Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-07-01

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1t be expected that their bet will be
sanctioned, and the people sing no.
sannas in praise of this most extra
ordinary usurpation? By which even
the gallant Tennessee vol lnteers are
now excluded from this country, by
the votes of the very Me kicans Who
they assisted to drive from it at the
point of the bayonet, bless they
leave behind them the prom erty pecu-
liar to so thesn p eople. !.
We contend, that befo1e Cahfor-
MIA was admitted she ought to have
shown, which she did not, that GER
tain boundaries had beea fixed by
law, and that within these boundaries
resided number Of free Inhabitants
equal to the present ratio of Repre-
septatives because these are condi=
tons which have been imposed upon
all other States. Under any ether
rule itmight happen that to or TWEEN
ty thousand inhabitants of California
., |
would have the power ih t he House
of Representatives, of T0,p00 else
where. # by the California preee-
dent we permit all squattdrs on the
public territory to 4 4 their own
boundaries, to assemble AMP adopt a
constitution without any enumera-
ton Of inhabitants, eithef by the
Congress Of U. States or Territori-
al law, all that will hereafter be ne
cessary to constitute a Sta tie, will be
for a band Of adventures sufficient
Ily numerous to hold a cdnVention,
t0 get together in any terri tory and
graFely erect themselves into a SOW
ereignty, and prescribe such limits as
cupidity or taste may Dict tie.
BY reference to a fact stated in
the Convention, Gas shown by the de-
bates every RepreseI tative in the
Contention romthe terrftol|y south Of
36 80 vas opposed to the formation
of a State governmental all, and the
people southo of that LIMB vi Ere in "a
vor of a territorial gov ernh and
against a State goYernm emit and it is
further stated by a met nbd r Of that
Convention, that every member
south Of So 80 voted I'd d man
against the formationof a State gov
eminent.
And as a further obj Pct ion to this
Constitution, so framed, il was sub
mitted to the people fol- tReiIsratif-
cation, andreceiyed only abe ut | 5000
votes, while its friends contend that
California had a population Of
l15O,000-enough to entFtle her to
two Representatives, Cpndress. And
it is well known that in California
the n en- outnumber the Women and
children put together. This Their
would not represent a population o
10000; yet, it is known that if they
had enough to entitle them to elect
a member of the House Pf Repre-
lsentatives according to the then ratio
they must have had at lefst 10000
people, Of whom SCOOP you'd con
.Estitute a minority. The CONSTITUTION
then, did not receive t he votes of
majority Of the people.
We hold that there was hn insuper
able objection to the admission 0
California, in consequence of he
enormous boundaries, which occupies
our whole Pacific coast from Oregon
no Nexico-1,000 miles in length
and 700 Loiles in breadthtt thus cut
ting off that immense scope of coun
| try lying east of the sierra Nevada
from all participation in che com
rnerce Of the Pacific. II is an al
vantage Of value inestimabPe to future
Estates, that. they should share in thu
great commerce of the Pacific; an(
it was our clear duty to provide it fol
them, by taking care t hat it was no
pre-occupied and engrossh by thos'
! who happened to be the first occu
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