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Southport Telegraph
Kenosha, Southport, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
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Residents of Iowa Territory are pushing for statehood admission to the Union, supported by local newspapers like The Territorial Gazette, Iowa Argus, and Bloomington Herald. They argue for greater congressional representation, similar to Wisconsin's case, to gain equal power as states like New York.
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The people of Iowa Territory, are agitating the subject of their admission into the Union as a state. Among the papers published in that Territory, we notice "The Territorial Gazette," "Iowa Argus," and Bloomington Herald, have declared in favor of becoming a State. The reasons urged by the people of Iowa in favor of asking admission into the Union, are equally applicable to the people of Wisconsin. They complain that they have not that weight of power in the Union which their relative importance demands—they have no voice in international questions in either house of Congress pertaining to their interests, or the welfare of the country at large. And however efficient and talented may be their delegate, he occupies only the station of a supplicant, and not a legislator. An admission into the Union, would entitle the territory to two senators, which would give to the people a numerical power in the Senate of the United States, equal to the "Empire State" of New York.
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Iowa Territory
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People of Iowa Territory agitating for admission as a state, supported by newspapers The Territorial Gazette, Iowa Argus, and Bloomington Herald. Reasons include lack of congressional power and voice; delegate seen as supplicant. Admission would grant two senators, equaling New York's power in Senate. Reasons applicable to Wisconsin.