Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-04-06

nguro and derange the ,mo of government under which
POf , 70 ihe peSpeou Of all senate formed
ys sSe S o. rev States which nay have
teen thirty representatives and but two Senator's snas
bsrs Ss s @ ~ these new Senators from States
IL holds power without adequate constituency Sir Il 10 but
6o,nengh- Iongying on large scale
the Senate and tho country to look fetio where
where we are and shall leave it 10 con-
lecture where We shall be-
will refer to the resolution providing for the annexation
OF eIas you will find provision that shall be in the pow
congress hereafter TO make four other States
Texan territory Present and pospecvoy, therefore,
Mon S Sn Of s!TS sending Tea Senator'S may nis The u
So make Two States for gndOubd take what
VIII make state that there Willie four Senator's We
snail then IN This new Territory sa,ss sending
between the Senate and the people, the States from
do not understand that there my Of
Texas is generally supposed 10000 persons
doubt whether II is over 100000 but call $50. We1,sr
suppose TO have bsen 10000. BY the best accounts
land have all that 6nd) New Mexico may
have sixyor seventy Thousand inhabitants such they
Say seventy thousand. In California, il is supposed that
becomes ouri, persons originally from Western country
viii emgate to the neghbohood Of San Francsco, where
they may reach OF 10000 Put them down for 10000
we have then in tho whole territory, estimate which
sa large amy puts it, 900 900 people they may
send US whenever ask for them, fourteen Senator's
Less s3 The population Of Vermont and not OHssghth
than Vermon-no more than New Hampshire and
claims Tie line Of the Rio Grondo and 10 run along INT
ver and that be her line, then Of sho absobs
a O"o.on Of %oT hs sp sS
south or west line Of Texas. will only say what must be
every body will look at the map and learn
thing of the matter that New cannot he divided
by the Rio rande, shallow, fordabc river creeping along
Mexico remain together and be state with 60 900
people, AMI SO ii will no, and so viii California.
suppose Texas 30 remain unit for the presenle be
ope State for the present. still shall have satos
Ie1as New Mo.so and Sq d and we shall have
for these 100000 whom they will represent rs for
millions Of poople that's What you call equal sovssn.
men' Is not this encmous' Have gentlemen considered
the face and then they embrace IL trust in God ,ha,
the people viii look at it-eonsider t-and reiectii.
work diminish III Texas with her 900 people forms
the denely settled portions il will spread over
The whole region it will go to the places from the
and, therefore, there in the North part ofTex
as PeOpg dnoqs 10 satisfy the conditions Of the constitution
state may be formed and then we shall have another
Then, to Nqw-MeIico, there can be no more people
there than there Tho is Ignorant tupid, who
look upon the map that country is and
suppose that have people it has ncw-somc
sixty or seventy thousand. It is old settled country,
the people living along the bottom of the valley upon the
garter which strcche, through and lie full only OF land
holders and miserable ant it sustain only
the American race will submit people than there
now. And two Senators win iron, New Mexico
with its present population, TO tho end of lives and those
of our children.
California from the 47th degree of North latitude the 32d.
we propose to take ten degrees along the Of the Pac
and 'in sn o soa, tor n5 great are .cs
baronness and Indian country But if just abou, Fan.
make up State then the people 500 miles of would
have another State And dsproporon Of the Senate
to the people VIII 90 on and and pre-
vent it.
say sir, that according to my conscientious conviction
and its frame of government monsrositya suraon
cnormity Sir hardly dare myself don't Know
head is iurnei may be the weakness of my eyes
forms this spPurition But if may myself
If may persuade myself that am in my right mind then
does appear to me- that in this Senate, have BEEN and
are aetns ana are hkey TO be acting hereafter and mme
daiy part which will form the most remarkable epoch in
the history ofnur country.
hold il to be euomous-aagraut, -an Outrage upon all
the principles OF popular Republican Government, and
the elementary provisions of the constitution under which
we hv:, ana which We have sworn support.
But then sir, what relieves tho fom It's enomity
What Is oTt reliance Why is that stipulae tina,
And pray what is TO constitute the suabeness of time p!
Who TO Judge oiul tell you, that suitable time will
Sns '' d PI nssued w %afs S
suitable time when v0'es wanted in this Senate Wa
Suitable ,imo''a pery suitable time Texas wa. finally
admitted in December ls45 My friend near here for
iiyaed with PLEASURE (Mr. Rvsx) took his March,
yoGs turned tho balance in The Senate and Ovonrcw tho
atn o. sl2, y my judgment the best system Of revenue
Ge"omen on tho opposite think otherwise. They
think fortunate. They think it was suitable time and
suitable. Understand it perfectly we'll That. the differ
o.ce oil opinion between and these honorable gentlemen
70 heH cyi theT objects aud their purposes the time
was suitable and the aid was efficient and decisive.
Il 1901, fshIp' sl%ila question may be ssitaed
will be thea, unless change in tho of the
shall take place According my apprehension
system OF Commerce and Revenue, about 1885, two
years from this, we shall probably be engaged
in Tho Lnf,
we can Tart" of specific duties-of protecting, five ean
our domestic industry and tho manufactures of the country
Ia mo work OF preventing II we Gun. the smng
Hood OF foreign lmpol,a,ons Suppose that bo Of this
cessuy for two Senators from New Mckee TO make their
appearance here
But, again. hear other halcyon soothing tones-weh
quet none OF my ularns of my uppehensons
me TO my nightly rest, with more resignation
The Legatur may look HouIe Of Representatives
TO the Northern and The Middle States and even the sound
men of the Southland uus them &c take that
States be not admitted than they party
purposes am compelled by experience distlust all
have the clear constitutional auLoIiy competent TO carry
q, through, and the motives Intensely powerful beg to
On the PatoIisw the hrmness of Others, than own
Besldes ekpeIsnee show. u, tina, things Of this sort
case of1exss wss 30 in the Twenty eighth Ceisress
The membe of that Congress chosen decide
question Of Annexation xato. They 10 on
o,beE eFosad politics. and Patly--snd supported for
AdPpis'rpep sprung upon them the question Of Annera
ton h osieineda snSP judgment 1pon Il, and carried
by many instances, of which shall only ono.
foui genonen from the Stae OF Connec were elect
ed heioe The question atose belonging dominant par
w. They had not heen here long they commit
led 70 AnneAnon and when known in Come
that ARnexalion was in contemplation remonstrspees, p
yas, public, and legislative, uttered "a thai any
one could hear thai could hear thunder Did they move
them mot At all, Every ofihem voted for Anne1atin
The election came en-=ihey were all turned 10 a man
But what did those for that who bad the bens their
votes Such ngences-if be not Gpgopet can them
eoniinse to 10 usefaL -
Sh we take New MeNiea and Caifornia--who 10 weak
ahough TO suppose that there's end! Don't we heuI
owed every day. that II would be also 70 take Sono
ei Tamaulpas aud other provinseszsiates Of Northern
MeHleo9 Who thRks that the hunger for dominon will atop
here ofself said 10 bs aure, that present aequi-
eeok lthet 10 my Judgment, we may well say of
rapasouG ANIMAL that he has made hunt
| he will Try fIr bei,G toIay -
But further There things argue against
with temper and submit TO, pyeiTlled without moTtifca-
ton. There are othei things tia, affect con-
sclouess 81 being asenshe and 10 IN ply adlsposon
to impose uppn his epmmpn And 81 This oftop
os or pelonces, have heard Of thing
cot eonceivu OF any thing ridiculous iso
surd aud more ntron,iye all sober tho cry
that We are getting Indemnity indennteby the acquisition
New Mexico and California. hold they worth
dollar and we pay for them yast Of money We have
expended as every body knows large treasures hs
enQu OF tue waf and what is constitute this indem
nifty What do gentlemen mean by in Now sir. let
how THIS stands little. W. get eounily-we get, IN the
hTst instance, oesson wedgemont ofbosnday
eye 40. which way ysu state IL q ne country between