Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-03-21
ADMISSION OE NEW STATES.

We regret to find the doctrine becoming current
that territory, with the requisite amount oi Popoa
alton, that adopts a republican form oil government
has rigA, upon application, to be admitted into the
Union. There is at present no practical ooection 70
:,ch doctrine but practical objections may arise
An Indian territory thus applying, would and should
be dsnied admission. 50 territory composed chiefly
Of frss negroes or of Chinese idolators, or newly
conquered territory, whose people were nether asst
,,istsd or attached TO us our institutions In the
,s, case to grant the right OF admsson' would De 10
d,ny the right Of conquest--or the STATE coming III
today, might secede tomorrow ana SCI up 'or l'se'
.ss;n when, BY fraud or force, the people OF any
,ro State or section have seized upon territory ex
y,,,.a IN apv uay the people Of other States, and
.,o.a INV their constitution, to continue auch e1-
s,,a;o, ,ha Federal Government, the common agent
os all the States, that holds the territories as COM
mon rus, fund.- should Indignantly refuse such apph
,.,o, After State is admitted into the Union, she
h., o rrb, to exclude the manufactures OF New Eng
lad ,bs merchandise of New York, the hogs OF
obo, the mules Of Kentucky, or the slaves OF the
s,,b. but surely territory has no such right, nor
bas sbe any right be admitted as an equal member
,f the Union, when her petition ia accompanied with
a constitution which destroys such equality, and in'
lures and insults portion of those to whom her Pc
,iticn is preferred.
STATE EaUALlTY, is all the South asks. Conserva-
tiycs at the North will no aggression no insult
no Injustice to the North in this. Candor obliges us
TO say that the South has to recover lost ground The
principle of the Missouri Compromise was insulting
and injurious to the South. 1t was gross aggression
on the part of the North. Too many good but SEN
sitive people al the North, think that the South 10
attempting to recover lost ground, in rectying the
wrong that has been done her, is aggressing on
the North. The utmost the South asks and less
she will not take, from the Federal Government
s that her Institutions her social FORMS her proper
ty. and her people, shall be protected at home and
protected in extending Themselves into the common
territories of the Uniou just as are the institutions
the social forms the property and the people OF the
North.
Itjs we'll that We should understand'one another,
for on this issue the next President is 10 be elected
and the Union to be preserved or dissolved. 10
Northern conservatives, we take this occasion to e1'
plain and justify course for year past All hu-
man institutions are attended with evils We can only
ascertain which are best by exposing and balancing
their comparative evils. We can defend one set Of
institutions only by exposing the greater evils Of op'
po.ite institutions 1t was our right and duty to de-
fend the South. We could only do so by >" showing
up" the evils of Northern Society. We had been
long assailed, borne the assaults patiently, and at
length, in sef.defence, have returned blow for blow
Will not Northern conservatives thank for teach.
ing the fanatics that they have evils enough at home
to remedy, without lntermeddling with us and endsn
gering the Union7 We do not expect to make oon'
ver;s to our doctrines at the North but we do hope
we have shown that the question, as to which Of our
forms of society Is best, is oisa and undecided. AL
we ask is equality in the eyes and at the hands
of the General Government. Let the people OF the
North love- boast Of and cherish their institutions
LIE. the people of the South do the same. The con-
ssrvatiyes of the North must that the Black Ne
pubcans are Socialists, and equally the avowed ana
open enemies of Northern and Southern institutions.
Ii the North values its present social FORMS it can
only preserve them by close alliance with the soutn'
for the South all conservative, and wishes to dis
| turb existing institutions