The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-01
The Admission of Colorado.

The Admission of Colorado.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York Tribune, after stating the action |
of the Senate on the 25th ult, on the
bill for the admission of Colorado, says
" The excessive opposition Of those
claiming 10 monopolize the Presidents |
wishes lead to apprehensions of a veto,
though the President is upon the re-
cord in it's favor by a special message
urging her admission" This is false, |
and the writer must have known it to
be So But it is characteristics Of radi-
calism, which prefers to lie even when
the truth might subserve its purpose.
The following message, sent to Con-
gress on the 18th Of January last is all
the record President johnson has made
on the subject
/ transmit herewith a communication ad
dressed TO me by Messrs. John Evans and
J. B. Chalfee, IS United States Senators
elect from the S ate Colorado, toqether
with the accompanying documents Under
the authority Of the act Of Congress ap-
proved the 21st day Of March, 1864, the
people OF Colorado, through q Convention,
formed Constitution making provision for
a State Government, which, when submit
ted TO The qualified voters Of the Territory,
was rejected. In the summer of 1868, a sec
Ond Convention was called ~ tho Ia Gu I've
Commits Of the several political parties Of
the Territory, which assembled a. Denver
90 the 8th day Of August. On the lZtn day
Of that month this Convention adopted
State Constitution, which was submitted to
the people on the 5th Of September, 1865,
md ratified by majority of one hundred
and fhy-fve Of the qualified voters. The
proceedings in theisecond instance having
differed IN time and mode from those speci-
fed in the Act of March q, 1864, l have
declined TO issue the pr, clsmaton for
which provision Is made in the 9TH section
Of the law, and therefore submit the ques-
tion for the consultation and fur.heT act on
Of Congress.
Now let us see who else are on the
record against the admission of Colora-
do, and who have changed:
Early in the year 1864, Congress
passed an Enabling Act for the Terri
tories of Nevada and Colorado, which
provided that they should become
States when the people stipulated in
State Constitutions. First-That there
shall be neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude in the said States, otherwise
than in the punishment of crimes.
Second-That perfect federation of re-
ligious sentiment shall be guaranteed.
Third-That they shall forever dis
claim all right and title to the unap-
propriated pulic lands lying within said
Territories.
So soon as the people should ratify
these Constitutions by majority Of
votes, these territories were at once to
become States The Enabling Act also
expressly provided that having re-
ceived copy of said Constitution and
the certificate of the Territorial Gov
ernor as to the validity of the election,
sit shall be the duty of the President
of the United States to issue his procla
nation declaring the State admitted
into the Union on an equal footing
with the original States a0ithOsa any
further action whatever on the part of
Congress" This Enabling Act was ap-
proved by President Lincoln on the
2Ist of March, 1864, and in conformity
to It's provisions he issued on the 3lst
of October of the same year a procla-
nation declaring Nevada admitted into
the Union, and Senators Nye and Stew
art afterward took their seats in the
Senate, and Mr.. Ashley in the House.
Colorado did not come up to the re-
ouirements Of the Enabling Act, as
will be seen from the message Of Presi-
dent johnson above, and he submitted
further action to Congress. Accord
ingly on the 18th of January, bill was
reported in the Senate by Mr.. Wilson,
providing for the admission of Colorado
On the 9th of February, Messrs. Chatter
and Evans, Senators elect from the
Territory, were admitted to the floor OF
the Senate. On the It'll of March, MIR.
Wilson's bill came up, and was read the
second time Six days later, March l3,
the bill came up for final passage, when
Colorado was refused admission by the
following vote:
YEas-Messrs. Chandler, Cragin, Kirk
wood, Lane, (Ind.) lane, (Kan.) McDougal,
Nesmith, Norton, Pomeroy, Ramsey, sher-
man, Stewart, Trumbull, Williams-I4.
NAYs-Messrs. Buckalew, Conness, Cfess-
well, Davis, DoOlittle, Fessenden, Foster,
Grin e.. Guthrie, Harris, Hendricks, Nor
gan, Morrill,, Poland, Riddle, sprague, stock
lou, Samner, Van Wrinkle, Wade, VIII
son--2i.
Republicans to the number of eleven
voted against the admission of Colorado
because her Constitution failed to con
fer the right of suffrage upon the ne
gro. In looking over the vote of the
25th ult, we find that Eve Republicans
who in March voted against the admis-
sion of Colorado on account of negro
outrage, changed about and cast their
ballots in favor of her admission when
no change whatever has been made in
the State Constitution. In other words
these Eve Solons who wish to impose
negro suffrage or the South are willing
to sink their boasted principles and
admit Colorado in order to add to their
strength in the Senate.
From this statement of facts we learn
what reliance to place in the Tribune'i
correspondence, as well the causes
which are at work to secure the admis
sionaof Colorado When radicalism
thought it could get along without
Colorado, it opposed her admission
Now that it discovers it cannot, why
she must be admitted.
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