New States

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NEW STATES.

There will soon be trooping into this Union, several quite important new States; quite as important as Kansas¹, though that, from a strange combination of circumstances, has attracted all the public education of late. Yet the other States in expectancy are quite as important as Kansas.

Minnesota², for instance, will probably be admitted to the Union at this session of Congress. A large, noble State—the settlers mostly from New England, New York, from several of the Western States, and from the continental parts of Europe. A welcome addition.

Oregon³ is another new State, soon to be one of the brotherhood. It too, is a large and rich region, destined to have a character peculiar to itself, from its position toward the North Pacific, and from its fertility and climate, and the personnel of its settlers.

Then there are several other States—one is Arizonia, a part of the country hitherto known as New Mexico, lying above the 32d degree of north latitude—lately much talked of, explored, and written about, from its including "the Pass," so famous in the line of travel between the lower Mississippi Valley and the regions of California. Another new State will before many years be ready to split off from Texas. Utah will be another, and Nebraska still another.

The case of admission of Kansas is more doubtful than ever, under the lately-passed English Conference Bill, which votes for or against admission, over the shoulders of the Land Ordinance. Those who seem best qualified to judge, are strong in the prophecy that the people of Kansas will vote "no," by a great majority, to that form of admission, sweetened and coated as it is.

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