The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-04-19

mcfe Senaion Than ven have Rsprsen,a-
tires. ian any thing neruT 10 dis6rnre ana
defange The form az Government undsr
whirh ne live more signally Than that.
Herr would be Senate braring no pro-
paElion 81 the pr0ple, nut nfsll relation 10
Iheui. BY the addition Of new States; lrnm
some ri them only one Representative.
perhaps. and two Stnalurs; whereas The
larger S..les may have Ten. fifteen. or even
thirty representatives.. and bur tao Sena-
lnrs. The Senate. added 70. augmented
BY Lsese new Senators roaming lram States
whrre there are lsw people. beeomes an
otiSus oligsTchy. II hollis power without
any adequate constituency. Sir, IL j. but
"a h0rnugh-m0ngering" upon = large scale.
Now. 10 nat depend upon theory
ask the Senate AMI llle eoanIry 10 laok II
facts: Ia see where We were when we
made our departure three years ago. and
where we now are; AMI ] leave IL 10 The
Imagination TO conjecture where we shall
he.
We admitted Texas-nne State for tie
pFrsen, but. sir. IL you refer 10 The resa-
lulinns providing for the annexation of
Texas, You find 4 provision that il shall he
in the power af Congress h. reaiIer 10 make
four new States out Of Texan territory.
Present and pnspeclirely, FIVE new States
len SPssinrs--may come into the
uninn OIL Of Texas. Three years ago we
did This; We aow propose 10 make two
States. Undoubtedly, IL we take, as The
President recommends. New Mexico and
California, there must then be four new
Senators. We shall then have provided
in these territories, out ofIhe United States
along our southern borders, fnr the creation
81 States enough 10 send fourteen Senators
'nio this chamber. Now, what viii be
the lelati0n between these Senators and
Ihe pr"ple they represent. or the States
from which they come! | do not under
stand that there is any very accurate CEN
sus Of Texas. IL is generally supposed
I" contain hundred and fifty thousand
persons. doubt whether il is above one
hundred thousand
Mr.. MASGuM. Il contains one hundred
and forty niue thousand.
Mr.. WEBSTER. Nv honorable friend
on nv left says hundred and forty nine
thousand. put IL down, then, enc hun
tred aud fifty thousand. Well, sIr, Tex
as is not destined probably to be country
Of dense population. We will suppose il
tn have ness uie hundred and 6fty thou
sand population BY The best accounts. and
have gwen over all that | can find. New
MeSiro may have sixty or seventy thou
sand inhabitants. such as they are! Say
seventy thousand. In California there
are not supposed 10 be above twenty-five
thousand men; hut undoubtedly if this ter-
lIioFy should become ours, persons FROM
Oregon aud from our Western States will
find their way to San Francisco, where
there is some good land, and we NAV sup
pose they will shortly amount to sixty or
seventy thousand. We will put them
down at seventy thousand. Then the
Whole territory in this estimate, which is
large as any man pnti al, will contain I've
hundred and ninety thousand persons, and
; they will send us, whenever we ask for
them. fourteen Senators; populations less
than that of the State of Vermont, and not
the eighth part uf tina, of New York
Fourteen Senators. and no more people
than Vermont. and no more people than
5 New Hampshire. and not so many peo-
pie as the good State Of New Jersey
But, then, sir, Texas claims to the line of
The Rim Giande, and il it he her true line.
why then of course she absorbs a consi-
derable part. nay. the greater part Of the
population Of VIVA, is now called New
Mexico. do not argue the question OF
The true southern or western line of Tex
as; only say that it is apparent TO every
) body who will look al the map and learn
any hing Of The matter, that New Mexico
irannm be divided by this river, the Rio
| Grartle, which is shallow, fordable, in
signlfran, stream. creeping along through
narrow valley, al the base of enormous
, mountains. New Mexico must remain
! together; il must be State with its seyen-
~ thousand people. and so it will be, and
> 81 will be California. But suppose Tex
! as TO remain 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 hundred thousand
people in that region. as we have for New
: York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, with fou,
! or Ave millions of people; and tina, is wha,
; we cali an equal representation Is mo-
this enormous! Have gentlemen consider
ell this! Have they l"oked al il. Are the,
willing TO look it in the face, and then say
, they embrace III | trust in God the people
| viii look at il and consider il. And now
lie, me add tina, This dispropor,ion can ne
yer be diminished; it must remain forever,
How are YOU going to diminish il! Why
!, here is Texas, with hundred and forty
nine thousand people. with only on,
n Ctaso Snpnpca thai r0nulatl0n shNn1,