Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-23
GROWTH OF THE STATES
ATAPM az NEW ENGLAND.

i New England wants extension of power,
both in latitude and longitude. She sees
with alarm the growth of the western
States. She begins to fear the Ver1nca-
ton of the poetical apothegm hat Inc
star of empire tends westward" Sne
reads the proposition of Chicago, that her
sister city, st. Louis, shall be made the
federal capital. She sees the opening OF
the Pacific States, and through all her
sesfshness and s~ectionalism, observes
that this vast territory will soon become
organized States, teeming with unIolo
millions, and peopled by hardy, vigorous,
intelligent and industrious multitudes.
While Furope and the Atlantic shores
send their tens of thousands of immi-
grants annually, Asia and the isles OF the
Pacific will make the influx greater a
hundred fold. A recent intelligent estl-
mate of the immigration from China alone
Axes the number at 20,000,000 in three
years. Whatever may be thought Of sueh
calculation, it is certain that as soon as
certain obstacles are removed and means
of transit provided the myriads from tnal
region will be innumerable.
IN view of all these things New Eng
land has rood reason to be alarmed lest
the scepter shall depart from between her
feet with characteristic selishness she
look around for means to avert impend-
ing fate: and with a lack of sagacity BEN
citing a people purblind n sectlonal-
lied, she proposes to split up her states
into others and thus temporarily prolong
her power. -,
THE effort is as vain as the result will
prove fruitiess, With equal hope she
might seek to blot the Pacific States from
the map or to erect a wall around the
Western ones that should prevent inter-
communication.
The proposition now in hand IN New
- - 49,, ATaa1npn1entfG IF
ia 10 make a new State out of its four
western counties. This project is to be
followed by constructing two new States
ont of portions Of Maine, thus adding
three States to the domains of Yankee
land and six new members to the upper
house of Congress. In support of this
project it is urged that the fou counties
have a territory as large and a population
as numerous az New Jersey.
This proposition hardly deserves any
consideration. 1t is unqualified absurdity.
| New England should hesitate aboHt stir
ring auv scheme looking to achange ofthe
tournaments of her States lest the people
discover a very proper and more desira-
BILE, and certainly more just one can be
made, involving the consolidation OF
Yankeeland into two Senatorial districts
or States. Such would be amore reaSona-
BILE and equitable arrangement.
Theabove, from he Springfeld GILL
Register, (Dem.) speaks the beginning
of a struggle for power, by the Puri-
tan, but no longer dominant section.
The West and the South have n in
terest, and consequently c~oalesce. The
antagonism is nc longer North against
South, but Northeast against WEST and
South, in which New England viii
not be strong enough to form a balance
! OF power. She may get up Hartford
conventions, but she can no more gov
ern nor go out. The South and West
have sworn that there shall be no
more secession, and New England
shall stay in and take spot luck
with US, Think Of gerrymandering
the six petty little New England
States into nine, which would not be
equal to nine respectable counties in
Texas! Twenty years from now the
whole of New England will not con-
tain a population larger than the sin,
gle States of Ohio, Missouri, Tennes.
see, Georgia or Texas. The Solons OF
her Athens will have gone West and
South, and only her old maids and
pigmies will remain to hum"