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Show THE LONDON TIMCS OS THE OEEAT WEST. The London 7'imt of March IaI, in an editorial article based upon the topic of tlie thm supposed admission admis-sion ot Colorado and New Mexico into in-to the Union as atatt-s, prominently refers to the .Mgriitic.tut growth of the United States weatwanlly, and to the probability of a t-till more remarkable re-markable future for this section of tho country. We quote: Who ehall forecast what teeming pop-u'utn.fis pop-u'utn.fis will in another catnry inhabit va-t r.-jfions wtet o the Mi'sissippi? I', iu n t t o much to say that Coloiado tt"ii which hai now barely ttie num-he num-he s o:' a fourth -rata town, will theo out w.i.-l , in all the eleineuU of political -,r.'iii;Ui. ttie whole of Now Englai d. 1'fic t"rritory of thia younjr and vigorous community, '"a-lridn upon tie Rocky Muiin'aiu," jjivmg one hand to Ktnsa.- atul tlio tlier to L Liih, is ai least oi maff-nil'e.-nl p-oporlions. New At xico, ly-ifig ly-ifig dir-i tly o-ilh. and, with its reih bur ArtZ'inv ulre cluujf acro-S half t:.e eoi.tiiii-ut from iho northern Willis o: Pex an to tn (Kiitorni fn-ntior, h. Iierliaps iiss fi leudid losnibiliiit 8 before it, hut tln-y aro sued as mrghtdtzz e any nation le-s a-'cu-iomwl tu contemplate a hound e." iihori arico thaa the poopla of ihc LI ruled Staler. The 'linus then refers to the political politi-cal condition and future probabilities of this territory as followi: Between Nvadft and Colorado we find a stni ular I iuL s in the work of political orifiiiiza1 ion. The tPrri'ory ot Utah was organized a tUnrter of a century ag-, at the same time ith New W exic '. At the lad cen-us it had 8(i,uuu iuhabitauts nearly as many an tlie state of Oregon, rnun? than twice as mmy as N'erada. Yet Nw Mexico and Colorado are now to take tin ir piaees io the rdor of Amtricm rov-i n -nei, t alone: side ol O-oif. u anoT iNfiuhi; but there i no ihoujft rf admiitine Utsh to ike privil-pgt!3 privil-pgt!3 of a stale. Tho explanation is, of ci.urs.' a sirr p'n one. CiiKress can n-fuse aJiui.-si"ii t. any territmy, and will do indf-s tat i-tie 1 wi h tb 'orm of cimst'tulion o lie red by tho territorial population. In the castt with Uiah, which claimed 10 bo admitted many years ago as the state of Deseret, conjtro-s ro tjuir- d f peeial Ruarnntees against the perpi'tution of polygamy- and thu other peculiarities of Mormonism. That tho Mormons of Utah are not .disposed to give any such cnarantecs, may be in-lerrpd in-lerrpd from the t'.ct that thov haro lately sent, t Whshinton, as delegate from their territory, an elder from their church, whom a committee of tho house of ri-presontat v(is has pronounced tu bo disqualified as an avowed and notorious pol yeani i-t. In i-ite of this it mty bo coi tideiitly predicted that th pressure of pepul ul in Utah will eventually compel com-pel congress io organize it as a dttc. Tho arguments f. r 'Ins enured will be grea ly increased in weight by the admission of New Mexico and Colorado, and will probably meet w.th more aitention from the 'emocratic i arty, who are now beginning be-ginning to feel the reopen ibilitics of their recent victory, than they would have ro-coived ro-coived from the republicans, leavened a-they a-they aro wjtl) tho Fenian traditions of New England. |