The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-08
Mr.. MANGUM. 1t contains one hundred and forty

! Mr. MANGUM 1t contains one hundred and forty
Mr. WEBSTER My honorable friend on my left
says hundred and forty nine thousand put il down.
then one hundred and fifty thousand Well, sir, Texas
NOT Destined probably to be country OF dense popu
iauon we Will suppose il to have near one hundred
ana my thousand population by the best accounts-and
have sixty or seventy thousand nhabants-such--ss-~
they-are! Say seventy thousand In California there
are not supposed to be above twenty-five thousand men
but undoubtedly, II this territory should become ours
persons from Oregon and from western States will
lind their way to San Francisco where there ia some
TO sxy or ms sSposs f T
them down at seventy thousand. Then the whole
territory in this estimate, which is large a. 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. population
less than that Of the State Of Vermont, aud not the
and no more people than Vermont! and no more peo-
pie than New Hampshire and not many people q the
good State Of New Jersey! But them sir, Texas claims
to the line Of the Rio Grands; and if it be her tus line,
why then, OF course, she absOrbs considerable part
nay the greater part-o the population Of what is
a a e Nsw eseo 90 Ga sFrc n: Of
that 1t Is apparent TO everybody who will look the map,
and learn anything OF the matter. that New Mexico can
not be divided BY this river, (he Rio Grande which is
shallow, fordable insignificant stream creeping along
through narrow valley at the base of enormous noun
tans. New Mexico must remain togeher il must be
State with its seventy thousand people and 30 will be-
and so will be California
But them sir, suppose Texas to remain unit and but
and Te W.
senator's them for less than three hundred thousand peo
pie We have as many senators for three hundred
York. Pennsy vana and Ohio, with four or five millions
of people, and that what call equal representa-
ton! Is not this enormoas Have gentlemen consider
ed his' Have they looked at it, Are they willing to look
in the face and then say they embrace ii trust in God
the people will look at it and consider it And let
add thaths dsproporon can never be diminished; thrust
anna fNrnVa In aupnun IYr,tn ali ~
here is Texas, with hundred and forty-nne thousand
people with one State Suppose that population should
point but to be spread all that region, in places
mote from the guliin places remote from what ID
the capital of Texas and therefore, there are
in other portions OF Texas people enough within
common construction of the constitution, and prae
tice respect to the admission of States, my honorable
friend from TEXAS will have new State and have no
New Mexico, there be no more people there. The
is ignorant, stupid, who has looked at the map of
New Mexico and read the accounts OF it, who supposes
there be any more people there than there is now
sixty seventy thousand lts old settled coun-
trythe people living along in the bottom of this valley
on the sides of little stream, garter of land only
side and the other. filled by landholders
and miserable poems. 1t sustan-no only under this
cultivation but under any cultivation that our American
there There will then be senators for sixty
thousand inhabitants in New Mexico. to the end of our
lives and to the end Of the lives Ct our children
take California from the forty second degree north lat-
tude down to the hrtysecond degree ;we propose to
All along a
villages, and forts back it is all Wilderness and barren
ness, and Indian country But if about San Francisco.
there shall be enough to make up one State. why the
people five hundred miles of, time to come, will have
another Stare and then this dsproportion OF senators TO
the people will go on. ami must 20 on, an we cannot
prevent H. say, sir, that according to my conscientious
convictions, fixing upon the constitution of
the United States and upon our form OF government
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dare trust myself do not know that may II be under
some deusion; do not know that my head s not turned.
this monstrous apparaion But if may trust myself-ifI
may persuade myself that in my right mind then II
does appear to that this Senate have been acting
and are acting, and are likely to be acting hereafter,
part which will certainly form remarkable epoch in the
history of our government hold it to be enormous
agrant-and an outrage upon all the principles OF pop
uar representative government and upon the elementary
provisions OF the constitution under which we live, and
which have to support. But then, sir. what
stpuate only that these new States shall be brought in
at a suitable time Now, what is to constitute the suit
ableness of time Who is to judge of it! tell you sir.
that the suitable time will whenever the preponder
of party power here makes necessary to bring in
new States The time will depend on the state Of our
politics here and not upon the condition Of these States
in this Senate We have some little experience Of this.
Texas in, in suitable time--very suitable Texas
finally admitted in December, 1914. My friend near
me here, Mr. RUsKl for whom have great regard.
whose acquaintance have cultivated with much pleas
ure took his seat here with his colleague, in March,
1915. In July, 1885, these two Texan votes turned
the balance in the Senate, and overthrow the tariff of
si2-in my Judgment, the best system OF revenue that
established in this country. Gentlemen OF df-
ferent opinions think otherwise They think was for
They think the Texan votes came in In suitable
times and they will take that New Mexican votes
shall come in suitable time also l understand it
perfectly well 1t is difference OF opinion between my
self and them To their policy, to their object to their
purposes the time suitable, and the aid efficient
and decisive. Sir, in 1850, perhaps, similar questions
may be agated herethey not likely to be before
but agtaed they will be then, unless change in the
course of the administration Of the government take
general results flowing from established system
of commerce and revenue in 1850, two years from this
time, may probably be engaged in a revision OF
system, in the work of establishing, If can, q
tariff of specific dues--in the work Of protecting, II
can the domestic industry Of this county-and in the
work of preventing, to extent we can, the over
wheming flood of mportations Suppose this TO pc the
CASE and suppose that opponents require adauoha
strength, that will be exactly the suitable time Tor two
here. -.
But again. we hear other halcyon, soothing, quoting
tones, which quiet none OF my alarms assua$e none OF
nv fears commend me TO my nightly rest with no more
resignation II is said may trust the popular branch
of the egsature-we may look TO the House OF Repre-
senatves the great majority OF whom are from the north
and middle States; and may trust them that these
new States are not admitted than they should be-
or admitted for any party purpose: am compelled by
.eiy on ourselves, when have clear and unques-
toned constitutional authority, competent to carry us
through, beg to know how we to rely others
Have we more respect for the patriotism, the frmness