The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-13
10 Me Editor Of the Union .

| r., WASHINGTON Cry, July TO- 1915
Twas with sur PRISE and alarm that saw in tbe neys o
his morning the announcement OF the fact that nsber
OF the Houseof Representatives had given noica of b;
tenuon TO Introduce bill for the immediate creation Of
o.ass % ns Union from me Territories Of Oregon Up
could not regard such proposition without feen ~
The people oOregon would u silly c6ar
any resident OF that country with wicked and unuardo
able indifference, who possessing my knowledge of ths
condition. omitted TO lift hs voice. though feeble az eye
mine against measure as novel and extraordinary in
legislation, as would be oppressive and ruinous 10
them in It's practical operation. That unhappy CONAN
nifty has loo long and too much suffered from both VIZ n,
OF knowledge OF It's condition, and from ccumst
which have hitherto prevented provision from 'oenv
made for ITS most pressing necessities The infan' colo
OF Oregon has survived not merely the codD ess Of
slep-dame's neglect but the abandonment of mother
who left II exposed in the wilderness to 81 oms and
tempests And even now that il has contrv ed 10
to the door of that mother and with upfted hands ask
for shelter and noushment, instead of its praver beno
needed, nature outraged by proposi on IN cas-,
the helpless suppan those burdens, and subecng II to
nose those tolls TO which the strength Of nature manhood is
sell of those of informant on which are aces
sibe TO the humbest private Citizen knows that II
is impossible for the people OF Oregon to sustain the
nto the dust The mum Der of men, women and
children does not exceed twelve thousand They are
language imports-tha there is moi wealthy Amer;ca5
citizen in Oregon There are few indeed who bava
many horses and cattle But the greater number of these
nave not even seen, during the years of their residence in
hat country sum OF money equal TO the taxes which
State government would render IT necessary for each
70 pay annually upo inquiry made by me of the auditor
u PuDic accounts lander the provisional government
mmediaeiy preceding my departure from Oregon he in
formed me that Unless Indian war (Which was then
expecled1 should break out the public debt at the close
of the following session of the legislature would proba
ply be about $4,000. twenty-five days after sailed
lor .he seat OF the metropolitan government for the pur
pose OF pressing upon the attention of the authorities
here the Condition of the people there, that Indian
war war actua ly commenced. The public debt judgir,p
IRON H} tne best information which have since neen
lt1 IN of a.
70 ABOUT 100000. The people with ut commerce
wnouS money, without roads, with an, ;as without
t ioa and without public buildings for the use OF
az ID without mails The" they are few in number,
ergies and dlscoura By SO long suffering the neon
venenoeS sced with their peculiar and anomalous
po . and they at least two thousand miles dis
TAM rom the inhabited borders Of the States between
/ WHICH and them there is vast desert.
we will suppose that, under these circumstances,
majority of the people Of Oregon were so unwise as to
petition Congress for the admission of it as a State
INTO the American Union, and that Congress should
be so unwise as to grant this unwise prayer 1t appa
rent that the effects OF the measure would be to
many of the most valuable citizens leave the country
for the purpose of escaping from noerabe weight of
taxes; TO prevent immigrants from coming into It; to
repress enterprise and check useful effort and, finally to
excite the most profound regret and asonshment that
they had asked TO be admitted State, that Congress
had listened Tor moment to SO unreasonable a re-
quest.
But it is certain that Congress cannot drag Oregon
State into this Union; and equally that the
ton of that country, cannot be otherwise brought
There another point from which this subject may be
viewed BY those who have eyes, and who have dispo
siton to blink it. There is not constitutional power
Texas admitted into the Union as sovereign State
The exercise OF this power questioned by gentle
who were believed to have strong claims to be regard
ed as lawyers in the only of the word And al
though the opposite opinion was held by gentlemen
equally learned in the profession, yet the admission of
Texas cannot be pleaded precedent for the admission
of Oregon, because there in the latter acknowl
edged sovereignty Had territorial government been
established in Oregon Immediately after the conclusion OF
the treaty by which the title to the country defni-
lively adjusted, it could not under those crcum
cause the power which the constitution Of the United
States (artcle 10, g. chap gives to Congress to
admit States into the Union is not power ooeroe
force but one suffer to enter to grant entrance to
give right Of entrance TO allow, to permit.
am, SIR, very respectfully,
j. QUINN THORNTON |