Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-02
A Growing Feeling Against the Multi
plleatiOn of States-COBgress
Would Never Consent.
We Have Enough OF States at Present
As Many rs We can Well Take
Care of.
Ffom the savannah Morning News.l

The movement looking 10 the con
structiOn of new State out of tn
northern portion OF Mississippi, Wes
Tennessee, and tie western point of Ken
lucky, has attr-cted but little attention
The promoters of it can hardly be sal
to have hearing in the journals pub
lished in the territory proposed to b
thus reOrganiZed, nor, has what nois
they have made, attracted more than
passing notice from the general press O
the country. The reasons for this indif
ference to the projsct may be briefly sta
ted. 1t l., in the present state of publ,
opinion, utterly impracticsble. A feel
ing has been quietly growing eve
since the foundation of our government
against a multiplication OF the Stat,
governments, except in cases of abSO
lutte necessity. It has long been felt a
an anomaly Of our system, that W,
should have a legislative body not re
sponsible directly TO the people. TIT
senate was denounced by Jefferson as
relic of English aristocrscy, and it
composition as unjust to the large
States. What so much resem
bles the old, and now almos
defunct, English rotten borough repre-
sentatiOn as the spectacle of Rhode Is
land, Delaware and Nevada, having
equal weight in our highest Legislative,
body with Ohio, New York and Penn.
sylvania? This anomalous and Outra
geOus system of representation has beer
p5rpetuated for the simple reason thai
IL is impossible to get rid OF it by Al
amendment to the constitution. The
small States-rOtten borOughs-would
inevitably make common cause in the
senate, and so deprive the measure Of 8
twO-thirds majority. The constitutional
provision upon which it rests was the
result Of compromise, to secure the votes
Of the small States for the adoption oI
that instrument. This compromise,
made by the framers, came near defeat
ing the constitution in New York, Vir.
ginis and Georgia. 1t was the theme oi
the fiercest phillipics of Patrick Henry,
who opposed the adoption of the instru-
ment with all his elOquence and influ-
ence. Neither the senate, nor the mode
of its election, nor the spportionment OF
its constituency, have ever been popular
with the people at large, and they
are not likely to support a move
ment that looks to a multiplication
OF new States out Of territory included
in the old ones, and thereby increasing
the numbers and power Of a body for
which they have 10 love. Then, it is
patent to the most casual observer that
our largest States are quite as well and
as cheaply governed as the small ones.
In fact, they have grown in proportion
more powerful and wealthy. And, if
for no other reason, this clearly points
10 the expediency of reducing rather
u 10 ffn 10 DrrF =
urged in behalf of the project that it will
practically segregste the black and white
races in Mississippi-tha the new State
will be the very paTadisaical realization
of "white mans government This,
We take it, is an argument against it. If
the negroes are as unfit for self-govern-
ment as We are told they are by these
new-State makers, why leave them to
themselves, and 80 insure a large in
crease of cOlOred representation in both
branches Of congress. And then, sup
pose the project is realized, and every
negro in the territory thus reorganized,
should emigTate to Louisiana or Missis-
sippi? What sort Of justice is this,
either to the negro or the white popula-
ton Of those States? And above all,
who will hoe the corn and cotton, hew
the wood and draw the water, build the
railroads and canals, for the lovely peo-
pie Of this prOspectively lovely common
wealth? The talk Of segregation is non
sense. The people don't desire it, how
ever ardently it may be advocated by
the politicians. Instead of bettering the
races, it weuld seriously injure the
whites, and probably ruin the negroes.
White men, beside which our present al
most extinct race Of political carpet
baggers are angels Of light, would rush
into these Africanized States and plum
der the substance Of the people, and in
one decade a violent revolution would
be the result. The new State scheme is
a child of politicians, and of politicians
not one whit more honest or patriotic
than those they constantly denOunce as
Jewelers. and "negro unifiers." The
people know this, and have therefore
given it a wide berth.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.l
The convention at Jackson, Tennes-
see, looking toward the formation Of a
new State out of portions of Kentucky,
Tennessee and Mississippi, has taken
definite action with that object. We do
not believe, however, that the move
ment has any considerable vitality. In
western Kentucky the question has been
agitated to some extent, but it does not
appear to have proceeded from any real
necessity felt or expressed on the part Of
the people. In western Tennessee, we
are informed that il is not recognized as
in the least partaking Of q popular move
ment, nor do the people OF north Missis-
sippi appear to be greatly exercised over
it. Doubtless the gentlemen prominent
in the convention at Jackson are not
wholly absolved from certain ambitious
hopes which the formation Of the pro-
posed State is looked to TO crafty. It
is hardly probable that, for some years,
at least, these hopes will be crowned by
the issue.
From the st. Louis Globe.l
We have had the impression for some
time that there are already more States
in the south than are well taken care of,
and our opinion in regard TO this new
State movement is that the people of
Kentucky, tennessee and Mississippi
would show more political wisdom In
developing the resources OF their States,
restoring good feeling among the people.
and letting exciting issues alone for a
while. than in attempting to build new
for office-holders.
From the Memphis Avalanche Of yesterday
The new State to be composed of
West Tennessee, North Mississippi and
Southern Kentucky would rank in the
first class of southern States. Indeed,
il would embrace the best parts Of the
three States, and a common system OF
legislation would apply without con-
ficts of interest. The tendency OF the
times is opposed TO the formation and
,reatiop of new States, and rather favors
The New England States,
for instance, could be and ought TO be
into two States; New Jer-
;ey be absorbed by Pennsylvania, and
Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia
py old Virginia. South Carolina could
be- obIiterated from the map without det-
-iment to the Republic, by being divid-
ID between North Carolina and Georgia.
The readiustment Of the old map of the
United States upon the basis of the con-
solidation of the States that are too
small, or of no importance, so as to con-
form TO the progress of the times and to
.be ideas Of the last revolution, is more
than the carving out of new
States from the bodies of the old. There
is too little vitality IN the old States for
division.
From the Brownsville Bee
Has it never occurred to you
that one might go about ell over the
United States and pick out first-rate
pieces Of territory out of which to form
new States by cutting up old ones? The
whole country is full Of that sort of soil
and climsse. And will congress and