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Show Carringr Oat a Sew State. Politically the Administration is justified justi-fied in seeking to set up a new State of the Union. Since Oregon was admitted, in 1859, no new admission to the confederacy con-federacy has brought with it aid or strength to the Democratic party. On the other hand, under Republican supremacy, no less than four Republican States have been admitted, with yet another an-other Territory clamoring at the gates. Kansas came in on the abolition idea after af-ter the seceding Southern members in Congress had by their withdrawal made the scheme possible. Nebraska soon fol- ; lowed. Nevada was avowedly admitted as a political necessity though she had but a moiety of population in order to secure a two-thirds majority of States for the abolition of slavery. Colorado was squeezed in by a disreputable trick, in which it is feared both parties were engaged, en-gaged, but in which it is certain one party lost. Utah is the only qualified Territory whose admission might be supposed sup-posed to benefit the Democratic partv in its influence, but unfortunately, owing to its local attitude against wholesome laws of morality, no party can afford to admit i Utah, and she must remain a Territory. New Mexico is arid, worthless as a region, and filled with a people who yet worship the Montezumas and erect little altars to Juarez and Diaz. We have had enough of endeavoring to assimilate "greasers" in California, and New Mexico must stay where she is for the present. The one hope of carving out a new State lies in that belt of ground lying between Texas on the south, Kansas on the north and Arkansas and Missouri on the west. In this way is the political supremacy of the Northwest to be met and the coming tide of immigration accommodated. Chicago Herald. |