The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1858-12-17


iod of the government.
i Immediately upon the formation of a
new Territory, people from different
States and from foreign countries rush
into it, for the laudable purpose of i'm
proving their condition Their first
duty to themselves is to open ndculti-
vate farms, to construct roads, to estab-
lish schools, to erect places of religious
worship, and to devote their energies
generally to reclaim tho wilderness and
to lay the foundations of fourishing
and prosperous commonwealth. If, in
this incipicnt condition, with popula-
ton of a few thousand, they should pre-.
maturely enter tho Union, they are op-
pressed by the burden Of State taxation,
and the means necessary for the i'm.
provcment of the Territory and the ad-
vancement of their own interests, are
thus diverted to very different pur.
poses. .....
The federal government has ever been
It liberal parent to tho Territories, and
q generous contributor to the useful en-.
terprises of tho early settlers. 1t has
paid the expenses of their governments
and legislative assemblies out of the
common treasury, and thus relieved
them from heavy charge. Under
these circumstances, nothing can be bet
=; ter calculated to retard their material
progress, than to divert them from their
useful employments, by prematurely
exsitiug angry political contests among
! themselves, for the benefit of aspiring
leaders. 1t is surely no hardship for
embryo governors, senators, and mem
bers of Congress, to wait until the mum.
Der of inhabitants shall equal those of
single congressional district. They
surely ought not to bo permitted to rush
into the Union, with population less
than ono. half of several Of the large
counties in tho interior of some Of the
Statos. This was the condition of Kan
sas when it made application to be adj
nitted undcr tho Topeka constitution.
Besides, it requires some time to rem.
ders tbe mass of population collected
in new Territory, at all homogeneous,
I and TO unite them on anything like a
fixed policy. Establish the rule, and
all will look forward to it and govern
themselves accordingly.
But justice to the people Of the sever
al States requires that this rule should
be established by Congress. Each State
is entitled to two senators and at least
one representative in Congress. Should
the people of the Statos fail to elect
Vice President, the power devolves up
on the Senate to select this officer from
the two highest candidates on the list.
In case of the death of the President,
the Vice President thus elected by the
Senate, becomes President of tho United
States. On all questions Of legislation,
the senators from the smallest States of
the Union have an equal vote with those
from tho largest. The samc may be
said in regard to the ratification Of trea-
ties, and of Executive appointments
All this has worked admirably in prac.
tice, whilst it conforms in principle with
the character of govern ment institu
ted by sovereign States. | presume no
American citizen would desire the Sigh
test change in the arrangement. Still,
is it not unjust and unequal to the ex
isting States to invest some forty or
fifty thousand people collected in Ter-
ritory with the attributes of sovereign
ty, and place them on an equal footing
with Virginia and New York in theSen
ate of the United States?
For these reasons, / earnestly recon-
mend The passage of a general act, which
shall provide that upon the application
of a terri torial legislature, declaring
their belief that the Territory contains
a number of inhabitants which, if in a
State, would entitle them to elect a
member of Congress, it shall be the duty
of the President to cause u census of the
inhabitants to be taken, and if found
sufficient, then by the terms of this act
to authorize them to proceed "in their
own way to frame State constitution
preparatory to admission into the Un-
ion. also recommend that an appro-
priation may be made, to enable the
President to take census of the people
of Kansas. ....-s -.. il
The present condition of the Territory of Utah,
when eontrasted with what it was one year ago,
is q subject for congratulation. 1t was then in
> state Of open rebellion, and, cost what it might
the character of the government required, that
his rebellion should be suppressed and the Nor
mons compelled to yield obedience to the consti-
luton and the laws. In order to accomplish this
object, as informed you in my last annual mes
,age, appointed new governor instead of Bri-
yham Young and other federal officsrs to take
he place of those whs, consulting theirpersonal
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he Territory. To protect these civil officers, and
o aid them, as posse conitatus, in the execution
# the laws in case Of need, ordered dotach-
nent Of the army to accompany them to Utah.
The necessity for adopting these msasurssis now
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