Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-26
h. 47mi0 SUP.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1856.
Tho Admiration Of New States.


Some of the defenders of the course pur-
sued by the administration in regard to Kan
xas, endeavor to evade the force of the prece.
dents established in the admission of former
States, by pretending that the other cases
mentioned, are those where State govern
ments have been formed without the previous
establishment of a territorial government, as in
the case of Kanzas. Now, all such Treten-
The territory of Arkanzas was organized by
act of Congress, and boundaries established,
March 3D. 1919, and it remained under a ter
ritorial government until June I'd, l8S6,when
il was admitted into the Union with Constl-
tuition her Own delegates had framed in State
Convention, called without consultation with,
or recommendation of Congress, on an equal
footing with the original States. The slave
holding section of the confederacy was unan-
imous for the admission. and no one from any
quarter lisped an objection on the score of in
Formally.
The next case was Michigan, which was or
gsnized into a territorial government June
18th, 1905, in which condition it remained
until January 26th. 1897, when it was admit
ted as State into the Union. with Conati-
tuition framed by delegates meeting in State
Convention, without previous recommends
ion or special leave from Congress authoriz-
ing them so to do. Did Gen. Cass. or any
other Democrat of that day, make objection to
her admission on that score We opine not,
as this distinguished Senator was one of the
first to reap the fruits of that admission, by
seat in Congress for several terms, as U. S.
Senator from that State.
Then comes the case of Florida, over which
territorial government was established March
80, 1922, and she was admitted into the
Union as State, simultaneously with Iowa,
March 8, 1915, with a constitution of her
own framing, made without previous recon-
mendation or authority from Congress SO to
do.
A territorial government was established by
Congress for Iowa, June u, 1888, and, with
out consulting that body, we find her people
subsequently, meeting in State Convention,
during the existence and supremacy of the
territorial authorities, as in the other cases, and
as has recently been done in Kansas, and franz
ing State Constitution, with which she Pc
titioned the national legislature for admission
Into the Union as sovereign State And
how was she treated: With proclamatiops to
overawe her, as " lawless in her proceed
ings, and threats of arrest of the officers of
the new State government for " treason y
&c.i Not at all. On the contrary, she was
welcomed into the confederacy, in conjunc-
ton with Florida, with open arms and fond
embraces, as "bone of our bone, and flesh of
our fesh," and the DEMOCRATS of that day
were foremost in leading off in favor of such
additions to our galaxy of States, to be ex-
tended, it was hoped, from the Mississippi to
the Pacific Ocean, having special refer
ence to the future dividing up into States. of
the vast territory Of Kansas and Neb.aska
therein included. Now that the opportuni-
ty has arrived for another important adaiuon
to the constellation which already makes up
our confederacy of States, let not opposition
come from Democratic quarters. Let them
have regard for true democratic principles,
their own presidents, and their own consis-
tency, and vote with the friends of freedom,
to admit Kansas into the Union, as a free
State.