The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-19

number than sixty thousand Inhabitants There Is no
escape from this we without lights a
proper construction Of these words. Ia ts the ide-
iios guarantee that extended 10 Teunesee in 1890
and how this language interpreted ty those who
made tr comlact How IL construed by the great
lights OF the old republican pty This Identical ques
ton up the admission of Tennessee the gcnte
man State ftI-nH aN g4UIatlttfs' lf.i'ist x
The debate on that question was reerrei to yesterday
There Is no dodging the question eyading IL The
question here 80 far population is concerned is the
that on the admission Of Tennessee. The only
flct la issue before Is the fact that in issue
then ID Is not whether the proposed State has ninety
Thousand or ha-dEed thousand but simply whether
ID has sixty Thousand inhalants will not so the
argument to show that il has. satisfied that there
sixty thousand inhabitants in Oregon / am
we'll satisfied from the evidence cited the other day,
that there hundred tholsand There wore
forty three thousand and upwards in 1855 shown by
imperfect Five years before there only
ten Thousand In five years they had Increased four
fold. With proporonate Increase there would be
one hundred anl thirty thousand and upwards. But
even suppose the increase has been partially retarded,
the other evidence shows there must be hun
dred thousand The official report shows personal prop
eiy TO the amount OF S22 900 000 Suppose the people
Oregon to he worth $500 per sa Of personal proper
ty, which is than any State n the Union, there
would be one hundred and ten thousand Inhabitants
think the per ea estimate OF personal property at 5000
is too high for Oregon Ia Georgia, where the wealth
per capita greater showed the other day than in any
other State ia the Union il is including real aud per-
sonal estate together s534 FOR the entire population The
|
Place it at $3.50 in Oregon for personal property alone,
| or they real estate thcreno land patents have
yet ssned and the population will be hundred
and thirty thousand These facts satisfy that there
are more than hundred thousand people there No
doubt it seems to me, that there sixty
| thousand and that is the question.
Then sir in the debate referred to the admission of
| Tennessee, what said Mr. Madison that point
population only necessary would
gentlemen be satisfied with other method Of but
4 such they them elves should directT'
He went
sre were The stipulated number Of nhabauts a, Territory
could claim becoming Union without
\ violation of rights E.. .H. laaa st4tt 81
Again, he says that "a
He himself has doubt the suject the evidence sum
! eicnt and siisiactoty'
And again he said
thought, whore there doubt Congress ought to
towara decision which would give eq rghis to every art Of tbs
/ American people i.iis faa ~ stH"
He said there was no doubt ON his mind that there
sixty thousand people there and that under the
compact, they bound, from all the facts he could
! gather to admit the State.
/ How can gentlemen escape that Mr.. Macon, gen
tleman who occupied high position in the republican
party Of that day, not the party of modern republi
cans but of good old republicans of the Jcierso-
nan school one OF the shining lights OF the House,
whose will go down o history and live as long
! the names of the founders of the republic said
question admitting the Territory
to be State the union There aieard % him only two things
necessary inquired Fst the
publican Il appeared @ him % be 90 second were there % six
Inhabitants fcrtnrf 10 There
and ier aus as state should not be considered aT
a gifl but a right"
Again, Mr.. Gaatin said he---
opinion that the people the southwestern territory be-
iIso the they sixty io,i+and
nlan,s; ba, bemf ,hO Congress, of
the recognise them such, 10 admit them
Union whenever they h.d satisfactory lbe fact
cannot dwell on this branch of the subject 1t is no
question OF ninety three thousand here II is question
what is the ratio in other Territories IL Is question
4 of Kansas discrimination 1t is the simple naked q,cs-
of tulf nh. ts vhai.,n of
have doubt that she has sixty thousand and every
upon this floor believing, according to this
thorty, is bound 10 yctc for her admission. win you
4 do it? =
But the gentleman from Ohio MIR Sr.SroS complains
of the constitution of Oregon lie complains Of that
tce which denies political equality to the African
to LAT pant which excludes negroes from voting which
prevents them from exercising the rights OF citizenship
especially that which denies them the right to maintain
an action in their courts The Topeka constitution OF
Kansas which that gentleman favored Ia 1856, excluded
free negroes entirely from the Territory of Kansas
Mr.. GROW. will correct the gentleman. The To-
peka constitution did exclude negroes from Kan
s,s but the question submitted to the people,
instructions to the legislature to pass act of that char
. acter. -
Mr. STEPHENS of Georgia. And a large majority OF
the gentleman friends who adopted the constitution
voted to give the instructions. ~ M ata.m
Mr.. GROW. 1 make point upon that. IA .a
II Mr.. STEPHENS, Of Georgia Aud those who profess
to be the exclusive friends of negroes they do so
far that constitution concerned voted to bans
them forever from the STATE JUST as oregon mas
Whether this punishment be right wrong il is no
worse in Oregon than IL was in Kansas But on the
scolc of humanity, Of the South do not believe that
those who, in Kansas Oregon, Danish this from
their limits are better friends of The negro than are
who assign them that place among to which by nature
they are fitted and in which they add much to
their happiness and comfort besides to the
we'll being Of all We give them reception we give
them shelter we clohc them we feed them we pro
vide for their every want In health and in sickness in
fancy and old age teach them ID work edu-
them in the arts OF civilization and the virtues OF
Christianity, much eicctualy and successfully than
you do the coast Of Africa and without any
the public render them useful to themselves
and to the world The first lesson Ia civilization and
Christianity To be Taught to the braous tribes where
10 be found Is the first great against the hn-
fim yhat in the sweat Of their face they shall eat
their bread Under system, tuition, guar
danshp and fostering care, these people, exciting
much misplaced philanthropy, have attained higher
degree Of civilization than their has attained any
pie excluded them they, like the ncghbors read Of
went round them We like the good samaritans shun
not their dcstituton degradation alleviate both
But let that go. q+ s /.
Oregon has, in this matter, done no worse than the
gentleman friends did in Kansas i think she acted
unwseIy in itthat Is her business not mine But the
gentleman from Ohio Mr.. SrANroSl questions me, how
could negro in Oregon get his freedom per the
constitution they have adopteA cell him nndbf their
constitution slave cannot exist there The fadaenfal
law il against 10 hblh6 akks how could his freedom
eyer be essblshe AS free person of color la
her courts Neither can they In Georgia still our
courts open 10 this class of people, who appear by
proohsin guardian Nor Is there any great hard