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{ some Of lhem only one Representative, perhaps
] aud lwo Senators; whereas the larger States ms
have ter, fifteen. or even thirty representative
. and but Two Senpors. The Senate, added "a
. augmented by these new Senators coming lron
States where there arciew people. b cone an cd
. ious oligsr,hy. i holdsp spow,rWthouany ude
; quale constituency. Sir, II is but thorough
/ mungariug" upon a large scale. Now. do no
, depend upon theory. ask the Senate aud iht
country TO look al facts; To see where We wer
! when We made our departure three years ago
: and where we now are and leave ito ihu
, imagination TO conjeclnre where We shall be.
. We admitted Tensions State for the pres
enl--but, sir, If you refer to The resolutions pro
ylding for the annexation Of Texas YOU find
provision that il shall be in The power Of Con
gross hereafter to make four new States out o
Texas territory. Present and prospectiycIy
: live new SIates--ien Senalors--may come ini
The Union out Of Texas. Three years ago VI
Did this; We now propose 10 make Two Slales.--
Undoubtedly five take, as the President recon
mends, New Mexico and California, there mus
then be four new Senator'S. We shall then hay,
provided ic these territories out of the United
States along our southern borders for the crea
lon Of States enough to send fourteen Senator.
Into this chamber. Now. what will b.. the r.,
allon bstweentheSe SsnaI Irs aud The people they
represent, or the States from which they comet
do not understand lha, there is any very accu.
rate census Of Texas. 1t is gene rally supposed
to contain hundred and iiy thou sand persons.
| doubt whelherilis above one hundred thou.
sand.
Mr.. MANGUM. contains one hundred and
! louy-nlnU thousand.
Mr. Webster. My honorable friend on nv
/ lelt says a hundred aud lOrly-nine lhousaud.-
put II down, then, one hundred and fifty thou
sand. Well, sir Texas is not destined pruba.
/ bly, 10 be u country Of dense population. We
will suppose it 70 have near one hundred and
hIly thousand population by The best accounts,
and have given over all that | can fnd. New
Mexico may have sixty or seventy thousand in
habanls, such as they are! Say seventy thou.
sand. In California they are not supposed To
be abovetwenly-liye lhousi nd men; bulundoubt.
edIy, if this territory should become ours, per-
sons from Oregon and from our Western States
Will Ind their way to San Francisco, where
there is some good land, and we may suppose
they will shortly amount 10 sixty or seventy
thousand. Wewiil put them down at scvenlv
thousand. Then the whole territory in this cs-
innate, which is as large as any man puts it al.
VIII contain two hundred aud ninety thousand
persons, and they will send us, whenever we ask
lor Them, fourteen Senator's; population less
man that OF the Stale Of Vermont, aud not the
eighth part Of that Of New York! Fourteen
Senators, and no more people than Vermont, and
no more people than New Hampshire aud not
so many people as the good Stale of New Jer.
soy! But then, sir Texas claims 10 the line Of
the Rio Grande, and, if il be her true line, why
then oil course she absorbS considerable part
nay, the greater part, of The population oc what
is now called New Mexico. do not argue the
question of the true southern or western line of
Texas; | only say it is apparent to every body
who will look al the map and learn any thing off
the matter, that New Mexico cunnot be divided !
by this river, The Rio Grunde, which is a shall. !
low, iordable, Insignificant stream, creeping a.
long through narrow valley, al The base of O.
normous monlains. New Mexico must remain
together; II must be Stale with its seventy
thousand people, and so it will be, aud so will |
be California. But suppose Texas 10 remain
unit and but one State Tor the present, sill we
have three States: Texas, New Mexico, Caliror. |
MA. We have six Senators, then, for less Than |
three hundred thousand people. We have as
many Senators for three hundred thousand peo.
pie in that region as we have for New York, |
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, with four or five mil |
lions Of people; and that's what we call an equal
Is not this enormous! Have |
gentlemen considered this! Have they looked
al II! Are they willing 10 look it in the face and
then say they embrace III trust in God the
people will look at and consider it, And now
lei me add thai this disproporlion can never be-
diminished: 1t must remain forever. How are
you going 10 diminish ii! Why, here is Texas,
with hundred aud fouy.nine thousand people.
with one State. Suppose that population should
flow into Texas, where will it 90! Not 10 any
dense point, but to spread over all that region,
IN places remote from The Gulf in places remote
from what is now the capital of Texas; and
therefore, as soon as there are III other portions
oil Texas people enough, within our common
of the constitution and our prac.
lice IN respectto the admission of States, my hon
orable friend from Texas will have u new Stute,
md have no doubt he has chalked il out aIrea.
iy. Well, then, as to New Mexico, there can
Do no more people there. The man is ignorant,
stupid, who has looked at the map Of New Mex G
co and read the accounts of it, who supposcs t
here can be any more people there than there m
$ now; some sixty or seventy thousand. 1t is an !
,Id settled Countrywide people living along in q
he bottom of this valley on the Two sides of D
iIle stream; or garter Of land only on one side a
md The other, filled by coarse Iandhoders and /
miserable peons. 1t can susan-not only un. y
Ter iheIr cultivation, but under any cultivation u
hat our American race should ever submit it 10 b
no more people than there are there now "
here will then be Two Senators for sixty thou II
and Inhabitants in New Mexico 10 the end of o
ur lives and TO the end of the lives of our chill.
ren. And then, sir, how is it with California! d
We propose 10 take California from the lory.se- A
ond degree north latitude down to the thirty NJ
ond degree; we propose to take ten degrees Of al
altitude along the coast Of the Pacific. All Il. al
ong that great distance laere are settlements, III
nd villages, and fors; back it is all wilderness nj