The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-03-24
a. Republicans treated Oregon in

the same way as MlnloSOta. he case
of Kansas is in no respect like them.
Twice has application been made for
her admission, and at neither time
ought the application to have been
granted. On thelast occasion Congress
authorized her to apply when she had
a sufficient population. If she is en-
titled to admission sooner, let us see
the reason for it.-Nation@ Democrat.
That majority of the Republicans
in Congress did oppose the admission
of Oregon into the Union, is true, but
not, as the Democrat would have it, for
the reason that they desired to prevent
the admission of a free State, and we
think it will be hard for the Democrat
to make sensible people believe such
talk. They will remember that not only
the avowed objects of the Republican
party, but even such as their opponents
have always hitherto attributed to them
are altogether different from that of
preventing any legitimate and honora-
BILE increase of free States. Were it
not for the glaring injustice of the Adj
ministration party in refusing to place
Kansas on an equal footing with
Oregon, the admission of the latter
would have given the most general
satisfaction to the community, and none
would have hailed the event with grea-
ter joy than Republicans. The editor
of the Democrat well knows that the
Republican members of Congress, who
opposed the admission of Oregon, did
so from principle, and in order to show
the astute editor that they were consis-
tent in their opposition, let us examine
the facts of the case. In the first place,
then they opposed her admission, be-
cause it would be palpable infraction
of the rule established by the same
Congress, in the case of Kansas; an
unjust and most undeserved discrimina-
ton in favor of Oregon, and plain
and dangerous violation of the equality
of the Territories.
The English bill, which stands as a
legal barrier against the admission of
of Kansas, and which the President in
his annual message, characterized as
most equitable rule, one (which justice
to the several States required should
be established" provides, that, "when-
ever, and not before, it is ascertained
by census, duly and legally taken,
that the population of said Territory
equals or exceeds the ratio of represen-
tation required for a member of the
House of Representatives of the Con-
gress of the United States" she may
then proceed, in the mode prescribed,
to form Constitution preparatory for
admission into the Union as a State.
Under the existing ratio of representa-
ton, the population requisite for one
member of the House of Representa-
tives is at least ninety-three thousand
four hundred andtwenty. The popula-
ton of Oregon to-day, is not more than
one-half of the required number, and
at least several thousand less than
Kansas, as the editor of the Democrat
is well aware. Now, if the above rule
was good for Kansas, was it not equally
safe, right and just for Oregon, or any
other Territory that might apply for
admission, and no one-with the ex-
ception Of the editor of the National
Denocrat,-can accuse the Republi-
cans of being inconsistent for refusing
to adopt one rule for the admission of
a Republican State and another rule for
the admission of a Democratic State.
This, we claim, was the true position
of the Republican party on this ques-
ton.
Z But the Democrat, in its self-made
wisdom, says: Republicans opposed
her because she excluded negroes and
admitted foreigners" So far as the
remark in relation to " foreigners" is
concerned, it is utterly devoid of truth,