A few facts from the Dri british tish provinces to the gulf of mexico from the atlantic to the missouri UP I 1 an and I 1 for some distance west of that river 1 7 and id the mississippi the united states possess an im immense region on with an extended seaboard sea board a ret ref fertile s soil soll it vast beds of rich iron lead and copper ores brou broa broad nd coal fields and extensive forests all richly diversified with sparkling springs dancing dancin g streamlets stream lets and deep rivers and every acre visited by the timely rains and dews of heaven in all this choice reelon the husbandman has simply to go forth and enc losand enclose and till even though in a rude manner in order to reap an a abundant b return orem oregon go n and washing washington oton territories are almost or quite as well provided for and the mountains and slopes of or california abound in m that yellow metal which the world so wildly worship in addition to her other numerous highly beneficial and desirable facilities for trade trader commerce internal infernal and external improvements and the enjoyment of a high degree of civilized advancement Th thib this broad labroad sweep excludes th the western portions of kansas and nebraska and the territory es of new mexico and utah are arc not these wide domains alap integral portions of or our common cou vou country most assuredly notwithstanding L the dreary wastes within their borders and the many disadvantages of an excessively dry climate they are also located directly between swarming millions of the older states and the rapidly increasing thousands on the pacific toast coast immediately in the pathway of ov overland rland intercommunication communication inter between those distant extremes Is an energetic industrious intel intelligent and law ab abiding din population a desirable acquisition to any country this is so much the ease base case cabe that without at least a majority of that description of or permanent occupants no desirable I 1 sustained for any considerable sid eid erable crable length of time it would seem then thet that policy should dictate the encouragement by every laudable atil and lawful method of all proper eff lorts efforts put forth for permanently occupying and ind improving ing locations so undesirable and yet so important to the general weal lias has such been the even tenor and invariable course of the parc pare parent it government let her statesmen her congressional acts and appropriations ions lons and arad the recorded doings of her high oft answer that question orr dl so far as sittle settlements ments have been increased increase by r odenas within our borders dating 0 from I 1 the camling at plymouth rock upon all the fertile lands now occupied and including even the oases in in new mexico they have been made eion ulon unon anon the tho p 1 I of purely voluntary choice and action except in the territory of utah Has haschig this ihlo Ahlo exception arisen through want of loy al alt ait tyer 31 ey her po population palati 1 on they never have habein in fr fring m edoo P a hairs breadth upon any national law lair and have ever been zealous and laborious hi fa upholding to the utmost our national integrity Is it because we have found a location where w we behave have naught to do but to throw sheep into seif veli eif elf in made ade machinery and have them come out i ia the th form of ready made clothing dress dressed skins shins ins and cooked mutton or to look from beneath n our vines and shade trees upon self fenced and self tilled fields blossoming bloss oming with the rich products of every clime let our lofty and rugged bo mountains our barren plains our wastes our devouring insects and ard excessively dry climate answer once for all Is it because the canvas wings wins win t s of hosts of merchant vessels bearous pr products ducts to distant land langsand sand return to seaports laden with the riches and conveniences of foreign exchange the deepest water known with within cin lin our boundaries is only thirty eight feet and our foreign trade is entirely conducted with those excellent though somewhat antiquated modes of conveyance known as wagons pack animals oxen and horses and that too over long and and tedious drives through the countries of various savage tribes bat a truce to uch such questions w when hen it isso well and so widely known that we are here I 1 here where no others would be short of compulsion because the fierce hatred and bloody land hand of religious persecution in a government of professedly fes sedly religious toleration drove us from the j peaceful homes of american citizens upon Ameri amerl american caun raff soil we have let the past go go by we have striven hard and long amid ingeld t disadvantages and so far successfully to inhabit a location midway between the borders of eastern and western civilization and one which it is well known that no other white people could be hired to permanently occupy all passers through and especially the destitute stra stranger tiger have been more hospitably entertained and more fairly and justly dealt by i than they would have been by any other people we have ever seen heard or read of under I 1 similar circumstances we have successfully met ae the hostile red men we have with like fortitude and success nearly passed through tb the 1 scarcity caused by the drouth and devourer devour crof of the past season and the severity y of the winter of 1855 6 we are now patiently laboring upon scanty meals to secure our crops from the parch ipg rays of a burning sun while the produce of many fieldg fields has already furnished sustenance and vigor to oar our enemies the insects add aud that of numerous other fields is in entirely scorched up in spite of all our ett efT efforts orts in view of these facts aside from many others of a lindred nature nature and aritt also of a com mercial politic and constitutional character shall shail present appeal to congress be unheeded or ne negatively 0 actively answered she is asking for admission into the union after the form 0 of the most approved and customary precedents precedent she is widely known to eminently possess the ONLY TWO qualifications prescribed by the constitution for states vi viz 1 z rca ila a substantial civil community and a republican government I 1 she is occupying 0 a region which others would flee from she is tamely submitting to I 1 the privation of many equal rights amid all other hardships hards hips hirs and now when merely asking ashing what is hers of right the privilege 0 of extending the area of state government civilization and toleration over a re relon region ion lon of wild mountains and desert plains is it possible possible that in so enlightened an age the first voice or objection i will be bil raised against her request we shall