New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-05

forced us 10 enter upon IL under sucn uniuicss
disadvantages
New let us turn to the more northern State
which Mr.. Robinson proposes to constitute:
Take down map of the United States, and
trace the Arkansas and its tributaries above the
mouth of Pawnee Fork, the upper half of the
Smoky Hill and the Republican, the entire valley
of the Platte with all its branches, the immense
valley of the Missouri above the mouth Of the
Platte, with triHing exception in Western
Iowa; cross the Rocky Mountains and add
nearly or quite every foot Of what is known as
Utah-itself larger than the original thirteen
States-and you have the region which Mr..
Robinson proposes 10 erect into single State
a State embracing considerably more than one
million square miles-a State twenty times the
size of New York. But its size is not oonclu-
siye-were 30 much of its area as invites settle
ment confined to one corner Of this vast area,
it would not be an impossible State. But this
region tas already not less than four distinct
centers of population. separated by wild, sterile,
all but impossible deserts each hundreds OF miles
in extent Thus Nebraska, including what we
have designated Dakotah, has already civilized
population of some thirty or forty thousand,
which must in time increase to millions; but
while these be separated by hundreds of miles
of sterile desolation from the Mormon settle
ments around and south of Salt Lake; while the
Rocky Mountains are already peOpled BY scores
of thousands of adventurous miners who will
soon be hundreds of thousands-yet still utterly
separated at once in pursuits, IN interests, IN
modes of life, alike from the tillers OF Nebraska
on the one hand and those Of Utah on the other.
But, passing westward from the Salt Lake
region, you cross hundreds of miles OF utter
sterility and hOuselessness till you strike the
streams rushing down from the Sierra Nevada 70
be lost in the sands at their eastern base; and
here you find another community OF thirty or
forty thousands-sOOn to be swelled TO hundreds
of thousands and ultimately to millions-oi
active. enterprising miners, who look toward the
Pacific for the supply of their varied wants.
and regard journey to Salt Lake as
more to be dreaded than a trip via San
Francisco to New-York. Ia it possible that
MFR. Robinson can have considered this Wsshoe
region, the Utah Of the Mormons, the Rocky
Mountain OF pixies Peak" gold country, the
valleys of the upper Arkansas, Republican and
Smoky Hil the Platte country, and all the up
per Missouri region, as calculated to form one
homogeneous State Where is 10 be its capital'
From what point shall the inhabitants OF these
diverse communities receive the law and its IN
terpretation, Are States mere bubbles, blown
and dispelled by the breath Of legislators Sup
~g Hat al al Sal I.ala
City or at South Pass, or at Denver how would
Mr. Robinson, as q lawyer practicing at Oma-
ha or in Washoe, like to have one OF his thousand
dollar cases appealed from the district to the
Supreme Court sitting in that central cityl Or,
if he could stand it. has he no mercy on his
client
We appeal to practical men. II it be neces-
sary ITO what j to make State two thousand
miles long, should not its parts have some natural
conference, or at least some reciprocal acoessi-
biljty Must It be so carved out that its popu-
lation sha be nearly all on its circumference,
hardly any near its center 7 States are presumed
to be made in accordance with the wishes and
interests of their inhabitants: but do we not all
know that this one is put together with an eye
that we are urged to cross-6le Dakotah Upon
Utah, Nebraska on Washoe, purely to keep South
Carolina and Georgia from pitching into and fog
qnq the rest Of usl And il the making Of 40
incongruouo and unwieldy State be bad in it
self. is not the reason for making it still worse
II it we're desirable TO carve up oil the present
territory of the United States into embryo or
provisional States the natural division would
manifestly be nearly this:
|. Nebraska, reaching north to White Earth
River and west to the forks of the Platte;
2. Dakotah, embracing all north and north
west of the above;
3. Idaho, or the Rocky Mountains and the
Plains for say hundred miles on each side;
a. Utah, or the Mormon settlements in the
Great Basin, with all that fairly pertains thereto;
5. Washoe, or the eastern slopes Of the Sierra
Nevada, with the region stretching ono 10 two
hundred miles eastward from their base;
6. New.MeIico, including all the valley Of the
upper Rio Grande;
7. Arizona, or the valleys of the Gila and Colo.
rado.
If these we're duly marked OF as embryo
States, and either organized as Territories now
are or authorized to elect officers for themselves,
it would then be time for those who choose it
to vote that they shall be admitted with or with
out Slavery as they shall see ht, whenever they
shall duly apply, having the requisite population
This is the point aimed at in all the projects
of compromise; but we know not another that
attains it 10 awkwardly, and at such cost to the
people more Immediately interested, as does that
of Mr.. Robinson.