The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-10-01

There are twelve States fronting on the Al.
.antc
Hardly beginning has been made in the
settlement OF these vast regions, and yet six
States will be admitted thereirom in two or
three years. Minnesota, Nebraska, Utah or
Deseret, New Mexico, California and Ore.
gon are all nearly ready to demand admit
tance into the Union.
| 1t should be borne in mind, that according
TO the precedent set, by the admission OF Cal
ifomia, and the attempt in New Mexico, il
requires very few inhabitants to make
State.
Nothing in the past history of the world
equals what will be the apidity with which
these territories will be settled up.
| Those amongst us, over fifty years of age,
who recollect when all the country West OF
the Allegaues was wilderness, when Gin
cinnatti, Louisville and St. Louis were viii
lagos, are astonished when they think of the
immense change which has taken place in so
short a time; but bear in mind, we were
the increasing from population of only five
or six millions, and now we have twenty
five millions and foreign emigration is much
larger now than it ever was before.
There is constant stream of foreign en-
igration by way of the Northern Lakes to
the Upper Mississippi and Missouri, and
Imagination can hardly picture the masses
who are moving and ready to move from the
Northern and Southern States to California
and Oregon; and we may also calculate that
there will be a large foreign emigration to
the Pacific seaboard.
| Our space is limited, and we must cut
short these calculations; suffice it to say that
it is small estimate that half a million Of
emigrants will annually go into the terrific
ries per year for the next six years. As
new routes and locations are discovered, this
population will gradually spread over the
whole area.
In the first place, six large States will be
formed, and then as the geography and nat
ural divisions of the country are ascertained,
the process of division will commence.
California has front on the Pacific equal
to six or seven of our Atlantic States, and
already has it been said in her Convention
that she may be divided into six States.
1t is nearly the same with Oregon,
A mere majority Of Congress may divide a
State with its consent, and many reasons will
concur to make the process easy. The con-
venience of the people will make divisions
necessary. The Pacific States will seek po.
tical weight and power, and larger vote
in the Senate; and our calculating North.
ern brethren will see, in the admission ot
new non-sIavehoIding States, a means of re.
leving their tender consciences from respon.
sibity for the sin of slavery.
We think it more than probable that there
will be twelve new States added to the con
federacy in six years.
1t is proposed in Michigan to divide thai
State, and the location of her territory would
make it advisable to do so and some have
) suggested that Long Island might be de
tached from New York, and made a State
! We must close, with the regret that we
have not limits to pursue the subject further
: We think that all will admit that there i,
: strong ground for the position we assumed
/ But what difference does few years make
a The territory is there; it is capable of ma
5 king 25 for non-slavehoding States anC
S when but a third of that number are formed
r there will be two-thirds majority in Con
gress hostile to slavery.
: Now, we ask those who charge South
d ern men with uItraism, 20 reflect on thes
S things; and we think that they will agre
Y with US, that all that is necessary to max
e the prospects of the Southern States gloom
- in the extreme, is for them to sink beneatl
h contempt by shrinking from the position
e they have assumed.
n BENTON ON 'EUsEs.-The paternity o
h the following anecdote is attribut d t,
e John Went - orth, member of Congress
! from Illinois:
Q Said an old Jackson democrat to Col
= Benton after the smash of the omnibu
# bill, "WeIl Colonel the old thing wa
e pretty well cut up !"
"Worse than DR.. Parkman Wors
E. than DR.. Parkman, sir They can
n identify the body, sirp calculated tn
a Colonel.
n "WeIl, how does Clay feell"
IS "CI,y feel He feels, sir, as he d
re when we upset the great coalitio
le nibus between him and John Quir
N cy Adams, under the lead of Gen. Jacl
e. :, son. He feels as he did when we ups'
IN IN his bank omnibus, his tariff omnibu
~ his distribution omnibus, and his pres
~ Dental omnibus Sir he knows ho'
rv to feel The democrats have taugl
I'd him to feel How do you suppose |
On felt when we expunged-when we, 81
st drew the black marks Of popular dan
nation over his resolutions censurr
of General Jacksonl Clay has alwa
I'M been getting up omnibuses. Alway
nd sir And he never got up one yet tn
ar he did not catch some democrats, 81
he Never cir And thev ALWAYS get XII