Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-21

lne rOTmST pTONlueu dn lnuepenueul
 right that the congress could not ig
 nore without ignoring the law. which it never did
 These same provisions for the ad
 mission of territories as states were
 thirteen months later. re-enacted and adopted by the congress of the United States after the Constitution was or dained and adopted. and extended over and applied to all territory lying south and this was the only law ever enacted for the admission of the territories as states. It is the only law now on th5 federal statutes on that subject. and i it has been followed by this govern
 ment in the admission of states foi
 more than a hundred years.
 From this ordinance then, provid
 ing for the Northwest Territory, lying between the Ohio and Mississippi. il was provided that the territory should be organized into not less than three, and no more than five states Let it be remembered that all of this territory contained but 24S,965 square miles. but about 12.OO0 more than Ari
 zona and New Mexico, and was to be made into not less than three. and might be five. not more The fathers therefore. designed that the states of this union. as the original states al ready were, should be small and com pact for the purpose of easy and eco nomical administration This territory was in the course of time settled. and finally cut up into five small states, the largest being Michigan with but 58.915 square miles. The smallest is Indiana with but 36,35O
 From this then it must be seen that the fathers who made the government had three principles in view and es- tablished them as the national policy with relerencee to the organization of territories and their admission as states. They were. 1 That the terri torial government should be but tenn porary. and should so remain only so long as the people should be unable 10 maintain a state government. 2 That a territory on organization. was clothed with the inchoate right of ulti- mate statehood, and that such right was to be exercised when, by reason of it's population and resources, it was able to assume ,ne duties and obIiga- uons of a state. 3. That. for the pur- pose of easy and economic administra- ton of the affairs of the states they should be composed of as small an amount of territory as practical opera tion in carrying out these purposes should require. These three proposi- tions were. at the beginning, fastened in the law of the nation, and has been for over a century regarded as founded in wisdom and justice, and so long followed that they have be come the settled doctrine of the Amer ican policy. A violation of any oi these. or of either of them, reversing
 this long settled policy would be ad
 mitted by all. revolution, especially i
 long followed. and if revolution. ther ! injury must be the fruit it shall bear
 The purpose of this letter is to ge | before the people the plain fact tha
 first. the fathers who won the Amer ican independence and obtained all o
 this vast domain to be organized int,
 states. did fix and establish a deinit
 set of principles that should be fol
 lowed with reference to these terrific
 ries. and that the effort to ride owe
 them by the passage of the Hamilton iointure bill is revolution against tn
 fixed principles of the fathers. We d this, because in order to understan
 how revolutionary this jointure prC ceeding is, it is necessary to undel stand what the beginning was. how was adopted, what motive prompte , it. and who did it. These being frs seen, then it becomes easy to folio , the natural course, taking its own re : ord as highway. to discover just ho rebellious this jointure proceeding to the established principles of th : fathers. and how revolutionary it is l, the policy of this nation, now over 1( , years old. I shall follow up this ', giving the action of the governmel e for all time heretofore, to show tn s every congress and every administr }, ton prior to the present one land u g two preceding houses of congress g have he'd in high regard and obey T. the law passed by the fathers, and f. e lowed their settled doctries wh' n they came to disposing of territorit e and did it in line with their fixed rule a- and that no such rebellion or revol D tion was ever attempted. or even It timated. until the present jointu eI was enrtlnp hV a set of "hOt-sDur