South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1866-05-25

Territory, with view of oDtalniiiss 4 recon-
sitlcration Of the result Of the election held
in compliance with the act Of Congress, ap.
proved March 2lst, 1864. at this second
election 5,905 votes were poIled and y small
majority of 155 was given in favo. Of 4
State organization. 1t does not seem TO me
entirely safe TO permit this last mentioned
result, so irrcgularly obtained, to outweigh
the one which had been legally obtained in
the first election. Regularity and conform
ity to law are essential to thg preservation
of order and stable govcrnmedE and should,
as far as practicable always bA observed in
the formation of new States Ne
3rd. The admission of Colorado at this
time rs L State into the Union appears to
Inc to be Incompatible with the public in
tcrcsts Of the country, while it is desirable
that Territories, when sufficiently maturcd,
should be organized rs States. Yet the
spirit of the Constitution seems to re-
! quirc that there should be M apprcxima-
ton towards equality among the scvcra!
States comprising the Union. No State
can have less nor more than two Senators in
| Congress. The largest STATE has pnpui;-
ton of four millions, several other States
have population exceeding two millions,
and many others have population exceed
ing one million. If this bill should become
il las, the people Of Colorado, thirty thou
sand i'll number, would have in the House
Of Representatives one member, while New
York with population of four millions, has
but thirty-onc. Colorado would have in
the electoral college three votes, while New
York has only thirty three. Colorado wculd
have in the Senate two votes while New
York has no more. inequalities of this
character have already occurred, but it is
believed none have happenal where the in
equality was so great. When such Unequal
! ty has been allowed, Congress is sup
posed to have permitted it Oh the grounds
of some high public necessity and under cir
cnmstanccs which promised that it would
rapidly disappear, through the growth and
development Of the newly admitted State,
thus i'll regard to the several States in what
WAS formerly called the Northwest territory
lying cast of the Mississippi river, thcirrapid
advance i'll population rendered it certain
that States admitted with only one or two
representatives in Congress would in very
short period be entitled to q great. .iuara.sa
adlns:tcl Oh tie ground al coinmercial and
political cxigcncics it waswcll torcsccn that
that State was destined rapidly to become
Il great, prosperous and imporian; mining
and commercial community. In the case
. Of Colorado am not aware that any na-
tional cxigcncy, either of 4 political or COM
mcrcial nature, requires 4 departure from
the law Of equality which has been SO gen
orally adhered TO i'll our history If the
information submitted in connection with
this bill is reliable, Colorado, instead of in
crc;sing has declined in Population. At
an election f"r members of a territorial lc
sisiaiurc held in 1851, 10, $50 votes were
cast: at the election before mentioned in
l>64, the number was IL, l32 while at the
irregular election hcldin 1SG:,. which is AS
sumcd rs basis of Legislative action 4; this
time, the aggregate number CT votvs was
5,%"j. Sincerely anxious f,r the wei
! fare and prosperity Of every Territory and
State, As we'll as for the prosperity and wei
fare Of the whole Union, rr.r,t this ap
parent define o!popuation in Colorado: bn;
il j. lEanitr.t thl. ii is due tr cnii,ratioD
wh;c! * going on from that Territory into
other regions within the United States which
are richer or in fact arc believed hv the in
haoi;amts OF Colorad" to be richer, in mime
rIl wealth and agricultural rc>oi;rccs. Ii.
however, Colorado has not r"%:,,y: declined
III population, another ccnS::s rr auo;iar C.
lection. under the authority e Con.rcS<
would place thcIucstinn b,yoni doubt. and
causes but little delay in tkr ultimate re-
ccp.ion Of the Territory as State if ,!csir
cl i'y IT," people. The tenor OF the, Oh
jcctions, first furnishes the reply which uav
be expected 10 ain argument in favor of the
measure derived frcm the enabling act which
was passed by Congress on the 2lst day Of
March, 1864, although Congress then SIP
posed that the condition Of the Territory
was such as TO warrant its admission rs a
State. The result Of two years experience
shows that every reason which existed for
the institution Of Il Territorial instead of :,
State Government in Colorado at its first or.
gauization, ,-stil continues. The condition
of the Union at the present moment Is: cal
ciilatcd to inspire caution in regard to The
admission Of nav States, eleven Of The old
est States have been for some time and still
remain unrcrrcscntcd in Congress. II is =
common interest Of all the States as well rs
tI tho.s ;, represented Il, 1896. tqursprcscnts.I,
that thc integrity and .tc.1'&' ofthc Union
should be restored as'n 4 'ly as posi-.
bic, 80 tha; all those IN ~ expected TO
bear the burdens Of tl~'QIkl government
shall he consulted conccf1N.g 2 tic admission
Of new States, and ;l,at in the meantime 40
new States shall lie rrematurcly and unnc.
cc:-ayily admitted 10 participation i'll the
political power whcl, The federal eovcru-
mcrt wiclds, not for the bcncti; of any in