The Nevada journal., 1858-10-01
Speculative.

tnc opening VI tHc HtAt sessloH vi NoIi-
gress. A most distracting question,
easily to be solved, remains unsettled.
The political atmosphere breatnes moth
ing but storms where sunshine should be
expected to prevail. 1t seems evident
that strenuous effort is to be made to
Keep Kansas out cf the Union, for the
present or until she has a much larger
population. The recent decision Of the
people of that Territory has laid upon
the shelf forever the old arguments
against that people. and, compelled the
enemies of good order to try some
other scheme to thwart the wishes of
Kansas.
The objection likely 10 he urged against
the admission of the new State is the me
Of population, Under ordinary circnm-
stances this would be good one. There
ought to be some general rule to he fol-
lowed by C"nyre in the admission of
new states into the Union. A promis-
cuous entrance of States into the con-
federacy without reference to population
tends to disturb the equilibrium Of the
whole and is dangerous.
Undoubtedly the great state of New
York with her three millions Of people,
might with some show Of propriety de-
Inur to the admission of new State
with but forty thousand inhabita nts,
when the new one would balance the
power Of the old in the Senate of the
United States and be entitled 20 more
than her relative rights in the House of
Representatives. A just balance ought
be preserved as near as may be, and
the only mode that presents itself to our
mind is pretty strict adherence to a
gen raj requirement of population.
Like all general rnles. however. This
is subject to some exceptions. and Kan
sas must be considered one of them
She has been pronounced iii some shape
fit to become an integral part Of the
Union by eccry memttee:: Of the sister
hood. The pro-slsvery states have pro-
nounced her worthy of the tonor under
the Lecompton Constitution-the free
states under some other organic law. 1t
would be an act of inconsistency, if not
of wrong, to refuse admission to Kansas
now in any manner she might with pro-
priety desire.
Kansas also presents some features of
favorable characterin reference to a
law of population. Whatever outrages
may be committed upon the law by her
admission at the present time. there are
palliating circumstances in her csse--
Her local position aud resources are
such that she viii soon after admission
come up to the standard of population
required, and thus the equilibrium will
be restored which might bo said 10 be
disturbed by making Kansas an excep.
ton to a general law. tits easy to sup.
pose cases where other reasons must b +,
urged in favor of admission, if any should
obtain as valid. Florida. and perhaps
Ontonagon. might pres ent cases where
Cong eSs should take into consideration II
whether it were not better to allow an
admission with limited population. than
that the treasury of the general govern
ment should be sub ject to almost perpe,-
ual drafts to keep up territorial organ
ization.
If population Of a few thousand
should choose to relieve the general
government of an onerous charge and
assume it themselves for the considera-
tion of governing themselves, the only
question arising would be how the ar
gument in favor Of the national treasury
and The one against the infiaction of the
law Of population would balance each
other. AS a general rule we believe
there should be established a standard
for Territories to reach before they
should be deemed fit for admission into
the Union. 1t should lie test allowing
Of but few exceptions, of which Kansas,
but for the political movements in the
past, would not probably furnish one.
5. OF T.-At Ii regular meeting OH
Saturday evening last the following Of
iicers were elected for the ensuing tenn:
l.. w. Williams. w. p.
WIN. Asher w. A.
w. Il. Lockwood, r. S.
VIM. ii. Martin. A r. 8.
N. p. Brown. +. S.