The Ouachita Telegraph

DAKOTA.

There is a project on foot to make Dakota a State, and thereby to add two Senators to the ranks of the Republicans in the Senate. We have already a sufficient number of sparsely settled States in the Union, enjoying equal representation in the Senate with such great commonwealths as New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

We have no objection to this, now that they have been admitted as States, but we think that, in future, it will be better for a Territory to have a population capable of maintaining a State government before applying for admission to the Union. Nevada, for example, regards its State Government as a burden for which the people receive no adequate return, and there is a strong feeling in favor of annexation to California. The people of Dakota would probably be in the same frame of mind, after they had recovered from the great felicity of knowing that they had reinforced the Republican ranks at Washington.

Dakota, a few years ago was inhabited principally by Indians, buffalo, beasts, and birds. There are not as many men in the territory as there are in some of the wards of New York city. And yet the very men who have denounced the partition of Texas into several States as a "plot" are now the promoters of a scheme to add to the number of what the New York Journal of Commerce terms "Senate Pocket Boroughs." Texas has a right to demand the partition alluded to, as it would be the performance of an agreement made with her when she was admitted into the Union, but she has no idea of doing so, while those who have been so horrified at a large State being divided into several, are anxious to admit as a State a Territory whose population would hardly equal that of a couple of its counties.

This matter of admitting new States has gone far enough for the present. The Territories we now have had better grow up with the country. Then, when they are admitted, their people will be able to manage their own affairs, instead of being controlled and owned by capitalists and money kings, and seeing themselves represented by men who virtually buy their seats. - Mobile Register.