of
inhabitants they may respectively contain." He dwelt forcibly upon the
necessity of requiring population enough to secure one representative.
"The plain facts of our history," said he, "will attest that the
leading States admitted since 1845, namely, Iowa, Wisconsin, California,
Minnesota, and Kansas (including Texas, which was admitted in that
year), have all come in with an ample population for one
representative, and some of them with nearly, if not quite, enough for
two."

There were really no facts before Congress tending to prove the
existence of those great resources which have since advanced Colorado
so rapidly in population and prosperity. Little was known of the
Territory. It was several hundred miles beyond the Western border of
continuous settlement, and the men who came from it were regarded as
adventurous pioneers on the very outposts of civilization. Under this
condition of affairs it is not strange that the Senate failed to pass
the bill for the admission of the State over the veto of the President.
Edmunds, Fessenden, Foster, Grimes, Harris, Morgan, and some other
Republicans, less prominent, voted in the negative. The result was
twenty-nine in favor of passing it over the veto, and nineteen against.
Defeated in the Senate the bill did not go to the House, and the
admission of Colorado was by this action postponed for several years.

The President gave specious reasons for his vetoes, especially in the
case of Colorado, but they did not conceal the fact that his position
was radically different from that which Mr. Lincoln had held--radically
different from the position which he would himself had assumed if he
had maintained in good faith the principles he had professed when he
secured the suffrages of the Republican party for the Vice-Presidency.
Having allied himself with the South and compromised his patriotic
record by espousing the cause he had so hotly opposed, he naturally
adopted all its principles and its worst prejudices. For nearly half
a century the leading exponents of Southern sentiment had been envious
of the growth of the free North-West, and so far as lay in their power
they had obstructed it--being unwilling for a long period to admit one
of its giant Territories to the Union until its power could be
politically offset by one of less population and wealth in the South.
Mr. Johnson in his new associations at once adopted this jealous and
ungenerous policy--which had indeed los