The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-09
uosas pollsd bx New states.

woes Pollsd by New States.
/ On her admission as State, Louisiana poled
4,74S votes, Indiana 1859, Mississippi, l,415,
4 Illinois 8,075 Arkansas 3,63e, Michigan ll,360,
Florida 5,3Ol, and Iowa l3,27l. California poDed,
! last year, IA, 213 American votes. These; staus-
tics are taken from an article in the last Southern
Recorder to show that California is better enutied
to come in as State, than either OF the others
mentioned. Beside, Texas, when admltie ], had
an area Of $4,000 square miles of territory;
California covers, by the Constitution, l5o,oo0
square miles--less than one-half OF Iexas-aha
half of that sandy desert or unarable and rocky
mountains. How unreasonable, then, for the
South to object to California because she chooses
4 not to have slavery !---G Georgia Citizen
| This speaks for itself. And yet the claim which
California POUNDS on its population is still strong
err. 1t has future before it Of which there IS no
example and no parallel elsewhere. There is
certainty of vast increase of its population It's
commercial position promises il the control or the
Pacific, and the wealth of Asia is to be poured
into its lap. ,baS s.Haa.s aga1. ,sel.stc<
Never was there greater madness, and crime,
and imbecty than that which now seeks to close
the doors of the Confederacy TO the new State
She is entitled to instant admission, not only ac-
cording to the theory OF our Government, but by
the stipulation Of the Mexican treaty, and by the
requirement ofa great public necessity. If the
danger of her abandonment of the Union, upon
the rejection Of her claim, was real one, the
statesman who should bring about the hazard of
that peril, would stand convicted in the eyes of
the American people Of crime little short of
treason Yet politicians at Washington, desper-
ately gambling for the Presidency, have succeeded
thus far in preventing the necessary legislation,
..... .n Albany Evening Atlas.
The voters who emigrated to the new States
already admitted, generally had families. Hence
the uoe in those States on their admission, indi-
Gates population at least five times as great as
their vote. The lowest vote of any new free
State above referred to, is that of Indiana,
which was 6,789, and which indicates Poputa-
ton of thirty or forty thousand persons. But
the vote of California is almost identical with
the population it belongs to, as the voters there
have no families. And it is population, not
votes, that constitutes in our system the basis
of representation. The families of the Califor-
Mans where they have any, live in the North
crn States, except the Chilians, Peruyians
Mexicans, Sandwiches, Chinese, and other
Orientals.
The families of the Californians who live in
the Northern States, are enumerated in them
and are represented in Congress, And now, il
the admission of California is conceded, a fam.
lily of five persons, the voter Of which lives
there, and thelrest in some Northern State, will
have double representation in the House OF
Representatives, and more than that in the Sen.
ate of the United States. ..,-.s -. O.. ... 5a
The vote of California represents popula
ton of from one-third to one-half the number
indicated by the vote of Indiana on her adop
ton. Why is California better than Indiana
Even the smallest slave State, Arkansas, gave
a vote representing more people than the vote
of California, without giving Arkansas credi
for her slaves. Besides, it is to be considered
that the vote above ascribed to California, was
not given for her Constitution. That as W,
understand, was only some seven thousand
one-tenth of the number of persons now re
CURED to form single Congressional Distric
in the existing States. '...''
| OF course, there are more people in Califor
MIA than the highest vote given. We are told
that the number there is over hundred thou
| Sand. Ana III support Vi ulS cStlnlaIc, I'll
Custom-House returns of California are givcr
with other data. Yes, but the Custom-Ho
books are not quoted as to who have left there
and we see the steamers are returning as wei
as going, full. If, however, there are a hun
dred thousand people in California nearly all o
them voters, and yet only seven thousand vote
were given on the Constitution, it shows that
large portion, probably intending not to remail
there, were Indifferent as to the character of he
institutions.
California we are told, covers only $500
square miles-less than half of Texas-an
the South gets Texas Yes, but the North go
Oregon.