The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-01-06
DOW AGIAc:
Kansas, Oregon and Arizonia.

ion in the recent elections seem to have
produced no visible effect upon the ter
ritorial schemes of the Administration.
1t is already rendered clear that the
policy adopted. for the present session
of Congress, consists of three points :
first, the admission of Oregon as a
State ; second, the organization of Ari-
zonia as a Territory; and third, the
rejection of Kansas. In his message
to Congress, President Buchanan laid
down this chart plainly, and though
executive declarations on such occa-
sions often mean nothing, the indica-
tons in both Houses already have been
sufficient to show that this policy is to
be carried ont if possible. Mr.. ,Steph-
ems of Georgia, chairman of the com
mittee on Territories in the House of
Representatives, has given notice Of a
bill for the admission of Oregon. He
is very able tatician, and will get the
measure through, if anbody can. Mr..
Douglas has been thrown off the chair
manship of the Senate committee on
Territories, and replaced by Mr.. Green,
and that, too, is in the interest of the
Administration policy. On Thursday,
in the House, Mr. Boyce, of South
Carolina, tried to get in Lieut.. Maury,
as delegate from Arizona, but failed.
What an Administration can do in
any cause, good or bad, was conclu-
sively shown last session, in the strug-
gle upon the Lecompton question. No
thing but the enormity of the outrages
covered by the Lecompton constitution
prevented its success, evenin the origi-
nal shape; and when we reflect that
the admission of Oregon, the rejection
of Kansas and the organization of Ari-
zonia, though evidences of reckless dis
regard of all the principles of justice,
and harmless compared with Lecompton
it must be apparent that there is no
chance Of the failure of the present
scheme unless the South itself should
ignore it. We may therefore regard
Oregon as marked out to be the thirty
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third member of the great confedera-
cy, and Arizona is to be the next new
territorial pupil. g.a.--~--------
heEe-Is Il the Justice of keeping out
Kansas on the plea that she has not
sufficient population, and letting in
Oregon with even a less number of in
habitants.? Is this the way for the
South to secure the confidence and re-
spcct of the North? Is not the South
aware that, by persistence in such q
course as this, it fosters and increases
the very irritation it processes to de-
precate. If they do not know these
things they are certainly remarkable
cases of self-delusion, and we can only
pity that blind fanaticism which seems
benton counting danger, in the belief
that it displays political tact. Arizona
is the most remote and inaccessible, to
the majority of our population,o of all
our territories, for Washington can be
reached by sea in a steam voyage of no
great duration, while Arizona is inland
without coast, or port, or a naviga-
BILE river accessible from the sea. The
Colorado we cannot enter from the
Gulf of California, because we have no
right to pass over Mexican territory,
and if we could, it would take longer
to get to Arizona by it, than to reach
Washington Territory. If we under
take to go to it from the California
coast. we must cross waterless deserts.
If. we go through Texas and New
Mexico, we encounter new difficulties.
Once there, the government must be
at an enormous expense to protect us
from Mexican banditti and rowing In
dian savages. Spectators in moon
shine railroads, doubtful silver mines,
and fat mail contracts, have pursuaded
the South that, by organizing a terri
tory, there, a new Slave State may be
obtained This policy has been tried
already in New Mexico, and yet there
is not a single Slave plantation in that
Territory, nor is there likely to be.
Texas with all its strength suffers so
much from slaves running away across
the Rio Grande into Mexico, that all
western Texasis settled by a free popu:
lation. Arizona remote from the
strong7holds of slavery, with ten thou
sand settlers of Mexican origin already
there opposed to the institution, ma
raading Indians and Mexicaps ever
ready to carry of negroes, -or horses,
and, the -boundary1lclose at hand as
a refuge, would be even worse for the
South. Itrcan Of necessity, be only a
free, State, by reason, of, its position
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