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Show THE ADM SSI0N OF HEW STATES. The Denver X'ws is again agitating the question of the admission ot Colorado into the Union as a State; hut appears to have very little hope that the present Congr'ia will accede to the unanimou wish of the inhabitants. inhabi-tants. Tiit-re is a growing disinclination disinclina-tion on the part of the large Statee to admit any new members into the confederacy. The political power which such States as Nevada and Oregon are enabled to wield by thair equal representation in the Senate of the United States with New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and other large states, render? them jealous of farther encroachments in thij direction. At the same time the holding of ouch populous Territories tu Colorado and Utah in virtual bondage, subject to the will of a few federal satraps, who rule omipotently, defying the wishes of the people, i; a manifest injustice, which cannot he too speedily remedied. reme-died. Tho territorial condition is manifestly an abnormal one, intended by the constitution of the United States to apply only to the earliest and crudest forms of border society. For the government of an established community such a system is as inadequate inade-quate und uujuat us military rule-would rule-would be, and it has become essential that some new method shall be adopted adopt-ed by which the national representation representa-tion of the Territories may not be placed absolutely at the caprice of Congress. This is one of the reforms which renders a constitutional convention con-vention of all the States a necessity, |