The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-06
~ nno,nalv In Our Government.

The peculiar ieatuie ~ - 49, l.''-s~-,r,-,~l
Constitution OF Sta.es.rIghts-tnat Which,
gires TO each State two senatorial represent
tstives-has been strocously employed ioi
narlv purposes. What is worse, the yer!
small States have With their two representa-:
t;vas each done more than the large States ~
destroy the very Constitution under WINCH
they arc made in the Senate, each OF tneth'
equal to The larsest State In the Union.
We fnye just seen the vile strategy OF Inc
Radical party 10 endeavoring to take adVan'
tage of this Satc-rights feature. That party
had used au its power to destroy state
.ights yet, having lost several senator's os
the receus revolution in public opinion, they
sought at the recent session Of congress 70
take refuge under the very CONSTITUTIONAL
feature which they had as far as they could
/ rendered nuganery.
Having lost dozen or more senators u
was though. good measure to admit TWO
new States, which would probably ada TWO
new Republican senators to the Radical pow
er in Congress. These two new states tnat
we're to hewere Colorado and New mexico.
Our readers know that only one of tue TWO
bills passed. Colorado was admitted rs
State. New Mexico has TO wait. But the
! Republicans, led by BUTLER, made strohg
effort 20 carry both The bad motives Of tue
party are thus stated bS one of the abest Of
Republican Journals in the United STATES
the Cincinnati Commercial. ....
His true that IN late years the Commercial
f hasspoken independently; but yetfe" papers
dM more 10 promote the triumph OF tne
Radical party. The Commercial says
"By one of che DEGREES of the party eau
rms. which now rules the destinies OF tn''
.cou ntry at Washington, two lizzie comnu
mites in oar far.of and iso'ated terltoiN:
sla sc been admitted TO the Unfon as States
i Tue country did not want Ne" meXiso snc
RI Co,orado- the Reps bican caucus dlo ahC
mo Ren,,l5;an C ,lous have carried the day
! over the heads of the people. Our puroi'no
politicians. who sec with gloomy eyes thell
narty lettering toward its fall, through IT,
own internal corruptions and dlsSenslons
fancy that tw vigorously throwing out an'
chors to 8indward the ship will yet escape
being stranded ts7on the breakers. They nave
!. heen assured by the handful of New Next
, can ana Colorado politicians, who have beep
infestins the capitol, that the Legislatures oil
; both those Territories are safe to elect Re
4 nuhJ;can senators. The Republicans, hay
ING new lost twelve senators In the upper
= hranc, of Congress, and fearing still further
I denietion of their number in the next gene
, raj election, have graSped at chance OF pre-
, seryinc the balance of power in the legl>a'
, tive branch of the Government by securing
II four more Republican senators at the ex
x pense of making sovereign States out OF 6
: handful of half-breeds, miners, and squatters
! in these remote Territories
+. This is terrible witness against the Re
r pubHcans. He tells the truth, indeed, anC
:. too forcibly for them does be say that time
:. "win sbeW the monstrouS absurdity anC
. "fatslty of this action of partisan Con
: "gress.'' Colorado is in the Union, and it i;
suggested knowingly that she may add two
= Democratic instead Of Republican senators
/. to the senatorial body! 1t would be jus
|. retributioh.
# The Commercial wants emo more rottel
!. "boroughs Us States admitted into our pc
# "liticll system" And very reasonably
| ms TASTY aGullsslou vi St@tGs ioA patty p"'
O poses is we'll calculated to bring the conser
g vatpe feature of our Government Of giving
y equal representation to all the States into dis
I repute.
il We shall probably soon see powerful
4 effort made to change the Constitution so
t to vindcste the rights of the people agains
d the injustice of giving the six New Englan'
# States doubIy as many representatives IN tn
4 National Senate as the empire States of New
York, pennsylvania, and Ohio put together
n If this effort is made it will be due to tn
j outrages .prseticed by the Republican party
f Its success could hardly be considered as any
D thug but a Just retributon upon the New
England States.