New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-24
THE CASE OF COLORADO.
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/ A SECTIONAL LINE BETWEEN RAsT AND WEST.
/ few days ago we published the debate in full,
in the United States Senate the question OF the
! admission of Colorado into the Union as State.
We also published the vote in detail whereby the
Senate refused by fourteen to twenty-one to order
the bill to third reading. The defeat of this bill
taken in connection with an analysis of the ayes
and noes on the final vote, develops combination
/ in the Senate which has shown itself, on this
occasion, for the first time this session.
Upon most questions indeed, upon all polStica!
questions, the positions of parties in the Senate
have this far been strictly defined. The small band
of Democrats there have had the aid of few
Republicans, like Dooittle and Cowan, upon point
Of sustaining the reconstruction policy Of the
President; but even with this reinforcement they
were vastly in the minority and had to submit with
exemplary patience to the domineering of a com
pact Republican majority. But when we come to
look at the vote upon the admission of Colorado,
we lind all traces of party organization gone.
The vote in the Affirmative shows curious tumble
of Democrats and Republicans, while the larger
negative vote show the same laxity of party dis
cipline and the same mingling of antagonistic
party elements.
Upon closer analysis of the vote, however, it
will appear that instead of being party vote it
| was sectional one. The Western Senators voted
| for the admission Of Colorado the Eastern sena-
tors voted against it For the first time in the his
| tory Of the country we see the line distinctly
drawn, in the United States Senate, between the
Westand the East! With one single exception
those Senators who voted for the admission of
Colorado, represent Western States. With three
exceptions only-and these of Senators nominally
Western, but who have always sustained protec-
tive tariffs and other Eastern interests-there was
solid Eastern vote against the admission of this
new Western State! Could such combination be
merely accidentas
1t Is curious to read the reasons which Mr.. Sum
ner, Mr. Fessenden and other Eastern Senators
gave for refusing admission to Colorado. One is
irresistibly reminded of Talleyrand's declaration,
that language was given to man to conceal his
thoughts. Sumner, for instance, objected that the
Constitution Of Colorado did not provide for negro
suffrage, but Mr.. Sumner has already voted for the
admission Of several States equally derelict in that
respect. Moreover, after offering an amendment
to cure that defect, he afterwards withdrew the
amendment without assigning any reason therefor,
md voted against the bill. Mr.. Fessenden refused
70 admit Colorado because the people, some years
sgo, when they were few in number, declined the
responsibilities and pecuniary burdens of State
government. as if that were a good reason now,
when, from increased population and resources,
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sons, but not more sincere, when they objected to
giving State with few thousand voters the
same weight in the Senate as State like New York
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objections, IN the face OF the fact that but one
lngle member OF the Senate from all of the States
asst OF Pittsburg. was found to vote for their ad-
llYTon. People Will be more apt to seek solu
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