The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-12-06
New States Preparing for Ad.
mission.

New states Preparing for Ad.
mission.
The Philadelphia North American calls
attention to the question Of admitting new
States into the Union this winter. ItsaYs:
ave have low attached to the Union the
Territories Of Dacotah, NshEaka, Colorado,
New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Washington
seven in all, the whole of whose government
tai expenses are paid ont Of the national
treasury. These territories had the follow
ing amount Of population when the census
of 1860 was taken Colorado 36,52S, Daco-
tab 2,576, Nebraska 2s, ,s41, Nevada 1894,
New Mexico s3 3,oo9, Utah 4o,G9o, Washing
.11,16S. None Of these have iAs population
required BY the ratio Of representation. New
Mexico has once before made application for
admission as q free State, and would no
doubt do so again if there were any chance
fo- admission. The case Of Utah is anom-
alous, and cannot be treated Of at present"
Since that census was taken, there has
been large emigration TO Colorado, lying
as it does in the pathway Of emigration and
being rich in gold mines 1t is as populous
as Oregon when it was admitted, and more
40 than the average Of the Southern States.
Nebraska, lying adjacent to Iowa, Minneso-
t. and Missouri, has received larger influx
Of immigration than Colorado. 1t has been
cl,imed, also, that the census was fraudu-
lent, and that the Territory actually has
larger population. Yhe North american
says:
'sBy the admission Of New Mexico, Color
ado and Nevada, we could reduce the num-
Der of our territories to four, diminish the
outlay from the national treasury, enlarge
the strength of the free States, and give a
representation to people who have no voice
in the national Congress-. This latter poiEt
is one of no mean importance for these seven
territories nov contain 22O, 1875 people who
arc totally unrepresented. taking merely the
census of 1860 as our guide. If q census
of them were taken now the number would
be near four hundred thousand.
"These people are all as loyal as any Of
the inhabitants Of the free States, and have
right to share in onr deliberations in some
way. They have left comfortable homes
elsewhere to brave the perils of the wilder
ness, and run up new communities remote
from friendly aid, and it becomes US to
recognize them at the earliest practical mo-
ment. This was the consideration urged in
the case es Oregon. s..-... .r.
Congress at this session should also
work for the future. It should pass acts
providing for the admission Of Dacotah,
Washington and Nevada Territories, when
ever they shall have fixed amount Of pop.
ulation, say fifty thousand, and authorizing
the territorial authorities to call conventions
and frame State constitutions whenever
such population is reached.
| "Utah Territory should be divided. I'm
portant gold discoveries have been made in
the organized part ofold Oregon Territory
which lies between the one handredth and
seventeenth meridian of longitude, the
Rocky Mountains and the forty second and
forty sixth parallels Of latitude Large
numbers Of emigrants have poured into this
wild region. and new community has been
raised there as suddenly as in Colorado and
California. This region nominally is at
tached to Washington Territory, but really
has no government. Now let it be made
the basis of new territorial organization
comprising also all Utah north Of the for
ticth parallel Of latitude, which includes
Salt Lake City and all the adjacent settle
ments, fixing the seat Of government on Sal
mon river in Old Oregon.
"There are numerous precedents for this
The Red river settlements, made long age
by Lord Selkirk, belonged first to the Brit
,sh, then to the Northwest Territory, then tc
Wisconsin, then to Minnesota, now to Da.
cotah, and may yet pass through two OF
three more territories before being finally
disposed Of
"Since Dacotah was organized, the Terri
tory Of Nebraska is long strip OF territory
stretching from the Missouri river to the
Rocky Mountains, but the western half will
no doubt be separated when Nebraska is ad
mitted as State. and viii, with the north
ern part of Utah, constitute new Territory
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