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The writer, after noticing the alarming rapidity with which new states are admitted into the confederacy, proceeds to look into the manner in which the small states ob- taitled admission after the continental war;

 "it is natural enough to suppose that the small states, knowing their inherent weak ness, and like able negotiators, avalng themselves of the opportunity which the distress of the times offered, insisted on