Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-19

Some of the adherents of the present Pierce
Douglas, and Cushing administration, followlnl
in the wake of the Richmond Enquirer, Bostoi
Post, and other pro-slavery journals, have raised
an objection to the admission of Kanzas as j
State at this time on the plea that it does no
contain population requisite in State to con
stitute representative District. Now, as ever
one knows, who is posted on the past action o
the government in the admission of other States
this is a ludicrous pretext, new rule, got u
expressly for the occasion, to keep free Stat
from coming into the CoDfederacy at this time
Neither the Constitution, nor any law, prescrib
any requisite of the kind Even now, there ar
two States, (Florida and DelawaFe,) which fai
short by nearly one hall, the number of in,
habtants necessary to entitle Congressionaa
District to Representative. But as these ar
Slave States, it is all right.
We have already repeatedly shown, from tt"
presidents on various points established in tn
admission of other States, the clear right of Kan
zas to immediate admission into the Union with
her present Constitution. But there is one STATE
in particular, the of which affords striking
parallel with the circumstances surrounding th'i
application of Kanzas. We have reference t.
FLORIDA, which, like Tenn ssee, Arkansas, Iowa
Michigan, and California, came into the
Union with Constitution framed without any
"enabling act" of Congress giving them leave t.
meet in Convention so to do. When the peopls
of Florida applied for admission, in that very.
irregular and "ilegal" manner, in lS45 they
numbered but sc, 900 inhabitants, only one ha!
the ratio number then necessary to entitle Dis
trict to Representative in Congress, yet not one
of those pseudo democratic conservative politi
clans who have such a profound adherence o
every thing not of the most approved Irregular
stamp, was heard to lisp word of objection on
that score then. The petition of few thousand
SHAREHOLDERS to come in a sovereign State was
assented to without vote of dissent from demo-
cratic quarters whereas Kanzas, with a larger
proportionate number of inhabitants compared
with the ratio necessary to constitute represen-
tative District, must stand and wait, and beg and
be ruthlessly thrust aside on account of her
alleged " illegalityl"
Florida at this day contains little more than
one half of the population sufficient to entitle a
District to a representative, but she is slave
holding State, with all the infamies connected
with The treatment Vi DeLul4OIe 1uutduS vi
her back to boot, of course her case must b
passed by without notice by the 'powers tina
be-" While Kanzas, being SO rapidly filled uli
with 'ong heeled abolitonists, and others, that,
if now admitted as State she will soon outnum-
Der the representative ratio, must tarry great
while longer in the Jericho OK territorial govern.
ment, and suffer every indignity which it is pos
sible for slayeholding rathans from the border
States to infct
Kanzas already contains nearly or quite as
many inhabitants as Florida, which has been ten
years a state Yet the border ruffian press, I'M
der the lead of the Richmond Enquirer, Boston
Post, &c., and the border rufian orators, under
the lead of Douglas, and others, in and out of
Congress, keep up an insensate howl of objection
to the admission of Kanzas with her recently
adopted constitution, which was framed just as
that of Florida was, without being "enabled" SO
to do by any act of Congress. There is, there
fore, not particle of force in any of the feigned
objections to the admission of Kanzas either on
the score of justice, precedent, or any want of
compliance with any constitutional provision
The opposition is solely and and entirely to the
free Constitution, not to want of population, ell
legality" 'irregularity," or any other such cir
cumstance.