The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-13
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OREGON A STATE

The House of Representatives passed yesterday,
without amendment the hin Of the Senate providing
for the admission of Oregon as State into the
Union, by the decisive vote Of ia TO 100 The af-
hrinatise Vote made MP Of Tho great nioritf Of
tis deiocrlte meiibeys Of the body reinforced BY
2 small number of republican members who had for
the most part belonged originally TO the democratic
party The negative vote made up Of the great
body Of The, reppblcanf party reinforced by few
democratic members The bin needs only the SANG
ton of the President TO become law and that it
wilt promptly receive this can be the subject Of
reasonable doubt
We may, therefore, congratulate the country on
the accession of another State 20 the Union Twenty
States have been added TO the original thirteen
Of which the confedersey was first constituted; aud
the number has now grown 10 thrty-tbree Unlike
California which was forced into the Union the
protest of one-haf the States, this new member Of
the coniederacy comes into il welcomed by the APP
pla,se of the whole Union aud all sections. The OPP
position which the measure has received has not
been made TO il its merits, but has sprung chiefly
from partisan considerations The accs ssion OF this
State is probably of the most important that
has ever occurred, from the fact that ii lies upon the
Pacific c0aHt, where Rational interests of immense
present magnitude and imnense future prom.
Use are collected and collecting. The addition of
Florida or Louisiana Texas to the Union were
measures scarcely comparable in importance to the
future interests and integrity of the Union with the
admission of great State the Pacific like Oregon.
The time will soon be heERs when the petty bicker-
ings Of Nortl and South upon the question of the
proper status for the negro can no longer endanger
the fabric of the Union With tile census Of 1860,
The political POWER of the Union, pursuing the
so,ifst of tile stair empire, will pass away to the
West. The predonnance OF population, representa-
ton and political power win then be with The vast
portion Of the Union stretching out from the base
of the Appalachian chain to the shores of the Pa
cfc and, then, something else besides the
negro will constitute the issue between parties and
politicians in this mighty confederacy. Questions
more rational aud substantial measures moro prscti
ei TRAN the Wilnot prcviso will occupy the deliber-
atoms of Congress, aud the ljdndefous dsbv les in
the Congressional Globe will be relieved ty topics
more fragrant than the negro, and more bright Than
the sable skin of the African. s@ ~
The speech of Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, in cor
Guiding the debate this subject yesterday in The
Hence, was Of the MOST eloquent and effective
ever delivered in Congress. II received tho post
rapurous and repeated applause both ON the tlotr
Of the hall and from tie galleries, and such was the
enthusiasm of the audience that no efforts on the
rart or The officers Of tlte House able to check
IT, 1t was question of sonic doubt whether the
bill would pass before the delivery of this speech
and il owes the decided majority which it received
TO the patriotic and eifecec pleading of this gifted
champion,