The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-27
A dmission Of Colorado.

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A bill for the admission of Colorado as a State
passed the Senate on "wednesday, and will doubt
lese pass the House. The creation Of this new State
is piece of partisanship of the purest water,
Earlier in the session, before it was seen to
what lengths the quarrel with the President
would run, and the need the Republican party
would have of two or three additional votes to
be completely victorious over the veto, the ap-
propTate committee of the Senate reported,
alter full investigation, that Colorado ought not
10 be admitted, and the Senate approved the
report. Had the President sent in no vetoes,
there would have been no thought of admitting
Colorado, any more than there was OF unseating
Senator Stockton. Besides the inconsistency
betW cen the earlier and later action OF the
Senate, the Republicans tall INTO a glaring in
consistently In admitting, without negro SUIT
iTaPe new state tor the purpose OF increasing
the Congressional strength OF the party which
is determined TO force negro suffrage on the
South.
When the bill for admitting Colorado has
pas ed the House, and is sent to the President,
we trust he Will veto It, It Is absurd to erect an
immature Territory into a State for the mere
purpose of swelling preponderant sectional
vote, when eleven 0l the ola States OF the Union,
States which have always been IN the Union,
are excluded from their Just representation.
When Territory is denied admission as State,
even il 1t were Iipe Tor admlsslon, no constitu-
tIUnal right is denied. But the exclusion OF
actual States is plain violation both of the
lettei and the spirit OF the Constitution. Ii the
seven Republican Senators who voted yesterday
atainst the Colorado bill will stand their
ground, veto OF the bill viii prevail. We can
not doubt that the President will oppose the ad-
mission OF any new States until the rights OF the
old ones are conceded.
IT. as the Republicans have determined, the
Southern States are not TO be represented until
alter the ratification o. a constitutional amend
ment oTdalning universal negro suffrage the
failure OF those States to ratily may all the
Territories to be hurried in at once. But even
il the eight Territories were admitted, 1T
would still be in the power OF the united South
10 defeat Constitutional amendments. Eight
! new States added TO the present thrty-siX would
make torty-tour, OF which the eleven excluded
| States would be precisely one fourth. If the
Territories were all States, the eleven could not
indeed, successfully resist Constitutional
amendment acting by themselves; but
! Kentucky and Delaware, which would
change the numbers to thirty-one against
! thirteen, rendering amendme nts impossible till
! the Southern combination was broken. The
! Republicans have apparently counted on this,
| which is the secret OF the project now on foot
| Tor diviolng Tennessee, ana erecting the new
! State of East Tennessee. What further plans
! they have in contemplation does not yet appear.
But they are in no hurry to have their negro
suffrage amendment adopted, so long as il will
serve as preteXt tor excluding the South.
! Universal negro suffrage would be of less ad-
vantage to the Republican party in Presi-
dental election than the shutting out Of eleven
whole States from all participation in the con-
! test. This is what they count on certainly for
the nert Presidential election, and probably for
the next ten years. -.. .. .I..r.