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Fclitor A: Proprietor. The Old Iforlii St*te ff'orcTer.^—Gaston. Sing^le Copies Fire Cents VOL L SALISBURY. N. C.. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1867 NUMBER 165 i’hii.a jii:i.]'iiiA a d VKir rs. A1) VEItTISEMESTS. FIELD, LANGSTROTH & CO., uoticbtosbtti.b.-tiikn-otes IISPOHTSES A r\ ■ct IX F 0 R EI G X i D 0 M E S TIC HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, etc., NO. 4 )0 MAItKET ST. PHI A. We are constantly receiving addi- dilions to our stock from accounts, aiitl claims of the firm of Browu, Coffin A: Mock are in the hands of Luke Blackmer, Esj., for collection and as we are in yreat neetlof money we hope our friends will call upon Mr. Blackmer promptly and make a settlement. His office is in thecourt liouse. JOHN D. BROWN, J. M. COFFIN, A. J. MOCK. "" Sali.sburv, Oct. 26, 1800. . tw—tf NOTICE TO SETTLE. All of the Not**8 and Accounts belong ing to the firm of BROWN, COFFIN & MOCK, are iu. ni}' liands for collection, and all parties indebted to the firm will please call on me, at my office, and settle. LUKE BLACKMER. Oct. 27,’66. tw&w 4w. THE OLD NORTH STATE. ri'RI-WEEKLY.] RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. =£11 TEUMS—CASH IN AOVANCE. . ?5.00 3.00. . ■ 75 cts. Weekly, One Year » Six Months, One Month, [WEEKLY.] .^eekly paper, One Year, - - - I 3.00 “ “ Six months, • • 1.50 “ “ Teh copies One Year, - 22.00 “ “ Twenty copies, One Year, 40.00 A cross X on the paper indicates the expiration of the sub.scription. The tyjie on which the “Old North State,” is printed is entirely new. No pains will be spared to make it a welcome visitor to every family. In order to do this we have engaged the .services of able and accomplished literary contributors. English, French, German VALUABLE FLANTATlOir for ^ Sale.—For ShIh VnJ-tarwhJjf X^ln AXl) American Manufacturers. M'-rchauts vi.^itinE ihi.s city arc invited to eKitmim* onr JLCGOP.TIISITT 07 GOODS, which will he offered ns low jm any huu.se iu the country. Valuable Plant-ation lying on the A'adkin River, in Davidson Uounty, sev enteen miles North we.st from Le.xington, and fourteen miles .Soutliwest from Salem, contains al»out340 acres of land. This is a very valuable and desirable farm, lying immediately on the river whichhounds itonthe i^ntliside for nearly one mile, and contains almut six ty acres of excellent bottom, besides a quantity of the best upland in a good state of cultivation. There Ls also on the jilaec one fifthebe.st W.VTKR PtlVVFR.S to he met with on the Yadkin river, Ijelow the Bean .Shoals. The improvements are good. For Inrttier particnhirs address the editor of tlie Di.d North State. Salishniy, X. ('. octl6—tf ■nlSSOLUTIOn.—THE copartner .ship licrctofore existing under the Uiinie tind firm of Bi'kke A: Hauki.sox iu the book bu- ADVERTISING RATES. 1 SQl'ARE, 2 .SQUARES, 3 SQUARES, 4 SQUARES, QUAR. COI_ HALF COL. 3 QUAR. 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It nowhere 8a3’s that Congress may make new State.s for Jiny other purpose; and yet this bill is as clear an attempt to make the institutions as any in which the people themselves could cngaW&. ^ ^ In view of this action of Congress, the House of Representatives of the Territory^ has earnestly’^ protested against being forc ed into the Union, without first having the question submitted to the people. Noth-' ing could be more reasonable than the po sition which they thus assume ; and it cer tainly cannot be the purpose of Congress to force upon a community, against their will, a government' which they do not believe themselves capable of sustaining. The following is a copy of the protest alluded to, as officially transmitted to me : Whereas it is announced in the public prints that is the intention of Congress to admit Colorado as a State into the Union. Therefore— “ Resolved by’^ the House of Representa tives of this Territory, That representing as we do, the last and only legal expres sion of public opinion on this question, we earnestly protest against the passage of a law admitting the State without first having the question submitted to a vote of the people, for the reasons—first, that we have a right to a vmice in the selection of the character of our government; second, that we have not a sufficient population to support the expenses of a State govern ment. For these reasons we trust that Congress will not force upon us a govern ment against our will.” President’s Message. ioriHtlll & IbHlH'StK* Dry (lOOdS. l^r^DaslMU aspos>il>h, at niy Nov SUnd M 4/./-;''/' v'/'/MM’/’ 111 C'owauVHru-k Row, opposin'Sprague Bros. MS MAh'hhl SJhhLl, J K. burke, Message of the President of the V. States, | Itcturning to the Senate a Bill Entitled \ “ An Act to Admit the State of Colora-: do into the Union.” I (lU'low Filth. 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C., April 28, 1866. tf To the Senate of the United States : I return to the Senate, in which House it orignatod a bill entitled “ an act to .ad mit the State of Colorado into the Union,” to which I cannot, consistently with my^ sense of duty, give my approval. With the exception of an additional section, con- Laining new provisions, it is suhsiantially W W a , a IvT. C or .S TuKK.S Co., X. C. Wri H II o o i, II o o II h r i g: li t A V o.. W II ALK I s Forrikni tb IMiiDstic Dry (loods. Ad. 722 Marhet street, (o'Ji)I oiiiitifnc I* II I I. .V U K L P II 1 , sept ‘20. tw-fim tH4S. F. MOROAN, W M . u. m ) K . AI.r.KRT 1‘ARVIN. F. r,. K.l.KINTON. CHARLES E. MORGAN & Co., nirouiKu.s and .idju’.ku.s or DRY GOODS. 712 Marhet istreei. ortou' Si./Y/q •ypt 20. isiifi. DR. EDWARD SILL, Poiiiiiiit««iiioii .Ylerchaiit, (M)IJ \!IUA, S, C. Jgi:08 TO lNF«*ini Ills MANY OLD Friends in Itowan, Ualuirnis, Iredell, Davie and the adjoining counties in the Old North Stiite, (whieh ;is ever, he i.s proud to cjill the land of his birth.) tiiat he is .-till in Coluniliiji; and although he has hei'ii dreadfully scourged hy the casualties of the Lite war, he will he hajiiiy to serv'e them in the capacity of it Commi.ssioii Merebaiit, in the sale of any oftliectiimnodities whatever, sueh as Flour llacoii, Lard, Dutter, Corn, Whisky, Cotton Yarn Tobiteco. etc., which they may he plea.sed to eu trust to his care. Any inforiniition as to the stiite of the market, either iu selling or buying, will be eheerfully and proinjttly given. EDWARD SILL. Oct. *2.'), iNiG. tw-tf the same as the bill of a similar title pass ed by' Congress during the la-st session, submitted to the President for his approval, returned with the objections contained in a message bearing date the 1.7tb of M.ay last, and yet awaiting the reconsideration of the Senate. A socond bill, having in vieAv the same purpose, has now passed both Houses of Congress and been presented for my sig nature. Having again carefully consider ed the subject, I have been unable to perceive any reason for changing the opin ions which have already been communica ted to congress. I find, on the contrary', that there are many' objections to proposed legislations of which I was not at that time aware, and that, while several of Ujton information which I considered reliable, I assumed, in my' message of the 17th of 5Iay last, that the population of Colorado was not more than thirty thous and, and expressed the opinion that this number was entirely too small either to as sume the responsibility or to enjoy the pri vileges of a State. It a.pJ>ooi'a tViixt previous to t\uvt timCy tlie Legislature, with a view to ascertain the exact condition of the Territory, had pass ed .a law authorizing a census of the popu lation to be taken. The law made it the duty'of the assessors in the several coun ties to take the census iu connection with the annual .assessments, and in order to se cure a correct ennmersilion of the popula tion, .allowed them a liberal compensation for the service hy paying them for every name returned, and added to their previous oath of office an oath to perform this duty with fidelity. From the accompanying official report it appctirs that returns have been received from fifteen of the eighteen counties into which the State is divided, and that their population amounts in the aggregate to twenty-four thousand nine hundred and nine. The three remaining counties are those which I then assigned have in the interval gained iu strength, yet others have been crc.ated by the altered character of the niciisure now submitted. The Constitution under which this State Government is proposed to be formed, ve ry' properly' contains a provision that all laws in force at the time of its adop tion and the .admission of the State into the Union shall enntinue as if the Consti tution had not been .adopted. Amongthose laws is one absolutely prohibiting negroes and mulattoes from voting. At the recent session t\v-3ni VALUABLE FLANTATZOXT FLOURING MILL to Rent. As .\(;ent of c’ol. UtEo.t. barnes, 1 wi.sli to rent PoF Cash, the planta tion ninl tnill otvirenl by the late Br. Sami. Rcrr. The plantation has about one iiiiVT).' n u\’ nvr oti tiv . UlL't l.\l.\|0| llL.li'df ; in a high Stateof etiltivatioiiand is well adapt- Xo. 432 Market street. of the Territorial Legislature a hill for the repeal of this law, introduced into the council, was almost unaniraonsK' rejected; and the very time .vlieu Con gress was engaged in enacting the bill not under consideration, the Legislature passed an act excluding negroes and mulattoes from the right to sit as jurors. The hill w.as vetoed by the Governor of the Terri tory, who held that by the laws of the U.' BEIVRV WHEELER, OF NORTH I'.MMLl.XA. WITH James Palmer & Co., WHOLESAI.E DRUGGIETS, AND dealers in btates negroes and mulattoes are citizens rillLJkUGLPlllA, BCpt 20, ISfifi tw—6m Blackburn & Holder, i»r^iF . fJENDEH THKJK SERVICES TO THE CITI- ZL'US (i! Salisbury ami the surrt>umliiig eoiin- t.*"}'. They have had iniieh ex,jerieiiee in the bu siness, utul will proiiiittlv exeeiite all orders sent : • • t, , t • , to them iu the most saiislaetory mamier. Give ^ .Salisbury', or on Lieut \\ ardeu ed to the raising of Cotton, Tobacco, Wheat and Corn, and is one of the most desirable places for cultivation iu the county. The dwelling house is large and commodious, sur rounded hy one ef the most beautiful and or namental gardens in the country The mill has three sets of stones and is a superior mill in every respect, having a large custom and pleniy of water. Parties wishiug to obtain further information can do so bycal- them a trial. Addre.ss, BLACKBURN & HOLDER, Clemmoiisville N C, or Salem ou the premises. LUKE BLACKMER. Sept. 20, 1866. tw-tf Agent. and subject to the duties as well as enti tled to the rights of citizenship. The hill however, was passed, the objections of the Governor to the contrary, notwithstanding, and is now a law of the Tciidtory. let in the hill now before me, by which it is proposed to admit the Territory as a State it is provided that ‘'there shall he no de nial of the elective franchise or any' other right, to any' person, by' reason of race or color, excepting Indians not taxed.” The incongruity thus exhibited between the legislation of Congress and that of the Ter- ritory', taken in connection with the pro test against the admission of the State, hereinafter referred to would seem clearly to indicate the impolicy and injustice of the proposed enactment. It might indeed be a subject of grave estimated to contain three thousand, mak ing a total population of twenty-seven tlioi:- sasd nine hundred and nine [27,909.] This census was taken in the summer season, when it is claimed that the popula tion is much larger th.an at any other peri od, as in the autumn miners in large num bers leave their work and return to the east, with the results of theirsummer enterprise. The population, it will be observed, is but slightly' in excess of one-fifth of the number required as the basis of represen tation for a single Congressional district in any of the States, that number being re quired 127,000. I am unable to perceive any' good reason for such great disparity in the riglit of re presentation ; giving, as it would, to the people of Colorado not only' this vast ad vantage in the House of Representatives hut an equality in the Senate, where the other States are represented by millions. With perh.aps a single exception, no such inequality as this has ever before been at tempted. I know that it is claimed that the population of the different States at the time of their admission has varied at differ ent periods ; hut it has not varied much more th.an the population of each decade, and tiic corresponding basis of representa tion for the different periods. Tlie obvious intent of the Constitution was that no State should be admit cd with a less population than thcralio of a Repre sentative at the time of application. The limitation, in the second section of the first article of the Constitution, declaring that It is respectfully submitted that howev er Congress, under the pressure of circum stances, may* have admitted two or three States with less than a representative pop ulation at the time, there has been no in stance in which an application for admis sion has ever been entertained when the population as officially' ascertained, was be low thirty thou.sand. Were there any doubt of this being the true construction of t\»e Constitution, it would be dispelled by the early and long continued practice of the Fcdend Gh)vern- ment. For nearly sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, no State was admitted with a population believed at the time to be less than the current ratio for a representative ; and first instance in which there appears to have been a departure from the principle w:is in 1845, in the case of Florida. Obviously the result of sec tional strife, would do well to regard it as a warning of evil rather than as an exam ple for imitation ; and I think candid men of all parties will agree that the inspiring cause of the violation of this wholesome principle of restraint is to be found in an attempt to balance those antagonisms which refused to be reconciled except through the bloody arbitrament of arms. The plain fac^s of our history will attest that the great leading States admitted since 1845, viz : Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minne sota and Kansas, including Texas, which was admitted that year, have all come with an ample population for one represeBtartire, and some of them with nearly or quite enough for two. To demonstrate the correctness .of my views ou this question, I subjoin a taule— containing a list of the States admit ted since the adoption of the Federal Consi'^i* tution, with the date of admission, the ra tio of representation, and the representa tive population when admitted, deduced from the United States census tables—the calculation being made for the period of the decade corresponding with the date of admission; States. Vermont Kentucky Tennessee (>hio Louisiana Indiana Mississippi Illinois Alabama Maine Missouri Arkansas Michigan Florida Texas lowd Wisconsin California Gregon Minnesota Kansas West Virginia Nevada • 1850. Adm’d. Ratio. Pop’N. 1791 33.000 92,220 1792 33,000 95,638 179G 3U,000 73,864 1802 2o,000 82,443 61812 35,000 75,212 1816 35,000 98,110 1817 35,000 53,677 1818 35,000 46,274 1819 35,000 111,150 1820 35,000 298,335 1821 35,000 69,260 1836 47,700 65,175 1837 47,700 158,773 1845 70,680 57,951 1845 70,680 189,327 1846 70,680 132,572 1848 70,580 250,497 1850 00,680 92.597 1S58 93,492 44,630 1878 93,492 138,909 1861 93,492 107,206 1862 93,492 349,628 1864 127,000 Not known o each State shall have at least one Rpre ^entiitive,” was maiiif'estlv designed to pro tect the States which originally' composed the Union from being deprived, in the event of a M’aning population, of a voice in the popular branch of Congress, and was never intended as a w'arrant to force a new State into the Union with a representative population far below that which might at the time be required of sister members of the Confederacy. Thi§ bill, in view of the prohibition of the sane secilon, which de clares that “ the number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thou sand,” is at least a violation of the spirit, if not the letter of the Constitution. Colorado, which it is now proposed to admit as a State, contains, as has already been stated, a population less than twen ty-eight thousand, while the present ratio of representation is one hundred and twen ty-seven thousand. There can be no reason, that I can per ceive, for the admission of Colorado, that would not apply with equal force to near ly every other Territory now organized, and I submit whether, if this bill becomes a law, it will be possible to resist theolog ical conclusions that such Territories as Dacotah, Montana and Idaho must be re ceived as States, whenever they present themselves, without regard to the number of inhabitants they may respectively con tain. Eight or ten new Senators and four or five new members of the House of Rep resentatives would thus be admitted to re present a population scarcely exceedin®^ that which, in any other portion of the na* tion, is entitled to but a single member of the House of Representatives, while the average for two Senators in the Union, as now constituted, is at least one million of people It would surely be unjust to all other sections of the Union to enter upon a policy with regard to the admission of new States which might result in confer ring such a digpro^rtionate share of influ ence in the National Legislature upoti communities which, in pursuance of the i wise policy of onr Fathers, should for some I years to come be retained under the foster- j ing care and protection of the National j Goveniment. If it is deemed just and ex- } pedient now to depart from the settled pol- I icy of the nation during all its history' and to admit all the Territories to the rights ! and privileges of Sutes, irrespective of llieir population or fitness for such govern ment, it is submitted whether it would not be well to devise such measures as will > bring the subject before the country for ! consideration and decision. This w'oiiltl seem to be evidently wise, bcc.au.'ic as has already been stated, if it is right to admit Colorado now, there is no reason for the exclusion of the other Territories. It is no answer to these suggCBtious tliat itu euabling act ww passed authoriz ing the people of Colorado to take action on this subject. It is well known that that act was passed in consequence of re presentations that the population reached, according to some statements, as high as eighty thousand, and to none less than fif ty thousand, and was growing with a rapi dity which by the time the admission could be consummated, would secure a popula tion of over a hundred thousand.—-These representations prove to have been wholly fallacious, and in addition the people of the Territory, by a deliberate vote, decided that they would not assnme the responsi bilities of a State government. By that decision they utterly exhausted all power that was conferred fty the ena bling act; and there has been no step ta ken since in relation to the admission that has had the slightest sanction or warrant of law. The proceeding upon which the present application is based was in the ut ter absence of all law in relation to it, and there is no evidence that the votes on the question of the formation of a Sute gov ernment bear any relation whatever to the sentiment o.f the Temtory. The protest of the House of Representatives, previous ly quoted, is jeonclusive evidence to the contrary. , - But if none of these reasons against this proposed enactment, the bill itself, besides being inconsistent in its pro visions in conferring power upon a person unknown to the laws and who mav never have a legal eiietence, is so framed aa to render its execution almost impossible. It is indeed a question whether it is not m itself a nnllit/. To say the le.ast, it is of exceedingV tr uthful propriety to confer he powef ^ropes.-i,i" the hill upon d.. “fiovernor elect ” i by its own terms, thtconstuSi, no t to take effect «nt.l ,,.Iter the admission of to'® State, he m the * 'utimehas no more an;''»''ty Si" Private eitiaen. But hfm"to‘ho' eUhed with snfficie."‘^-thon;|: to convene the Leg.slatnre w. ^ tntes the “SuU Leg'»l»t't'-'t. to be referred th'« q't^t.on of snbe , to the conditions Cong. Is it a new body to ^e e'foted and o jv. of the “Governo. vened by proclamation t > 1 a 1 a • -o ai. a which met more elect; or is it that body . . . . , .u Tvi- "tvisions of the ihan a year ago under the pre State Constitution ? .. r nf By reference to the second s.. ® the schedule, and to the eighteenth st.**' of the fourth article of the State Constitu tion, it will be seen that the term o.^ the members of the House of Rsprescntatirei? and that of one-half of the members of the Senate expired on the first Monday of the present month. It is clear that if there were no intrinsic objections to the bill it self in relation to the purposes to be ac complished, this objection would be fata); as if is apparent that the provisions of ine thiru section of the bill to admit Colorado have reference to a period and state of facts entirely different from the present, and affairs as they now exist; and if ear* ried into effect must necessarily lead to confusion- Even if it were settled that the old, and not a new body were to act, it would be found impracticable to execute the law, be cause a considerable number of the mem bers, as I am informed, have ceased to b© residents of the Territory, and in the sixty days within whico the Legislature is to be convened after the passage of the act, there would not be sufficient time to fill the va cancies by new elections, were there any authority under which they could be held. It may not be improper to add that if these proceedings were all regular, and the result to be obtained were desirable, simple justice to the people of the Territo ry would require a longer period than six ty day's within which to obtain action on the conditions proposed by the third sec tion of the bill. There are, as is well known, large portions of territory with which there is and can be no general com on- r munication, there being several counties which from November to May, can only be reached by persons traveling on foot, while with other regions of the territory occupied by a large portion of the popula tion there is very' little more freedom of ac cess. Thus, if lliis bill should become a law, it would be impracticable to ^ obtain any’ expression of public sentiment in ref erence to its provi.sions, with a view to en lighten the Legislature, if the old body were called together, and of course ^equally impracticable to procure the election of a new body. This defect might have been ! remedied by an extension of tho time and a submission of the question to the people, I with a fair opportunity, to enablo them to express their sentiments i The admission of a new St.ato has gen- ' erally been regiirded .a.s Jin epoch in our I historv, marking tlje onw.ird progress of ! the nation ; but nfter t)ie most careful and I anxious iitquirv on tljc siil^oct, I cannot [ perceive that the proposed proceeding is in : poiiformity with the policy which, from ibo origin of the Government has uniformly i prevailed in tlie adnii-s-simi of now States. I therefore return the bill to the Senata without my’ signature. Andrew Johnson, 1 Washington, Jan. 2% 1867.