Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-04-14
BRATTLEE ORC, FRIDAY, APRIL IA, Is4S

it is but borough-mongering," upon
large scale. Nov, | do not depend upon
territory ask the Senate and the country
TO look at flcis-to see where we we're,
when We made our departure three years
ago, and where VIC now are aud | leave il
to the Imagination 10 conjecture where we
shall be.
We admitted Texas-one state for the
present-but. sir, if you refer TO the reso-
lations providing for the annexation Of Tex.
as. you find provision that il shall be in
the power Of Congress whcfealter to make
four new States out OF Texan territory
Present aud prospec,ively, FIVE new States
ten Senatots--may come into the Union
out Of Texas Three years ago we did
this; we now propose TO make two States.
Undoubtedly il we take, as the President
recommends-New Mexico and California
there must then be four new Senator's
We shall then have provided. in these ter
riiories out Of the United States along our
southern borders. for the creation OF States
enough 10 send fourteen Senators into this
chamber. Now, what will be the relation
between these Senator'S and the people they
represent, or the States from which they
come do not understand that there is
any very accurate census Of Texas. II is
generally supposed TO contain hundred
and fifty thousand persons doubt wheih-
er it is above one hundred Thousand.
Mr. Mangum-It contains one hundred
and forty-nine thousand.
Mr. Webster-My honorable friend on
my LEFT says. hundred aud Eorty.nine thou
sand put it down then one hundred and
fifty thousand Well, sir, Texas is no, des-
tined probably, TO be country OF dense
population. We will suppose it to have
near one hundred aud fifty thousand popu-
lation by bes, accounts-and | have given
over all that can find. New Mexico may
have sixty OF seventy thousand inhabitants
such - as - they--nre Say seventy
thousand. In California they are not sup
posed 10 be above twenty-five thousand men,
but undoubtedly, il this territory should be-
come ours, persons from Oregon, and from
our Western States, will find their way 10
San Francisco, where there is some good
land. aud we may suppose they will shortly
amount TO sixty OF seventy thousand. We
will put Them down at 10000. Then the
whole territory in this estimate, which is as
large as any man puts il at, will contain two
hundred and ninety thousand persons. and
they will send Us whenever we ask for them,
fourteen senators. A population less than
that OF the State Of Vermont, and not the
eighth part Of that of New York. Four
teen senators, and no more people than
Vermont aud no more people than New
Hampshire aud not so many people as the
! fas. Of If. -.
Texas claims to the line Of the Rio Grande,
and If it be her true line, why then OF
course she absorbs a considerable part, nay,
the greater part Of what is now called New
Mexico. do not argue the question Of the
true southern or western line OF Texas |
only say that 1t is apparent TO everybody
who will look at the map, and learn any
thing OF the matter, that New Mexico can
not be divided by this river the Rio Grande,
which is shallow, fordable, Insignificant
stream, creeping along through a mar
row valley, at the base of enormous noun
tains. New Mexico must remain togeth.
err; it must be State with its seventy thou.
sand people, and so it will be. and so will be
California.
But then, sir, suppose Texas 10 remain a
unit and but one State for the present, still
we have three States, Texas, New Mexico,
and California. We have six Senators then
for less than three hundred thousand people
We have as many Senators for three hun
bred thousand people in that region as we
have for New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio,
with four or FIVE millions of people ant
this is what we call an equal represen'
taiion Is not this enormous! Have gen
| ilemen consider this Have they looked
at i'll Are they willing TO look it in the
face and then say they embrace it ! lrus
in God the people will lookNt il and con
slider il. And now let me add, that Thu
disproporiion eau never be diminished; j
must remain forever. How are you goini
10 diminish i'll Why, here is Texas, will
: hundred and forty.niue thousand peopl'
, with one State. Suppose that population
{ should flow into Texas, where will II go
= Not TO any dense point, but TO be spread
\ over all that region in places remote iron
S the gulf, in places remote from what is no,
| the capital Of Texas, aud therefore as sool
: as there are in other portions Of Texas PEG
/. pie enough within our common construc
G ton of the constitution and our practice II
D respect 10 the admission OF States my hon
a orabIe friend from Texas will have ne'
n State, and have no doubt he has chalke'
e il GU, already. Well, then, as TO New Mex
y CO there can be no more people there
: The man is ignorant, stupid, who has look
/, ed al The map of New Mexico and read tn
c accounts Of it. who supposes there can b
c any more population there than there
il now some some sixty or seventy thousand
:. Il is an old settled country; the peopl
n living along in the bottom OF this valley o
IS the two sides of litile stream, garter c
Al land only on one side and the other filed b
= course landholders aud miserable poems
!. Il can sustain, moi only under this culiivi
e lion but under any cultivation that OF
: American race should ever submit TO, u
P. more people than there are there now
G. There will then be two Senators for SKI
E. thousand inhabitants in New Mexico, TO ii
" end OF our lives and to the end OF the liv'
5. Of our children.
u. Well, now, how is ii with California =
re We propose 10 take California from Il
IN (orly.second degree North latitude down
10 the thity-second degree; we propose
Of take ten degrees of latitude along the Goa
q. OF the Pacific. All along that great n