New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-09
THE UNORGANrzRD TERRITORIES.


AS Popular Sovereignty" is to be made the
we desire TO fix attention on few fruitful facts,
as follows:
/. 1t is q fact that there are now four morgan
lied, imperfect Indigenous Territories within the
limits of our Union-tO-wit, /. Dakota, west of
Minnesota, and comprising that portion of the Ter
ritory of Minnesota which was excluded from the
State; g Idaho, OF "Pike's Peak, comprising the
Rocky Mountain Gold Region and its neighborhood,
which, though nominaly within the Territory of
Kansas, (save that little of it is probably in
Utah is yet so far from the main settlements and
seat of government of Kansas Gas likewise Of
Utah) as TO be utterly unprotected and ungoyerned
by the Federal organization in either; 8. Arizona,
or Southwestern New-MexicO; and 4. Washoe,
Carson Valley, or Western Utah. Of these Idaho
must now have population of Sixty Thousand;
Arizona perhaps Five Thousand; Dakota some Ten
Thousands and Washoe from Twenty to Forty
Thousand.
ii. Each ofthese has spontaneous, mproyised
Government-poor enough, doubtless, but the best
its people could make. They are poor; they are
busy; they are vagrant; they have made Govern
ments because they had none and could not do
without. They rest on no basis but that of Squat
"ter Sovereignty" and are therefore reasonable
in their character according % some of Mr.. Doug
iass nculcatiOns, (witness his Springfield, Illinois,
speech of June or July, 1856 and it is quite pos
siblc that robber who should be sentenced to
death by one of their Courts could obtain stay of
execution from Federal Court, but for the fact
that he is executed before any such Cont has a
chance to interpose. This state of things is anon
alOus, fraught with peril, and ought not to endure.
III. As it was clearly impracficable to obtain
the concurrence of the House, Senate, and PreSi.
dent, in any plan for the organization of these en-
bryo communities into regular Territories, to be
ruled as satrapies of the Federal Government, Mr.
Eli Thsyer proposed al the late session to recog-
nize such organization as they may nave effected
or may effect for themseves-that is, to erect each
into distinct Land District. with rude outline
of organization-or rather, an assignment Of def
mite limits, and a possibility of creating organ
izaton and domestic government for herself, with.
out interference from or Infringement upon exist
listing organizations.
~. As it ls and has been, so it seems likely for
years to be, impractcable to organize new Terrific
res after the old pattern, with their chief fuocton
aries appointed and paid from Washington aud
their Legislatures dependent On Congress. The
Senate viii ilsist that they be subjected to the
law Of Slavery; the House that they be con-
formed to the law of Impartial Freedom. Yet
state of anarchy is iatOlerabe and must not en-
dure. And, since Congress caunot or will not or
ganize them, why not recognize and legalize such
temporary organization as they may seyeraly
establish or have established for themselves
V. La view of these facts and considerations, a
majority of the Republicans present voted to sus-
pend the rules in favor of the introduction of Mr..
Thayer's bill, while three -fourths Of the Demo
Gratis either voted again,t it or lodged. SO the
measure was temporarily defeated.
These facts bear their own comment. aud citi-
zens who favor an honest and faithful application
of popular Sovereignty" Will bear them in mind.