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FLORIDA TRRRIroRY.-The people of Florida have addressed memorial to Congress. praying to be admitted into the conaderacy as State.

 The treaty of 1919. by which this leri,or, was acquired from Spain, stipulated that the inhabitants of the csded country should be incorporated into the Union of the United States AS soon might ba con- sstent with the principles of the federal and admitted ihe enjoymant of all the privileges, rights and immusites of the citizens of the United States. This the memoralists interpret as prom ise that the territory should at early period be erected into State.

 The population of the territory of Florida, accord ing to census taken in 1888, amounted to 4S ,223, The country was, however in disturbed state when this enumeration made, the Indian war then rag | ing, and there from the counties of Nassau, Musquito and Hamilton Still il is not probable that the number of persons iu the territory is sufficient to entle the inhabitants representa- tive in Congress, which, according to the rule pre- seribed by Congress, it should be n order entite a territory to be admitted as Sae. The memo- ralists say, however, that this is legislative provision which apply their case. lnasmuch the stipulation in lle treaty is express, and there IS no provision or the constitution which woud DC violated by admitting Florida 10 become one of the States of the Union.

 The memorial expresses some impatIence at re- naming any longer under territorial government, which it contends is at variance with the maxims of freedom and the principles of the constitution, and which has already lasted more than twenty years. A copy of the constitution of ihe new State of Florida accompanies the memorial. Among it's gen. era provisions is one which ordains that the legsla- ture shall have power 10 pass laws for the eman cpation of slaves, that they shall have power prevent emigrants from bringing their slaves with them, and that they shall have power to prevent free persons of color from entering the State. I-