suppose they will shortly a.
mount to sixty or seventy thousand. We
Will put them down a, seventy thousand.
= hen The whole territory in THIS estimate.
which Is as large as any man puts j; at, will
contain two hundred sid ninety Thousand
persons, and they will send US whsnever We
ask for them, fourteen Senators. A popu.
la,lou less Than ,ha, Of The State of Yer.
tnou', end no, the eighth part Of New York.
Fourteen Senators, eId no more people than
Vermont ! and 10 more people iLan New
Hampshire and not SO many people as The
good State Of New Jersey! Bu, then, sir.
Texas claims 10 the line OF The Rio Gsande,
and # II be her true line, why then Of course
she absoIbs a considerable part, my, The
greater part Of the population OF VIA, Is
now called New Mexico. DO no, argue
the question of the true southern or ives.
tern line Of Texas. only say that i, is sp.
parent 10 every body who viii look at the
uop opo ieoah uh} mug VI liC Whbtofy WAY
New Mexico canno, be divided by this riv.
er. the Rio Grsnde, which is SHALLOW, for
dable, insignificant stream, creeping along
through narrow valley, al the base Of o.
normous mountains. New Mexico must
remain together i. mus! be a State With
its seventy thousand people, aRd so i, will
be, and so will be California.
} But then, sir, suppose Texas TO remain
a uni, and but one State for the present.
still we have three States, Texas, N. Mex.
. leo, and California. We have six Senators
then for less than three hundred thousand
people. We nave az many Senators for
, three hundred thousand people in that re-
II gion as we have for New Iork, Pennsylva-
: mia, and Ohio, with four or five millions Of
8 representation Is no, this enormous
l Have gentlemen considered this :? Have
l. they looked at ii, Are they willing TO
!. look it in the face and then say they en-
A brace it irus, in God the people will
IS look at it and consider il. And now let me
. add, that this disproporlion can never be
n diminished; it must remain forever. How
1t are you going TO diminish il Why here
). is Texas with hundred and forty nine
10 thousand people with one State. Suppose
pt that population should flow into Texas
re where will it go? No. to any dense pom
n. but TO be spread over all tina, region in pa
al ces remote from what is now the capital Of
Is Texas, and therefore e. soon as there are
q in other portions Of Texas people enough
q within our common construction of the con
e siiution and our practice in respect TO the
3 admission of States, my honorable friend
!. from Texas will have new State, and |
|. have no doubt he has chalked i, out already.
Z Well, then, as TO New Mexico there can
J. be no more people there. The man is ig.
K noraDt, stupid, who has looked at The map
. of New Mexico and read the accounts Of
u it, who supposes there can be any more
8 people there than there is now; some six.
9 ty or seventy thousand. Ii is an old set
tied country (; the people living along in the
: bottom of this valley on the two side Of
little stream, a garter Of land only on one
side and the other, filled by coarse landhol-
ders and miserable poems. 1t can sustain,
not only under this cultivation but under
any cultivation that our American race
should ever submit, to, no more people than
there are there now. There will then be-
two Senator'S for sixty thousand inhabitants
in New Mexico, to the end of our lives and
TO the end OF the lives of our children.
Well now, how is 1t with Californ ia
We propose to take California from the
J forty second decree North latitude down to
the thirty second degree, we propose TO
take ten degrees Of latitude along the coast
of the Pacific. All along that great dts
lance there are settlements, and villages,
and forts; back it is all wilderness and
barrenness and Indian country. But If u.
bou. San Francisco, and perhaps down to
Monterey or little 10 the North there
shall be enough to make up one State, why
the people FIVE hundred miles off in Tins
10 come will have another Stale and then
this disproporlion Of Senators TO the PEG.
pie will 60 on, and must go on, and we can.
not prevent it. | say, sir, tina, according
TO my conscientious convictions, we arc
now fixing upon the constitution Of the U.
States and upon our form Of government a
mons,rosity-a disfguration-aa enormi.
! ty. Sir, hardly dare trus, myself. ! do
not know that may not be under some
delusion. ! do not know that my head is
not turned. 1t may be that it is the weak.
ness Of mine eyes that forms this monstrous
apparition. Blu, il may trus, myself
if may persuade myself that am in my
right mind, then it does appear TO me that
we, in this Senate, have been acting, and
are likely to be acting hereafter, part
which will certainly form remarkable e.
pooh in the history Of our government. l
hold it to be onormous-f1agrant- an
outrage upon all the principles ola popular
representative government and upon the
elementary provisions Of ae constitution
under which we live, and which VIC have
sworn TO support. But then, sir, what frees
the case from this enormity Why, ii is
tina, we stipula,e only that these new States