The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-03-03
Admission OF Oregon.


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We find in the Cincinnati Gazette, of
Monday the following article in refer
ence tothe admission of Oregon, which
so clearly expresses our views on most
points that we prefer to give it in place
of an article we had prepared upon the
same subject. The Gazette says:
The House, on Saturday, concnrred
in passing the Senate bill for the admis-
sion of Oregon into the Union, by a
vote of II4to TO3. The RESULT was an
ticipated, and but for the glaring inius-
tice of the Administration party in re-
fuSing to place Kansas and Oregon on
an equal footing, would have given
more general satisfaction to. the coun-
try. The adoption of one rule for n
Republican commonwealth, and quite
another for Democratic one, is a dis
graceful inconsistency which will afford
the party in power no claim upon the
support of people who love Justice
and equal rights. It was against this
unrighteous discrimination. that SO large
a portion of the Republican members
entered their protest in voting against
the admission.
That Oregon has become State, is
certainly no subject of regret to us, in
itself considered, but the circumstances
under which she comes in, with the
restrictive clause against Kansas in the
English act still standing unrepealed,
are insulting to the people of the free
States, and calls for emphatic exposure
and aenunciation.
Any supporter of the Administration
who chooses to repeat the stupid par
rot-cry that the Il .publicans desired to
prevent the admission of a free State,
should be permitted to exercise thai
privilege, without question err interior
ence. He may find believers, but not
among sensible men. People of ordin-
arv capacity and information will un-
derstand the exact value of Such talk.
They will remember that not only the
avowed objects of the Republican par
ty. but even such as their opponents
have ALWAYS hitherto attributed to them
are altogether different from that of
preventing any legitimate aud honora-
Die increase of free States.
1t is not strange that considerable
number of Republicans waived the
many serious objections to admitting
Oregon in this manner, and voted to
bring her into the Union. 1t was not
considered party measure with the
Opposition rs some Democratic jour
nails have tried to make out. 1t was TO
Republican votes that the bill owed its
passage Without this aid, 1T acould
haze been defeated.
A list of the yeas and navs appears
among our regular telegraphic dispatch
e.. OF the l03 votes against the biz,
thirty were from the South. Had those
Republicans who voted for it cast their
strength on the opposite side, it would
have been defeated by seventeen ma
jority Decided, therefore. as is the
Democratic majority in the House, (the
Democratic outnumbering the Repub-
Leans bv thirtv-fye votes) all the
strength that side could muster in favor
of Oregon was only such that the bill
would have been lost by thirtv-six ma
jority on full vote, without Republi-
can assistance. If any party capital
can be made for them out of tie passage
OF the Oregon bill, under i'll these cir
cumstances, let them make the most of
it.
We have now, then, thirty sovereign
States in our rapidly expanding confed-
eracy, and two free CONFERENCE.-The on
the Pacific. However premature we
may have thought this application
on the part OF a sparsely populated
Territory, or however the case may
have been embarrassed by the acts of
the party in power, let us welcome this
youDe State go her new position and
honors with tire hand of cordial fellow
ship.