The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-03-25

per capita estimate of personal property al
$500 is too high for Oregon. In Georgia,
where the wealth per capita is greater, as
showed the other day, than in any other SIS
in the Union, it is, including real and perssgF
estate together, $53I for the entire population.
The average in the United States is something
over $3.50. Place 1t az $3.50 in Oregon for
personal property alone, (for they own no real
estate there--no land patents have yet issuedl
and the population will be over one hundred
and thirty thousand. These facts satisfy me
that there are more than one hundred thousand
people there. No man can doubt i. seems TO
me, that there are over sixty thousand; and
that Is the question.
Then, sir, in the debate eferred TO on the
admission OF Tennessee, what SAID Mr.. Madison
on that point
"The fact ofpopuaton vas the only necessa-
ry one and would gertlpmtn be satisfied with
no other method Of asceraning il but such as
they themselves should direct %
He went on
"Ifthere were the stipulated number of in
ha5itants, that Territory could not be denied
ITS claim of becoming State Of the Umon
witout violation Of rights"
Again, he says that
'He himself has no doubt on the subject
( tuE CftNSiLC " dS SuiDNiFut anu SATISFACTORY.
And again be said
"But he thought, where there was doubt,
] Congress ought 10 lean towards decision which
would give equal rights TO every part OF the
American people"
He said there was no doubt on his mind that
there were sixty thousand people there and
that, under the compact, they were bound, by
all the facts he could gather, to admit the State /
HayU the lar,7a-
Macon gentleman vino occupird a Eigh posi- /
ton in the Republican party Of that day-no,
the party OF modern Republicans, but of good
old Republicans Of The Jeffersonian school-one +
OF the shining lights OF the House, whose name |
will 60 down to history and live as long as the 7
names OF the founders of the Republic, said /
''The question before the committee was on
admitting the Territory to be a State in the
Union. There appeared to him only two I
things as necessary 10 be inquired into. First, I
was The new government republican 1T
appeared to hun TO be so. Second, were there +
sixty thousand inhabitants in the Territory z
1t appeared 10 him there were and if 50, their {
mission as State sbaifd '-'' 0' eo'fs'aI -
gilt, but as right" I
Again, Mr.. Galatin said he
F'Was of opinion that the people of the
southwestern territory became i2to facto
State, the moment they amounted to sixty thou
sand free inhabitants; aud that il became the
duty Of Congress, as part OF The original com
pact, to recognize them as such, and to admit
them into the Union, whpnevec they had
satisfactory proof of the iac.''
! cannot dwell OH this branch of the subject.
Il is no question OF nnety-Ihrre thousand here.
1t is no question OF what is the ratio in other
Territories. 1t is no QUESTION Of Kansas dis
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of fulfilling obligations. That is the who'll, OF
At. have no doubt that she has sixty thousand;
and every man upon this floor 50 believing.
according to this authority, is bound to vote
Tor her admission. Will you do it
But the gentleman from Ohio Mr.. Sraxrov1
complains Of the constitution Of Oregon. He
complains oftbat article which denies political
equality TO the African race to that part which,
excludes negroes from voting which prevents
them from exercising the rights of cilrzeDship
especially that which denies them the right TO
maintain action in their courts. The Tone
ka constitution Of Kansas, which that gentle
man favored IN 1896, excluded free negroes
entirely from the Territory OF Kansas.
Mr.. GROW. will correct the gentleman
The Topeka constitution did not exclude free
negroes from Kansas but the question was
submitted TO the people, as Instructions to the
Legislature, to pass an act of that character
MIR. STEPHENS, o! Georgia. And Iarpe
majority OF the gentleman's friends who adon-
ted the constitution voted to give the instruc-
tiOns.
Mr.. Grow. make no point upon that.
Ar. STEPHENS, of Georgia And those
who profess to be exclusive friend of NEGROES.
as they now do, so far as that constitution was
concerned, voted TO Danish them forever from
the Stae, just as Oregon has done. Whether
his Punishment be right or wrong, it is no
worse in Oregon than il was in Kansas -
But, on the score Of humanity, VIZ of the South
do moi believe that those who. in Kansas or
Oregon, bauish this race from their limits are
better friends OF the negro than we are, who
assign them that place amo1g US to which by
nature they are fitted. ana in which they add
So much 10 their own happiness and comfort,
besides the common geli-beiug of all. We
give them reception. We give them shelter.
We cothe them. we feed them. We pro-
vide for their every want, in health and in
sickness, in infancy and old age. We teach
them to work We educate them in the arts
OF civilization and TIE virtues of Christianity,
much more efectuallY and successfully than
you can ever do on the coasts ofAtrca. And,
without any cost to the public, we render
them useful to themselves and to the world
The first lesson in civilization and Christianity
10 be taught 10 the barbarous tribes, wherever
to be found, is the first great curse against the
human family-that in the sweat of their face
they shall eat their bread. Under our system,
our tuition, our guardianship and fostering care,
these people, exciting so much misplaced
philanthropy, have attained higher degree Of
civilization than their race has attained aDY-